Book \m''-'^^0- ^ COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. f o M - ►J o „ >• B o B 3 S > Q ^ ^ s a z < a ^ o a tH ?^ 3 c/; H J 'jfi a B S 5 !5 S S z o o 6< m ^ O ■< H J X si g * J B ►J M ►J X > ^ o M H B S n ^ E- c M 05 g a 5 E- <5 K O ^i ROSE Neighborhood Sketches, WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK; WITH GLIMPSES OF THE ADJACENT TOWNS: BUTLER, WOLCOTT, HURON, SODUS, LYONS AND SAVANNAH. BY ALFRED S F R'O E , A Native of Rose. 'What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Published by the author, worcester, mass. 1893. Ctf-^M' Copyright, [1893, By Alfred S. Rob. ,|| llF.S.BLANCHARD &C0.|| PREFACE. This volume represents summer vacation work for eight years. Born of ancestors who were among the very first to redeem Rose soil from the wilderness, I cannot remember the time when the story of early adventure and hardship was not heard. Grandparents and great-grandparents filled my childish ears with anecdote and incident, so that when they had passed on, it seemed fitting to give the narrative a more permanent form than that of mere legend and tradition. This was the prompting to write, for the Clyde Times, in 1886, the first of the sexies, taking my native district, No. 7. When that was ended, friends and relatives in adjoining districts said, " Ton must tell the story of Nos. 5 and 6 also." Accordingly, they fol- lowed in successive issues of the Times. In this way the beginning was made. When they were finished, the idea of going over the entire town began to take shape, and the eventual visitation of every home in Eose was the result. Having gone through the more or less ephemeral shape of a newspaper serial, and having been read by many, through a wide extent of country, I was told that the matter deserved the lasting form of a book. Obedient to such advice, the book was projected, and here it is. lu secur- ing data for these pages, I have walked and ridden above one thousand miles in and about the town. Were I to include the distance covered in reach- ing Eose, from my Massachusetts home, and in visiting New York places, to some degiee connected with Eose, the aggregate would nearly exceed belief. Very few persons write more than one town history. Such a work needs the whole heart of the writer. He mnst have grown up thoroughly imbued with the ideas of the town, and its story, he must have drunk in with his mother's milk. Then, he must have a certain amount of leisure for investigation, and, above all, he must be able and willing to write out the results of his birth, rearing and searchings. These necessities prevent his undertaking more than one such venture. "My native town!" There is only one, and its progress from the forest prim- eval to cultivated fields is told in the following pages Hilly countries are filled with clannish people. The ranges of drift hills, so characteristic of Wayne county, have formed excellent boundaries for school districts. Had the town, as in New England, rather than the iv ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. county, been the unit of political organization iu this state, the people throughout Rose had been better acquainted with each other. The youth reared in District No. 7 was wont to have in mind, as temr incognita', such sections as " Over East in Butler," meaning the land beyond the Loveless range of hills ; " North of Wolcott " was to him as remote as was Gaul to the ancient Romans ; " West of the Valley," for all reachable pur- poses, might as well have been west of the Eocky Mountains; while ' ' South of Clyde ' ' meant a region as unknown as is the Antarctic continent to the navigator. Fortunately, common church relations brought the most of the people together, as a rule, once a week, though every one of the neighboring towns has claimed, from the very beginning, some Rose citi- zens as church members. Then, too, the acquaintance of residents on the borders of school districts has prevented absolute crystallization and com- plete non-intercourse. Spelling schools, husking and paring bees, brought the young people of a wider area than one school district into intimate acquaintance, an intimacy that frequently ripened into matrimony. In fact, intermarriage in Rose has been so extensive, that were every family, resident in town for thirty-five years, to be represented by a ring, while the ring on the eastern side would not be very near that over on the Lyons border, yet were these to be interlocked in marriage, the taking up of one would involve the whole number. The truth of this statement can be easily ascertained by any one who chooses to follow out the marriages given in this book. As the school district, in its political and social relations, comes nearer than the N. Y. town to the principle of self-government and to intimate acquaint- ance, I have made that the unit in my story. The dates at the head of each chapter tell when the matter appeared in the Clyde Times. To com- prehend fully the time involved, the reader must have the sliding temporal scale in mind. All changes, since the first writing, are indicated by paren- theses. In making the book I have had to leave out much. It has been a choice of materials. Anecdote and incident that would add a fourth to the volume, have been elided. The genealogical data have been given in passing rather than in separate chapters. I have aimed to make the narrative one of to-day, a series of events now passing, rather than one of yesterday, all in the buried past. The story is told with the heartiest good-will towards everybody. Hav- ing no axes to grind, nor grudge to pay, I have made the book, possibly unduly i?o«eate, but this is a matter for each reader to settle with himself. If some families are given more in detail than others, it is because said data were more easily forthcoming. When facts were given, I have aimed to use them. In embellishing the volume with illustrations, I have, as a rule, abstained from the use of pictures of people now living,- save in the case of my own family and in that of town oflicers. The most of the pic- KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. V tures of individuals, liave been secured with great difficulty, and many have had to be copied before going to the engraver. Obviously, the re- sults are not the best pictiires in the world, but they do serve to show us how the first settlers looked. Rose abounds in scenery worthy the painter's brush, and my camera was used in many places that are not shown in these pages, simply because the sun and the plates did not respond to my efforts. In other words, the negatives were not good. This book should not go forth without rendering thanks to all those who have aided in its preparation. As every one who has written a letter or answered a question has thus contributed, I hereby thank each and all, not only for helping me, but for their zeal and affection for the township. which is or has been home. As these pages are read, I hope the thought will be constantly in mind that the silent sleepers in our ceme- teries fought a good fight, that we of to-day might eujoy what they suf- fered for. Let us not forget the first settlers who, in house and field, toiled unceasingly that the comforts of civilization might follow. Hoping that the story of Eose, thus told, may bind us yet more closely to the scenes of our childhood, and that our common regard for each other may hereby be intensified, this volume is -submitted to any and all who care for the town in which they reside, or which was formerly their home. ALFEED S. EOE. Worcester, Mass., Nov. 20, 1893. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Page 21. Wm. Sherman died in Butler, and liis son, Henry, was in the llltb Inf. Page 28. Tlie Martin Saxton place is now owned and occupied by Robert Weeks. Page 47. Wm. Hallett was married Sept. 13, 1893, to Miss Ida Bovee, of Wolcott. Page 52. For Sally Bump, read Bundy. Page 57. Mrs. Ida (McKoon ) Wickwire died Sept. 22, 1893. Ernest O. Seelye and family have returned from Dakota to the home farm. Page 62. For Mary Champion, read Champney. Page 67. Add to Oaks family, Charles G. Oaks, Jr., of North Rose. Page 113. John W. Vanderburgh is living in Des Moines, Iowa. Page 115. The farm house of Geo. Catchpole was burned Oct 19, 1893. Page 185. Mr. Jeffers Dodds sold his farm in October, '93, to Mr. Loren Lane, formerly of Rose. Page 195. For Alonzo, read Lorenzo Snow. Page 203. Ml-. Geo. H. Green died Sept. 26, 1893. Page 311. For Mrs. John, read I\Irs. Joseph Phillips. Page 391. Add John Sherman, Feb. 6, 1864; H, 111th Inf.; Sept. 10, 1864. THE TOWN OF ROSE. Location. — This town is about three miles north of the village of Clyde, a station on the N. Y. Central E. E., midway between Syracuse and Eochester. It is about eight miles south of Lake Ontario, and is east of the middle line of Wayne Co. Geology and Topography. — In this town are extensive ledges of lime- stone that have been worked both for building and burning purposes. At Glenmark, the ledge outcropping produces a very interesting waterfall, shown in the illustrations. Here, too, may be found fossils peculiar to the Clinton group of the Niagara period, to which group and period the town geologically belongs. Among the cobble stones, or hard head rocks, with which a large part of the surface is covered, may be found many conglom erate shell petrifactions. They are water worn, but, as a rule, show their composition excellently. Obviously they came here by the same agency which produced our many ranges of hills, viz., the ice march or movement. The late George S. Seelye found several specimens of orthocemtidce, which showed admirably both the fossil and the cast. Farmers' boys have turned up these specimens for years, exciting usually no further remarks than ' ' I wonder what they are. ' ' There is not a stone wall in the town which has not some of these fossils, remnants of a Paleozoic age, doing the ignominious service of field defending instead of gracing a college cabinet. The hills of Wayne have formed the theme of poet and of scientist. The late Dr. Lawrence Johnson, of New York City, himself a native of Sa- vannah, found in them a never ceasing source of interest and enjoyment. Upon them he prepared a valuable monograph, " The Parallel Drift Hills of Western New York," read before the New York Academy of Science, Jan. 9, 1882. In this, he shows that our long ranges were formed under the immense glaciers that once overspread this section, naturally taking the direction of the ice stream. When the ice disappeared the hills were saved from denudation by the resulting water, which formed a vastly greater Ontario. He says, " This lake undoubtedly discharged its waters southward through the valleys in which lie the small lakes of the moun- tain ridge. During this period the parallel drift hills were in deep water, and hence beyond the reach of denuding agencies, though they doubtless received the f1eb7-is of melting icebergs, particularly the large boulders of crystalline rocks which here and there dot the surface, but are not now present in the boulder clay." The traveler along the line of the N. Y. Central E. E. cannot help noticing these elevations, pronounced and of a ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Vll singular regularity. If at all given to surface observation, he cannot readily forget the impression. Wayne, and to some extent Cayuga county, are noteworthy for their ridges. They are nowhere mountainous nor ex- actly precipitous, save, possibly, their northern terminations, which are steeper than elsewhere. All of them are cultivated, but it would doubt- less be much better were the western sides allowed to grow up to woods. The eastern slopes iuvite the early sun and fairly laugh in wonderful fertility. To the farmer no finer sight can be had than the fields along these morning sides, for instance, those of William S. Hunt, lately Colonel Briggs', or thoseof the John B. Roe and Roswell Marsh farms. Of these hills. Rose has twelve well defined illustrations, viz., south from the Delos Seelye farm ; that extending into Galen from the southeast part of the town and the one immediately west ; then there are two ranges, including much of the old Finch and Benjamin farms ; leading north, from a point back of William H. Griswold's farm, is a ridge which, to some extent, shuts off the view of that forming the western boundary of the Town district ; still further to the north is the high hill, the highest in town, one hundred and forty feet, back of the Roseview or Sherman Brothers' farm ; immediately to the westward is the long range leading down to the Valley ; southwest of the village is found, first, the hill on which once dwelt the Drowns, now owned largely by George Milem ; west of the Valley, on the Jeffers road, is the hill on whose summit lived the Dodds and Glen families, while last of all, looking off towards Lyons, is the range long held by the Ways, Worden and Weeks people. In the southeast the drainage is in that direction, reaching finallj' the Montezuma marshes and Seneca river. In the southwest, water flows toward Clyde river ; in the northwest, through Mudge's creek, the flow is into East bay, while west of the Mirick or Closs hills, the water finds its way into Great Sodus bay. The surface, for many square miles north- ward from Clyde, is as level as a tennis court, and until the Sodus canal was undertaken, there seemed to be very little inducement for water to flow in any direction. Soil and Peoducts. — Men who have wandered far have i-eturned to Wayne county with the reflection that no part of the country can produce, in abundance, a greater variety of objects which contribute to the good of mankind than Wayne. Fruits, vegetables and grain in almost limitless kinds and quantities are here produced from tree, bush and soil. The latter is a gravelly loam, mingled with clay in places, and in the swamps the blackest of mud abounds. At any rate, this is true of Rose, for in the county no township more thoroughly merits the application of the intro- ductory remark than this. The early settlers found immense trees — beach, maple and hemlock, with ash, cedar and tamarack in the swamps. The legend still lingers of a buttonwood or .sycamore, near Wayne Centre, so large that a section of it was used as a dwelling house after it had fallen Viii ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. down and proven to be hollow. In fact, one of the interesting stories of the late Simeon I. Barrett was that of putting up at the Buttonwood tavern early in the century. The late Hiram Church of Wolcott said that in 1808 three families, numbering fourteen people, young and old, put up at this same inn for the night and were well entertained. Osgood Church, his father, was one of the guests. He also says this was on one of the Jeffers farms. Maple trees furnished a large part of the sugar used by the first settlers; beach, hewed and mortised, formed framework for buildings that yield to no destroyer save fire, while hemlock afforded material for tan- ning, and siding for house and barn. The swamps were dark, luxuriant and almost impassable. In fact, as late as the forties my father once wan- dered several hours in the tamarack swamp, now the Osgood onion fields, thinking to make a short cut to the Valley, only to emerge, at last, near the point of entrance, viz., near where Stephen Chapin now resides. When the late Linus Osgood discovered the onion-raising qualities of this black, vegetable mold, he added scores of dollars per acre to its valuation. Some- thing in soil and atmosphere has made this county the peculiar home of peppermint. Rose dwellers remember how rank it grew by the springs in early days, and how it was gathered and hung up for winter's use. Early in the century, says Anson Titus, Phelps' historian, a certain Andrew Burnett of Deerlield, Mass., who had gathered mint along the streams of his native state, came west in the effort to dispose of his distilled product. He found the plant in greater abundance here than elsewhere, and so set- tled, following his vocation. The farmers, quick to discern a good thing, began to cultivate, and from Lyons the growing eventually worked into Eose. Latterly, the raising and evaporating of blackcap raspberries has proved a paying industry, experience having taught Rose farmers that they cannot compete with the western wheat growers. After all, probably, the crop that promises most to the careful husbandman in Rose is that which comes from his apple orchard. Barreled green or in a dried condition, this fruit is as necessary as wheat, and the world must have it. No part of the country raises more to the tree or better in quality. Each year will see additional orchards planted, till, in a sense, the town will return to woodland. The census data in this volume show what have been raised; already " Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach tree, fruited deep." I.NDiANS AND Eelics. — It is probable that the territory included in our town once formed a part of the Cayugas' possessions. Still it was on the border of the Senecas' lands, and may have been an almost neutral section, thus accounting for the limited finds of relics. While in some parts of the country arrow-heads and hatchets are found in abundance, any such memento is rare in Rose. Eelics in the possession of George W. Aldrich, in North Eose, and of AbnerOsborn, in the Valley, are noteworthy examples. KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. IX Mr. L. H. Clark in his Military History narrates the finding of a piece of a cannon on the old Collins farm, in the Valley, about fifty years since. Chauncey B. Collins, now living in Clyde, was his informant, and he describes the relic as eighteen or twenty inches in length, having a bore of about two inches. The place of finding was north of Wolcott street. Unfortunately the item was lost, else what an interesting beginning it would make for a Rose museum. A little further north, on what is now Fisher land, then that of Thaddeus Collins, Jr., was found an old axe, of shape and make indicating French origin ; near by also was found a bit of ancient pottery. Arrow-heads have been found along the ridge where now lies the road north from the Valley. These facts to Mr. Clark suggest the existence, years since, of a line of forts or fur trading posts follow- ing the old Indian trail which led from Crusoe lake along Marsh creek into the plain west of the Valley and so to Sodus bay. Pertinent to the foregoing is the finding in 1889 by Dwight Flint, just over the Rose line, at the head of Sodus bay, of a large quantity of lead and bullets. Though Mr. L. H. Clark, H. H. Wheeler of Butler and Mr. D. M. De Long of Rose all took part in discussing the how and when the material came where it was found, it does not seem that the supposition is disproven that the bul- lets may have had to do with early times. In 1891, July 5, Mr. Stephen B. Kellogg found in his corn field, on the old Aaron Shepard farm, an exceedingly well-preserved silver coin of the value of an old shilling piece, having this inscription: "Ferdinaudus VI., D. G. Hispaniarum Rex. 1751." Older far than the settlement, it may have been lost by some early explorer, French or English, passing through these parts from one post to another. Of course it is barely possible that a settler may have possessed and lost. At any rate, the coin remains. Original Ownership. — The early charters of Massachusetts and Con- necticut included all the land between certain parallels from the Atlantic to the Pacific. At the same time, New York, through her charter, held all now included within her borders. Accordingly, New York possessed what two other states claimed. This was especially true as to Massachu- setts. Before the Revolution it is supposed that the Bay State agreed to New York holding sway over all that territory between the boundary of the two states and the extreme western line of settlements made before the War. After the War the dispute was reopened, both states claiming juris- diction over western New York. Instead, however, of appealing to arms, as the Michigan and Ohio people did in the thirties, these parties, with whom the memory of battles against a common foe was still fresh, left their case in the hands of commissioners, who met in Hartford, Conn., Dec. 16, 1786. These officers were Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler and Arthur Lee, all being men revered in American history. They confirmed the sovereignty of New York over all the territory in dispute, but to Massachusetts was conceded the preemption right of the soil from the native Indians of all X EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. land lying in the state west of a line drawn due north to Lake Ontario, from a point in the north Pennsylvania line eighty-two miles west of the northeast corner of that s.tate, excepting a territory, one mile in width, the whole length of the Niagara river. Also, they ceded to Massachusetts a tract equal to ten townships, each six miles square, between the Owego and Chenango rivers. In 1800 an amicable agreement was effected with Connecticut, whereby the latter state received from the general government lands west of New York, and thereupon relinquished all claims upon the future Empire State. Massachusetts, then, had to secure a title from the Six Nations, whose hunting grounds and homes she had acquired from New York. There were sharpers in those days as well as later, and efforts to negotiate with the natives were frequently frustrated by the nefarious advice of these com- panies of men, who had united to rob the Indian and to cheat the white man. In 1787 Massachusetts contracted all her claims to the land west of the Pennsylvania line, about 6,000,000 acres in all, to Messrs. Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham for .«100,000, to be paid in three installments. Here is the origin of the famous Phelps and Gorham purchase. Canan- daigua was the headquarters of the new project, and here in July, 1788, was effected a treaty with the Indians, prominent among whom was the noted Red Jacket. After opening this great tract to settlers, the purchasers in 1790 sold all remaining lands to Mr. Robert Morris, a man of great wealth, a resident of Philadelphia and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He it was who loaned to the government, in its distress, more than a million dollars, yet late in life he lost his fortune and spent some time in a debtor's cell. The price paid by Mr. Morris was about eight pence per acre, but he soon turned his contract over to a syndicate of English gentle- men, viz., Sir William Pulteney, who held nine-twelfths ; John Hornby, two-twelfths, and Patrick Colquhoun, the remainder. The chief capitalist was the first named. Hornby was a retired East Indiaman, having been governor of Bombay. He also was a capitalist. Colquhoun was a states- man and philanthropist. The London agent effecting this sale was William Temple Franklin, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. They paid £75,000 for the lands, and passed their management over into the hands of Captain Charles Williamson, who had been a British officer during the War, but who became thoroughly imbued with the American spirit, and managed the business of his principals with great success. At that time foreigners could not hold landed interests in this country, hence the vesting of titles in Williamson, who took the oath of allegiance in 1792. He was a native of Balgray, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and to that country he retired when through with his labors in America. The property was known as the Pulteney estate, with land offices in Geneva and Bath. However, the territory included in Rose did not fall into this allotment. Its connection therewith came about thus : When the preemption line (^-. Hon. Robert 8. Rose. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. XI was run out it touched Lake Ontario some distance further west than was expected, but no complaint was made, till some years later it was discov- ered that an apparently intended deflection had been made to the west, far south of Geneva. To obviate this fault a new line was run, that known today reaching the bay at Briscoe's cove instead of three miles west, as run at first. Again, to compensate Eevolutiouary soldiers for their serv- ices. New York had promised a large tract of land along her western border, or near the preempted Phelps and Gorham purchase. The northwest township in this allotment contained more land than some later counties. Through Eomulus, Washington, Junius and Wolcott, we come finally to Rose; but in the early assignments it was found that the state had disposed of land included in the Gore that triangular strip having its acute angle near the Chemung river, its base Lake Ontario and its sides the old and the new preemption lines. To compensate, there was made over to the Pulteney estate all the land now embraced in the town of Huron; in "Wol- cott a strip on the west side, about two miles in width, the same boundary line extending through Butler, touching Savannah near the residence of H. H. Wheeler, Esq., and all of Rose save three lines of lots extending across the town and into Butler to the above-named line, said lots being known as Annin's gore, though they really make a rectangle. In other words, these compensating lands extended from Annin's gore northward, taking certain portions of Rose, Butler, Wolcott and all of Huron. This was known as Williamson's patent. Early in the century an extensive purchase was made by Messrs. Rose and Nicholas of Geneva. This land, 4,000 acres in extent, lay on both sides of the Clyde and Valley road from Annin's gore, or near the farm house of William H. Griswold, to within three-quarters of a mile of the north line of the town, or to the northern boundaries of the Lyman and Covell districts. There was a western ell included between a line drawn from a point just north of Isaac Campbell's house and the northern line, a little beyond the home of Mrs. Charity Stearns, and both running to within less than a mile of the western limits of Rose, or a trifle west of where the widow Messenger now resides. The Rose and Nicholas purchase suggests certain names that should have mention here. Robert S. Rose and John Nicholas were Virginians by birth, and through marriage, brothers-in-law. Nicholas came of an old Virginian family, born Jan. 19, 1764, in Williamsburg, Westmoreland county, and was elected to the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th Congresses from that state. After settling in Geneva, in 1802, he became prominent in all local matters, devoting himself largely to agriculture. In 1806-7-8-9 he was a member of the State Senate. He was presiding judge of the Ontario county court. He died Dec. 31, 1819. Robert Selden Rose was born in Henrico county in 1772. In coming to Geneva he made very extensive investments on the east side of Seneca Xll ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. lake. Both families brought slaves with them from the Old Dominiou. Mr. Rose's wife was a Lawson. He was a member of the New York Assembly in ISll, '20, '21, and was in Congress during the sessions of the 18th, 19th and 21st Congresses. He died suddenly, while about to get into a sleigh, in the village of Waterloo, Nov. 24, 1835. He had long been apprehensive of a sudden death and had kept his affairs arranged for such an end. As his picture amply shows, he was a man to be revered and honored. Said a little girl, when looking at it, " How much he looks like George Washington. ' ' His extensive pos.sessions, in the very heart of Rose, secured for the township his family name. Descendants of both of these gentlemen are prominent citizens of Geneva. Titles and Agents. — Titles to farms in Rose ran from the Williamson patent through the Geneva agents to those purchasing. It was in 1790 that Morris sold to the syndicate. Captain Williamson managed the affairs of the estate till 1801, when, worn out with his arduous duties, he surrendered his position to Robert Troup, then of New York City. He visited the section repeatedly till 181-1, when he became a resident of Gen- eva. He died in 1832 at the age of 74 years. Troupsburg, in Steuben county, was named for him, and an old map, 1838, gives Sodus Point as Troup- ville. He was a distinguished soldier during the Revolution. Williamson returned to Britain and there died in 1808. As sub-agents were John Johnston, John Heslop and Robert Scott, till we come to Joseph Fellows, who was by far the most important factor in these early sales. Many local agents were employed, and the first settlers in those parts transacted their business with Osgood Church of Wolcott. Associated with Mr. Fellows for some years was an active little Scotchman by the name of Andrew McNab, and he was accustomed to go about the towns looking after pay- ments, etc. "You won't drive me off," said a delinquent to him on one of these visits. "Oh, no," was the ready answer; " the weeds and briers will do that soon enough." He frequently remained in Wolcott a week or two, keeping in sight the interests of those whom he served. By the side of an old church in Geneva I find this inscription, which tells about all that is now to be had about him : "Andrew McNab, a native of Scotland, died at Geneva, Oct. 26, 1829, aged 46 years." In 1862 Mr. Fellows asso- ciated with himself Mr. Edward Kingsland of Geneva, and in 1871 Mr. F. retired, leaving the latter in care of what is left of the former great interests. From a grand-nephew of Mr. Fellows, H. C. Heermans, I am enabled to present the following facts: "Joseph Fellows was born at Eedditch, Worcestershire, England, July 2, 1782. In September, 1795, his father and family, then consisting of his wife and seven children, of whom Joseph was the oldest, emigrated to America. After a brief stop in New York, he pushed on to Luzerne county. Pa., where Scranton is now, leaving Joseph in New York to study law with Isaac L. Kip, the indenture being made June 24, 1796. He served his time faithfully and received his cer- Joseph Fellows, Esq. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Xlll tificate July 2, 1803. In his work for Mr. Kip he came in contact with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and other distinguished lawyers of the day. Here he met Colonel Robert Troup, and at the age of twenty-one was offered a situation at the salary of $600 per year, which he accepted instead of entering his profession. Subsequently, as stated, he became in 1832 principal in the management of the vast property of the Pulteuey estate. When 89 years old he gave up the trust. In 1873, April 29th, he died in Corning, Steuben county, N. Y. In his own affairs, he began by saving a portion of his scanty earnings, even in his apprenticeship days. In his agency work his salary was increased from time to time, till on succeeding to the full direction he received $5,500 per year. This income during a long life, with his habits of economy, afforded a continued surplus, which, being invested in lands and otherwise, made him a millionaire. In his agency his strong point was his strict, unswerving honesty. With millions of money passing through his hands, there was no effort on his part to make money at the expense of his employers. While not a member, Mr. Fellows was a liberal supporter of the Episcopal Church." SuEVEYS.— Colonel Hugh Maxwell, who has been called the "hero of Bunker Hill," superintended the first survey of the Phelps and Gorbam purchase, beginning in July, 1788, and completing the same in the next year. To accommodate certain parties who had settled at Geneva, the subordinates of Maxwell deflected their north and south line so far to the west that Geneva was left out. In 1791-92 Adam Hoops directed another survey, which relocated the preemption line, leaving it as it is today. The land included between the two lines amounted to about 84,000 acres. Still, all of this was west of the Williamson patent, in which Rose was included. These lands were not opened for actual sale till (Hiram Church says) June 16, 1808. As to the surveys of this tract, I am indebt- ed for the following data to John C. Bishop, of Lyons, though a native of Rose. Valentine Brothers began his surveys from the vicinity of Sodus bay, where, at Port Glasgow, the Helms had located, being the first settlers in those parts, they coming a little before the close of the last century. He made his surveys to suit the settlers who were already on the grounds, thus laying out 17 lots, and the beginning of the numbering at this point is thus accounted for. Mr. Bishop says, "Then proceeding easterly he laid out lots 18, etc., following the old ' Sloop Landing ' road and numbering on each side till he put in the large lot, No. 50, in the east bound of the district (where is now the village of Wolcott) ; thence south along the east line of the tract till he reached the southeast corner, having by this time scored 63 lots, with very little regularity as to sizes, shapes or positions. So anxious were the parties to sell they would lay out a lot anywhere, of any size or shape wanted, and the numbering was continued in the order of date. I think more than thirty years elapsed between the beginning and end. This work was done by Valentine Brothers, George Xiv EOSE NKIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Matthewson, John M. Gillespie, Elias E. Cook and others." The Rose and Nicholas purchase, of 4,000 acres, was sub-divided by the owners to suit circumstances. As to Annin's gore, the strip in the south part of the town, Mr. Bishop says: " The surveyor general, Geddes, in an attempt- ed ' smart trick,' caused a map to be made, allotting the original town of Galen. It was submitted to the Legislature and approved, and an appro- priation made to pay for the labor, the representation before the Legis- lature being that the work had already been performed, while the fact was, only a few base lines had been surveyed. The next summer Joseph Annin and others were sent to survey the tract according to the map. They found the territory larger than the map, both ways. As they could not (very well) move Seneca river, they changed the numbers and filled out the Gore on the west, making a very long lot for No. 1, between the map as constructed and the new preemption line as it really existed. On the north, the overplus strip was known as Annin's gore. The next year Annin surveyed it into lots as laid down in the map. Joseph Annin, together with Humphrey Howland and others, were in the employ of the state, under the direction of the surveyor general, for several years. They laid out a large part of the military tract, and, so far as I know, the whole of it." This Joseph Annin was a conspicuous figure in Cayuga county ; from 1803 to 1806 he was a state senator, and in 1799 and 1800 was sheriff, in fact the first one in the county. His home was in Genoa. The account- ing for the peculiar western boundary of Galen and the queer parallelogram in the south part of Eose is exceedingly interesting. Eron N. Thomas, in his Eose sketch furnished to Everts' " History of Wayne County," makes the exact dimensions of the town to be six and one-half miles east and west by five and one-quarter miles north and south, and the area to be 21,849| acres. It should be stated that Mr. Hiram Church, in his valuable articles on the old town of Wolcott, contributed to the Lake Shore News, several years since, said that the surveys and allotments were made in 1805-6 by John Smith, to whose maps early deeds make frequent reference. Settlements. — Exactly when the first settler came, or who he was, will never be clearly known. No record, however, is had of any dwellers before Alpheus Harmon and Lot Stewart, who came in 1805. Very likely Caleb Melvin came at very nearly the same time, to a point south of the Valley. In those days the spirit of unrest was, if possible, more rife than it is to-day. Besides, for several years it was difficult to secure perfect land titles. Hence the migrant halted for a brief time, and if a breath of trouble arose, hastened toward the ever inviting west. Inevitably the first comers were squatters. They built wherever they found a good loca- tion, naturally selecting a spot by the side of a spring. When surveys were made, some early comers bought, others moved on. The very earliest data at hand are those furnished by the late Hiram Church, from his ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. XV father's book. Osgood Church's record gives 117 contracts. Of these, those falling within our bounds were as follows : Alpheus Harmon, lot 169, llSj^o acres, at $3.50, June 21, 1808; now the Chester Ellinwood farm. Also, same date, lot 170, 114iS„ acres, at $3.50; now the George Steward or Jones place. Pendar Marsh, lot 205, 50 acres, at $4.00, Jan. 11, 1811; the John B. Roe farm. Epaphras Wolcott, lot 160, 100,£„ acres, at $4.00, Jan. 30, 1811; the Brockway and Mnnsell places. Seth Shepard, lot 187, 40 acres, at $4.00, April 1, 1811; now Hopping and Collins. Daniel LounslDerry, lot 206, 106 /„ acres, at $4.00, April 3, 1811; now Chatterson, McKoon and Lockwood. Jonathan Wilson, lot 140 (south half), 50 acres, at $4.00, April 3, 1811; Eustace Henderson place. John Wade, lot 185, 107| acres, at $4.00, April 16, 1811; now Joel Lee. Asa and Silas Town, lots 212 and 213, 150 acres, at $4.00, Nov. 11, 1811; now Desmond and Town. John Burns, lot 153, 108;^ acres, at $4.25, April 8, 1812; the Jonathan Briggs farm, in part. Abram Palmer, lot 140, 102 acres, at $4.00, April 22, 1812; now Lovejoy and Henderson. Thomas Avery, lot 154, 103 acres, at $4.25, May 4, 1812; in part the farm of Charles Harper. Demarkus Holmes, lot 187, lOl/o acres, at $4.32, June 25, 1812; long the Joseph Seelye farm. Nodadiah Gillett, lot 132, 101 acres, at $4.00, Oct. 2, 1812; now Barrick and York farms. Eli Wheeler, lot 188, 99i"„ acres, at $4.00, Nov. 13, 1812; now Hopping and Hendricks. Jacob Ward, lot 140 (in part), 60 acres, at $4.25, Nov. 12, 1812; possibly Buchanan farm, in part. Elijah How, lot 167 (east side), 50 acres, at $4.00, Nov. 18, 1812; the Samuel Osborn place. Jonathan Wilson, lot 161 (south end), 31 acres, at $4.25, Dec. 29, 1812; Lawson Munsell farm. Asahel Gillett, lot 155, 50 acres, at $4.25, Mar. 10, 1813; Avery H. Gillett farm. Thaddeus Collins, 1st, lot 141, 99 acres, at $3.50, Oct. 23, 1809; farms of J. S. Salisbury and E. Jones, in Butler. After 1813 the work of sub-agents ceased, and thereafter all business was done with the main office in Geneva, which became the Jerusalem up to which the early settler had to make his yearly pilgrimages ; frequently the road was a via dolorosa. The books of the Geneva business are not at present in accessible form, so that a continuation of facts like the fore- going is impossible. Much of the land was bought on speculation, and for longer or shorter periods was held by men who never came to these parts. EoADS, Etc. — It was not until 1810 that regular surveys were made. Till that time roads ran anywhere, at least they found the settler, or he made them in going from his home to that of his neighbor. In time it be- came desirable to straighten these paths and to make them passable at all seasons of the year, hence their official location. Osgood Church's old record book gives the first Rose road as that leading east from Stewart's corners, and the date is May 10, 1810 ; next is that north from Clyde to the Valley and Stewart's, June 29, 1810; from Port Glasgow to the Valley, March 20, 1811 ; north from the corners, at George Rodwell's, to Stewart's, May 11, 1811 ; east from Shear's corners, Dec. 25, 1812 ; XVi ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. from Glenmark to North Rose, April 1, 18I4. Mr. Church was himself the surveyor. This ends Mr. Church's record, and the burning of Wolcott's first data precludes further early facts in this direction. To-day the roads are as good as the average in western New York. Perhaps that from the Valley to Clyde is much better, succeeding the plank road, whose tolls necessitated considerable care on the part of the stockholders. It had a good beginning and the dwellers upon it have kept it very well. The ma- terial for making the roads of Eose well-nigh perfect is yet lying, more or less a nuisance, in the fields of the town, in the shape of cobble stones, so annoying to tillage ; but when the stone crusher has been purchased, and the principles of McAdam are better understood. Rose may have thorough- fares that will be a pride and a delight. Our town is among the "might-have-beens" in some respects. As early as 1841, General William H. Adams, of Clyde, secured a charter for a canal to extend from that village to Sodus bay, and its location was to be very near the Valley. Everybody knows "Adams' ditch," and it is fre- quently referred to in the following pages. In 1827 a preliminary survey was made, but Oswego was clamoring for connection with Syracuse and, through superior wealth, won. General Adams' devotion to this dream of his lifetime was touching. What he wrote upon the subject would fill volumes. His letters are clear, earnest and pointed. Possibly, some day, the wheels of time will develop the fact that he was not altogether a dreamer. Joseph Fellows was one of the promoters of his scheme. Then there was the project for a Pennsylvania and Sodus bay R. R. The charter was granted in 1850, and there were numerous share takers in Rose, the matter reaching its climax in 1870. In 1853 was printed the engineer's report, and from it the following words are taken: "Starting from Port Glasgow the railroad was to follow the margin of the bay, or nearly so, till it came near the town line. Thence it was to pursue a little more westerly course, till it neared the Valley, which it was to pass, only 800 feet west of the main street. Its course southward is nearly direct, crossing the Clyde and Lyons highway, the Erie canal and then turns and runs parallel with the Central R. E. to Glasgow street." Eron N. Thomas was treasurer and a Rose director. The others from this town were Henry Graham and Chauncey B. Collins. William H. Lyon, of New York, was also a director. There is extant a letter from Joseph Fellows, in which he pleads the infirmities of age for not embarking in the enterprise. However, what water and steam have failed to do, there is little doubt that electricity will yet accomplish. His reputation as a prophet would not be greatly imperiled who should predict that the year 1900 will see a line of electric roads connecting Clyde and the Valley ; thence diverging, one part will extend to Wolcott and beyond, while the other will pass . through North Rose, Port Glasgow, and will terminate at the Lake. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. SCHOOL DISTRICT XO. 7. Oct. 21— Dec. 2, 1886. In presenting these articles, it is my purpose to note the ownership of the farms ; the families and the buildings that have for years past been associated with this section, confining myself, for the present, to that part of the district embraced in Eose. Xo. 7 lies three miles east of the Valley, as old residents call the village of Eose, and includes a slice of Butler, i. e., that portion of the town lying along the border road, second in number, to the westward of the Loveless range of hills, running south from Spencer's Corners, a locality better known to "ye inhabitants" as Whisky Hill. The district itself includes one long line of hills, or at least one side of it, the east, from the former residence of Delos Seelye, deceased, to the farm of Eos well Marsh. Two roads crossing have made, at the home of the late George Seelye, a four corners, noted for many miles around on account of the hospitality of Col. Seelye and the eminent respectability of the neighboring residents. A few rods to the eastward stood for nearly or quite forty years the cobble stone school-house, wherein the children of the vicinity received the essentials of an education, and whose homely figure gave to the section a distinguish- ing feature and a name. Having, then, our bearings, let us go back to the remote past and learn what the early names were. Starting from the extreme northern part of the district, we have, on the west side of the road, first, the home, or what is left of it, of Joseph Seelye, who died February, 1854, an old man of seventy-seven years. He was born in Kingsbury, Washington Co., X. Y., of Connecticut ancestry. He early married in Stillwater, Saratoga Co., X. Y., Elizabeth Carrier, of an old Sharon, Conn., family, and, with her, essayed a farmer's life in Sherburne, Chenango Co. Here all his children, save the youngest, Delos, were born. A desire to better his condition prompted him to go still further west, and in March, 1815, he moved his young family to this then an almost unbroken wilderness. Blazed trees formed the chief means of tracing the roads through the forests. One Holmes had taken up the farm on which Mr. Seeyle located, and a small log house with a few acres of cleared area formed the only improvements on what was to be the 2 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. " honiest^ead." The willing bands of his two sturdy sons, George and Ensign, contributed not a little to the success of the venture, till the younger, Ensign, at the early age of nine, was killed by the fall of a tree which he was engaged in cutting down. The place of the lad's death was the field just north of the barn, and neai-ly in line with it. The log house gave place, about 1S20, to one of the most commodious structures in the vicinity, and in point of comfort it may be doubted whether it has ever yet been excelled. Large fields in time surrounded it, and they, with their owner, were well known for leagues around. "Uncle Joe Seelye" was a character well remembered by middle aged and older people as a man of most marked i^eculiarities. Kind-hearted and generous when his feelings were touched, he was, nevertheless, choleric and opinionated. Of vast proportions physically, he found summer's heat almost unendurable, and frequently sought consolation and comfort in the coolness of his cellar. In winter, while others grumbled at the cold, he would sit in his shirt sleeves upon his porch and laugh at their discomfort. For years, the people entering his yard saw resting against his red horse barn a slab of marble having the inscription, "Sacred to the Memory of Joseph Seelye," he having thus providently made preparation for his demise. His coffin, too, he had provided and stored at an undertaker's. He boasted that he had his tombstones and cofiQn ready, had hired a minister to preach his funeral sermon, and he is known to have offered a neighbor a pig if he would agree to dig his grave. Amusing anecdotes are still told of his eccentricities. It was " Eate" Barnes whom he sent into a cherry tree to pick fruit and compelled to whistle all the time he was " up the tree," so that he might waste no time, "Uncle Joe" threatening him with the most terrible caning if he abated his music for a moment. I sorrow now over the terrible pucker into which that poor boy's lips must have gathered. He long had in his employ a lad who is now one of the most respected citizens of an adjoining town, but who in his youth fairly put nature to her test in devising schemes of mischief. It was a never failing source of delight to H. to do something which would arouse the old gentleman's ire and cause him to attempt a pursuit, ending always in his falling, and, owing to his rotundity, remaining prone, until some one, usually his wife, came to his rescue. Prompted by some older people, the boy once performed a wanton act, for which " Uncle Joe" determined to pay him in full, and so bided his time until one luckless moment — luckless for the boy — he was caught in one of the stalls of the barn. The immense form of the irate farmer filled all the space. Escape was impossible, and for once H. felt the full weight of the cane and the strength of Mr. Seelye's arm. Back of the house in the orchard was the first cider mill of this vicinity. It was made in the true "down east" style. A huge sweep was moved around by horse or cattle power, and diligent industry might run through seven or ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 3 eight barrels a day, provided the apples were reasonably juicy. The great wooden screws used in the press were in existence only recently, though the mill has not been used for nearly fifty years. Back of the main structure once stood a smaller house, in which Mr. Seelye's son, George, lived for a time, but in 1S56 this was moved away to become a corn crib for his youngest son, Delos. The great red barn, erected near the road, also went up the hill. In time the shed and wood-house disappeared ; the wide, shady piazza fell away aud the old house stands only a suggestion of its former self. After Mr. Seelye's death, in 1S54, this portion of his estate fell into the hands of his sou, Delos, aud the old house became a sort of caravansary, in which abode, for a season only, a long line of tenants, the mere enumeration of whose names would make many lines of this article. The noble walnut tree, one of the largest in the town, still stands in front of the house, but there is little else to remind one of the beauties of the past. The great cherry trees have grown old and fallen. The Isabella grape that clambered over the cherry tree has also gone, and everywhere we see proofs of the truth that man and his works are perishable. Mr. Seelye was twice married. His first wife dying in 1833, he wedded, in 1834, Miss Lorinda Clark, of ^Yaterloo, ))ut a native of Connecticut. She survived him many years, dying in ISSO, at the advanced age of 92 years. Many changes have been wrought in the years since 1815. Then the howl of the wolf resounded at night-fall from the hillside, aud Mr. Seelye's favorite diversion was deer hunting, A black bear once ambled across the garden where he and his son, George, were at work. Forests covered nearly all the surrounding country, aud to procure material of the proper kind for his house he had to go to Piueville every day — he and George — to draw logs to Wolcott, to be cut into Ix)ards. He left two sons, George aud Delos, and a daughter, Mary Louisa, who married Dudley Wade, aud was long a resident of the district. Passing to the southward along a road on whose sides apple trees still grow, the result of Joseph Seelye's thoughtfulness, we come, on the corners, to the place where for more than fifty years George Seelye greeted his friends and dispensed free-hearted hospitality. Coming to the country in its newness, he had marked all the changes in his surroundings from 1815 to the date of his death, December, 1885, What constituted his original homestead was a lot of ten acres at the cross roads, obtained by way of trade from his father. He had erected a modest house, set out an orchard of ap^jle trees and surrounded his house with cherry trees, for many years the most prolific fruit bearers in the vicinity, and making his place one much thought of by all the boys in those parts. Many a tumble have luckless youngsters taken from those branches, but no one was ever seriously injured. On the death of his father, Mr. Seelve was able to 4 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. extend his farm to the northward, making his estate very compact and valuable. He had early wedded Polly Catharine, the younger daughter of Aaron Shepard, the first settler in the district; but he never took his wife to his new home, as she died in 1829, leaving a daughter, Polly Catharine, who married, in 1843, Austin M. Eoe, the youngest son of Austin Roe, one of the early comers to the neighborhood. In 1834 Mr. Seelye married Sarah Ann, daughter of Dr. James Sheffield, of Sherburne, Chenango Co., who survives him. His son, James Judson, who served in the 9th Heavy Artillery, married Frances, daughter of Artemas Osgood, long a resident of the district, and now resides just north of the "old home," on what is known as the Aldi-ich place. His second daughter, Eudora, married, in 1865, Lucien, elder son of Artemas Osgood, and for several years lived north of her father's, on one of the Lovejoy places. She died in 1870. The third daughter, L. Estelle, married, in 1878, Merritt G. McKoou, a schoolmate, born and reared in the Butler part of the district, and with him retains the "old place." Mr. Seelye enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens, was a life-long Baptist, and in early life was very active in the state militia, holding, in succession, the offices of adjutant, major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the 186th Regiment. The titles of colonel and deacon are indifferently applied to him. Just opposite the Seelye home, on the south side of the road, was, years ago, a log house which Mr. Seelye, in the early part of his married life, used as a barn. Before that, it was occupied by one Ransom Ward, who after- ward moved to Whisky Hill and ran a potash factory. Again, diagonally across, near where James Armstrong's dwelling stands, was another log house, built by a Mr. Eaton, a would-be settler from Connecticut. He came up with Mr. Shepard, but, at the period of moving, his courage failed him, and he gave his possessions into the care of Mr. Shepard, who finally became the owner in full. Also on the north side of the road, a little west of Mr. Seelye' s, was a log house once occupied by Mr. Savage and his family. These humble houses, I have been told, were built upon the lands of certain parties for the occupation of wood cutters, who labored in clearing up the country, and whose wages, I learn, were oftentimes quite one-half paid in whisky, of which the proprietor was wont to lay in a plentiful store. Long since, the very last vestige of the houses disappeared, not even so much as a currant or lilac bush, nor sprig of tansy, remaining to show where families lived and children played. Proceeding to the east, just beyond the school-house, on the north side of the road, wei-e we to look shai-p, I doubt not we should find the re- mains of an old log house already old as long ago as the oldest inhabitant can remember. Passing over the long line of early occupants, it will suf- fice to state that its last tenant was Edward Stickles, who married Sarah, oldest child of Abram Chatterson, of the same district — Xo. 7. This house EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 5 ■was on the farm of Diulley "Wade, who for many years lived in the large white house still further to the east, on the south side of the way, and is now the home of Oliver Bush. (Sidney P. Hopping, 1893.) The farm orig- inally belonged to John Springer, who sold to Mr. Wade and went further west. Dudley Wade, who was born in Paris, Oneida Co., in 1806, was of excellent Connecticut parentage, his father being Dudley, son of Dr. John Wade, who died in Oneida Co. in 1803. His own father dying when he was very young, he was brought up by his uncle, John Wade, a brother of Mrs. Aaron Shepard, wife of the first settler. Before getting through with these sketches, it will be seen that almost every permanent settler in this neighborhood was, in one way or another, related to his neighbor. Mr. Wade's wife was Mary Louisa, the only daughter of Joseph Seelye, a most estimable lady, now residing with her daughter Imogene at South Butler. His sou Joseph married Emma, daughter of Artemas Osgood, and lives in Eose Valley. Ensign married Lucy, daughter of Kendrick Sheffield, and grand-niece of Mrs. George Seelye. He is a farmer on one of the Ellinwood places just east of the Valley. Frank, a promising boy, died in 1875 in Boston. Imogene married Chester Irish, a native of Indiana, but of a Ca- yuga county family. She is now a widow, as is also her only sister Emily, who married a Mr. Cushman of South Butler. Mrs. Irish has three daugh- ters, Lorena, Dora and Maud. The large house, so long Mr. Wade's home, was erected by Mr. Springer, he having bought a few acres of Aaron Shep- ard for this purpose. For some reason, inscrutable to us, he was unwill- ing to have his home on the same side of the road as his barns, which were and are now quite extensive. In one of these barns was a stationary threshing machine, to which the farmers carried their grain to be threshed, just as now they take it to the mill to be ground. Columbus Collins, a native of the district, was, when a boy, severely injured by falling into the machinery when in motion. Geo. Seelye has been heard to say that this was the worst place for threshing that a man ever suffered in. For some inex- plicable reason Mr. Wade was prompted to sell his farm during the War to Messrs. Abraham and John Phillips of Wolcott. They, however, held it but a short time, in turn selling it to Hudson E. Wood, who had married Catherine, daughter of Thaddeus Collins and grand-daughter of Aaron Shepard. He, too, soon passed the place along to Oliver Bush of Oneida county. Mr. Bush keeps up the relationship traditions of the vicinity, being a cousin of Mrs. John B. Eoe. Mr. Bush's wife was a Stone Ijefore mari-iage, and her mother, an aged lady, lives with them. They have four sons, Leverrier, Fletcher D.,Lavello S.and Edward. He has held the estate for nearly twenty years, and has introduced many improvements, both in the house and upon the farm. He is one of the two farmers of the district who have made hop growing a specialty. Just now, in addition to hops, he is giving much attention to lierries. (Mr. Hopping has still further improved 6 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. the jjlace, repairing hoiise and barns, making them among the most attract- ive in the town.) His eldest sou, Leverrier, married some years ago, and resides in a new house erected recently on the north side of the road and a lit- tle further to the east. Near this spot there stood many years ago a log house, among whose early occupants was Philo Saxton, father of Martin Saxton of Butler. An earlier tenant was a Mr. Brewster, whose son Samuel mar- ried Experience, a sister of John Kellogg. John Ogram, long a well known resident on the plank road south of the Valley, was her second husband. Brewster, the tailor of Wolcott, and his brother, once proprietor of the Clyde Hotel, and Decatur B., are her sons, and there was a daughter, Polly, by Mr. Ogram. She was the mother of Priscilla, who is Mrs. Wm. Wes- cott of Syracuse; and James, who lives in the north part of the town. (In 1891 Mr. L. Bush sold to Frank A. Hendricks, who, Wolcott born, married Eva Vought of the same town. They are Rose Methodists. Mr. Bush and family went to Syracuse. There are 4-t acres in the farm.) Xearly oppo- site, in years agoue, was another log house, in which at one time lived Mr. Goodrich, the Baptist minister. This house, with the ten acres upon which it stood, was given to Geo. Seelye in lieu of one hundred dollars, the stip- ulated compensation for one year's labor given by him to Aaron Shep- ard immediately subseciuent to his marriage to the old gentleman's daugh- ter. He, however, never lived upon the place, but traded it with his father for the place upon the corner. Eeturning, for a moment, to Dudley Wade, it ought to be said of him that he purchased, after leaving District No. 7, first, the old Fuller place, near Eose Valley, and afterward the Ellinwood farm, just east of Fuller's. Here he died in 1876. The name Dudley has been prominent in many successive generations of the Wade family, or ever since Jonathan Wade of Medfoi'd, Mass., married, in the 17th cen- tury, Deborah, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley of that state. I hope others may yet bear this cognomen as honorably as the Dudleys of the past. It is safe to say that uo man in the town of Eose was ever more widely known ; whether as auctioneer, speculator or marshal at a county fair, everybody knew " Dud. Wade." There may be cases where he was beaten in repartee, but few of them are recorded. The man who tried to get a joke on Wade usually retired from the contest dejected. His merry joke and his hearty laugh will linger long in the memories of those who knew him, and instinctively we ask, "Why couldn't such men live longer?" A quarter of a mile beyond Mr. Bush's, on the same side of the road and on the Butler side of the town line, about thirty years ago Frank Eice, son of Jonathan Eice of the Bntler part of the district, was killed by the kick of a horse. He was one of the merriest youngsters that ever delighted a parent's heart, or worried a school teacher. He was returning from school, and, in his frolics, going too near the heels of a lively team driven by Steijhen Kellogg, was kicked so violently that death ensued in a few EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 7 hours. For several years a board erected, having a picture of the boy inserted, served as a warniug to all chiklreu. Eeturning to Seelye's corners we will journey westward, pausing as we go to note the disappearance of the woods that, till recently, filled the val- ley on the south side of the road, and to lament the dwindling of the brook at the foot of the hill, which, through climatic changes, has become a mere suggestion of its former self. The hill we have before us is no ordinary one, but years of worliing have rendered it a little more easy of ascent. At the left on the slope of the hill, half way up whose sides we are, stands a house repaired about thirty years since by Sheldon E. Overton, now of Wolcott. Daniel Soper built it. Since Mr. Overton disposed of it to Henry Klinck, who married Caroline, eldest daughter of Artemas Osgood, the place has remained almost unchanged save in owners. Mr. Klinck sold to Homer Stone, a brother of Mrs. Oliver Bush, who in time sold to Edgar Arm- strong, who now resides there. He married Libbie, adopted daughter of Oliver Bush, and their three children are Morton, Lullavine and Tirgil. Mr. Armstrong has long been a resident of the district, having lived with his father, James Armstrong, for many years upon the Dr. Dickson place. (Mr. Armstrong has recently completely renovated the house inside and out. ) The first note of this place that we have, is its occupancy by a Rhodes family, who lived away up on the very top of the hill, to whose log house led the road which yet runs np the side of the almost mountain, and which serves a very useful i^urpose now as a farm way. When at home these people certainly had a most breezy outlook. In time, however, they wearied of their elevated home and moved the frame additions to their house down to the road, or near it, and this was the building so long the abode of the Lewises and Sopers. In time the father died, the widow married again and moved away, and the place became the home of a family named Lewis, whose stalwart sous are yet recalled by the older residents of the neighborhood. They were from the east, Connecticut, I think, and only paused here a while on their journey westward. After them came Daniel Soper, an industrious man, brother to Brewster Soper of Eose, who reared here a very large family.' His mother died Feb. 19, 1S65, at the age of 79. Daniel, the eldest son, is still in the town. Eobert and William, with a sister, Phfebe, moved years ago to Berkshire county, Mass., and there married. Deborah married a Mr. Saulsbury and lives at the Valley. Annette is the wife of Asahel Colvin of Wolcott. Delia died young, while Emma and Alfred are unmarried. (The latter has since died.) During Mr. Soper's residence ni^on the place, it was held by the General Adams Agency, a corporation that purchased everything that could be bought, as some will remember, at the time that a canal was con- templated from Sodus to Clyde. The melancholy traces of this venture still exist, west of the Valley, in the shape of its channel, still called Adams' ditch. 8 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Erou Thomas was long the agent for this and other farms, and from him Mr. Overton purchased in 1855. Still further along the ridge of this hill, per- haps a half mile south, was another log house, still marked by the apple orchard which stood near it, where dwelt a family named Gould. All that I can learn concerning them is that Mr. Gould taught singing school, and that they all long since moved away. The place was once in the possession of Milton Town, who sold to James Benjamin, the present owner. Crossing the road from Edward Armstrong's, we shall find the comfort- able-home of Joseph Eoat, whose wife, Angeline, is the eldest daughter of Delos Seelye, for many years the owner of these fertile acres. They have two daughters, Nellie and Inez. The first resident here carries us back to a log house, standing some distance from the road in what is now the orchard. This resident was a certain John Holloway, who married the widow Ehodes, and moved, I am told, down near Clyde, but just when and where I can't tell. He sold to Zach. Esmond, of whom I know nothing save that he had a nickname of " Ishmael," and that he was a Protestant Methodist in religious matters, not over enterprising either physically or spiritually, and he in turn sold to Delos Seelye. Mr. Seelye was a native of this dis- trict, being the youngest sou of Joseph Seelye. He married early in life Almanda, daughter of Erastus Fuller, one of the oldest dwellers on the road leading to the Valley. She was in all respects a most worthy help- meet, and by hand and counsel assisted Mr. Seelye in securing a compe- tence. There was a small frame house standing near the road when Mr. Seelye purchased, and in this he and his family resided till along in the fifties, when he instituted the changes, making his home one of the most pleasant in the vicinity. No one who ever knew Delos Seelye could forget him. Nature had endowed him with a physique such as seldom falls to the lot of man. During his youth and early manhood it may be doubted if he knew what fatigue was. From dawn to twilight he could lead in all the labor that then made up the farm routine. He laughed at any mention of rest. When he wished to push matters even more strenuously, he would secure the services of a Mr. Stickles, a Mokawk Dutchman, who lived a mile or so south of him, and who was the only man in the vicinity capable of keeping up with him, and together they would crowd each other in the harvest field from sun to sun, accomplishing as much as four com- mon men could do in the same time. He made very little difference in his work on account of the weather. A thing to be done must be done, rain or shine. At the table he was just as energetic as in the field. Great stories are yet told of the work that he could do and of his feats of strength. All this could have but one ending, and before he was fifty years old, broken in constitution, he retired from his farm to the Valley, where he lingered out a few years of invalid life. He died in August, ISVO, at the early age of fifty- four. Kind-hearted and generous, he passed away lamented by a ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. » ^ide circle of friends. As already noted, his oldest daughter married Joseph Boat of Steuben county, and now holds the old place. (Now owned by Eansom Jordan of Lyons. The Boats are in Clyde. Nellie, married, lives in Watkius.) His second daughter, Annie, married Felton Hickok, aEose boy, who served his country in the 9th Heavy Artillery, and who lived many years on the old homestead, in fact succeeding her father and re- maining till followed by Mrs. Boat. Mr. and Mrs. Hickok now reside in the Valley. The youngest child, Elnora, is the wife of Valorus Ellinwood and lives just south of the Valley. At her home, in 1SS3, died her mother, Mrs. Almanda Seelye, a lady of no ordinary mental ability, as all will tes- tify who have argued with her on topics in which she was interested. Going to the west, we next come to the place where Thomas Smart, an industrious Englishman, long had his home. His particular trade was and is that of a ditch digger, acquired, I believe, among the fens of Lincoln- shire, England. No man in the town could make so perfect a trench as he, and, I suppose, very many miles of tile of his laying now underlie the fields of Eose. At one time he was blind, but always he was the soul of industry. His home he located on a swampy corner of Lyman Lee's farm, adjoining that of Delos Seelye's. This land he tried to reclaim by his deep and excellent ditches, but in spite of all his care his surroundings were, to put it mildly, damp. During the present season he has yielded to the inevitable, and has moved the house to a sandy acreage that he has for some years possessed, nearly opposite the home of Kendrick Sheffield. Mr. Smart's sons — George, John and William — have grown to be, like him, worthy and industrious citizens. His only daughter, Mary, takes the place at home of the mother, who died several years ago. Nearly opposite the late site of Mr. Smart's abode is a modest house erected by Egbert Soper, a brother of Daniel, mentioned already. The first family of whom I can obtain any trace upon this farm was named Hodge, and they lived in a log bouse just on the side of the hill to the west of the present location. Mr. Hodge sold to John Pierce, who for some time resided here. He had three sons, at least, and a son of one of them, Eugene, married Emily, daughter of S. E. Overton, and lives in Huron. John Fairchild, Baptist clergyman, also lived here a while. To the Pierces and Fairchilds succeeded Mr. Soper, who, for many years, lived in the log house, and there reared his children, of whom Theron, early deceased, will be remembered as a young man of rare promise. Mr. Soper' s wife was Margaret, a daughter of John Deady, a respected farmer living about one mile south. Charles and James Deady, of Eose, are brothers. After Mr. Soper left this place it was occupied for a time by Nehemiah Seelye, son of Benjamin and a nephew of Joseph Seelye. He afterward went to Michigan and there died. His sons— Boyal, Alfred, a member of the 9th Artillery, and Frank— accompanied him. He had one daughter, Mary, who now 10 ROSE NEIGHEOEHOOD SKETCHES. lives in Michigan. This x^roperty passed into the possession of Joel Sheffield, of the Valley, who still retains it, the house being the home, in succession, of so many families that it would be difficult to enumerate them. Josie Way, the daughter of one tenant, is recalled as a very pleasant school girl. She subsequently became Mrs. Heman Shepard of Galen, and died Mai'ch 1st, 1892, aged 38 years. Upon the level ground beyond the ascent we come to the home of Kendrick Sheffield. I am under the imjiression that the house was erected by William Briggs, who long retained it. He had a lively family, some of whose members are yet remembered with pleasure. Their names were Sarah, Mary and Harriet. There were sons, John and others. Elder Graham, a Baptist minister, came next, who had a son, and a daughter Louisa. Afterward succeeded Elder N. Ferguson, pastor of the Baptist Church of Eose. He believed that contact with the soil was conducive to excellence in the pulpit. He had children, who were entertaining members of Eose society during their father's pastorate. Clark Ferguson was a scholarly boy, who afterward became a minister himself. The daughters were Emma, Minnie and Mary, the latter of whom were school teachers of note. Kendrick Sheffield, who purchased from Elder F., is a nephew of Mrs. George Seelye. His father, James, moved from Madison county early in the fifties, and located on the place now owned by Gleason Wickwire, he buying of Hudson Wood. Mr. Sheffield married, in Madison county, Mary Ann Chase, sister of Mrs. Wickwire. He has reared a family of children on this farm, and they having left the homestead he is again alone. His oldest son, Judson, married Ornie, daughter of Peter Harmon, of the Valley, and is now in the employ of a Eochester firm. His second boy and namesake, whose black eyes few who knew him will forget, died several years since, just as he was blossoming into the manhood which everybody said he would ornament. The youngest, James, is a promising lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska. Of his two daughters, Lucy is the wife of Ensign Wade, as stated before, while Mattie married Chas. Osborne, and lives in Oneida Castle. Mr. Sheffield has long been noted for his taste and success in the care of horses. Perhaps no man in the town has done more to improve the quality of this kind of stock than he. So far as I know, he was the first man in the town to cultivate hops, and with Mr. Bush the only one to keep up the culture through a term of years. (Mr. Sheffield died July 10, 1892. Chas. Osborne, now on the farm, is a graduate of Colgate University, a son of one of the professors. By him the house has been much improved and many salutary changes have been made on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have two children, Kendrick N. and Lucy E.) Just west of this place, on lot 193, once stood a house bought by Chas. Sherman from George Seelye, and in it the older Sherman children were ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 11 born. It was afterward moved to the northward, and is now the home of Henry Decker. A little west of opposite is the pleasant house where live Thomas Smart and his children, George and Mary. Thrift and neatness here reign sui^reme. The next place on the south side of the road is held by the widow of the late Linus Osgood. Years ago it was the property of Chas. Sherman, who, with his first wife, Lucina Allen, reared here many children, whose names are well known in town. His second son, Willard, married Permilla, daughter of John and Betsey Kellogg, of Butler, and has lived for many yeaj-s in Clyde. The other sons were George, married Sybil Wilson and living in Eose ; Charles, killed a year or two since upon the Hudsou- Central R. E.; Frank, the oldest, who married a Moore, of Spencer's Corners; and Ezra, who (a member of the 111th, X. Y.) was taken prisoner and died in the hands of the rebels. Their only daughter, Lucy, married Putnam Sampson, and lives on the old Mackie place on the Clyde road. After the death of his first wife he married Miss Charlotte Tyler, of Butler, who, with her sons, Chester T. and Ezra A., manages the farm one mile east of the Valley, to which he moved after selling his first home. Mr. Sherman was a man of great energy and perseverance, and is well remembered as a valuable and patriotic citizen. During his holding of the farm it belonged to the Valley district, but, at the request of Artemas Osgood, to whom he sold, it was set off as a part of ]S(0. 7. Mr. Osgood moved into Rose from Hamilton, Madison Co., and was, with his large and interesting family, an exceedingly worthy addition to the town. Mr. Osgood is of Massachusetts birth, and has ever manifested the sterling qualities so characteristic of the land of the Puritans. His wife, who died in 1870, was Harriet Pierce. Many will recall her mother, a gracious lady, who spent her last days here. His older son, Lucien, married first, Eudora Seeyle, as already stated. She dying in 1870, he afterward mar- ried Matilda, daughter of Glcason Wickwire, and resides in Rose. The younger son, Linus, into whose hands the farm passed, married Sarah Sheffield of Xew York City, a grand-niece of Mrs. George Seelye, and, till his death, Oct. 9, 1886, maintained one of the most successful places in the town. The tamarack swamp, in the rear of his farm, has proven to be the very best onion grounds in Eose, and it is most thoroughly utilized. He left two daughters, lola and Mabel. (His widow, as Mrs. Ellsworth Klinck, and family still occupy the place.) The marriages of Artemas Osgood's daughters — Caroline, Frank and Emma — have been noticed already. Of the other two, Xaunie married Joel Sheffield, the third son of James Sheffield, and resides in Eose, while Mary, the youngest, is the wife of George Catchpole, well known in Eose. The last place to the west in this district is situated a little back from the road, and at the earliest accessible date was the home of Lucius Ellin- 12 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. wood. To him succeeded, as owner, Dr. John Dickson, though I think he never lived there. Andrew Bradburn and family were here for several years. For a long time this was the home of James Armstrong, who now lives near Seelye's corners. One fact alone should make Mr. Armstrong's occupancy noteworthy, since he was the first to introduce the culture of mint in this neighborhood. Mr. Armstrong's children, several of them, grew here to manhood and womanhood, and from this passed out to homes of their own. George lives in Lawrence, Mass.; Edgar we have noted before; Duane lives in Rhode Island {'Sow Brockton, Mass.); his twin brother, DeWitt, in the southwest (Now Creete, Colorado); James is at home (Syracuse); Alice married Harvey Ferris, but died several years since ; Ella is the wife of Ephraim Wilson, Jr. , and lives in the Valley ; Carrie and Minnie are still at home. Mr. Armstrong came to this town from Lewis county and is a relative of the Armstrongs, of Butler. His wife, a Miss Sweet, is a member of the famous Ehode Island family of Sweets, bone setters. Xo more sturdy and straightforward man ever came into the neighborhood. To Mr. Armstrong succeeded Harlan P. Wilson and he still resides here. His wife was Miss Carrie Snow, daughter of Alonzo Snow, from Chenango county. Their children are Harriet, Charles, Frank and Lewis, (Mrs. Wilson has since died). Again returning to the Corners we will go south, and first, at our right and near the cross roads, we shall find the home of James Armstrong, whose family we have already described. His house is a new one, taking the X>lace of the first building erected here, which was destroyed by fire in 1882. This farm was first Eaton's, then Aaron Shepard's, from whom it passed to his son-in-law, Thaddeus Collins, 2nd. He sold it to his son, Josephus, who built the house early in war times as a convenience for his hired man. I think its first occupant was Charles Rice, long a resident of the Butler part of the district, being a son of Jonathan Rice. He married Mary Holcomb, also of the Butler portion of No. 7. Her father, those who used to go to school-house meetings will long remember for his fervent prayers and eloquent exi^eriences. After Rice came John Crisler, a brother- in-law of Mr. Collins, his wife being Ruth Livermore from Oneida Co. She is also a sister of Mrs. John B. Roe. He now lives on the Butler side, on the old McKoon place. Wesley Livermore, Mrs. Collins' brother, came next, remaining several years. He now resides near Clyde, following the trade of a carpenter. The place was finally sold to Chauncey Darling, who built a barn and cleared much of the forest back of the house. His successor was Mr. Armstrong, as already stated. Over the elevation to the southward, we shall find the burial ground, but this, with the school-houses of the district, we shall reserve for the closing article. A little more than half a mile from the corners, on the west side of the road, is the house of Stephen Kellogg. This marks the EOi^E XEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 13 former abode of the first settler, Aaron Shepard. He was a native of Xew Hartford, Conn., and there married Polly, daughter of Dr. John Wade, who afterward moved to Paris, Oneida Co. His trade was that of a black- smith and traces of his Connecticut shop can still be found. Catching the western fever in ISll, he came to this new country and took up two sec- tions of land lying on both sides of the road, though there was no road then. This laud extended from the western liorder of S. Kellogg's farm to very near the first north and south road in Butler. Just under the hill, back of Mr. Kellogg's house and a little to the south, is a spring of pure, cold water, and here he built his log house, preparatory to bringing out his wife and two girls. His boy he had already laid to rest in the old Town Hill burying ground in New Hartford. Moving in those days was no trivial matter, for the transit was made with an ox team. This was done in the following year, 1812. What a long, tedious journey : staying, when possible, over night in houses ; when not possible, camping. A brother, Seth, accompanied him and settled on the farm now occupied by Isaac Lockwood, in Butler. Deacon Shepard, as Aaron S. was usually called, and his wife had peculiarities that will be long retained in memory by all who knew them. He early built a shop, the first in town, and was the horseshoer of the vicinity. I think pieces of forge slag can still be picked up near the road, marking the site of his anvil. When he built his farm barn he hewed planks out of logs to make the floors. These planks, show- ing the gashes of the scoring axe, still serve their original purpose in Mr. Kellogg's great barn. In fact, the barn itself is much as it was when built, seventy years ago, though it has been moved from its first location. As a deacon it was necessary for him to maintain great strictness in demeanor, and he was anxious to secure corresponding staidness from all about him ; but he had in his family ouce, a lad who tried his deacon's soul in no ordinary manner. This young man would parody " Watts " in this heath- enish way : " When I can shoot my rifle clear To pigeons in the skies, I'll bid farewell to pork and beans And live on pigeon pies." How distressing this must have been to the good old man, to whom the hymn book was second in sacreduess to the Bible only! However, it was left to the deacon to devise a way of keeping " Young Dud." out of mis- chief during church time, that for originality has no ecjual. Taking the lad to the shop, he would back him up to the vise and screw the slack of his trowsers therein, taking care to jiroperly secure his hands. I am afraid the boy's ruminations were not on things sacred while he thus stood out the deacon's hours of worship. The old gentleman was one of the original members of the Presbyterian Church in Rose, and long stood high in its 14 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. councils. He first joined the old church located at Port Bay, but which, finally, became the Presbyterian Church of Huron. He died in 1839. If the deacon was peculiar, his wife was more so. The boys of the neighbor- hood, to this day, when forced to the monotonous employment of pulling daisies, will say : " There wouldn't be any of these things here if it weren't for old Granny Shepard." Legend has it that mindful of her surroundings In the Nutmeg State, she thought she must have daisies about her in her new home to make it look natural, and so carried with her a quantity of seed, which she sowed broadcast, and behold the result. Tansy yet grows luxuriantly in the corner of the dooryard, marking the place where she planted the first seed, seventy years ago. Once when her husband was away from home, she directed the hired man to fell a large quantity of tim- ber through the swamp or swale, in order that she might have an unob- structed view, from her pantry window, of the hill-side beyond. How strangely history repeats itself, for I find that the first pastor, Jonathan Marsh, of the church in New Hartford, Conn., directed his parishioners to do just the same thing, that he might, from his parsonage, see his church. The reputation of being the best cook in the neighborhood, I have never heard disputed, and she trained up her own girls and those who lived with her to be equally deserving of praise. She was determined and perti- nacious in her ways, and when a Mormon missionary sat up all night en- deavoring to convert the deacon, she sat up, too, and effectually counter- acted the poison of the enemy. She was liable to spells of hypochondria, when she would send word to her daughter, Mrs. Collins, opposite, that Mrs. C. must come right over, as she was going to die right away. Likely as not, Mrs. C, who knew her mother perfectly, would reply : " I can't, for I am going visiting.'" Just as quickly as the messenger could return, would go the message : " Just wait a few minutes and I'll go with you." This story is told with much glee by old residents : A certain man in the neighborhood was much disliked by nearly everybody — possibly feared. The old lady shared the common feeling, and seeing him coming one day, she had her screams all ready ; but contrary to exjiectation he walked di- rectly by. Not to be cheated out of her fright, she sallied forth, shouting: "Zekiel, Zekiel, don't you come in here, I am afraid of you." After a few years, the old log house was given up, and the family moved into the first framed building in the district, constructed before 1820. The town road had been located, and it lay, or ran, some rods east of the house by the side of the spring. There are still living in Eose and Butler very aged people who can recall childhood memories of this pioneer cabin. The new house was a marvel of comfort and elegance for those days. Painted red, it stood with its gable facing the road. The interior was divided into a front room with a wide fireplace, a stairway leading aloft, a pantry and a bedroom on the north side, with a back parlor. The chamber was unfln- ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 15 islied. An immense chimuey, while necessary in its day, took up about one- quarter the space of the entire house. In this shape the building con- tinued till 1855, when it was re-covered, an addition put on the north side and the entire interior altered. The frame is the one put together by the deacon. This change was effected by Eev. A. M. Eoe and his wife, a grand-daughter of the first builder, and then the owner of the place. Just south and a little back of the red house stood an uupainted building, some years younger than its more irretentions neighbor. This was built by Mr. Shepard as a residence for his daughter, Harriet, who married Thaddeus Collins, 2nd, of Eose. After their leaving it, it formed a very convenient house for tenants, till its demolition in 1855. The orchard just south of the house and fast going to decay, was the result of seed sown by Mr. Shep- ard many years ago. The marriages of the two daughters of this family have been noticed already. To the daughter (Polly) of Catharine Seelye the place passed on her marriage, and was the home of herself and husband till he became a clergyman. Only once afterward did they reside there, and then for a single year. (They are the parents of four children, Alfred S. of Worcester, Mass.; G. Mortimer of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Charles M. of Syracuse; and S. Addie, who, the wife of the late Dr. Lawrence Johnson of New York, died March 31, 1893.) It was then sold to Thaddeus Collins, who conveyed it to his younger daughter, Harriet, the wife of Stephen Kellogg. For nearly thirty years they have lived here, seeing their three boys — William, Levern and Frank — grow to manhood. (Will, married, lives in Manango, 'So. Dak.; Lavern died in 1S87, and rests in the liurfal ground just to the north; while Frank resides in Covell's Dist.) It should be added that, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Shepard married Azel Dowd of Huron, and lived, till his death, with Watson Dowd, a son. Afterward her home was with her daughter, Harriet, till her death, which was in 1859. Nearly opposite is one of the largest, perhaps the very largest house in the district. It is that of Josephus Collins, who inherited from his father, Thaddeus. The first knowledge that I have of the house is that it was built by Charles Eichards, who. very likely, purchased of Mr. Shepard. At any rate, Mr. Eichards lived here for many years, and managed a distillery located near the spring in the pasture, some rods east of the house. This institution was destroyed by fire before the farm passed out of Eichards' possession. Just south of the distillery, in what is now a rich meadow, general trainings were had in the " long ago." The juxtaposition of dis- tillery and training suggests the motive power so common in those days. Near the road was a cider mill, long since dismantled. There were in the Eichards family a sou and daughter. The latter was courted and married by a Mr. Olmstead, and I have been told that all went to Canada. Thad- deus Collins, 2nd, who purchased of Eichards, was born in Vermont, the 16 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. son of Thaddeus Collins, one of the early settlers of this town, and at one time the owner of much of the site of the village of Eose. The latter died in 1828, and is buried iu the Eose burial ground. The family was orig- inally from Massachusetts. Thaddeus, 2nd, was born in 1792, and died in 1865. He was a man who always excited and retained the liveliest esteem and regard from all having him in acquaintance. There is now many a man who recalls his boyhood's delight over Mr. Collins' recitals of his own youth- ful adventures with bears and wolves. To be sure, the boy might seek his trundle bed, with hair fairly erect with fear, fancying that the sighing wind was the howl of the wolf, and a chair in the corner, possibly, a bear, — he always came back to the same old stories with unabated zeal and interest. I suppose I have heard him tell a hundred times how he took a stake from a sled, standing near the site of the district burial ground, to repel a possi- ble attack from wolves whose howls he heard when he was on his way home from courting his future wife. A thrill of sadness comes over me as I reflect that husband and wife have long slept, side by side, in the in- closure over which crept, years ago, the prowling wolf. They are alike oblivious to the howl of the ravening beast and the tears of their mourning friends. Mrs. Collins survived her lamented husband nearly nine years, dying July, 1874. As I recall them, they were almost my ideal pair. I cannot forget Mr. Collins' testimony in the old school-house meetings, when, rubbing his hands together, he would say : " I feel that it is good to be here." Then, too, his wife's recital of her own conversion is vividly recalled. They were of the salt of the earth. Perhaps people have gone from their doors hungry, but I never knew an instance. An amusing anecdote of Mrs. Collins' discernment is told as follows : A short time after her husband's death, an aged widower, quite infirm, called on her, obviously with the intention of proposing marriage, thinking no doubt that her home would be a very comfortable haven in his decrepitude. Finally, after beating about the bush, he presented his cause, having abso- lutely nothing to offer but his enfeebled self. Mrs. Collins, readily discov- ering his object, sent him to the right-about quick, saying that she had enough to do to take care of herself without taking in any cripples. Gather- ing up his crutches the old gentleman made haste to carry his wares to more favorable markets. Four children grew to maturity. The oldest, Columbus, married Lovina, daughter of Joel Lee of Eose, and, a farmer, lived at different times in Eose, Butler, Huron and Wolcott— dying in the latter i^lace several years since from a most distressing accident. Catha- rine married Hudson Wood of Butler, and was a most eiScient companion to him for many years. She died in 1884. Her second daughter, Frank, is the wife of George G. Eoe of Clyde. Josephus married Polly Livermore of Oneida county, and has successfully managed his farm during these many years. His oldest child, Ida, is the wife of Eev. Wm. Winget of the ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 17 Free Methodist Church. (Now of Buffalo, N. Y.) Mr. Winget is Huron born, just on the confines of Eose, at York settlement. Newton is a prom- inent physician in Eochester, while Jimmy, a lad, is yet at home. Harriet, the youngest daughter of Thaddeus, has already been mentioned as the wife of Stephen Kellogg. The next place is that of Henry Chatterson, received from his father, Abram, and he inheriting from Betts Chatterson, the first comer of the name. This name, in its Dutch purity, was Chadderdon, but Aunt Laney, as everybody called her, a sister 'of Abram, determined to charqje it, and to compass this transformed the d's in the old family Bible, considerably more than a hundred years old, into t's and s's. Early in the century this place was the home of Daniel Lounsberry, who, going west, sold to Moses Wisner, whose three daughters — Sarah, Elizabeth and Charlotte, it is noteworthy, married thi-ee brothers — Austin, Willis and Brewster Eoe, of Butler. Wisner sold to Isaac Mills and moved to Penfield, Monroe Co., and there died. Mills went west, after selling to Betts Chatterson. This family was from Columbia county, and was of great originality of speech. Commenting on the Scriptural statement that when the iron is blunt then must he put to more strength, Mr. Chatterson said: "Strange that he didn't know enough to sharpen the knife.'" He died in 1851, aged eighty- seven. "Aunt Laney" (Helen) was one of the most peculiar characters of the neighborhood. She had in her girlhood learned how to make artificial flowers, and this formed her chief occupation through life, though she was joint inheritor with Abram of the farm. When very aged she went once to Glenmark to have some wool carded. The mechanic, mean- ing no discourtesy, but still desirous of knowing her age, politely asked her the question. Her ready reply, snapped out in her quick speech, was : "Old enough to mind my own business." For some time before her ■death she was totally blind, but it was not till near the very end that she would grant that her sight was seriously impaired. As she was born in 1785, she must have been nearly ninety years old at her death. Her brother, Abram, was a genius, as all who knew him will concede. How he did like to play upon the fife, and into what ecstasies, almost, would he pass when, with closed eyes, he would extract those ear-piercing notes from the little wood instrument. Old Yankee Doodle himself, at Bunker Hill, was not half so enthusiastic. I should like to see the boy of the neighborhood who has no pleasant remembrance of "Abe" Chatterson's fife playing. He, too, was quick in speech, and his replies were often quite out of the general order. Not satisfied with acceding to a request with all of his heart, he would, quite likely, generously throw in a piece of his liver. Born in 1803, he died in 1881. He was twice married: 1st, to , and 2d, to Euth Goffe, the mother of his sons. His children were: Sarah, who married Edward Stickles; Josephine, Wm. 18 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Olmstead; Louisa (Mrs. Spencer), John P.; these three live in Greene county, and Henry, the older of the boys, who retains the old place. During the Rebellion he was for two years in the 27th N. Y. Regiment, and then going west served till the end in a Wisconsin regiment. He went with Sherman on his march to the sea. Perhaps no Rose boy has a better military record. His wife is Addie Waldron, whom he married in 1870. (Mrs. Chatterson died Dec. 27, 1891, aged 43 years, leaving two sons, George and Louis.) As tenants, for a time, Isaac and Abram Phillips have lived in the Chatterson house. They were cousins of Abram C, and came from the Hudson river country. Isaac had three sons — William, Horace and Frank — all residents of Wolcott. William was postmaster during Presi- dent Cleveland's first term. Isaac Phillips died in Wolcott, Xov. 1, 1889, in his 75th year. Going back a few rods to the west side of the road thirty or more years ago, we should have seen a little unpainted building with no land to spare about it, yet every inch utilized. Across the road, the wonder of every school boy, was a cellar built above ground. The edifice itself was the old district school-house, which became a dwelling house when the stone building was erected. Let us enter. There is a very small, narrow entry, from which, at our left, a door leads into the single room constituting the interior. In one corner we shall find a shoemaker's kit, and, pegging away most diligently, old " Uncle Tipple," who, with his neat Dutch wife, is a dweller here. On a tombstone in the burial ground, I read the follow- ing: "Jacob Tipple, died April 1, 1853, aged 66 years." Yet his wife is living to-day, the oldest person, I suppose, in the town. On the 30th day of last July, she was ninety-nine years old. A few days before, it was my pleasure to take her by the hand and to recall the days when I, a small boy, thought her a very old woman. She lives west of the Valley with her daughter, Mrs. Abram Phillips. Though bowed with the weight of years, her mind is clear and her eye bright. I confidently expect to see her pass her centennial mile post. How she laughed when I described my boyish impression of her home in the old school-house. Those two beds so high and smooth; so high that I couldn't see how any one could reach them, and if, by any means, he should get to the top, how could he dare to muss or rumple such immaculate surfaces. What a pattern of neatness ! Uncle Tipple always furnished early cabbage plants for the entire neighborhood. The Tipples had two children, Eliza M., to be met later in the Covell district as Mrs. Abram Phillips, and Philip, who died many years ago. Following Mr. Tipple's death in 1853, his widow went to dwell' with her daughter, and the house became the property of Mr. J.B. Roe, who moved it away and made of it one of his out- buildings. (In 1887, July 30, many friends helped Mrs. Tipple celebrate her centennial at the home of Mrs. Phillips, west of the Valley. She survived till July 7, 1888.) John B. Roe. Austin M. Roe. Austin Roe. Alfred S. Roe. George G. Roe. EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 19 Near at hand, on the south, is the home identified with the name of Roe since 1833. Before that time, it was the property of Pendar Marsh, who, with his brother, Amos, on the adjoining farm south, came with the Shepards from New Hartford, Ct., descendants of that clergyman who wanted the forest cut from his home to the church. Pendar Marsh, for a time afterward, lived on one of the Briggs places further south, and then, with Seth Shepard, went to Michigan. Austin Eoe, a younger brother of Daniel Eoe, one of the pioneers of Butler, was born in Connecticut in 1782. After the death of his mother, in 1832, he made haste to move his family, by the process of river and canal travel, to this, to him, remote region. For generations his family had lived on Long Island ; his own birth in Connecticut being the result of Revolutionary broils, as his parents were driven thence by hostile Tories. Island farming was not encouraging, and having discharged his filial duty to his parents, he moved his family of wife and six children to Wayne county. Devotedly religious, it was a source of great pleasure to his relatives after his death to find his exhorter's and local preacher's licenses, extending over quite forty years. Hard of hearing for many years, he makes a very pleasant part of one's mental picture of the services in the old school-house. The minister in his desk was not more prominent than Father Eoe, as he sat in a chair, close by, that he might lose no word of the discourse. Then, when the sermon was ended, how he commanded the rapt attention of all listeners as he recounted God's love to him and his. He died, full of years, in 1864, though he would doubtless have lived much longer (his Butler brother died at ninety) had he not given way to excessive grief over the death of his wife, Sarah, who died the preceding September. She was his own cousin, a native of Long Island, and had most faithfully attended him along life's pathway. Recently meeting a gentleman on the Pacific coast, the writer was much pleased to hear him say that Mrs. Roe came nearer the perfect woman than any being he had ever seen. Through years of acquaintance, he had never seen her temper in the least ruffled. After the marriage of their son, John, they, for a time, lived in a house nearly opposite, a little south, standing where Merritt McKoon's house now is. Afterward they returned to the old home and formed a part of J. B. Roe's family to the end of their lives. When Mr. Roe bought the farm, there was upon it the usual log house. This was supplanted, in 1838, by the present roomy and pleasant structure. The great butternut trees in front of the house, the largest in the vicinity, were set out by Mr. Marsh ; but one or two of them have succumbed to the tooth of time. Daniel J., the eldest son, married Ann Tillow, a sister of Mrs. Isaac Mills, the neighbors opposite, and soon removed to Michigan, where he now lives at the age of seventy-four. Catharine married Sheldon R. Overton, for years a near neighbor, but who now lives in Wolcott. (Died, 1887.) Eliza married 20 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD bfKETCHES. George Stafford and resides with her daughter, Sarah, in Ohio. (Died, 1889.) John B. was twice married ; first, to Rosana Sours of Huron. Her children were Merwin S. of Syracuse, and George G. of Clyde, (Who besides managing his extensive carriage business, has been, since 1890, the highly successful postmaster in that village.) His second marriage was to Eunicfe Livermore of Oneida county, who survives him and man- ages the old farm. Her children are Alice C, the wife of Henry T. Lee of Clyde, and Ottie E., the wife of Stephen Soule, also of Clyde. Mr. Roe was a model farmer and a most respected member of the community, but whose ambition was in excess of his strength, bringing him to his grave at the comparatively early age of sixty-six. Rev. Austin M., already stated, married Polly C. Seelye, and lives in Fulton, N. Y. The youngest child, Fanny, is the wife of Timothy R. Smith of Clyde. Their only surviving child is Duke, a teacherof musicin thatplace. Chas. Freeman, born in Rose, became a member of Austin Roe's family at an early age, and remained so till nearly or quite of age. For the past twenty-four years he has resided in Portland, Oregon. He is now cashier of the Oregon R. R. & Navigation Co. (For several years the farm has been cultivated by Charles W. Hurter, a native of Rose, whose wife is Delilah Barager, born in Canada. Their only son, Willie, has marked musical talents. The family, like that of Mr. Roe, is connected with the M. E. Church.) Across the road a gate opens into a lane separating the Chatterson and McKoon farms. This was once a public way ; but to my knowledge there never was more than one house upon it. This was the log home of " Sammy " Jones, a stone mason by trade, whose deep and lasting pota- tions few neighbors can forget. One of his daughters became the second wife of Dr. John Dickson. Jones' first wife was, years ago, buried in the district cemetery, and when afterward he took to himself another spouse, it gave rise to the most noted " horning " that ever took place in the town. All the young men of the vicinity united to do the business up in style. Before beginning their concert, they called the roll, and no little amuse- ment was created at the names to which somebody vociferously responded " here." The worthy names of Roe, Collins, Seelye and Kellogg were all answered to, although Austin, Thaddeus, George and John little knew the liberty that the boys were taking with their titles. Such discord was never in town before nor since. Horns, horse fiddles, guns and yells made the night dissonant. Finally, the house itself was attacked and entered, the frightened inmates fleeing in utter terror. The house was not razed, but there was left scarcely one whole piece of crockery on the premises. He laughs best who laughs last, and when the " boys " paid the bills engen- dered by that night's fixn, their smiles came, as we say, out of the other corner of their mouths. Several years ago Mr. Jones went to Michigan to live with a son, his farm being merged in the McKoon place. He has since died. t EOSE NEIGHBOBHOOD SKETCHES. 21 The last place in the district is just south of the lane before mentioned. Years ago it was owned by Isaac Lounsberry, a brother of Daniel, his nearest neighbor on the north. He sold to the Gen. Adams' Land or Canal Co., supposed to represent a certain capitalist, Pompelly, by name. It then passed into the hands of Austin Eoe, as before noted. He sold it to his son-inlaw, S. E. Overton, who retained it for many years. Mr. Overton, a native of Long Island, was born in 1800. His children are Laura ; Clarissa, the wife of Wm. Finch ; Howard, living in Huron ; Lu- cilla, who married and lives on Long Island ; Emily, Harriet and Everett — the last two died just as they were leaving childhood behind them. Mr. Overton sold to Wm. Sherman, whose power in prayer and love for a horse are well remembered. His wife was Clarissa (Thompson) Ellinwood, born in the Butler part of the district. An adopted son, E. Wallace Blackman, went to school in the old stone school-house with the rest of us, and, going into the army, like a patriotic boy as he was, died in 1862. Mr. Sherman sold his farm and went with his family to Michigan, and there died. Another son, Henry, enlisted from the west, and died in the service. There were other children. Wm. Haney of Boonville, Oneida county, was the purchaser of the farm. He was a Scotch Irishman, of great presence and power, and is still, in Seneca Falls, an important factor in all that goes on about him. When he came to the town he had two sons, Albert and Victor. Two daughters — Emma and Clara — were born here. Death, however, removed Victor and Clara to the other land. As his teacher for a season, I can safely say that no brighter, better boy ever responded to a teacher's efforts than the curly-headed lad whose body has long slumbered in the cemetery on the hillside in Boonville. After the death of his chil- dren, the place ceased to be attractive to the surviving members, and he, accordingly, sold to Hudson Wood and moved to Seneca Falls, where Albert is now in business. A niece, Anna, was the first wife of Merwin S. Eoe. Mr. Wood did not live on the place, but his son-in-law, Leonard, managed it for a time. He soon sold the place to Isaac Lockwood and Merritt McKoon, in whose possession it now is. Shortly after their pur- chase the house was destroyed by fire, making the second conflagration in the history of the section. The present edifice was soon afterward con- structed, and in this Mr. and Mrs. McKoon lived till they moved to their present residence at the corners. (George, oldest son of the late Isaac Lockwood, married Lina Chappel of Butler, and for several years has occupied this place. They have children, Ambrose, Maud E. and John C. ) The history of no American community is complete till we have the story of its schools. I cannot find the time when there was no school in the vicinity. District Xo. 7 was once a part of a school patronizing section, covering what is now given up to five or six districts. The first building was a log one, standing on or near the site of the present edifice at 22 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Stewart's corners. An interesting souvenir of this first school-house is yet in existence in the shape of a great iron used over the fireplace to support the chimney. It has for more than sixty years performed the same office in the old Seelye mansion. In this building the Seelyes, Sheparda, Smiths and Ellinwoods obtained all they had in the way of education. School records of those days would be hard to find, and I am certain of only a few names of teachers. There were Eli Ward, Messrs. Knapp and Sherwood. One of the latest was George Salmon, who after- ward married Lorinda Welles. He subsequently became a very prominent business man of Fulton, Oswego Co. He died a few years ago, a man much respected in the community. His second or third wife was a Leavenworth, of Wolcott. I have often thought, as I saw him walk into church, that his looks and manner were not unlike those of the great Washington. In time, as settlers became more numerous, a division of the district was necessary, and, about 1830, the old Tipple house was built and opened. Here followed the usual routine of school life, under the care of masters in winter and mistresses in summer, till about 1840. In this edifice, among other teachers, was, in 1833-'4, one Squires, who had a strange way of drying the boots and shoes of his pupils who came into school with wet feet. Taking the foot in his hand he would, with a ruler, give it a terrible beating. Any one who has ever tried this method of getting transmitted force can imagine what the torture was. He had a queer way of grinning as he made or mended a quill pen, and many a luckless youngster, thinking the master was laughing, would laugh, too. Alas, what a mistake ! The boy who laughed, soon had occasion to weep. In 1834-'5, George Seelye taught, and they do say that he prayed but once a week. Doubtless he thought it best to give his time exclusively to instruction. Darius Clark, a sou of "Priest" Clark, and a brother of Col. Emmons Clark, of the N. Y. 7th Regiment, was one of the early peda- gogues. The story is told that he pronounced the word "yelp" to William Marsh— Amos' oldest son, who went to California in 1849— to be spelled. The boy did not understand what was wanted and nearly suffocated himself in his efforts to yelp. The more he tried the more the master shouted "yelp," till the boy nearly fainted. The master thought it funny, but the pupils were indignant. Another teacher was Sloan Cooley. The stone building came in 1840, and the first teacher was Arvine Peck. Among other masters, in the long succession of years, were A. M. Roe, George Stafford, Martin Blynn, Marvin Wilbur and many, many others. Mr. Stafford, who married Eliza Roe, could scare a boy out of his wits, nearly, by one loud exclamation. For continued whispering he would threaten to cut off a boy's tongue, and would produce block and knife, to the lad's excessive horror. But he kept a good school. I have heard grown boys say that Martin Blynn, afterward major in the 10th EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 23 N. Y. Cavalry, was the best teacher they ever had. "There was no use talking, we had to learn any way." When, in 1865, the writer taught the fichool, he found, out of something more than forty pupils, that thirty-five were, in one way or another, related to him. This illustrates pretty well the consanguined character of the district. It was near the centennial year that the old stone house gave place to the present wooden edifice. The stones were tumbled into the space enclosed and the new building rose on the ruins. The serrated benches and desks with the recessed windows, deeply scarred with well-known initials, are in the irrevocable i^ast. While articles like these have little to do with the religious proclivi- ties of the people, I might state that, almost without exception, for many years, the residents have been faithful church goers ; communicants of the Baptist and Methodist Churches. It was long customary to have union afternoon services in the school-house. Till comparatively recently, there was not an individual in the district who did not trace his ancestry, directly or indirectly, to New England sources. In well deported lives, I think, these people have well sustained the long accorded New England reputa- tion of honesty, sobriety and piety. We have followed the early and late inhabitants of this locality through many years, but the paths of obscurity, as well as those of glory, " lead but to the grave." Where sleep the forefathers ? The first burial place in the neighborhood was near Stewart's corners. Probably fifty persons were buried there, among whom was Jerusha, mother of Deacon Shepard, who died soon after his removing from Connecticut. However, in the twenties, the present cemetery, south of the corners, was opened, and has been added to once since, a small portion of land being taken in on the east side. Here are buried all the forefathers of the hamlet save John B. Eoe, who lies in the cemetery north of the Valley. "Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe hath broke. How jocund did they drive their teams afield ; How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke." There is very little of the famous elegy that will not apply to the enclos- ure. Each year marks a new grave ; some pilgrimage ended, a new life begun. And so it will be for years to come. When the present has become "the old time," the tale will still be told. The first interment was that of a son of John Springer. This is the inscription : Died, December 2, 1828, James P. Springer, aged 8 years, 9 months and 18 days. The second and third to enter this fiual home were Catharine, wife of George Seelye, who died in 1829, and her infant son. Mr. Seelye himself, fifty-six years afterward, has .just been laid by her side, and the scene is ended. ^ 'All the world's a stage," says the chief of writers, "They have their 24 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. entrances and their exits." Here sleep, side by side, so many who together fought life's battles, and now rest from their labors. " Under the dew and the sunshine," indifferent alike to summer's heat and winter's cold, they await the glorious resiiiTeetion promised all the children of God. "Afterlife's fitful dream, they sleep well." Requiescant in pace. THE BUTLER PART OF NO. 7. Aug. 11— Sep. 1, 1887. The eastward limit of the Rose portion of the district was reached when we wrote of the property of Dudley Wade and of certain log houses, in which various parties, as Brewster, Saxton and others, had lived. Just beyond the town line and at the foot of the hill is a small house, which has had numerous occupants. The first owner of whom we have any trace was Jesse Woodruff, who sold to William Olmstead — brother of Mrs. John Wade, of Rose — who, with others of the family, came from Connecticut. He is supposed to have built the house. He sold to William Sherman, whose name we find in connection with many farms in the near regions of Rose and Butler. He was a son of Elias D. Sherman, one of the most conspicuous of the early pioneers of Rose. Mr. S. built the barn on the hill, intending to move up the house, but instead the barn went to the house. After him came Daniel Burgess, a son-in-law of Philo Saxton, who had himself occupied the house. He, Burgess, had two daughters, Alzina and Phtebe — named thus, I suppose, from his two wives, both Saxtons. Selling his place to Dudley Wade, he moved to Red Creek, and now lives near Westbury. The house then became the home of several tenants, prominent among whom was John Pitcher, an Englishman, who finally moved to Allegany Co., and there died in 1887. Mr. Wade sold to John E. Jones, more familiarly known among his townsmen as " Erv " Jones. He was from Saratoga Co., and married Permelia, daughter of Benjamin Kellogg, of Butler. His children were Harriet, who married George Voor- hees, and died several years since. Henry married Julia Toles, of Rose, and now resides in Wolcott. Mary is the wife of George Dowd, of Huron. Isaac married Eliza Lovejoy, and lives on the lime kiln farm, near Butler. Adelbert married Lillie Weller and lives in Huron. Mr. Jones was a good citizen and made the most out of his farm. He dug out the spring, on the opposite side of the road, and conducted water from it to his house and barn. Finding the farm too small for himself and sons, he sold, as he . supposed, to Mortimer Calkins, of Chenango Co., but in reality to Dudley Wade. Mr. J. always thought this a sharp trick on the part of his neighbor, to whom he would have made a considerably higher price. But EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 25 buyer and seller are alike beyond the world's bargainings, for Jones, after buying a farm in the northern part of the Stewart district, died in 1877, and was buried with his former neighbors in the Collins burying ground. After holding the farm for a short time, Mr. Wade passed it along to his eldest son, Joseph, who, with his newly wedded wife, Emma Osgood, began housekeeping here. The young people of the neighborhood enjoyed rare sport in the long winter evenings, when they gathered round "Joe's" hospitable fireside and helped him and his wife kill time. Is it possible that the youngsters of to-day have half as much fun as we did f What a pity that there was no " chiel " among them taking notes in those semi- remote days. No one who passed a winter's round of home festivities can ever regard them with aught but the most intense pleasure. But " Joe " wearied of farming finally, and he sold to Cornelius Marsh, a native of the Town district of Eose. Mr. Marsh's wife was the Widow Leaton, a daughter of Mr. Whitehead, an industrious Englishman, well known in the vicinity. Her daughter, Alice, became the wife of Geo. S. Seelye, and is now in Dakota. Marsh made many improvements in the buildings and worked hard for many years. He finally sold the farm back to J. S. Wade and now lives west of the Valley. Ascending the hill, we turn to the north, and the first farm at our right B that of Elias Taylor. The original proprietor was Jesse Woodruff, who, vith his brother, Charles, was joint proprietor of a large four hundred atre farm. The brothers were sons of Lambert Woodruff, who came from th», east in 1806 to Wolcott. Jesse sold off his acres in sections, and finally, having built the house, burned some years ago, moved to Newark. This par\, what we shall call the Taylor farm, he sold to N. W. Tompkins, who, a native of Waterbury, Conn., had moved with his parents to Oneida countv, and thence, in his early manhood, came to this place. After leayinr the farm, he went to Wolcott, where he engaged in milling and mercaitile business for many years. Eetiring from these he went to a fine farm stuth of Wolcott. Next came E. Y. Munson, who, after several years ol occupancy, sold to Abram Moore and went to Wolcott. After Moore, tie farm was owned jointly by T. J. Lampson and Mr. Andrus. The storj is told of one of the owners, about this time, that becoming badly chafed, he asked his hired man what was good for him, and was answered ' turpentine." He went to the house, presumably to apply the remedy. S>nietime afterward the amateur physician followed and found his employevsitting in a tub of water, and thus doing his best to allay the torments intt which the medicine had thrown him. James Jenkins, a Methodist mitister, followed, and to him succeeded Jonathan Rice, who held the placefor a number of years, and here reared a large family of children. Mr.»{icecame originally from Massachusetts, and now, in his old age, is a res^ent of Huron at Sours' Mills. His oldest son, S. Decatur, 26 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. who used to be one of the big boys in the old school-house, married Lydia Taylor and runs the grist mill at Sours' Mills. Lavina married Jackson Terbush and lives in Wolcott. George married Emma Bump and is in Peterboro, Madison Co. Charles married Mary Holcomb and lives near Watertown. Hattie is the wife of Ethan Kellogg, and they, too, are at Sours' Mills. Jared wedded Frances, another daughter of Harrison Hol- comb, and is a miller in Mexico, Oswego Co. Frank, as was stated in the Eose articles, was killed in childhood. It is an interesting item that all the above sons, and at least one son-in-law, are millers. Mr. Eice sold to Crandall Loveless, who, in time, sold to the present proprietor, Mr. Taylor, who came from near South Butler. His wife is Martha, daughter of Joel Bishop. After his moving upon the farm, his house, the one so long standing, was burned some years ago, and then his bai-n followed in like manner. New ones have taken the place of the old. Mr. Taylor's daughter, Vesta, is the wife of Washington Loveless, of Butler, while another, Eliza, is at home. Before leaving this farm, it will be in place to state that among its many owners was one who liked very much a drink of whisky, but he scorned to take his liquor without paying for it. So, getting a small keg of the ardent, he, with a sympathetic neighbor, managed to open a bar, and with a single sixpence the two would buy out the establishment. To keep up the illusion — for no true American likes to take his liqiaor in any other way than standing — one would saunter u? to the improvised bar, plank his sixpence and get his drink. Then, ly the way of fair turn about, he would go behind the bar and the late tencter would become purchaser. Thus each one had the pleasui-e of buying fud selling, of drinking at a bar and of getting as drunk as a lord, with no geat expenditure of ready money. How often this sort of play was had depraent doth not state, but it is claimed that the game was never over til the supply was exhausted. Nearly opposite is the home of Patrick Burke ; but older peope will recall it as the residence for many years of Widcw Kellogg. Tie farm itself is a part of the Woodruff purchase, and after having been Jeld by N. W. Tompkins, was for a time in Wm. Sherman's ijossession From him it passed to Columbus Collins, who built the house. C. <■ Collins was the son of Thaddeus, of the Eose part of the district, and very soon after marrying Lovina, daughter of Joel Lee, 1st, of Eose, caae here to live. Though his children were not born here, it may be st.'ted that at his death in Wolcott, he left May E., a teacher in the Wlcott public school, and Julian, who now lives in Eochester. (Torrington Ct.) C. C.'s widow is in Wolcott. Perry Jones then held the place for awhile. Jones is a son of the " Sammy" Jones mentioned in a former leter. His wife was Drusilla Saxton, daughter of Philo. They now 11^3 in Michigan. Charles Kellogg, his successor, was a long time resident 'f the neighbor- ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 27 hood, a son of Benjamin K. His wife was Mairetta, daughter of Wm. McKoon, and a native of the same school district. Mr. Kellogg died in the winter of '53-4. For years Mrs. K. held the place, and by the aid of her sons managed the farm. She was a most industrious woman, and in her life time must have made many hundred pairs of binders' mittens, a pur- suit in which, I think, she never had a rival in the near vicinity. Of her three children, Ethan B., 2nd, married Hattie Rice, as already stated. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H of the 9th Heavy Artillery, but was dis- charged therefrom on account of disability. John C. married Mary Fisher of Wolcott, and afterward Eftie Terbush, and now lives in Rose. Lucy's first husband was John Reynolds of Butler; her second, J. Byron Smith, now of Wolcott. Several years since, the whole family moved east of Wolcott, where Mrs. Kellogg in 1879 passed to her reward. Jonathan Rice was the next owner, then Walter Maroney, who sold to Peter Yan- Buren, who, an ex-soldier in the Rebellion, belonged to an old Butler family. He is now in Lincoln, Xeb. Cornelius Marsh was then for a time the owner, then Joseph Wade, who sold to the present occupant. Patrick Burke and his wife, Catharine Dunn, are from Waterford, Ireland. Their children are Wm., Edward, John, James, Ella (Mrs. James Whalen of Galen) and Anna. The town has no more industrious people than this family. Everybody, far and near, knows " Mart " Saxtou. His home is next, and the house is reached just before taking another turn toward the inner part of the town. Again we are on the old Woodruff land, though Saxton began his farm by a purchase of one acre from Mrs. Kellogg. He built a house and barn, and has added to his estate by purchases from the Benja- 'min property, north, and the Wade place, south. His first wife was Rebecca Marsh of Rose, who died in 1877. She left two daughters, Rosa A. (Mrs. Edward Klinck) and Mary E. Mr. Marsh's second wife was, before her first marriage, Sarah A. Leonard of Butler. " Mart's " father's family was a large one. By his first wife, Philo Saxton had three children, , one of whom, Albert, married Jane Knajip, and was one of the first owners of the first farm east. He afterward moved to Wolcott and died there. By his second wife, Brasilia Parish, he had eleven children, all of whom grew up. Drusilla married Perry Jones, as before stated, and now lives in Quincy, Mich. Two daughters, Phoebe and Alzina, were successively wives of Daniel Burgess. Lucy Jane married Samuel Pomeroy of South Butler, and is the mother of Mrs. Abel Wing of Butler Center. Mr. Sax- ton died in 1859, aged 77, and his wife followed in 1866, at the age of 71. This family came to Butler from Otsego county, where Mr. Saxton's first wife had died. He had a good reputation as an industrious man. His wife was large in stature, and the quality of tallness she gave to some, at least, of her children. In my childhood, I thought " Mart " Saxtou the tallest 28 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. man I had ever seen. Either he has shortened, or my notions of longitudi- nal extension have grown. Father and mother sleep in the neighborhood cemetery. (Martin Saxton died 1891.) The furthest point eastward in this district is reached when we turn to our right and come to the farm now owned by Dr. T. S. Fish, of Wolcott. As with the other places thus far described, in this vicinity, this farm was once the property of Jesse Woodruff. There has been a bewildering array of owners, of whom perhaps Harrison Holcomb held it longest, and for this reason it is often called the Holcomb place. Albert Saxton bought of Woodruff, and built a shanty on the north side of the road and about thirty rods from it. In 1850, or thereabouts, he sold to Charles Wright, son of Jacob Wright, well known in Butler, who built a small house south of the highway, and also put up a barn on the north side. This barn, some years ago, was destroyed by fire. Harrison Holcomb came from Galen in 1854, and built the house now standing. Mr. H. enjoyed the respect and esteem of his neighbors, and his children were among the other happy ones that sought knowledge in the old stone school-house. His daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of Charles Tegg, and lives at Bay Bridge. Mary and Frances have been mentioned as wives of Charles and Jared Rice, respectively. Hattie married Mr. Johnson and resides in Kirkville. The only son, William H., married away from this neighbor- hood. The subsequent owners in order have been Ransom Loveless, C. Baker, Loveless a second time, George Talcott, who built the barn now on the place, E. Snyder and Dr. Fish. Not very long ago, while digging a well on the premises, the earth caved in and buried a boy who was at the bottom. Fortunately, some boards, in the caving, so placed themselves as to somewhat protect him. His frantic cries for help could be heard, ■ but no one would endanger his own life to save that of the lad, until his father, who had been summoned from Wolcott, appeared. "Johnny" had been admonished to say his prayers, for a rescue was deemed impos- sible ; but the father threw himself into the well, and prompted by a father's love, regardless of personal peril, worked till his boy was drawn from his living tomb, but the rescuer's hands were torn and bloody, the nails worn far down into the quick, through his frantic efforts to save his child. We must now return to the road where we turned to the left, or north, after leaving the Joseph Wade place. People forty years of age will re- member a log house which nearly faced the road, perhaps a little south of it. This house was the home of Ebenezer Pierce, who built it about 1835 and lived in it until his death, in 1854. His second wife was the widow of Benjamin Kellogg. Mr. Pierce had served in the Revolutionary army. He is reported to have run away from his home in Massachusetts, at the age of sixteen, to enlist. Many reminiscences are told of his soldier days. KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 29 It is said that he was detached by Gen. Washington for service near him, and it wa.s the old man's boast that he had repeatedly shaved the father of his country. His first wife was Mary Ballard, also Massachusetts born. After the war he was for a time a boatman on the Hudson river. He had three children: Dr. Jeremiah B., late of Lyons ; Elizabeth, wife of Judge E. Eoot of Buffalo ; and Matilda, who became the wife of Simeon Barrett, now one of the oldest residents of Rose. She died twenty-four years ago. Subsequent to Mr. Pierce's death, the house was occupied by Gamaliel Sampson, who, from Cattaraugus county, had married Harriet, oldest daughter of Benjamin Kellogg, and his own first cousin. Of their six chil- dren, Sally mari-ied Darius Lovejoy and resides in Eose ; Betsey married Harlow Peck, and is a resident of Butler, north of Spencer's corners ; Warren married Rhoda Myers and went to Illinois. Alsifine is the wife of William Calkins of Savannah. A. Putnam married Lucy, daughter of Charles Sherman of Eose, and lives in Galeu, while the youngest son, Ethan B., married .l<:dna Burch and lives at Whisky Hill. (Sodus, 1S93.) Mr. Sampson, who died in 1870, was a soldier of the War of 1812, and his widow, past four score years, draws a pension from the government. Her home is with her son, Ethan B. (She died Apr. 2.5, 1891. Had she lived till the 30th, her age would have been 87 years.) The old log house was torn away by Wm. B. Kellogg. The farm itself was purchased from Fellows & Mcl^ab by Benjamin Kellogg, who came to these parts from Salem, Mass. His first log house was just east of the present Colvin house, and here he lived until his death, in 1829. Ethan B., his son, succeeded to the owner- ship of the farm and built the present frame structure. Benjamin K., whose wife was PameliaTrask, had eight children — four sons and as many daughters. His oldest son, William, born in 1800, married Eebecca Brew- ster, is yet living in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. Ethan B. married Matilda Allen and resided for many years east of Clyde, and there died, in 1881. (Mrs. Kellogg died Apr. 16, 1889, aged 75 years.) They are buried in the Collins neighborhood, as is also their son, Lewis, who had married Emma Livermore, niece of Mrs. John B. Eoe. Their daughter, Eebecca, became Mrs. Ketchum, and Maria, Mrs. Peckham. Their son, Henry, married a Pomeroy of South Butler, and lives on the Clyde farm. Charles B. has already been mentioned, as have also Mrs. Sampson and Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Experience Brewster, afterward Mrs. Ogram, was named in the Eose let- ters. This leaves only Betsey and John. At the former's marriage to Willard Peck, there followed one of those long-to-be-remembered horning scrapes for which this vicinity was, in years agone, famous. In the midst of the uproar one of the participants, Eichard Garratt, now of Eose. was wounded by the bursting of a gun. He had to be carried home and the fun came to a premature end. Mr. Peck moved to Clyde, and on a visit to Michigan several years ago was killed by the falling of a tree. John Kel- 30 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. logg married Betsey Westcott of a prominent Butler family. Following Ethan B. KelLogg on the old homestead came Willard Peek and then Wm. B. Kellogg, John's oldest son, who here began his married life. He sold to Oliver Colvin, the present owner. Mr. Colvin is a native of Kihgsbary, Washington county, and his wife, who is Jane, nee Seelye, was born in Moreau, Saratoga county. She is an own cousin of the late George and Delos Seelye. Mr. Colvin' s brother, Dr. Nathan, was for many years a noted physician in Clyde. After several removals, he, Oliver, settled upon a farm south of Clyde, where he resided till 1855, when he was struck with a migrating fever, which prompted him to sell and go to Virginia. This trip he made with his family in almost old-fashioned emigrant style, in that he drove there, though they did not camp when night overtook them, but sought the shelter of some hospitable roof. He located in Spott- sylvania county, where his youngest child, Clara Virginia, was born. His place was two miles from Fredericksburg, and, had he remained there, his home would have been in the very theatre of the late war. As it was, life in the south was distasteful to himself and all his family, so, after a three years' trial, he returned and soon bought where we now find him. Mr. and Mrs. Colvin have reared a very large family, only one member of which has died, and she, Cornelia, a wife and mother. As Mrs. Stratton, she had lived some years in California before her death. The two older sons, Thomas and Augustus, have long resided in the Golden State. (Augustus died March 3, 1892, aged 56 years, in Jacksonville, Oregon.) Sidney, who was a lieutenant in the 9th Heavy Artillery, after the war was over married Electa Powers and went to the Pacific coast. He now lives at Lake View, Oregon. Elizabeth is the wife of Clark Sanders of Waterloo. Narcissa is well known in Eose as the wife of Eugene Hickok. Asahel, a good soldier in the 111 th jST. Y . , lost an arm at Petersburg. He married Annette, daughter of Daniel Soper, and lives in Wolcott. Pitt, now a druggist in Rochester, has been twice married— first to Mary Ann LaDue of Wolcott, and second to Alice Seelye of Brockport. Frank married Giles M. Winchell of Wol- cott, who now manages the farm. Clara is the wife of Harvey L. Dickin- son, once of Rose, now of Idaho, though just at present, for his health, he is in Salt Lake City. (Later in Washington.) For fifteen or twenty years Mr. Colvin made cider for the people in Rose and Butler, averaging, he tells me, one thousand barrels a year. Xo resident of the district ever had a merrier nature, or drew more enjoyment from life as it passed. His amiable wife has kept him excellent company in all this journey. Time would not suffice to tell all his pranks, but one that he and Mrs. C. often laugh over was his bringing home, soon after they were married, a: small owl, which he handed to her, saying: "Here, Jane, is a bird I have brought you for supper." "It's a nice one," says she ; "a partridge, I think." So she proceeded to fricassee the same, much to Mr. Colvin' s delight. It EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 31 required long boiling, and even when cooked, Mrs. Colvin remarked the exceeding blueness of the meat, which she could not induce her liege lord to taste, and before she had eaten much he enlightened her as to the char- acter of the bird she had been stewing. Query — Is this incident the origin of people claiming, when blue and used up, to feel like a " biled owl 1 " In early life Mr. Colvin rode on the packet that formed a part of the tri- umphal progress through the state, on the opening of the Erie canal. From Lockport to Troy, he was one of those who accompanied Gov. Clin- ton on his way from Lake Erie to tide water. He states that cannon were stationed every ten miles to signal the starting of the boats. When the firing had reached the Hudson, the return salute was fired back to Buffalo, the time employed being four hours. Few of Mr. Colvin's acquaintances can fail to tell of his quaintness in repartee, and I am reminded of the reply he made to old Mrs. S., who, always anxious about what didn't concern her, once said : " La, Mr. Colvin! why, where have you been? " "To the Valley." " What have you been there for? " "To see a pig shaved with a hand saw." Exit old lady in a hurry. As the shadows lengthen, these two old people watch the sunset of life, seeing in the past more of pleasure than sorrow, and complacently contemplating the life beyond which awaits us all. (Mr. Colvin died Oct. 9, 1S92.) (Mr. Winchell is of a Hannibal family, and is an excellent farmer. To him and his wife have been born two children, Fred and Laura.) Toward the south, on the west side of the road, we find a house fast going to ruin. It is many years since the owner dwelt in it, and during this time a long line of tenants has moved in and out. The first owner whom' I can find was Joseph Brewster, whose wife was a sister of Uncle "Sammy" Jones, and he sold to Samuel Thompson. The latter's wife was Abigail Wainwright. Mr. T. died in 1852 and Mrs. T. in 1851. Both are buried in the district cemetery. They had six children, who married as follows : Clarissa, William EUinwood, who lived but a short time and she afterward married William Sherman ; Cordelia married Charles Warren ; more than thirty years ago George Thompson went to sea and no trace of him has ever been had. What unwritten tragedy this long silence covers, we can only conjecture. He was a young man of stalwart frame and great physical strength. Eliza married Horace Peck ; Edwin, noted years ago as a musician at country dances, married Emeline Cobb. He is now living with a second wife in Watkins, N. Y.; Camilla, a maiden lady, in whose name the property stands, lives in Wolcott. Edwin and Eliza Thompson were married on the same evening by Elder Ladd, of the Valley. Then followed the very worst horning spree that ever this region had known up to that time. The boys were mounted and the line extended from the Colvin farm to Thompson's. The clergyman begged to be let out, that he might get away from the din and noise. Among the dwellers in 32 ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. this house, after the death of Mr. Thompson, may be named Charles Warren, George Rice, Jackson Terbush, Daniel Soper, Ensign Wade, Giles M. Winchell, John Meehan, George Lasher, Murrill Burch and, lastly, William DeVoe. The first owner, Brewster, finally died in Clyde. He was doubtless from Saratoga county. Patrick Burke now leases the farm. Crossing the road and going a few rods southward, we find the house of William B. Kellogg. The farm is a part of his Grandfather Benjamin's purchase from Fellows and McNab. John Kellogg bought it in 1837, and here lived until his death in 1876. His wife has already been mentioned as Betsey Westcott. To the neighborhood she was known as ' ' Aunt Betsey," and when she made a visit she was always welcome ; then came merry times. Her prevailing characteristic of jolly good nature she imparted in no small degree to all her children. Full of years she died, after a brief illness, in the fall of 1886. Her oldest child, Almira, married Alonzo Hubbard, of Butler, and died at the early age of twenty-eight. William B. married, in 1853, Eliza Tyler, and lives upon the old place ; his only son, John, married Anna Valentine and lives in Clyde. Stephen B. married, in 1851, Harriet Collins and lives on the old Shepard farm in Eose. Permilla became, in 1843, the wife of E. Willard Sherman, one of Charles Sherman's sons, and resides in Clyde. Paulina died at the age of sixteen, in 1851. Allie married, in 1877, Duane LaDue and lives at Warner's Station, Onondaga Co. Wlien John Kellogg bought this farm it was a dense wilderness. He gave seven dollars an acre for it. Clearing up the land he built a log house, and in it all his children, save Allie, were born. He afterward built the present house and barns. In the possession of the Kellogg family from the beginning, let us leave the farm with the wish that it may remain with the same family hi i^^'rpetuo. (Now the property and residence of Patrick Burke and family. ) The very last farm to be noted in this school district is that across the road, just to the south. Here, early in the century, 1817, came Wm. McKoon and his helpmeet, Lucy Cole. Mr. McKoon was born in Ehode Island ; but when an infant, in 1794, his parents came to Columbia, Her- kimer county. Thence he made the trip with ox team to Wayne county. When he reached what was to be his future home, he had just fifty cents. With this he purchased an axe and a half bushel of Indian meal. He was a true pioneer, and brought his farm up from the very beginning of primi- tive forest. His log house stood some rods back of the present house, and after his building of the framed structure, it passed through the usual degradations of barn and pig pen to final dissolution. To grind his corn, he cut down a tree and hollowing out the stump, had a samp mortar of the most substantial character. He had but three children. Mairettahas already been noted as the wife of Charles Kellogg. Jairus married Rachel A. Merritt of Savannah. Ehoba married Elihu Spencer of Butler, and EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 33 moved to Appleton, Wisconsin. Wm. McKoon i.s one of the most note- worthy characters who, in the early days, settled in these parts. Always a man of sterling integrity, he became a minister of the Methodist denomi- nation, and for several years preached under the direction of the presiding elder. At the time when anti- slavery excitement ran high, he left the old church for the Wesleyans, but finally attiliated with the Disciples, in whose communion he died in 1870. Mr. McKoon had a remarkable ancestry, being sixth in descent from Eoger Williams, and twelfth from Martin Luther. For some years previous to his death, he had lived in South Butler ; but his body was brought to sleep with his kindred and friends in the Collins cemetery. Many years ago, he planted five Lombardy poplars on the road-side south of his residence. They can be seen, located as they are on the top of a ridge, from points many miles away. There is scarcely a hill-top within a radius of ten miles whence these five mighty fingers, pointing heavenward, may not be seen. , I have noted trees of this variety in all parts of this Union, but my eyes never rest on the long tapering form of a Lombardy poplar without having my thoughts revert to this row on the hill, and I think how proudly they stood out between me and the morning sun, and when the western sun was hastening to its setting, how glorious were these trees gilded with golden light. No one fortunate enough to have been born in sight of these trees, will ever forget them, nor cease to be grateful to Wm. McKoon for planting them. Jairus McKoon succeeded his father upon the farm and here reared his family of four children. Merritt G. married L. Estelle Seelye, and lives in the old Geo. Seelye homestead ; Hattie, who married Isaac Lockwood, died in November, 1885, leaving five children, Lida, Ada, M. Burt, Irene and Hattie ; Charles married Jennie Terry and is now in Michigan ; Ida became the wife of Jarit Wickwire, and lives in Rose. About 1865 Jairus McKoon sold to his sister. Widow Kellogg, who thus came back to the home of her childhood. Mr. McKoon moved to the next farm southward, and there died in September, 1885. His widow is there now with her .son-in-law, Isaac Lockwood. (Mr. L. died December 19, 1887, being supervisor of Butler at the time.) Mrs. K. sold to Josephus Collins, and he to his brother-in-law, John Crisler, who now holds the place. His wife is Ruth, nie Llverraore. Their only daughter, Mamie, is now a pupil in the State Normal School at Oswego. By his first wife, Mr. C. had Cora, wife of Daniel Harper of Rose ; Nelson, who married Mary Stone, and Evander. (Mr. C. died January 17, 1892, aged 68 years. Mamie was married June 29, 1893, to Melville Terwilliger of Walden, N. Y. Nelson lives in Wolcott, and Evander in Rose. The place is now occupied by Chauncey Darling and family.) 34 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Thus we have traversed the district, riinuing the record through fully seventy years, and there yet remains only to mention some of the peculiari- ties of the school which the children of this vicinity constituted. All were farmers' progeny, and all except the families of the Dudley Wade and George Seelye houses brought their dinners in pail or basket, and he who has never generated an appetite, sitting on the hard benches of a country school-house, can have no idea of the flavor of that same dinner now so carefully packed away by mother's hands in that two-quart pail. Many a time during the forenoon his eyes stray from book to shelf, where his pail with scores of others reposes. At recess he treats himself to an apple lunch, but when noon comes, how he throws himself outside of that nice bread and butter, the hard boiled egg, the small piece of cold meat, and then, reserved to the very last, how that triangularly shaped bit of apple pie disappears down his throat. Then putting the pail back upon the shelf, he drinks long and deep from the old wooden pail standing on a bracket just between the end of the desk and the door. The dipper is rusty, but he doesn't care. He is not at all fastidious. All drink from the same dish, and then, with a whoop and a bound, they are out of the door and ready for play. What fun the youngsters had at recess! Sum- mer afforded excellent facilities for playing horse, and many a nailless, bleeding toe attested the speed and carelessness of the gait. This sport was for the boys of course ; but the girls were not idle. Sometimes, in spells of unwonted gallantry, the boys would bring boards, rails and brush, to build for their sisters strange and fantastic houses, in which the sweet damsels would arrange large quantities of broken dishes which they had brought from home. Future generations will wonder if once there was a pottery in the vicinity, and all this went well for the girls until their brothers, returning to their native barbarism, would make a fierce incur- sion and level to the dust the result of many hours of labor. A steep bank with friable soil afforded the children of both sexes excellent oppor- tunity for grist mills, a chance which they wei-e not slow to embrace, and with sticks thrust through the soil they sawed away, sending down a stream of sand flour, until Uncle Thad. Collins' farm seemed in danger of running into the road. Winter brought a merry season. The boys still played horse, but they loved better to divide into rival parties and to snow ball, claiming for their respective sides those who were hit by the pasty mass. Then, too, they threw balls over the school-house, accom- panied by a stereotyped cry of "Ally, ally over," and this the school- master within would hear during the moments of recess or noon. Over the fence, in Dudley Wade's field, they would mark out paths for "fox and geese," and here the boys and girls could play together. Further still down the lot was a low place where a little skating and more sliding were afforded, and clear over the hill, close by the fence, were several elm KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 35 trees, whose slippery bark afforded material for hours of ruiuiuatiou. Occa- sionally, some daring boys would steal away from the school-house to get tamarack gum from Sherman's swamp, where now I suppose so many onions are raised, and on their return "would stand, like Trojans, the threshings which the irate master was sure to give. The gum they passed around among the girls, in whose eyes these truants were heroes. By way of variety, when the school-master had gone to dinner, the boys — and it is strange how near the average boy-nature lies to the savage state — would set upon a certain necessary building and tip it completely over. Then getting it in position, they would roll it over and over, accompanying this mischief with yells that would have done credit to their brother Comanches in western wilds. If, at this time, Uncle Dudley Wade or Uncle Delos Seelye should happen along, then was the fun fairly bewildering, for, added to the devastation, was the impotent rage of the wrathful tax-payer. Divided as the district is into two nearly equal portions, it was a common thing for the Butler boys to array themselves against those of Rose. Then Greek met Greek and fierce was the onslaught. At the close of school, how dinner pails were banged against offending heads ! How missiles of all descriptions flew, while timorous sisters stood around and tearfully begged their irate brothers to " stop and come home." Strange that with so much fighting there were so few hurt. Occasionally, self-appointed champions would undertake to settle deep-seated, long-standing wrongs, and the tales of the encounter long stirred the blood of the boyish listener. There were few boys who did not have their turn at the foe ; but perhaps no battle was fiercer than that which the Butler Hector, J. R., waged with the Rose Achilles, G. G. R. Just what the provocation was, the careful historian has not chronicled, but of the fact of the battle there is no doubt. Long and fierce was the fray — sanguine, too, for noses and faces bore witness to the earnestness of the warriors. Their respective parties, or shall I say armies f were ranged in admiring, not to say awe-struck, silence. The air was full of hair and active combatants. It was said that it was impossible to tell east from west, so close and vigorous was the fray. Unfortunately, either the return of the teacher, or the calling of school, put an end to this terrible contest, and I can not record a victory for either side. So, in the school history, it must go down as a drawn battle. All this was in the days of the stone school-house. It is possible that in later days, since the advent of the wooden building, many of the asperities and hardnesses of the olden time have disappeared with the edifice in which they generated. Let us hope so. 36 BOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5. Sept. 8— Oct. 13, 1SS7. This district, located to the south and west of No. 7, is known in home parlance as the Town district, from the families of that name that have from the verj' first settlements lived in the neighborhood. It lies mainly along a north and south road, running at the foot and on the west side of the long hill just south of the old Delos Seel ye farm. As we turn into this road, we soon find a small house with barn near at hand. Here lives Stephen Chapin, who, several years ago, came from Huron, bought a few acres of the Egbert Soper place, and put up these buildings. He also ran a blacksmith shop for some years. He has a family of five daughters. (Mr. C.'s wife was an Eldridge of Butler. Their daughters are Hattie [Mrs. Gardner Harper], Mary, Irene, Blanche and Kittle.) Still further along, fairly nestling under the hill, is an abode, which, with its predecessors^ runs back nearly or quite fifty years. In a former series, reference was made to certain houses built upon the very summit of the high eminence. One of them, that of Ehodes, slid, as it were, down to the site of the old Soper house — the other, Mr. Gould's as gracefully descended on the other side and rested where James Benjamin now resides. Following Mr. G., who went down to the Clyde road, came a Mr. Swift, who sold to Sheldon R. Overton, son-in-law of Austin Eoe. Here several of Mr. O.'s children, as Laura and Clarissa, were born. Mr. Overton, who, we may remark in passing, died in April last in Wolcott, sold to Isaac Curtis, a Long Islander. His wife, a Soper, was a second cousin of Mr. Overton. Here Mr. Curtis died, and Egbert Soper, a brother of his wife, succeeded. Mrs. Curtis, with her three children, returned to Long Island. Mr. Soper, as a dweller on the Pierce place, we have already mentioned. Once more we find Wm. Sherman in possession, and then Milton Town followed. He was a son of Silas Town, and married Clarinda, daughter of Lyman Lee. They began here their married life, and here their only son, Lewis, was born. Mr. Town, some years since, sold his place to its present owner and moved north to the Philetus Cham- berlain farm. From there he moved to the Valley, and, in 1882, died. He is buried in what is called the Ellinwood burial ground on the road to the village. His widow and son reside at Rose Valley. James Benjamin, who is one of the family so long identified with the south part of the town, although his father, Henry, did not move here, married Mary Comstock, and has two children. Grant and Grace, both at home. Mr. Benjamin was a good soldier in the 111th. (Mrs. Benjamin died in 1887.) The next farm has buildings upon both sides of the road, and the farm itself is divided by the road. The house, that of Charles Deady, is on the ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 37 west side. To this place came, maoj- years siuce, John Qiiackeuboss Deady, from Cambridge, Washington Co. He first located on the Lackey farm toward Clyde, but, buying out a claim here, he made his payment to the Land Ofifice, and so may rank as an original proprietor. His wife was Susan Waters, who, at the age of two years, had been brought by her father, James, from Maryland. He died near AUoway, town of Lyons. Mr. Deady reared a large family of children, one of whom, John Henry, met a violent death, one of the few recorded in this quiet neighborhood. His team ran away on the stee-p hillside and be was thrown out, receiving injuries so severe that he lived only a few moments. No incident in the history of the district or vicinity ever gave a more terrible shock, and still, old people warn younger ones to be careful, by recounting this untimely death. His oldest son, Thomas, married Esther A. Garratt, and died in 1847, aged twenty-seven years. Elizabeth became Mrs. Van Dusen, and died in Alton in 1886. James, living west of the Valley, took for his wife Carrie Swift, of the family that once lived on the farm to the northward. Margaret was named in the former letters as the wife of Egbert Soper and lives in Westbury. Mary married Henry Decker and lives in Stewart's district. Charles holds the homestead and has been twice nmrried. His first wife was Henrietta Swart, of Detroit, Mich.; his second, Louise Guthrie. He has four children — one by his first and three by his second wife. (June Deady is Mrs. Wm. Barrett in Montana; Edith, Mrs. Edward Martin of Eose ; Estelle, Mrs. Merritt Bennett of Wolcott ; Grover C. is the boy at home.) The youngest member of the family is William, and the resident in Eose who does not know "Bill" Deady must be entirely devoid of enterprise. For many years he resided in Eose Valley ; but recently he has taken up his abode in Lyons— his business, that of a speculator. A summer home at Charles' Point affords him and his a pleasant respite from harvest heat. His wife is Jeannette Jeffers, who has made him the happy father of three boys and an equal number of girls. John Q. Deady was a man of great energy and industry. This was evident in his twice paying for his farm. He was one of the unfortunate men who committed them- selves to the Clyde Bank, founded on the farms of the adjoining towns, and which went to the wall. Men who had been considered independent found themselves poor. Instead of repining and sinking under his misfortune, he manfully went to woik, and before he died beheld his acres again free from incumbrance. (Well known in this part of Eose, Mr. Frank Sager, a native of Albany county, has been for several years an aid to the farmers on this street. His latest home is with Mr. James Benjamin.) All the farms along this road are divided by it. They run eastward just over the ridge of the hill and to the west, well up to the summit of the range of hills whose westward slope takes us down to the Clyde and Valley road. The next place is the one that Silas Town reclaimed from the 38 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. wilderness. Asa and Silas Town came to this section from Paris, Oneida Co., but they were natives of Winchendon, Worcester Co., Mass. They were accompanied by their sister, Lavinia, who many years ago returned to Oneida county. She was the last survivor of a family of eleven children, reaching the great age of more than ninety-three years at death. The least age attained by any one of the children was fifty-nine, while the average age of all at death was beyond seventy-six. They were of the very straightest sect of the Puritans, and from the father, Absalom, down, nearly all the children had Bible names. An ancestor of the Towns had lived in Salem, Mass., and there in the troublous days of witchcraft excite- ment two of his sisters were hanged as witches. Another was accused and escaped only by the allaying of the delusion which had so long possessed the people. Mr. Town's children tell me that he often told them stories of witchery, and when we reflect that his mother, who died at the age of one hundred and six, was born in 1747, we see that her childhood was within sixty years of the excitement itself, and eye-witnesses of the horrors of Gallows Hill must have narrated to her the infamies of Cotton Mather's day. By these long lives of two individuals, we bridge over the interval of nearly two hundred years. The brothers, Asa and Silas, took up their land, one hundred and fifty acres, from Fellows and McNab, and cleared away the forest. This must have been about 1817. Silas married Polly Seelye, a daughter of Lewis Seelye, and niece of Joseph Seelye, in whose family she had lived many years. Their children were Emily, who married William Vandereof, of the Valley, where, with her son, Clarence E., she still lives. Her husband died in 1885. Milton, as we have already seen, married Clariuda Lee. Sarah married first John Vandereof, brother of William. He died in 1861. Since then she has married Asa Plumb and lives in Macedon. Her only son, Elvin, lives iuEose on the Joel Lee farm- Mary married Joel Lee and lives on the Lyman Lee place in Stewart's dis- trict. Lewis, who had engaged in the mercantile business in Clyde, died greatly regretted, in 1853, at the early age of twenty-three. Lucy married George Howland, of Rose. He died in 1869. Eugene married Ellen Norris, of Xew York, and succeeded his father upon the farm, the latter dying in 1873, aged eighty-seven. His wife died in 1882, at the age of eighty. Eugene followed his father, in ISSi, and his widow, who subse- quently married Ellery Davis, now lives on the place. Her two children by Eugene Town are May Evelina and Norris. (May E. is Mrs. Wm. Graham of Galen.) Asa Town built the next house, using cobble stones as his material, and though there are several buildings in the town thus constructed, I never could see that any stones were missing. Certainly, hoeing corn time revealed all the boys cared to turn over. Mr. Town's wife was Hannah Stacey, whom he went down "Dtica way to find. She died in Chippewa EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 39 Falls, Wis., in 1873, at the home of her eldest son, Henry M. He had mar- ried Malina Chamberlain, sister of Hamlin T. Chamberlain, from Monroe county, who, by way of reprisal, had wedded Mary Almanda, the only daughter of Asa and Hannah Town. Another son, David H., married Cornelia Valentine, sister of Jackson V., at the Valley, and lives at Strong's Prairie, Wis. These two brothers had placed their log houses near a spring, and the houses themselves were separated by scarcely more than a walk— being in all respects, like their occupants, brotherly. One enthusiastic narrator says, " I shall never forget the sweet flag [near the spring, nor the sweet gooseberries in the garden. There were no yards nor gardens like them in these parts." In time, the first houses disap- peared, and then came Asa's stone house and Silas's framed structure, which he placed further north than the old one. Asa died in 1848, and lies over the eastern hill in the Collins burial ground. Before saying " good-bye" to this family, I must echo the oft repeated praises of "Aunt Polly Town." No one can remember when she was not a remarkably handsome woman, and her beauty of face was fully equaled by that of her character. She kept her house a model of neatness, and trained her family in the most exemplary manner. Skilled in all the necessary accom- plishments for house-keeping in those early days, .she taught her children to be virtuous and industrious, and when her girls went out to other homes, they carried with them, in addition to great quantities of linen woven by their mother, the ineffaceable impression of her womanly example. "Aunt Hannah," Asa's wife, went from the neighborhood years since to dwell in the west with her sons, but she left an excellent memory of intelligence and worth. Some people, in these too practical days, affect to sneer at the Puritans and Puritanical ways. I, for one, could wish that their tribe might indefinitely increase. After the decease of Asa Town, his widow managed the farm for a time, and then sold to William Desmond, who came to this neighborhood from west of the Valley, though his name proclaims Lim from one of Ireland's proudest families His first wife was Lucy Ann Way, who, in a i3eriod of temporary insanity, committed suicide, leaving one daughter, Agnes, who now lives in Clyde. Her husband is Alexander Weeks. Mr. Desmond's second wife is Lucy Toles, from the Lovejoy neighborhood. They have three sons — Albert E., Truman T. and Charles H. (December 28, 1892, Albert was married to Aurilla Transne, daughter of the Rose M. E. minister. They are at the old home.) We next come to the corner and to the school-house, where the children of the district are taught. The jiresent pretty, white building is a great improvement on its red predecessor, which was the first one built after this part of the town was set off from the eastern district. The old red house was not beautiful, but it was useful. Like all other similar edifices 40 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. in these parts, it had its weekly and Sunday use. Here preaching was often heard, and at times Sunday schools were maintained. The middle- aged citizens, and older ones too, could tell of the days when the spelling school was a delightful occasion, and the singing school also. What facilities for seeing the girls home, and what life-long intimacies were here begun ! To enumerate all the teachers who have held sway here were a task too great ; but suffice it to say that almost every amateur user of the birchen rod in these parts, at one time or another, has here taught the "young idea how to shoot." Across the way is the house of Richard Yedder. The place has changed hands often. The earliest occupant whom I can recall, was the Mr. Stickles, who was Delos Seelye's favorite farm laborer, though doubtless the house long antedated him. Henry Decker lived here for a time, as did Major Wm. Snyder. Very likely the original founder was Hiram Van Dusen, who had married John Deady's daughter. (Mrs. Vedder, born in Saratoga county, died, 1S93. Her first husband was a Leaird. Her daughter, Ida E., is the wife of Wm. H. Sowls ; a son, Charles Leaird, though better known as Vedder, now lives here with the Sowls family. The Sowls children are Charles E. and Marion E. The parents are natives of Saratoga county.) Across what was once a lively stream, which we shall call Marsh creek, is a small estate of nineteen acres, on which, nearly or quite thirty years ago, George Calm, an industrious Englishman, built a small house. His wife was Mary Smart, sister of the brothers Smart, who lived just south of him. Mrs. Calm's parents, William and Mary, lived with them, and here the father died. The mother survived to a great age, dying December 30, 1864, aged 82 years. A familiar sight, in the early sixties, was that afforded by Mr. iand Mrs. Calm riding comfortably on the only seat in their wagon, while mother, sitting upon a stool or board, hung on behind: but the old lady asked no odds of teams and vehicles. She made nothing of stepping off at a lively pace to the Valley or Clyde, and returning in a way that would discourage many a pedestrian. She bore good evidence to the virtue of her English training. A Lee intervenes, then Josephus Collins held and sold to a German, John Wyke, who was noted herea- bouts for the fervor of his religious manifestations. The story has never been contradicted that when John was married, and reached that part of the ceremony where the minister prays, John and his frau knelt also, but, being led away by the words of the clergyman, he forgot all about the business of the hour, thought it was a prayer meeting and prayed on him- self, till the gentleman of the cloth had to inform him that the marriage was not yet over, and he must attend to one thing at a time. I am fearful that another yarn is somewhat apocryphal, but I give it as I received it. It is to the effect that some years subsequently, he was not pleased with EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 41 the character of his better half's prayer ; and she refusiug to stop on any milder plea, instead of iJinging a stove lid at her, ci la Jerry Cruncher, he incontinently stopped her mouth with a hot potato. John had always claimed that the Lord told him to marry Margaret Nusbickel. Whether the hot potato incident altered his opinion or not I cauuot state. After Wyke came Maurice Cleary, the present possessor. (Mr. C. is from Cork, Ireland; his wife, Mary Cavanaugh. Their children are Mary, a graduate of Geneseo Xormal School, teacher in Long Island City ; K"ora, a nurse in the Canandaigua Insane Asylum ; Julia, at home ; John, educated in Clyde, a teacher; Xeliie, also a teacher and educated in Clyde; Michael and Edward, at home ; William, died at the age of five years in 1880.) We next find, west of the highwaj', several substantial barns, but the house is wanting. It, a log one, once stood opposite, and was constructed by Martin Van Buren. The only trace of Van B. in the vicinity now, is a child's grave in the cemetery. It bears the dale of 1831. He, with his brother-in-law, Henry Ferris, had taken up an extensive possession in the immediate vicinity. After him came James T. Vandereof, about whom more will be written when we reach the Stewart neighborhood. Ananias Smith then bought this portion of the farm, though his home was on the Andrus place, further east. The next possessors were the brothers, William and Newton Smart, who, after a few years' ownership, sold to John Finch and moved to Illinois. John Finch was a son of Jeremiah Finch, about whom there will be more anon, and he lived here till he built his brick house, twenty-six years ago. His wife was Deiademie Chapin of Wolcott, but she had lived for some years in the home of Thaddeus Collins. Their children are Harriet, who married Abram Vanderburg, now in Selma, Kansas ; Loania, married Warren Drury of Wolcott ; Mary, died in 1859, aged fifteen; Frank, married Mary Jordan and has three daughters and one son. He is the present owner of the farm, succeeding his father, who died in 1871, aged nearly fifty-nine. His mother's home is here. Mr. Finch was one of the most energetic and progressive of the second generation of the farmers who, early in the century, sought this farming region. The next house, standing well back from the road and, long since, painted red was John Finch's early home, and is now a tenant house belonging to the farm. In addition to managing his farm, Mr. Finch is an extensive dealer in garden seeds. ( He now has a family of four girls and one son.) Nearly opposite, and on the corner of the private way, leading up the hill, forty or more years ago, Henry Snyder bought eight acres of land of the Finches and Deadys and put up a log house. Here his numerous children — four girls and seven boys — were born and reared. Mr. S. was originally from the Mohawk valley and settled first in Conquest. His wife was Margaret Eose, from Schoharie county. She is now living in 42 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Sidney, Neb., with her daughter, Margaret, while Mr. S. died years ago and is buried in Conquest. His oldest son, William, was a valiant and eificient officer during the war, coming home with the rank of major in the 10th Cavalry ; his wife is Melissa, daughter of William Benjamin. They now reside in Clyde. The place passed into his hands at the death of his father. He sold to Manly Benjamin, and finally it came into the possession of William Desmond. There is not a vestige of the house standing, only a few apple trees serving as a reminder of earlier days. The other children reared here are Harvey, who married Julia Blood, and is a resident of the Valley; he also was in the army; Charity C, as Mrs. Ruger, lives in Cortland; Mary J. married an Olmstead and dwells in Seneca Falls; Wilbur, as will be seen, later was drowned ; Charles H. married after going to Michigan ; John W. and Azro C. both migrated to Missouri and married there ; Amariah is in Nebraska. His wife is Eliza Moore of Conquest. Margaret Ann, as Mrs. Worden, lives near Sidney, Neb. When families like this crowded the old school-house, there must have been lively times. Modern customs will render school-houses almost useless in some localities yet, and through their lack of material, districts will have to be merged. Outside of the village of Rose, probably there is not a school in the town as large as it was twenty-five years ago. Pursuing our way up the hill, we come to a building that enjoys one of the most sightly outlooks in the town ; but our road terminates here. To the northeast of the house and nearer the foot of the hill, I think there must be a spring hard by, there was once a log house, in which lived a Mr. Burgess. Afterward Pendar Marsh lived here, and subsequently built the house near the top of the hill, though the house has been ascribed to one Crampton. Philetus Chamberlain also lived here, but whether he followed Marsh or not I cannot state. Col. Briggs, also Millard Olmstead, were owners before Major Wm. Snyder, who held it for a time, from whom it passed to James Benjamin, who rents it to various tenants. A private way leads over the hill to a place owned by Wm. Matthews, where once lived David Benjamin and possibly others. Coming back to our north and south road and going further south, we come to what was the south part of the Van Buren- Ferris purchase. Here Ferris built a log house, and after some years of occupancj- sold to a Mr. Van Amburg and moved to Cayuga county. Following him came Lorenzo Dow Thomas. He was the youngest son of Charles Thomas, one of the very first comers, and was familiarly known in town as Dow Thomas. His wife was Hepsie Andrews. It is more than thirty years since he sold to George Aurand and moved to Illinois. After Aurand, Harry Shepard and his wife, ]Mary Barrett, lived here. They had one daughter, Libbie, who died when her parents lived south of the Valley, one of the prettiest, merriest girls ever born in this town, noted for its beautiful maidens. Mr. EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 43 and Mrs. S. never recovered from their loss, and died several years ago. In his business as a buyer and seller of cattle, " Hack " Shepard had a ■wide circle of acquaintance, and everywhere was known as one of the jolliest men who ever drove a herd. He belonged to the large family of Shepards who live in Galen and on the Clyde road. Asa Traver followed, and after him Wm. Jordan was the next possessor to live on the farm. He came from near Lyons and still remains. Since his holding the place he has had the misfortune to lose his house by fire, but this has been rebuilt. His family, a large one, consists of twelve children. One daughter, as we have seen, is the wife of Frank Finch, next neighbor toward the north. (The place now belongs to Timothy Donovan, who has lived for several years just over the town line in Galen. He is from Waterford, Ireland, his wife, Mary Daly. Their children are John and Maurice, who have contributed no little to their father's success. A daughter, Mary, died in April, ISfll, in her sixteenth year. Mr. D. has effectually demon- strated that farming can be made to pay, even in Wayne Co. Before 1894 appears, Mr. D. expects to move to this Eose farm. The town line co- incides with the line of fences next south of this home. ) Turning to our right and going toward the west, we come to the early home of the Benjamins. Two brothers, Eiley and William, came from Westmoreland, Oneida Co., and took up land from the company, though Eiley came first and sold to William. I understand that Eiley returned to his former home. William's wife was Nancy Shaver, and both, after long lives of usefulness, sleep in the White School-house burial ground on the Clyde road. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Valley. Eiley B. built the first log house and William finally replaced it with the cobble stone house, now standing. His children, reared on this site, were nine in number. Maria died young. Henry, who was in the army, has been twice married. His first wife was a Loveless. His home is in Butler. Emeline, also in Butler, married a Calkins. Manly, who followed his father on the home farm, married Jennie Stewart and resides in Clyde. David, a soldier during the Eebellion, married Mary McDougal and lives in the district. Melissa is the wife of Major William Snyder. William, with his wife, Mary Weeks, lives south of Clyde. Eugene died unmarried at the age of twenty-one. Jerome married a Gerald, from Monroe county, and lives in San Francisco. After several changes, between Major Snyder and Manly B., the place passed to the ownership of William Desmond, who now holds a monopoly on cobble stone houses in this district — a good place for one of Mr. D.'s boys to locate when he takes unto himself a helpmeet. (Trueman T. Desmond, having married Mary Shaver of North Eose, has acted on the suggestion and is here installed. The parents are rejoicing over a baby girl, born in July, 1893.) 44 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Opposite is another homestead, long associated with the name of Benjamin. Years ago Nelson Benjamin bought of one Decatur, who was possibly the first settler at this point. Mr. B.'s first wife was a Pressor, who bore him two children — George, who married Mary Loveless, of Butler, and Louise, who, as Mrs. Caywood, lives in Butler. Nelson, who sold to his brother, Alanson, now resides, an aged man, in Clyde. Alanson's pet foible was Scriptural argument, and he would leave work or play any day for his favorite diversion. On his death, Manly, his nephew, purchased. Then came William Benjamin, and, finally, Abner Garlic, who had once lived on the Wright farm further east. Alanson's widow married a Gordon, and is now dead. (As tenant, Jason Cleveland occupies.) Our western limit is reached when we climb another hill and enter the home of William Finch. The Finches have been identified with this part of the town for many years, and the children went to school in the old wooden building of the Seelye neighborhood long before the old red house of the Town district. Jeremiah Finch, with his good wife, Eunice King, came from Saratoga county. He first took up the farm now held by Eugene Hickok, west of the Valley, but, owing to some informality, lost it. He then came to this place, where he abode until his death, in 1859, at the age of seventy-five. His wife survived him until 1864, when she died at the age of eighty. They are buried in the Seelye district. Their family of children numbered no less than twelve. Their daughters became Mapely Willoughby, of Clyde; Tansey Ann Hastings, who went west; Charity Scott, of Clyde ; Sophia Hadley, of Michigan ; Jane McCamly, of Lyons ; Mary Lape, of Clyde, and Eleanor and Lois, who married in succession John Seaman, of Cortland. Jeremiah, 2d, married a Wilcox and went to Michigan; John has already been named; David married Ann Brush, of Buffalo, and lives on the Bliss farm in Galen ; William, who retains the old home, married Clarissa Overton, daughter of Sheldon E., and has two children living — Eva J. and Elvin H. (Eva J. Finch is the wife of Mr. Geo. E. Brisbin, formerly of No. Eose, but now with his father-in-law, and Elviu H. is in the coal business in Clyde. They have one child, James William.) The house opposite is Mr. Finch's tenant house, but the farm was once owned separately. Perhaps Elias Sherman was the earliest pro- prietor. The house was built, I think, by Mr. Eeynolds. Successive owners, or at least occupants, were Joseph Preston, Mr. Wykoff and Henry Decker. We must now retrace our steps to the road leading eastward from the school-house. A few rods along on the south side is a house many years old and standing on a farm that has had many owners. There may have been earlier ones, but I have no trace of any before Elon B. Andrus, who was a Connecticut acquaintance of Deacon Aaron Shepard's family. EOSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 45 His wife was a Connecticut woman. Of his family I have only scattering facts, but one daughter, Mary Ann, married a Caster and went west. Benhaiu married a Miss Caywood and moved to Huron. Another son mar- ried a Cox and went to Huron also. Lydia became the wife of Gerritt Cay- wood and moved to Michigan. The parents followed their children from the district. Then came Ananias Smith, from Patchogue, Long Island. His wife, Betsey Eose, very aged, is still living with her daughter, Mrs. Horton, in Galen. (Died Nov. 7th, 1887, in her 85th year.) Mr. Smith himself, after selling here, lived many years in Clyde, where he died, in 1872, and was buried in the Seelye neighborhood. The Smith family was noted, far and near, for the remarkable quickness that every member showed in repartee. I can imagine what a circus the devoted school mas- ters of those days must have had with "Wash," "Marsh" and "Tim" Smith, all in school at one time. There onght to be no lack of variety, and the boys and girls who looked on must have had less than ordinary crav- ing for outside .shows. When T. R. S. was a small boy, he was sent to one of the Towns to borrow some lard. Being told that the family was out of lard, he says, "Well, I'll take some hog's fat then!" When, in later years, he went to Round Lake camp meeting and there came a time for testimony giving, the speakers would invariably begin by saying, "lam from Syracuse, Albany, New York," or other places, as the case might be. Our Wayne county Methodist thought the form was getting monotonous, and effectually ended that stereotyped preface by saying, ' ' I am from every place in the world but this, and, thank the Lord! I shall be from this in about ten minutes." His mother, in her younger days, was one of the most gifted women in prayer and exhortation who ever tried to draw humanity from its erring ways. But even she could not restrain expres- sions that would cause the unregenerate to laugh, as, when wishing to illustrate her Christian brightness, she said, "I feel like a newly snuffed candle." She acknowledged the weakness of chewing gum occasionally, but always insisted that when doing so, one should go behind the door. It has been told me by Long Island people that Uncle Ananias once, before moving from the Island, found his cow one night trespassing. He sallied forth in great haste to drive her away, and after chasing around the house two or three times, was amazed at her sudden and absolute disappearance. He could not account for such an effectual vanishing, until the next day when the poor beast was found in his own cellar, having, in her race, fallen into an open bulkhead. The remarks of the Smith family at this dis- covery, much to my sorrow, were not taken down, but the readers can imagine what a quicktongued woman would be likely to say at finding her preserves mixed up, more or less, with cow. Their children married as follows : Washington, Harriet Avery, of Long Island, and lives in North Huron ; Timothy, Fanny Roe, and is in Clyde ; Marshall, Mrs. Ann Armi- 46 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. tage, and also lives in Clyde; and Ellen, John Horton, and lives in Galen. Silas Holcomb followed. He came from Oneida county. After selling to S. E. Overton, he and his wife settled in the Valley and there died, in 1878 and 1875 respectively, and are buried in the Seelye district. His son, Willard, died in 1858, aged 24. There are four daughters living, viz.: Mrs. B. G. Bloss, of New York City ; Mrs. S. C. Maxon, of Milton Junc- tion, Wis.; Mrs. F. M. Johnson, of Eose ; and Mrs. Jacob St. John, of East Galway, Saratoga county. Mrs. Holcomb' s maiden name was Free- love Eemingtou, a distant relative of the Ilion Eemingtous, famous the world over for the manufacture of firearms. There are forty-nine acres in the farms. Mr. Overton lived here several years and sold to Horace Per- kins, of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., and he, moving to Galen, passed the farm along to Michael Meehan, whose father lived just north of the Lockwood farm, in Butler. (No farm in town has improved more than this under Mr. Meehan's care. He is from Waterford, Ireland; his wife is Annie Finnigan from Lyons. They have children— Thomas, Edward, Martin and Ellen. Could former owners return, they would hardly recog- nize the fine, white house into which the old wood colored one has been turned.) Eastward, on the corner, is a very pleasant place that also has passed through many hands. As far as I know, it was first occupied by Uriah Marsh, a brother of Pendar. His wife was a Caster. They had, while living here, no children of their own, but had adopted a girl named Jeru- sha Knapp. This family, too, took up the line of march for regions further west. One of Ananias Smith's Long Island neighbors, Eichard Garratt, followed Marsh. Afterward came Charles Wright, an Englishman and a blacksmith by trade. He was an active, energetic and exceedingly indus- trious man. There was no loitering when he was about. Just a trifle eccentric, he is still remembered for offering to a neighbor, with whom he had some difficulty, his coat, with the Scriptural quotation, " If thy neigh- bor sue thee at the law and take from thee thy coat, give to him thy cloak also." His boys were all girls, and he had seven of them. One is Mrs. Selah Finch, living on the Clyde road ; another became Mrs. Turner, and still another was Mrs. Scutt, of Clyde. After selling the farm Mr. Wright worked at blacksmithing some years in Clyde, where he eventually died. Mr. Edward Burrill followed, who now lives in North Eose. Then Abner Garlic for a time. His wife is Mary, daughter of Capt. Wm. Graham, who came from Washington Co. to Galen. The place is now owned by George Eodwell, an Englishman, who came from Lincolnshire in 1870. With his brother, he lived for several years near Briggs, and came to this farm in 1883. He long ran a threshing machine, using for this pur- pose the first portable engine in this section. It is now in use in the mint still opposite. He is unmarried, his mother keeping house for him. He has sixty-nine acres in the farm. EOSK NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 47 We reach the confines of Rose and the end of the district in the next farm south — that of Horace Hallett. To get to this home we must cross Marsh creek, just below the pond whose water so long ran Briggs' saw- mill. The mill is going to decay, and as the need for one no longer exists, it will doubtless soon entirely disappear. The first mill on the site, I am told, was built by Elias Sherman, one of the pioneers (it is also ascribed to one Barnes), but this went down and afterward Colonel Briggs rebuilt the structure of our own day. The name of Hoag is also associated with this mill. The men who managed the mill had a convenient house near, in which have dwelt a long list of occuiiants : the only one whom we can mention is Jenner, whose sou, James, was killed at Cedar Creek. Mr. Wm. S. Hunt owns the house and i)ond. The pond itself was a very con- venient accessory to the neighborhood. Here the boys swam in summer and skated in winter. Farmers have washed their sheep, and clergymen baptized their converts. One of the saddest events in the chronicles of this neighborhood was the drowning here, long before the War, of Wilbur Snyder, who, having aided in the sheep washing fun, or work, just as you choose to call it, thought he would have a still merrier time on a raft that he had improvised from a barn door. The door tipped him off, he could not swim, and sorrowing forms about a white coffined face, tell the rest of the story. This is one version. Another and more probable one is, that a sheep escaped from the washers and swam out into the pond ; young Snyder followed, and being taken with a cramp perished. The Hallett place was taken up by John Caywood, whose name is l)orue by numerous descendants in the adjoining towns. He lived to be more than a hundred years old. His grandson, Abram, was associated with him in the manage- ment of the place. Twenty-five acres on the south part of his farm he sold, in the forties, to George Seelye, but this part with the rest of the farm came into the hands of Josephus Collins. He sold to James Sears, and he, in turn, to Jackson Harper, and he to Wm. Whitehead. Then came Hallett, whose wife is Barbara, daughter of Wm. Aurand. They have two children, William, and Kittle May, the wife of Frank Haugh of Clyde, Galen's town clerk. Mr. Hallett, a native of Wolcott, served in the army during the Eebellion. The farm has ninety-five acres. At this point a high hill confronts us, long known as Briggs'. Colonel Samuel S. Briggs for long years was the most noted man in these parts. Though his residence was in Galen, many of his acres were in Rose. He lived a worthy life and died in 1865. To him succeeded Mr. Wm. S. Hunt, his son-in-law, who for nearly forty years has managed this immense farm of more than three hundred acres. Mr. Hunt has one son, Wm. A., who is in Briggs' Bank, Clyde; a daughter, Martha L., died in 1875, in her eighteenth year. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Clyde Methodist Church, .and is about taking up his permanent residence in that village. 48 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Coming back to the cross roads, by the home of George Rodwell, we shall have to go eastward again ; crossing a swampy stretch of land and climbing a hill, we are on the Butler line. At our right is a house which marks the former home of Sam. Kilburn, who sold to a Mr. Devoe. One of Devoe' s daughters was the wife of John Stringer, whom we have seen as the first occupant of the Dudley Wade farm. My information concern- ing this family is exceedingly meagre, but I have the impression that the old people died here, and to them succeeded a grandson, John Devoe, who married a Howland, and afterward went to Illinois. The Devoe family was noted far and near for its musical ability ; a talent often sought in scenes of country festivity. After Devoe came the Turners, and Charles Wright owned a part of the place. A Mr. Cummings, related to Wm. Haney, was here for a time. His daughter, Libbie, was, for a number of years, a teacher in Rose and Clyde. With her sister Mary, she is now in Chicago. Charles Covell, now county superintendent of the poor, owned the place for a while, and, I think, sold to Buckley, the present owner. John J. Buckley is Irish born, from county Kerry, though coming to Rose from Lyons. His wife is Annie Dwyer. Their children are Mary; Sarah, who is Mrs. Edward Welch of North Rose; Maggie, who married Matthew Kane of Throop; Edward, employed with New York Central Railroad; Michael, John, and Martin. Mr. Buckley has repaired and improved the buildings, moving to this side a house, once standing nearly opposite. The town line runs through his sitting room, so he can take his choice as to the town he stays in. He has about 100 acres in his farm, having added to it the old Austin Roe place, across the way. Opposite, many years since, there was a log house, in which lived Jonathan Fuller. He was not a careful farmer, but delighted more in roaming about the neighborhood and imbibing hard cider, than in putting in the " big licks " on his land. The story is told that the young men of the vicinity came one very bright moonlight night, cut and bound his very scant crop of wheat and set it up in proper form. Then getting a cow bell, they began to tinkle it. Soon the old man came out with his wife to drive away the intruding kine. But, however fast the old people ran, the cow ran faster, apd effectually dodged them. It took the man some time to discover that the wheat had been harvested, but when he did, he nearly convulsed the boys by straightening himself up, and exclaiming: " By the eternal gods. Phcebe, that's no cow." The expression was long a by-word in the vicinity. The place finally came into Austin Roe's possession, and he held it until his sale to John B. Roe. Austin R. retained fifteen acres on the north and south road. A Mr. Harmon owned near this farm once, and I think the places were finally merged. One of the Harmons married Polly Lounsberry. A framed house was built on the north side of the road by a Mr. Irwin, I am told, who was a blacksmith. John B. Roe sold ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 49 the whole farm to his son, Merwin S., who, with his first wife, began housekeeping here. He managed the place for a time, and then sold to Mr. Buckley, who moved the buildings to the south side, and thus identi- fied the two farms. The writer of these sketches has recollections of work in Merwin's barn that, to this day, induce waves of heat even to contem- plate. It was G. G. E.'s last summer on the farm, and that day's thresh- ing completely dispelled any notions that we inay have had of making farming our life work. The Lockwood boys ran the thresher and they always, made it lively for all concerned. The barley stack was on the west side of the barn, and old Sol never sent his rays more directly nor pointedly than he did on that August afternoon. George and I were on the stack, and it was our duty to keep that voracious, cavernous maw full. Wellington never longed for Blucher or night as did we for the going down of the sun or the using up of that pile of barley. Pricked and nettled by barley beards, dusty beyond recognition, and completely parboiled by the sun and perspiration, we went home to wash up and to mutually sympa- thize. What bliss we extracted on the barn floor from those pails of water! We turned about in scrubbing, and I never shall forget George's thin voice as he remarked, while undergoing kneading at my hands : "If there is any easier work than this in the world, I am going to do it. You won't catch me on the farm another year." He spoke the truth ; it was his valedictory. Though tired as we were, and while going through the sitting room to bed, we changed our entire plans, and were comijletely revived by a communication from Aunt E., to the effect that we were invited up to F. H.'s to spend the evening. Instead of donning night garments, we put on our best, and were soon off to spend not only the evening, but a large part of the next morning. So quickly do the youthful body and spirit renew themselves. In this district we have to travel in all directions, and we must now return to Wright's cross roads and journey northward. Old residents will readily recall a log house standing on the east side of the road, just opposite the Marsh place. Some api^le trees now mark the vicinity. It gradually deteriorated until it became a barn and then only an occasional shelter for animals pasturing in the lot. I cannot name the builder, but in the earlier years of the century it was occupied by one Knapp, who, selling, moved to Nunda, Livingston Co. After him came an Allen and jjerhai^s other occupants. Before this the laud had become Austin Eoe's. He retained it until his death, willing it to Austin M. Eoe, his son, who sold to John B. Eoe, to whose estate, I think, it now belongs. (Since sold to Wm. H. Sowls. who has erected a house and purj^oses to reside here.) The Marsh jilace is one of the oldest in the district. Amos Marsh came from Connecticut, town of New Hartford, early in the century, and marry- ing Polly, sister of John Q. Deady, reared here his large family. He was 5 50 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. a genuine pioneer and experienced all the viscissitudes of life among the Indians and wild animals. He had his hogs killed by bears and was him- self pursued by wolves. He entertained the vagrant Indian and reclaimed his home from the pristine forest. His log house was burned and his family had a narrow escape ; but he lived through all these trials till 1866, when he died at the age of sixty-nine. His wife died in 1873, aged nearly seventy-five. The children of thirty and more years ago will recall the large orchard which shut out the view of the house. This a severe storm of some years since, completely leveled. It not only destroyed the trees, but it nearly wrecked the barn and outbuildings. So from fire and wind the estate has had its share of suffering. The story is told of William, the oldest son, that being vexed at something, be one day seized an axe and proceeded to level his father's apple orchard. He was interrupted in this diversion before he had played George Washington on all the trees, but with unappeased wrath, he joined the " forty-niners " for California, where he has since remained. (He died June, 1892, in Carson City, Nev.) Of the other children, Eoswell, unmarried, lives on the farm, and this same farm bears excellent testimony to his care and diligence. On the hillside, toward the west, is, I believe, the only collection of maple trees still devoted to sugar making in this part of the town. There is hardly an old home near that has not its alder spiles and its old bailless kegs, telling of the sweet times of long ago ; but the trees have gone. Though not directly interested in the product, I hope this " sugar bush " may long continue to afford saccharine satisfaction to the family. Nearly all the family bear names that relatives before them had borne in the old Connecticut home. Eoswell's great uncle, Eoswell Marsh, was the largest land owner in the- town of New Hartford. He was the nearest neighbor therp to the Shepards, who, in fact, sold to him when they moved to this state. Amos was accompanied, on his immigration, by his brothers Uriah and Pendar, who after a time went further west. Coming back to Amos' family, we find Uriah, Henry and Cornelius — three young men of stalwart frame, good habits and industrious natures, who were for some years the favorite helps of neighboring farmers. Were John B. Eoe living, he would readily add his testimony to these words. All of them enlisted in Company H of the 9th Heavy Artillery, and all were good soldiers, though Cornelius was discharged before the regiment left the defenses of Washington. Uriah, and Henry stayed through and were discharged with their comrades in 1865. I remember both the boys at Cold Harbor, and they were then just the same capable help to Uncle Sam that they had been in former years to my Uncle John. After the War, Uriah, named for his uncle, married his second cousin, Eveline Wadsworth, of Butler, and settled there. He died in 1890, as patriotic and deserving a son as our town ever produced. I have stood beside his grave, and with moistened eye have recalled many EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 51 pleasant memories of my early friend, who, to me, had been in time of need like an elder brother. Henry married Mary, sister of William Desmond, and went to the west. Cornelius took for his wife Mrs. Jane Leaton, and now lives west of the Valley. Garrett, the youngest son, married Addie Clark, and has lived for several years in Clyde. He is a carpenter by trade. Of the daughters, Lydia married William Green of Glenmark ; Rebecca, as already stated, married Martin Saxton ; Lorinda died at home, unmarried, in 1874 ; Matilda is at the old fireside. Amos Marsh's old mother accompanied him in his moving to the then west and narrowly escaped suffocation at the time of the burning of the house. She, too, I suppose, sleeps with her children and grandchildren in the burial ground near. SCHOOL DISTEICT No. 6, STEWART'S. .Vol'. 17, lS87—Jan. 19, 1SS8. This district, quite likely the first established within the limits of the town, was originally much larger than at present, including an area now supporting several schools. From the outset it has borne its present name, derived from the early settler, Lott Stewart, whose home was at the cross roads just north of the school-house. For seventy-five years some one of the name has lived on the site, and the corners deserve their appellation. Of the school-house itself, mention was made in earlier letters. This build- ing is a comfortable white structure, succeeding the old red one. Red was the favorite color in our grandfathers' days for school-houses. Doubtless it was cheap as compared with any other ; it made the edifice prominent, and as a logical sequence, I suppose, they thought the pupils might be well read. The red house went back to the log building, in which our grand- fathers themselves were instructed. To prevent undo hilarity, probably, on the i^art of their youth, the early settlers placed their first cemetery just a few steps to the east, and used it till about 1830. Memento mori, or remember to die, must have ever been before the children's eyes. Alvin Clark, brother of "Priest" Clark, was one of the teachers in the log school-house, and to illustrate the strictness of rule in those days, he severely whipped George Seelye for making a superfluous mark in his copy-book. Mr. Clark was very severe in school hours, but at recess and noon he could unbend. He snow-balled with the boys and flirted with the girls. It is even told that, one noon, when both arms were occupied in holding upon his knees two girls, he ordered William Kellogg, now of Cattaraugus county, to wipe his (the teacher's) nose, he having no hand to perform this very necessary act. What remark would such a perform- 52 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. ance nowadays excite ? By a strange streak of fortune, the nearest house was Lott Stewart's tavern. This, a double log house, stood at the corner, where is now the home of George Stewart. Without any authoritative statement, I think we may claim this as one of the very earliest crossings in the town. The Galen salt road went very near this point, terminating at Port Glasgow, and the rather crooked way leading from the Valley to Wolcott must have followed the early slashing of Jonathan Melvin, Sr. Lott Stewart was a very early settler from Saratoga county — Ballston Spa. His tavern was the first one outside of the village, and was long a halting place on the way to Wolcott and Rose. It stood on the north side of the road, about eight rods east of the corners, where now are the ruins of some Lombardy poplars. Under later usage, however, the inn would be quite too near the school-house. At this tavern in " ye olden time," the town meetings, were held alternately with those at Wolcott. It is one of the mysteries of fate that with a tavern, school-house and the town meeting, not to mention the cemetery, this place should not have been the village instead of Rose. Very likely the division of the town of Wolcott, making Rose Valley the center of the new town, had much to do with its growth. This, one of the very earliest points to be settled in the town, was occupied by Lott Stewart, of Saratoga county. His second wife was Mary Harmon, a daughter of Alpheus, his nearest neighbor on the east. He had in all two sons and seven daughters. Of these, James succeeded him on the home estate, while he himself moved away from the neighbor- hood, dying in Cattaraugus county, as did his wife also. His first wife died before he left Saratoga county. By his first marriage he had a son, James, and two daughters, and by his second, one son, Allen, and five daughters — Hannah, Amanda, Lucy, Betsey and Cynthia. James Stewart married Fanny Lomis, of Yates county, and had one son, George D., and two daughters— Ann Eliza, who died unmarried in 1842, aged twenty-four, and Lydia, who married Richard Armstrong, of Butler, who went first to Waterloo, Iowa, and afterwards to Dakota. James Stewart had a good reputation as a farmer and neighbor, and died in April, 1862, aged seventy years. His wife died in Iowa. His son, George, who siicceeded him on the old place, was one of the earliest converts to Second Adventism in the town, and from the early forties to the present he has been the most con- spicuous believer in the doctrine in the vicinity, carrying his faith in the Master's coming, in at least one instance, even to the extent of not putting in seed in the spring— he and his fellow believers thinking they would have other business before harvest time. His first wife was Sally Bump, who was the mother of Lawton J. Stewart, a young man of much promise, who died in 1861, at the early age of twenty-four. He lies, with his kindred, in the Collins burial ground. The mother herself died in 1849, aged forty. Mr. Stewarfs second wife was Sally C. Cox. They have two children ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 53 living— George H., a teacher in South Butler, and Mary E., who lives at home. Two daughters, Aurelia G. and Lillian E., died at the ages of eight and fifteen, respectively. The present Stewart house was long the wonder of the neighborhood on account of its two wings and its unusual size. It is considerably more than fifty years old. (From Mr. S. this farm passed to the late Mr. Soule of Kochester, and from him to Silas Lovejoy. The latter's son-in-law, Alfred Jones, now lives here. The house has under- gone several changes, being much improved thereby.) Going toward the south from the corners, we find no residence till we reach the home of John Atkinson. Most people, recalling the place at all, will think of it as the former home of " Harl " Wright. The latter was one of those easy-going men who like a good story and who know all about their neighbors. His favorite by- word was " Godies," and many a time, in conversation with his nearest neighbor, J. J. Seelye, have I heard him say, "Godies, Jud, that won't do." His wife was a daughter of Jesse Olmstead. They had one daughter, who is the wife of Charles Eeed (subsequently sheriff of Wayne county), of Huron. " Harl," in connec- tion with his small farm, was a carpenter by trade, and did much work in the vicinity. He died some years since and is buried in Wolcott. His father, Daniel, came from Tioga county and bought a small piece of land from the old Stewart estate, though I think he purchased directly from Nathaniel Center. He, too, was a carpenter. His death came in 1854, at the age of seventy-two. His wife, Mary Hyatt, survived till 1872, when she died, aged nearly eighty-two. Both are buried near the Seelye corners. How Mr. Wright's name, Albert, was metamorphosed into "Harl" would puzzle the most skillful philologist. He had seven brothers and sisters, as follows : Sylvanus; John; Henry; Augusta; Elizabeth, who married Eben Rising of the Valley ; Mary, wife of Wm. H. Saunders, well known in Wayne county ; and Jane, who became the wife of George Porter of Auburn. Mrs. Saunders has three children — one, George, married Leora, oldest child of Hudson Wood, and resides in Xew York City; another, Augusta, is the wife of J. J., son of " Ham" Closs. They live in Michigan ; the third, William A., is yet unmarried. Mr. Atkinson is English born, and of excellent reputation. His wife's maiden name was Allie Hield. They have one sou, George, at home. Just a few rods further along is the road taking us to Clyde, and facing this, years ago, was a log house. Very likely there is not a trace of the building now. I believe this was built by Simeon Hendricks, a good old Methodist brother, who was wont to say in meeting that his sins rested on his shoulders like a potash kettle. Both he and his wife were short and very stout, and betrayed in form and speech, as well as in name, their Dutch origin. They came from Herkimer county in 1816 to Galen. To this day people tell of the peculiar speeches that Mr. H. would make in 54 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. meeting. "When night came, the d — 1 would whisper to me that I was too tired to go to prayer meeting, but I would take my cane and start slowly for the school-house. The nearer I got, the less tired I felt, till, the meeting over, I would trip it home as lively as a boy." Again, describing an experience common, I guess, to all farmers, he told this story: " The hogs were in the corn. I tried to drive them out, but the more I ran, the more they did, till I knelt down and prayed. "When I got up I shouted 'ste-boy,' and away they went, every one of them." He had nine children, but I can trace only a few of them. Barbara married Ealph Fuller, son of Brastus Fuller, living nearer the Valley ; Betsey was the wife of Peter Aldrich, a name well known in the vicinity ; Katy mar- ried William Aurand of Galen. There were other children, whose descendants live in this and adjoining towns. From this place they moved south to the Briggs neighborhood and there died. Delos Seelye and his wife here began housekeeping, and here their oldest child, Angeline, was born. Soon after his leaving, the house fell into decay and finally disap- peared. Keeping the direct road south, on the east side of the road is an old, unpainted house, now unused, and fast falling to pieces. This site was the early home of the Aldriches. The first comer of the name was Micajah, from Chenango county. His wife was an Elliott, a relative of Mrs. George Seelye. In the inevitable log house dwelt, in time, Edward A. Aldrich, son of the preceding. At present I have no data concerning him, but I suppose he took uj) the line of march for the west. The first Aldrich and wife were buried in the old ground by the Stewart's school-house. After Aldrich, came Deacon David Foster, a gentleman of most excellent repute. He had a son, David. Two of his daughters married brothers named Lyon ; and one, Nancy, became the wife of Abram Knight of Clyde. On selling, the Fosters went to Sodus. A brother-in-law, Mr. Davis, bought of Foster a small tract, and built the next house to the south. This, from the start, has borne a red color. Both Davis and Foster were from the east, and were most excellent members of the Presbyterian Church. Then came James T. Vandereof from Orange county. This name most unquali- fiedly betrays a Dutch origin. His wife was Martha Post, and their four children were born before leaving their old home. They settled first in Huron. Both are now dead, and lie in the Collins burial ground. The father died in 1870, with his son, William, in the Valley. Both of these people were estimable members of the Methodist Church. The oldest son. Post, married Isabella Hake in Michigan ; afterward lived in Lyons, and there died. William and John, as noted in the account of the Town dis- trict, wedded Emily and Sarah Town, respectively. William, an excellent carpenter and joiner, lived in the Valley, where he died. John has already been noted as dead also. It has been mentioned in my hearing, EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 55 as a noteworthy fact, that the sons were married in order, beginning with the youngest and so upward. All had one son each, and each wife had curly hair. The only daughter, Rachel, married James Burt, went west, and has long been dead. After leaving this farm, James T. Vandereof moved to Wolcott. To him succeeded Chester Lee, eldest son of Lyman Lee. His wife, Sally, was a daughter of Jabob Miller, who was Solomon Allen's predecessor on his place. Lee sold to Washington Ellinwood, or, at any rate, was succeeded by him. The latter had married Mary, a daughter of Lyman Lee, who died early in life, leaving a daughter, who became the wife of Philip Turner of the Valley. Both of them are dead. Mr. Ellinwood married again, and has for many years resided in the Valley. Till Mr. Cleveland's administration, he was the postmaster. A second daughter is the wife of Clayton Allen of this district. Lee moved to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he died twenty years ago. Of his family, Judson J. is a merchant in St. Louis, Mo.; and John W., a con- tractor and builder in Toledo. Both of these gentlemen retain a lively interest in their native town. To them is due the handsome monument to the memory of Lyman Lee in the Ellinwood burial ground. Kext we find here Hudson Wood, son-in-law of Thaddeus Collins. He has been men- tioned somewhat at length in former letters. One daughter, Hattie, was born in the red house, which thereafter l^ecame the j^rincipal house on the farm, the old wood colored one being relegated to the back seat, as it were. In it Wood lived for a part of a year after selling, and before moving to Butler. It might be possible to name each family that has lived in the building, but it wouldn't pay. One family, however, merits more than a passing notice, that of Michael Marsteiner, always known in these parts as "Mike." The honors of his house were fully equally shared by his frau, Eene, whom the neighbors called "Rayner." In hiring them for farm work, the farmers rather preferred the nominally weaker vessel, claiiiung that she could do more work than her husband. He had been a soldier in the Bavarian army, and as such had received a bad wound in some one of the engagements into which the paternal (?) government had forced its subjects. This breaking out occasionally, made him at times something of an invalid, but "Mike" would work as long as he could stand, and so would his wife. I believe there was no kind of farm work which she could not do with wonderful success. As to her housekeeping qualities, I am not prepared to speak, but certainly her two children, whenever they appeared in public, were clean and neat. Rene had very little time to devote to mere care of her progeny, and when the first one was a week old, the mother was hard at work in the field, while the baby was lying conveniently near on the ground. One day some people passing the house, saw the strange sight of a small child suspended from the door latch by his shirt fiap. When the second child came, the first one was 56 KOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. promoted to baby tender, while the parents were at work without. It seems that the lad, then two years old, had climbed into a chair for some purpose, and, in turning about, had caught his garment, the only thing he had on, upon the projecting latch. In his effort to release himself, the chair had fallen over and there was the infant in almost as perilous a position as was the youthful Putnam, when only the hem of his trousers leg saved him from a head-long fall from the tree. It is said that the baby balanced very well, and that his frantic arm and leg motions indi- cated great talent in the swimming line. The passer-by soon liberated the child, much to his own relief and that of his scarcely older sister. The Marsteiners were very saving as well as industrious, and in time owned a farm near Lock Berlin. Louis, the son, now married, lives upon it. " Mike " and his wife and, possibly Mary, the daughter, live near Roch- ester. Hudson Wood sold to James Sheffield and his son, Kendrick. The latter we have already mentioned as a resident of District No. 7. The father, a brother of Mrs. Geo. Seelye, was born in Xorthumberland, Washington county. He was a son of Dr. James Sheffield, who afterward moved to Chenango county, town of Sherburne. His wife was Lucy Stevens of Troy, Bradford county, Penn. He was considerably past middle life when he came to this town, but his fervor on all topics in which he was interested, and his eloquence on all religious subjects, few who knew him will ever forget. To me his face was wonderfully suggestive of that of Lafayette, as I have seen the same depicted in print. His stay in the red house was not continuous, he living for a while in the Peter Aldrich house. But, coming back to this abode, he died here in 1859, aged nearly sixty- five. He was a life-long Baptist. "Aunt" Lucy, his wife, did not rejoin him till 187-t, at the age of seventy-four and past. Her home was with her sons, Joel and Kendrick, but much of her time was passed with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Deacon Seelye, at whose home she died. Every- where her sunny, genial nature assured her a most cordial welcome. Their eldest son, Willard, lived and died in New York, but is buried in Rose. The hitter's son, James, also a resident of New York, is one of the most devoted of the summer dwellers at Charles' Point. ( His wife is Cassie H., daughter of the late Hon. Thos. Johnson of Savannah.) His sister, Sarah, is the widow of Linus Osgood. Beside Kendrick, Mr. S. had other sons — Judson, who died in Chenango county ; and Joel, now the postTuaster of Rose. The ShefiBelds sold to Charles Mirick, son of George Mirick, one of the town's oldest and best known citizens. He in time sold, and after keeping a store for a time in Clyde, moved to Adrian, Mich. His successor was Gleason Wickwire from Madison county. He is a relative of the Seelyes ; second cousin, I believe, of George and Delos. His second wife is Eliza Chase of Hamilton, herself a sister of the wife of Kendrick Sheffield. Mr. W. has pretty nearly passed the management of EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 57 affairs over to his son, Jarit, better known as "Jet," who married Ida, , daughter of Jairiis McKoon of Butler. By his first wife, Mary Brown, he had Matilda, who is now the wife of Lueian Osgood of the Valley. ( Mr. W. died Aug. 1, 18SS, and is buried in the Eose cemetery.) On this road it remains only to mention a little event happening some years ago — for the next house, the old home of Joseph Seelye, is in District No. 7. Very near the bolder line is an old beech tree, on the west side of the way and close to the wall. I doubt whether more scars or initials can be found on any equal amount of surface in the town. That smooth expanse of bark was a greater temptation than any boy with a pocket knife could withstand, and so he cut his own name, and then the initial* of the girl he thought he loved, and so on till the devoted tree is like the aged hemlock mentioned by the Indian chief, Shenandoah, " dead at the top." The old tree must soon follow the men who have rested beneath its shade and, like them, moulder back. But I did not stop at the tree to moralize; it was to see two boys coming at a break-neck pace from the uorth. They are on their father's horses, and are on their way home from Van Antwerp's blacksmith shop, where the old gentleman has renewed the iron shoes while the boys switched flies. Did you ever see two boys who could resist the temptation to race, particularly if they were young, wiry, farmer boys ? Who gave the stump I cannot tell ; perhaps the boys themselves cannot, but there they are, coming at the top of their speed. They are yelling and lashing their beasts, each determined to reach the swamp first. They run neck by neck. Merwin's " old Doll " is an excel- lent horse, but " Sol's " white mare keeps well along. Who would have won, I cannot state, for here, right by the tree, Sol's horse stumbled and threw her rider completely over her head. The boy is stunned and uncon- scious, and friends labored long and anxiously over him. Doubtless as he convalesced, he heard many lectures on the sinfulness of horse racing, and the dangers incident thereto. The boy thus thrown became a major before the close of the Rebellion. Then he sat his steed better. We must now retrace our steps to the road which turns westward and then twists southward in its peculiar direction, a reminder of the early settlers who laid out roads without chart or compass, and sometimes, one might think, followed a cow. Be this as it may, as we swing around the turn and get well started on the Valley road, if we look sharp through the apple trees, lilac bushes and shrubbery, we shall find a small house, which for nearly or quite thirty years has stood in the name of J. J. Seelye, better known in Rose as "Jud." Some years since, with his son, Ernest, he went to Sully county, Dakota, where he now is. His wife, who was Frank Osgood, remains on the place. Ernest O. married, first, Mattie Chase of Hamilton, niece of Mrs. Kendrick Sheffield, and, after her death, united his fortunes with those of Edith, daughter of Winfield Chaddock, deceased. 58 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Together with her mother, they set forth for their home in the extreme ■west, and are trying to make the prairie bud and blossom. George S., the younger son, who married Alice Leaton, and for a while lived at this home, has also gone to Dakota. It was here that Mr. Seelye made his first essay at farming and housekeeping. He set out trees, vines and shrubs. He has tried about all the schemes that farming affords ; but now claims to find Dakota a much happier locality. He served during the Rebellion in the Itth Heavy Artillery. His predecessor was his uncle, James Sheffield, who bought of the original patentee, Peter Aldrich. He, a son of Micajah, had married a daughter of Simeon Hendricks. His log house was of the most primitive character, destitute, I am told, of windows. He was a large, vigorous man, and noted in his day for his wood-chopping powers. He once had a fight with Eoger Barnum, who lived further west, and in the bout he put out one of Barnum's eyes. Both were in liquor, a not infrequent condition for them, but later B. sued Aldrich for damage, and secured judgment to the extent of one hundred dollars. To pay this, he sold from the south part of his farm to Joseph Seelye, who in time sold to his son, George. So in neighborhood parlance the affair stands as "ten acres for an eye," that being just the amount of land parted with to pay the bill. He had several children, viz.: Maria, who married an Eastman from Sangerfield ; Prudence, Columbus Loveless of Butler ; Polly, Daniel Doty of Butler also. The sons, "Walter and Micajah, went to Michigan, as did Peter and his wife. There was a daugh- ter, Barbara, whose name appears in an exijression which the old man was heard to utter when his cattle got into his corn. "Hop, Walter; jump, Cager; where the d — I's Barb! " ( J. J. Seelye has returned from Dakota and lives in the Valley. George S. also came back, and after several years' struggle with disease, died in June, 1893. at the age of 32 years. He left a son, Joseph Leaton.) Before we reach the next home, we must pause a moment at the site of a log house on the west side of the road. Here dwelt John Osborn, who came from Lincolnshire, England. He had seven sons, all born in Eng- land, and two daughters, Eliza and Mary A., born after coming to this country. Of these children, Sumuel lives on the first road north ; Abner and Elijah live west of the Valley ; Isaac was killed by lightning in the house where Samuel, Jr., lives. The father died in the same building. Further along, but on the east side, was another log house, which John Osborn once owned. He took it from one Stoddard, who, leaving these parts, became a nurseryman in Rochester. After Mr. Osborn, came Daniel Crampton, who owned thirty-six acres, and who built the frame house, so long situated in the bend of the road. Before him, though, in the log house or shanty, lived at sundry times a Drury, whose wife was in some way related to Alverson Wade's first wife, and by the brothers Jason and Fred Wright, ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 59 the latter a charcoal burner. I am told that a Mr. Hickok, grandfather of Felton and Eugene, once lived here ; but the name most conspicuous among its occupants was that of L'Amoreaux. Certainly, Fi-ench origin is evident here, and from the names in the Collins burial ground, there must have been quite a family representation in these parts, but no one of the name now lives in town. Peter L. and his wife, Elizabeth, are buried in the cemetery ; but Joel, their son, is the one with whom we are chiefly concerned. He had married a widow Baldwin, and had but one son, Sullivan, who, during the War, served in the 9th Heavy Artillery. He enlisted in Company F, from Cayuga county, and came home a brevet lieu- tenant-colonel. After leaving Rose, Mr. and Mrs. L. lived in Throopsville, Cayuga Co., and there died. Some of Mr. L.'s eccentricities will long be remembered. For instance, calling at a house where the people were accustomed to ask the divine blessing upon the food before eating, and, the man of the house being away, the good lady very innocently asked Mr. L'Amoreaux to perform that dutj'. The farmer twisted uneasily for a moment and then groaned forth, "Lady, I never did such a thing in my life." I don't know whether the lady asked the blessing herself or whether the food was eaten unblessed. As a story teller, he never had a parallel in Rose. Here is a specimen: "I was mowing one day in that meadow down yonder, when, happening to look up, I saw a big buck deer just a little way from me, and to all appearances al)ont as much surprised at seeing me as I was at beholding him. Well, I wasn't going to lose that chance for venison, so I dropped my scythe and started for him. I never had such a race in my life. I nearly ran my legs off ; but he finally got stuck in a snow bank. Without stopping a moment, I grabbed him by his horns and then we had it. All I could do was to hang on, while he plunged and pushed and pawed till he had ripped every rag of clothing off my body. There wasn't a stitch left. What to do I didn't know. If I let go, he might kill me, and I, instead of he, would be fresh meat. Luckily, just then I happened to think of a long knife that I had in my pocket. Draw- ing this out, I cut his throat just as slick as a mink." Any inconsistency in this yarn seemed never to occur to the narrator. I have wondered whether, as a good Baptist brother in Throopsville, his stoi-ies were as interesting as they were when the teller was unregenerate. After the L'Amoreauss, the place was merged with the farm opposite, and the house, like many others, saw all the degrees of decadence incident to tenant houses, and now nothing i-emains to mark its location. To show how names change in their daily use, it is interesting to know that the family and neighbors forty years since pronounced the foregoing name " Lum- meree." At the risk of making a bull, I must state that the next place is back of us and on the west side. Here early in the century, came Alverson Wade 60 KOBE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. from the east. His first wife was Naomi Miinger. His second wife, who survived him, was a widow DeGolyer from Clyde. As Mr. Wade and his first wife were buried in the Stewart's corners burial ground, and as all trace of any memorial long since disappeared, it is impossible from any data at hand to tell just when they died, though it is probable that Mr. W* died about 1828. Alverson Wade was a brother of Esquire John Wade, who lived further west, and of Mrs. Deacon Shepard, of the No. 7 district. It is said that he was born in Penobscot, Me., 1759, and that living near Boston later, he drove an ox team with supplies to the scene of the battle at Bunker Hill, where his father, Dr. John Wade, was a surgeon. Later still, he resided in Spi'ingfield, Mass., where his children were born, viz.: Joseph, 1784; Uriah, Naomi, Loviaa, Lucy and Mary. All of these went west. Naomi became Mrs. Jeremiah Chapin ; Lovina, 1st, Mrs. Marcus Page ; 2d, Mrs. Elihu Drnry ; Lucy, Mrs. Zenas Fairbanks ; Mary, Mrs. Foster Collins. All reared large families. I have understood that Peter L'Amoreaux, father of Joel L., succeeded the Wades upon this farm. Concerning him and his wife, I have no data, save the facts of their deaths as recorded in the Collins burial ground. John Lee, a brother of Lyman and Joel, came nest on this farm. He was a native of Townsend, Vermont, where he was born, March 7th, 1803. His wife, Philura Wells, was born in Athens, Vermont, March 5th, 1802. Marrying in 1825, April 3d, they migrated in November of the following year to oar town and settled on this farm. They here resided and reared their children till 1850, when they removed to Morgan, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. There Mrs. Lee died, April 27th, 1855. In January, 1867, Mr. Lee removed to Painesville, the same state, and died March 26th, 1881. There were three sons — Oscar W., who married Laura Lovejoy, of Eose, and uow resides in Painesville, Ohio; Newton, who wedded Elsie Chaddock, a sister of Alonzo and Winfield C, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio ; Nelson O., the youngest, who married in Ohio, and now dwells in Painesville, that state. His business is that of wholesale druggist and grocer. We next find here Philetus Chamberlain, who, a native of Monroe county, has already been mentioned in the town district. His wife was Julia Barnes, from the Briggs neighborhood. Of his children, Mary is the wife of George Graves and lives in Wolcott ; Louisa went to Jackson, Mich., and married a Dr. Fields ; Philena, married, lives near her father in Mendon, Monroe Co. His only son, a boy when he moved away, is a prominent lawyer in Eochester. Mr. C. is remembered as a good farmer. After him came Milton Town, son of Silas and Polly. He repaired and very much improved the house. The property is still in the possession of his widow and son. (Eecently Mr. Town has moved the barns to the east side of the road, much improving the same.) ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 61 Standing well back from the road, with capacious barns just east of it, is a comfortable looking house, now owned by Clayton J. Allen. We first find the place in the hands of Joseph Wade, son of Alverson, already referred to. Mr. Wade married Rhoda Rundell in Oneida Co. They had six chil- dren, of whom Louisa married James Davenport ; Willis S., married Ahuira Bannister; Lucy, died in infancy ; JLircus P., married, 1st, Nerrissa Cran- ston: 2d, Abigail C. Giles ; Uriah, married Lucy P. Giles ; Joseph C, mar- ried Mary E. "Wilson. The family went to Michigan in 1834. All have held places of trust in their respective communities. Following him came Jacob Miller, whom early settlers will remember as a man of stalwart frame, a native of Pennsylvania. His first wife was a May ; his second, Amy Dix, born in Ovid, a relative of the John A. Dix family. His family was very large; Sarah, by her first marri.age, became Mrs. Chester Lee; Mary married Nathan W. Thomas ; Eliza, Samuel Otto ; Caroline, Richard Squires, Seville, O.; Harriet, three times married, 1st, Whitesides in Ohio ; Emily, Elder, Seville ; Melinda, James Quail ; 2d, Case, ' died in Iowa; Louisa married and died in Ohio ; Daniel ; George C. married, 1st, a daughter of George Stewart in Butler ; 2d, a Closs, cousin of the Rose Glosses ; Rush died young ; Jacob B. is in Kansas : Edmund in Seville, O. The Millers, who were staunch Methodists, went to Ohio, and to them succeeded the family of Solomon Allen. The latter was from Tin- mouth, Vermont. He always claimed to be related to the family of the famous Ethau Allen ; but just how near the relationship was I cannot determine. Mr. Allen was twice married — first to Ziphe Horton, and second to Susan Westcott. By his first marriage, he had Aldula, who mar- ried Zadoc Taylor and lives near Carrier's corners ; Nathan died in 1842, aged nineteen years ; and Noah, who married Elizabeth Playford, of Huron, and moved to Wisconsin. By his second wife, he had Nathaniel, who married Anna Bull, of Huron, and now resides in Cleveland, Ohio, as clerk of the courts; Lampsou, who married Augusta Wilson, of Rose; Charles married Amanda Stark, of Wolcott, and as a merchant now lives in that village; Harriet became the wife of Dorr Center, of the same school district, and went to Illinois ; and, lastly, Clayton, who married Mary, daughter of Washington EUinwood. He holds the old farm, and long may it continue in the Allen name. The fact that his only child, Rus- sell, is a boy, insures the succession, unless the fates intervene, for the next generation. Solomon Allen came to Rose in 18.33, and purchased the farm now owned by Hudson Wood. When General Adams wished to cut or dig the Sodus canal, he bought Mr. Allen's place, and the latter came to this farm, where he died, in 1870, at the age of seventy-nine. His wife, very aged, still survives. (Died Jan. 26th, 1888, aged 84 years.) Mr. Allen was a man very much respected by all having him in acquaintance, ^ud in 1852 served his fellow townsmen as supervisor. The Allen house, 62 BOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. as we now see it, was constructed by iim, or its red predecessor was made over and added to until the present result was attained. Further west, on the south side of the road, is the substantial home of Joel Lee. Here, in the log house days, came "Squire" John Wade, a Connecticut gentleman of the most approved stock. He was, in addition to his farming, a shoemaker, perhaps one of the first in the locality. He certainly displayed taste in the location of his house, near the Rose and Wolcott road ; but they had to bring their water from the spring, under the hill to the southwest. Mr. Wade's wife was Eunice Olmstead, whose relatives we have heretofore noted as living south of Wolcott. Like many of the early settlers, he had numerous children. Perhaps I shall not name them all, but there were : William, who, having married Angeline Lyon, went to Cattaraugus county ; Jesse, who married Permelia, sister of Dr. Van Ostrand, of the Valley, and went west also ; Willis G. married Juliette Closs, a sister of Harvey and "Ham" Closs, and, after securing quite a property as a pension agent, died childless, in 1854, aged thirty-three ; John, who, from accident and medicine, was a hopeless cripple, and passed the latter part of his life with his cousin, Dudley ; Eliza, who married George Fairbanks and went west, and Eunice, who became the wife of Josiah Upson, a member of one of the oldest families in Huron. As his wife she became the mother of Mrs. Sarah Andrus, Carroll H., Homer J., William and Frank Upson. Dudley Wade, a nephew, and already men- tioned, passed his boyhood in the family of John Wade. After selling this farm, "Squire " Wade lived for a while on the Deacon Lyon place, south of the Valley, but finally both he -and his wife made their homes with Dudley Wade, and in his house died, Mr. Wade, Dec. 24, 1840, aged sixty-five ; Mrs. Wade, Jan. 22, 1847, aged sixty-eight. They are buried in the Dis- trict No. 7 burial ground. Lyman Lee followed on the Wade farm, and here passed many years of a long and valuable life. To him we owe the fine house, with its com- manding outlook; but his son, Joel, arranged the farm buildings as they now are, the barns originally being on the north side of the road. Lyman Lee was a Vermonter, coming to Rose from Brooklyn in that state. There were four brothers — Alfred, John, Joel N. and Lyman Lee — all at one time in this town. They were at first nearer the Valley on the west. Alfred, who came first, at one time owned the Elijah Osborn place. He built a saw-mill on the stream which marked the course of Adams' ditch. He sold out and went to Ohio. The other three brothers were interested in a brick-yard, just west of the Valley and near the canal. John Lee we have already mentioned. Joel N. lived north of the Valley, and was the father of Mrs. Chas. S. Wright. All these brothers were exemplary men, and were among the first and most prominent members of the Methodist Church. Lyman was twice married. His first wife, Mary Champion, died ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 63 in Vermont. She wa.s the mother of Serotia, who died unmarried, and is buried in the Ellinwood burial ground ; also of Chester, who once lived on the Wickwire farm. By his second wife, Betsey Barnes, Lyman Lee had Mary, who married Washington Ellinwood, and died years ago ; Joel and Clarinda, who has been named as the wife of Milton Town. Both Lyman Lee and his wife died in 1873, and at nearly the same age ; he having been born in 1785, she, in 1786. They are buried in the Ellinwood inclosure. Fron) this epitaph, "Mary, wife of Joel Lee, died February 28th, 1855, aged ninety-three years, eight months," upon a stone near at hand, I con- clude that Mr. Lee's mother accomi^anied him on his migration, and that Joel must have been a family name ; we thus seeing three generations of the prtenomen. In our account of the Town district, we mentioned Mary, daughter of Silas and Polly Town, as the wife of Joel Lee, who was born before his parents left Vermont, coming to Rose when an infant. They lived for many years in the stone house, a quarter of a mile further west, and here their children — Alice and Clifford — were born. The former, a beautiful girl, died in 1876; Clifford, in 1881. He had married Eva Dodds only a few months l)efore his death. In this part of the town, there is no more thoroughly equipped farm than Mr. Lee's, and the writer has a v.ivid recollection of the fertility of some of the fields, when he and Uriah Marsh, in ante-bellum days, assisted in garnering the crops. A creamery near the house sends out butter of the choicest kind. Just under the hill is a watering trough, where the traveler may quench both his own thirst and that of his horse, with the purest and coolest water from the spring in the field to the south. In former times, a road crossed from the east and west way, next south, running just east of the spring and along the edge of the hill, but when further settlements were made to the west this road was given up and the one west of Linus Osgood's was opened. It is worthy of note that near the spring, in the early part of the century, was a log house (such houses then sprung up much like mushrooms), in which lived the usual routine of wood choppers, the Bedouins of those days. Here, Samuel Osborn informs me, occurred the only death from cholera in the town. The occupant had been down to Galen, where his sou died of the pestilence. Returning to his own hut, he speedily died of the same dread disease. The last house on this road, belonging to the district, is the one now occupied by Henry Decker. The first resident whom I can find was Elder Smith, a Baptist preacher. After him came Valorous Ellinwood, the father of Valorous E., who married Elnora Seelye, and now lives south of the Valley. The Ellinwood family is one of the oldest in the town, but a full account of it must be reserved till we reach the district next west. Nehemiah Seelye followed, but him and his family we have discussed in our account of the No. 7 district. Very likely there have been other occupants, but the details I cannot give. Henry Decker we have met 64 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. before in District No. 5, as the husband of Mary Deady. Mr. D. is a native of Dutchess county. Their sons were James and John. The latter Icept for some years the hotel in North Rose and died in the fall of 1886. James is in business in Eustis, Nebraska. From this point our boys and girls went eastward in search of knowledge, and the children who obtained their rudiments of learning, for many years, at Stewart's Corners, knew what it was to walk. To some of them it was a good two miles' walk every day. From the next house the children, like the starry empire, westward took their course and sought their education in the Valley. We must now retrace our steps to the point near which our lately traversed road began. Almost facing this road there was, until a few years ago, a blacksmith shop, whence rang, early and late, the merry sound of hammer and anvil. Here, in 1844, came Simeon J. Van Antwerp from Eensselaer county ; another Dutch settler. He bought an acre of land of James Stewart, put up his shop and house, and was accounted one of the very best smiths in Eose. Visions of that shop will ever be vivid in my fancy. Here the boys of the neighborhood rode their fathers' horses, and what might have been an hour of most restful ease became one of torture, through being compelled to switch flies while the blacksmith renewed the shoes for the hoofs. That old horse-tail switch, with its wooden handle, must ever hold a place in memory. In shape like a cat-o' -nine-tails, while it brought comfort to the steed, it was to the boy swinging it as heavy as a flail. Any falling off in zeal on his part, thereby causing the least restiveness on the part of the horse, brought down upon his head all sorts of objurgations from the irate mechanic. What a hard time for the boy ! He wanted to hear all the gossip that the loungers were distributing ; he very much wished to see just how the smith's apprentice was making nails and shoes, and he may even have had a little pounding of his own to do at the vise or on the spare anvil ; but those cursed flies must be switched. With keen eye, he must detect every vagrant buzzer and thus prevent any movement adding to the workman's labor. If screen doors had been invented in those days, and blacksmiths could have been persuaded to use them, how much happiness might have been added to the life of that greatly abused individual, the boy! The old blacksmith shop, located at the four corners, has had its day. Modern machine-made shoes and nails have driven it out of existence, and where, as in Longfellow's blacksmith, " You could hear him swing his heavy sledge , With measured beat and slow," now only cinders and slag remain to mark the site of patient, toilful industry. Mr. Van Antwerp died in 186.3, aged sixty-seven. His wife had preceded him into the spirit land in 1857, at the age of fifty-seven. EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 65 Both Mr. Van Antwerp and his wife, who was Elizabeth Veley, were born in Schaghticoke, Eensselaer Co. Whether the irritation incident to the spelling and pronouncing of the name of their native town had anything to do with their removal, I am unable to state, but to ordinary mortals the cause would seem sufficient. Their children, eight in all, were born in Eensselaer county. They were : Ann, who married Morgan Dunham, both of whom are dead ; Daniel, a blacksmith like his father, married Margaret Veley and lives in West Butler ; Jane is the wife of Elijah Osborn, of the Valley ; Caroline became Mrs. Perry Barber, and resides in Delta, Delta Co., Colorado; Lovina married Edwin Van Antwerp, from Troy, N. T. ; John married Emeline Scott, of Butler, and both sleep the last sleep in the Hubbard burial ground of Butler, the flag over John's grave indicating that, in war times, he responded to the call of duty ; Eleanor Maria married Joseph H. Hemans, and lives in Neosha, Newton Co. , Missouri; Lewis H., the youngest sou, died unmarried, at the age of twenty-eight. Following Simeon Van Antwerp, his son-in-law, Edwin, who married Lovina, held the place for a number of years. He had added to it considerably and had a very pleasant and fertile farm. He died in 1879, aged forty-three. His wife resides in the Valley. His children are : Dell, Evelyn, (Ray died early), John Henry and Edwin Elbert. The place is now owned by John Shear, who married Henrietta M., daughter of Stephen Collins. Their children are : Jessie, who married Thomas Gun- ning of Wilmington, 111. ; Judson, married Delia Veach, and is in Shaw- ville. 111. ; Arthur, married Mary Joyce of Illinois and lives in Detroit ; Stephen and Thaddeus. (Mr. Shear, who came to this town from Seneca Co., died Nov. 5, 1891, aged sixty-eight years. Stephen, who served three years in the United States navy, is now in possession, having married Maggie Powers, of Butler. Thaddeus served two years in the regular army, and is now in Pasadena, California, and with him his mother will make her home.) Next west is the place held by Charles Ullrich. The latter was a good soldier in Company A, of the 9th Heavy Artillery. Members of that company will recall "Charlie" as a man always ready to do his duty; but the hot firing down in front of Petersburg, one day, drew from him this speech, which was taken down by our reporter on the spot, "Uncle Sam might get pretty rich out of dis business if he vas a mind to, for I would give more as one thousand dollars to get out of dis, if I had it." But Charles came home with his regiment like a man, having been made a corporal for bravery at Monocacy. He was from Hesse-Darmstead, a Hessian who came to help, not to destroy, as did the Hessians of the Eevolution. He had served in the army of his own country, knew what fighting was, and to avoid further unrequited service there, he had come to this country in 1851. His wife is Catharine Stopfel, and their children 6 66 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. are : Charles H., of Wolcott; Sarah J. Tracey of Weedsport, and Irving T., at home. Ullrich has had many predecessors, the first occupant, perhaps, being a "Weir, who built a log house. Then came Mr. Freeman, father of Charles and George F., referred to in the District No. 7 letters. Thomas Smith lived here, too. He was a cooper by trade, but he was known familiarly as "Honey" Smith, from his wonderful faculty of finding bee trees. For many years an old maple stood on the farm of Dudley Wade, readily recognized as the " bee tree." This " Honey " had found out, and driving pegs into its side, he easily climbed to the orifice whence toll could be taken from the honey makers. A man named Sovereign lived here, too, and I am told the prefix "old" was usually applied to his cognomen, the fact that. Mormon like, he maintained two wives at the same time not contributing to his popularity. I am not sure but a Galen Gardner lived here also for a time. Then came Isaac Doughty, who passed the property to one Boardman, and he to the present proprietor. The house, I have heard, was erected just to the east of the old blacksmith shop and was afterward moved to its present site. We next reach the farm of the Osborns. John O., we have already found as a builder of log houses, on the Valley road. The first one is the home of Samuel Osborn ; but the most of his time is passed in the next abode, that of his son. I believe that John O. found a log house here, built by a Mr. Ward, who here had an ashery, where was made potash, which, in the early days, was a prominent article of commerce. It was one of the very first houses consumed in this vicinity. The present framed house was built by the first Osborn, who died in 1853, aged nearly seventy- three years. His wife, Elizabeth, who, after his death, had married George Doughty, died in 1860, in her seventy- first year. Samuel Osborn succeeded, and few men in town are better known. His wife was Elizabeth Oaks, who died in 1885, aged fifty-eight. She was a daughter of the family living further west. (Though past four score years, Mr. Osborn is still hale and hearty. ) The next house is that of Samuel Osborn, Jr. Some rods back of it is an old log house, standing by a well, which doubtless marks the site of a spring in the years agone. To the best of my knowledge, it is the very last remnant of early architecture in these parts. It, too, was built by John Osborn. In the house of Samuel Osborn, Jr., his uncle Isaac was killed by lightning, in 1854, at the age of thirty-five years. Mr. Osborn' s wife is Ida M. Ballon, a native of Oswego county. They have five children : Mamie, Maud, Louella, Corinne and Lizzie. We find our next house on the south side of the road, the home to which Lampson Allen took his bride, and here he died in 1878, aged forty-two. He left two children — Leona, who married Frank Henderson, son of Eustace, of the northern part of the district, who lives on the farm, and ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 67 Florence, who is with her mother in Clyde. Lampson Allen was one of the best of the young men who, thirty years ago, taught school in the dis- tricts adjacent, and many men and women of Eose, now nearing middle age, will recall his pleasant yet firm way in the school room. He was a capable farmer and a good citizen. A log house preceded Allen's structure, but I am ignorant as to the builder. It may have been a Green, but I am not certain. (The Henderson children are Helen and Gertrude.) The western confines are reached when we come to the Oakes farm. Nelson Crisler lives here now; but the place belongs to the family still. Alonzo Mace was the first settler, and after him came Charles G. Oakes, from Vermont. His wife was Sally S. Hills, and their children numbered seven — five boys and two girls. Of these, Joseph and Henry are dead ; Samuel is in Michigan ; Mary married Harry Valentine, and lives in the Valley ; Seth married Mary Lowell, of South Butler, and went to Wiscon- sin. (He has since died.) The writer remembers him as one of his early instructors in Butler Center. Charles G. Oakes died in 1883, aged eighty- one. His widow is still living in the Valley. (As tenants, John Kellogg and wife, met in the Butler portion of No. 7, have been upon this place for the past five years.) Coming back to Stewart's corners, and turning to the west, with the exception of an old tenant house on the Stewart farm, we find nothing in the shape of a house till we come to that of Alonzo Chaddock. Reviewing the past history of this farm, there is presented a very confusing array of possessors. The order may be wrong, but, as owners or occupants, I find the names of Murray, E. A. Aldrich, Zenas Fairbanks, who married a Wade, John Lee, Samuel Stevens, Darwin Norton, and many others. Hiram Sprague, whose wife, a Calkins, was aunt to Mrs. George Seelye, came here from Chenango county, but afterward returned. There was also a Donaldson once in possession. It is possible that the above Murray was John N. If so, he had sons, Eron and Halsey, and was tax collector in 1811. It is safe to say that most of the foregoing went to the boundless west, so often named. Alonzo Chaddock, now the owner, is the son of William, one of the very first settlers in town. His wife is Betsey Elwood, of Aurelius, in which town, I believe, Mr. C. was also born. He has six children — John and Marion, both married, and Belle, Dora, Adelle and Eva are at home. (Mr. Chaddock died in 1890. Belle married Mr. Burt Sours, of Huron, and with him manages the farm ; Dora is Mrs. Leonard Smith ; Adelle and Eva are school teachers.) Just over the hill is an old house, long used for tenants, and, I think, belonging to Mr. Chaddock, in which once lived Roger Barnum, a brother of Mrs. Benjamin Seelye. He was something of a character in his way. He was a great Bible reader and expounder. Perhaps there was only one thing that he loved better than a Bible exposition, and that was rum. 68 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Fondness for the latter article led to the fight with Peter Aldrich, whereby he lost his eye, and his devotion to the former gave him a measure of respect in the community. His wife was Ann Wheeler. They had several children, viz. : Charles, Van Rensselaer and Mary Ann, who married Abram Wood. All went west. What will migratory people do when the west, completely filled, affords no further place for them to ramble about in ? Returning to the corners and going north, we pass over a bridge which spans a small stream, the only trout brook in the neighborhood. Having its source only a short distance away, in a large spring east of Mr. Stewart's house, it affords a cool and shady home for the speckled beauties. Up the hill to our left we find a barn, the property of Mrs. Lawson Mun- sell, received from her father. The place was taken from the land office by Mr. Graves. Several owners followed till we find Abiah Blaine in possess- ion. He sold to the canal company, whence it passed to Mr. Watkins and to Mrs. M. The log house long since disappeared. ( Mr. Munsell has recently built here a tenant house. ) The Blaines were from Orange county, town of Warwick, where the father was born, on the 17th of June, 1799, and the mother, who was Fanny Baird before marriage, August 4, 1800. They were married December 28, 1820. Mr. Blaine learned the wagon maker's trade in Newburg on the Hudson, and worked at the same while a resident of Orange county, where three of his children were born. In 1826, Mr. B., in true emigrant style, took up his march across the country, having two wagons and three horses. On ISTovember 26th he reached the home of Mrs. B.'s brother, Abiah F. Baird, whose home was so long known as the Center place. In the following spring, the family occupied the log house just north of Stewart's brook. He bought of Parmer Lovejoy, father of Silas and William. In 1837, Mr. Blaine sold, as we have seen, to the Sodus Canal Company, and bought of OrriiuMpoj-e in_Biitlerj near Whisky Hill, where he died September 23, 1847. His wife, still active in body and clear in mind, lives with her son, William, in Illinois. This son, William, who married a Center, lived on the Butler farm till 1866, when he sold to Hudson Wood, and moved to Illinois, where he is now living in Fairbury. He has two sons — Theron, married, and Nathaniel, unmar- ried, and at home. His only daughter, Ida W., is the wife of Henderson Fugate. Since moving west, Mr. Blaine has followed to some extent his well-known calling of singing master. In a letter to the writer, he recalls, graphically, his recollections of the old school-house, and of one master, George Seelye, who taught there in 1835. Abiah Blaine had other children, viz.: Sarah Jane, who married Henry Lovejoy. They went to Grundy county, Illinois, where she died January 28, 1887 ; Mary Elizabeth died in Auburn in 1836, and is buried in the Lovejoy burial ground. These three were born in Orange county. Three were born in the old log house. UUv;l ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 69 Cynthia, who married Geo. B. Howland, also went to Grundy county, where she died in 1870 ; Paulina, who died in Butler in 184:2 ; Christina, who married, in Illinois, Wm. Zeek, and died in Ottawa in 1866. The youngest child, Abiah N., was born in Butler. He went west also, and there died in 1885. The adjoining place on the north was taken from the land office by Epaphras Wolcott, and after many changes came into the hands of Elisha Brockway. The latter has a fine peach orchard, and a large field of black raspberries, thus entering upon what bids fair to be one of the chief farming interests of the town. In the old land book of Osgood Church, ,■ Jonathan_Wilson was entered as taking the south part of lot No. 140, where Eustace Henderson is now, April 3, 1811, fifty acres, at $4 per acre. This he must have passed over to the Hendersons, for December 29th of the following year, he is put down as taking thirty-one acres from lot 161, at $4.25 per acre, near where Brockway now lives. Here, on the knoll in the northeast corner of the garden, the Wilson log house was planted. Jonathan was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, and his wife was Damaris Munsell, a sister of Dorman, who lived next, to the north. He came to these parts first in 1810, stopping in Wolcott village. From Eose, he went to Huron, thence to Phelps in 1824 ; came back to Galen in 1830, and there died, in the same year, a young man, being only forty-eight years old, worn out by pioneer work. His wife survived till 1848. Both are buried in the Collins burial ground. They had numerovrs children, as Clarissa, who married Stephen Collins ; Jonathan, to be met in the Valley; Damaris, the wife of Arthur Dougan, to be met in the Jeffers district ; Ephraim B., west of the Valley ; Ralph, who died in Waterloo ; Henrietta, the wife of Joseph Andrus, now in Huron ; Fortescue, who went into the army during the War, and is now buried in the Collins burial ground ; and lastly, Walter, who lives in Castleton, having married Louise Whitney. ( Mr. Brockway now lives in Ovid, and the place is in the possession of Mr. George Stewart, late of the corners.) Our road, by which we may reach Wolcott, bears off to the east, and just before reaching a direct turn to the east, we find the home of Lawson Munsell. To this place, as the original owner, came Dorman Munsell in 1813. He was from the east, and came with an older brother, Silas, who settled further north. His wife was Jerusha Lovejoy, of the family living near. His oldest son, Dorman, married Laiara Mason, and lives in the adjoining district west ; Emeline is the wife of Orlando Ellinwood, and resides in the Valley ; Mary married Byron Wells, and moved to Spring- ville, Erie county ; Lawson married Lydia Watkins, and has had children as follows : Will, who married Florence Soule for his first wife, and had been for several years in the map and book business in New York, has taken Ida Hamilton for his second wife, and, as a banker, now resides in 70 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Spearville, Kansas (now in Chicago); D. Levern married Emma Falker- son, and is a railroad engineer in Chicago ; Lucien married Mary Housel, and is in Kansas ; the only daughter, Maggie E., is at home. The Mun- sells were of the very best Connecticut families of English descent. Their home in Connecticut was ancient "Windsor. Dorman was born in 1788 and died in 1853. He is buried in the Lovejoy neighborhood. Dorman's brothers, Elnathan and Silas, went to Michigan, and there reared large families. Lawson Munsell and his family have long been members of the Methodist Episcopal Churches of Eose and Wolcott. Going further north, and almost facing the road we have been traveling, is the home of the Hendersons, long identified with the vicinity. It fronts upon an east and west road, and is the only house on the street belonging to this district. Eli Ward took up the farm, and cleared three acres of land, selling, in 1817, his log house and his improvements to Gideon Henderson, a thrifty young man from New Hartford, Conn. He made his first trip from his native town to these parts a-foot. What grit had our ancestors ! Mr. H. was another of those New Hartford people who, early in the century, made what was then Wolcott their home. The town of Eose owes much to their sterling thrift and honesty. It is safe to say that no l^etter blood ever came from the land of steady habits than the family we are now considering. Gideon was long a family name, and our Eose resident was the youngest son of John, the fourth generation, he having a brother Gideon, and we find one, at least, of the name in every generation preced- ing. He was born in 1789, and married in 1813 the widow of Sherman Goodwin. Her maiden name was Deborah Benham. He was by trade a blacksmith, but the most of his life he was a farmer. He died in 1869, his wife surviving until 1876. Their first child, Evelina, was born in Connecticut, and became, in 1836, the wife of Harvey Closs, and thereby the mother of Frank Henderson Closs, one of the most substantial of the citizens of Eose ; George Wellington, was born in Eose and married, in 1815, Lucy Ann Smith, daughter of Judge Smith of the east part of the district, and a sister of Chauncey Smith, late of Wolcott. He is uqw a farmer in Hartland, Waukesha county, Wis. The youngest child, Eustace, has always lived on the old place. His wife is Sarah Ann, daughter of the late Jonathan Post of Butler, and, by her mother, grand-daughter of Daniel Eoe, 1st, one of the original settlers of the town. They have four children, one of whom, Franklin E., has already been mentioned as the husband of Leona Allen of the western part of the district : Thomas G., who married Georgie Waring ; Daniel W., living in Syracuse ; and Sarah Evelina, at home. The Henderson homestead was built more than sixty years ago. May it see at least another sixty years in the possession of the Hendersons. Mrs. Gideon Henderson had a son, Sherman, by her first husband. This son married Eebecca Brown of Wolcott. He died in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1879. ^-^^ ^ tg ^»» .■-- ^3 f.l?^ ft ^ ^^5 flippy- OLD RESIDENTS. Cii AS. G. (.)aks, Tiiai>I)1-.ls Collins. W'm. Mi Kmdn. John KEr.r.oc.r,. CilUEiiN Hli.X!)KKS(iN, Ira I,\KK. SII.AS | 0\- 1. [( >\". D,\NibL I,fl\-EJU^. JaIIUS Ml KiMiX. llAltVt-.V M \SUN. Am A/1 \M CAKKIErt. EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 71 Our way through this district takes us to all points of the compass. We must now follow our road a short distance to the east, and there shall take the first turn to the north. A few rods further and at our right is the Salisbury place, with the barns on the west side of the road. This farm was taken from the land office by George Steward, familiarly called "Posey" by his neighbors, on account of his liking for floriculture, a weakness (if such it be) that we might wish many farmers to possess. After Steward came Deacon Miner, and then John Salisbury from Troy, Bradford county, Penn. It ought to be stated that very soon after leaving the Henderson place, we entered the town of Butler. The next homestead is at the right, and is that of Isaac B. Jones, whom we first met in our account of the Seelye district. He is the son of Irving Jones, who purchased this farm in 1859. Its history is as follows : Wooster Henderson, an elder brother of Gideon, came here in 1809, and made a settlement, taking the land originally. He had little but his axe when he first came ; but after making a log house, he went back to Con- necticut, whence he returned in 1811 with his wife, Vicey, who was the daughter of Col. Moses Kellogg, of Hartford. He died in 1868, his wife in 1871. They had a family of eight children, two of whom — Mary and Grove — were born in Connecticut, the remaining six in Butler. Mary married Luke Blodgett and went to Michigan ; Morgan and Francis J. are farmers in Butler ; Vicey married Daniel Eoe, of Butler, who died in the past year, i. e., 1887; Sophia became the wife of J. Seymour Roe, brother of the above Daniel, and both were grandsons of the first settler, Daniel ; Laura is the wife of the Eev. Daniel Davis, of the Central New York Conference ef the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1836, Wooster Henderson sold to the Sodus Canal Co., when followed a line of tenant farmers, till its sale to Jones in 1859. Mr. Jones built the lime kiln on the west side of the road in 1860. With the exception of passing repairs, etc., the place looks much as it did thirty years ago. Mr. Jones' wife is Eliza Lovejoy of the adjacent district. Going a very little further north, just beyond the turn to the west, we shall find another lime kiln, the first built in these parts, viz., in 1855, by Alonsworth St. John. It now belongs to the Walker farm, and is, as we must readily see, a valuable accessory to the neighborhood. Freshly burned lime works into a farmers needs in many ways. Just across on the corner is a small house, whose successive occupants, lime burners and others would be as difficult of enumeration as would the guests for a term of years in a given room in a hotel. (Imported lime and cement have quite destroyed the utility of the local kiln.) Journeying down the west road a little way we are again in Rose, and we find at our left the home of Augustus Lovejoy. This place was first taken from the land office by one David Nichols in 1816. He retained the 72 K09E NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. same after clearing the land and building a house and barn till the death of his wife, in 1831. He then sold to his brother, John, who retained it for seven or eight years. Chester Lee, met before in this district, held it for two years. David Brink was the next owner, from whom it passed to one Forbes, who kept it till 1868, when he sold to David Green. After eight years, Eustace Henderson became the owner. After eleven years, he sold to Halsey Smith, in whose name the farm of something over fifty acres now stands. Mr. Lovejoy is a son-in-law of Mr. Smith. We reach the western limit on this road in the farm of Burkhart Hurter. This is a part of the Ferris lot and was cleared up by John Drury. Mr. McFarland, a local preacher of the Methodist denomination, probably built the house. He sold to Jacob Bell in 1862. The present owner bought from the heirs of the above. Mr. H. and his wife, Theresa Tait, are natives of Germany. Their son Charles was met in No. 7 ; Ella Hur- ter is Mrs. Eugene Akerman of Little Falls ; Sophia was killed at the age of seven years, in 1863, by the power rod of a threshing machine ; Mary. Mr. Hurter was a soldier in the 90th N. Y. Again must we return to our corners, and this time journey toward the east. The first place we find is that of Chester EUinwood. Here was made the very first settlement in the district, if not in the town. Alpheus Harmon came from Ballston Spa, Saratoga Co., as early as 1805. His house was near the large spring, southeast of the present mansion. Of him I am able to state only that he went to Cattaraugus Co., having sold to Abiah F. Baird. Mr. B. was a native of Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y., where he was born September 3d, 1792. He married Lany Farshee, a native of New Jersey, born July 20th, 1800. From Eose they moved to Montezuma, where Mr. Baird died July 18th, 1848. Mrs. B. died Novem- ber 21th, 1868. There were eight children, of whom Mary Jane married John Morrison, and died near Adrian, Mich., in 1868 ; Catharine, the wife of Philip Martin, lives in New Hope, Cayuga Co.; John F. married Mary Hicks and died at Walnut Grove, Minn., 1887 ; Sarah, as the wife of A. J. Sanders, lives in Auburn ; David F., who married Isabel Green, resides in Fentonville, Mich.; Thomas B. married Mary Ellen Bachman and lives in Seneca Falls ; Martin V. married Cynthia French and dwells in Dexter, Mich.; William B. married Caroline Emorick, and both died in Auburn in 1875. Baird transferred to Moses Wisner, who was a native of Orange county, N. Y. — born August 24th, 1767. His wife was Dorotha Howell, who was born May 29th, 1776, in Southampton, Long Island. Her family has been identified with the island for two hundred and fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. Wisner were married in Florida, Orange Co. They resided for a time in Amity, the same county, where all their children, save Elizabeth, were born. Afterward they moved to the Huron part of the town of Wol- EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 73 cott and thence to Eose. We have already seen them on the Lounsbury farm in District No. 7. From Rose they went to Monroe county, where Mr. Wisner died. His wife eventually died in Rochester, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Shepard. Of their eleven children, John W., Mehit- able, Moses and Amanda died in infancy; Temperance, who became Mrs. Shepard, is now living in Penn Yan ; Sarah is the widow of Austin Roe, of Butler, and lives in Wolcott ; Charlotte, the widow of Brewster Roe, lives in Penfield ; Elizabeth, widow of Willis Roe, died in 1883 ; James T. died about 1875 ; Jesse O. is living in Brantford, Canada, while Charles H. died in 18.55, in Penfield. A noteworthy fact in connection with this family is that three of the surviving sisters married three brothers. Roe, of Butler. The family was noted, among all acquaintances, for the exceeding good nature of all its members. Then came Nathaniel Center, who dwelt here, or in this vicinity, till his death, in 1845, at the age of fifty-six, leaving a family of three boys and as many daughters. It should be stated that Mr. Center and family left the place for two years, occupying the stone house farm to the northeast, in the town of Butler, where he died. Mr. Center was born in Washington county, N. Y., in 1788, where, in 1828, he married Mary Dewey, who was born in Massachusetts in 1805. They began their married life in Washington county, residing there about nine years, and there their first three children were born. It was in the winter of '36-7 that they came to this town, and fitted into this highly respectable neigh- borhood. Here three more children were born. After Mr. Center's death his widow returned to the Eose farm and continued there till 1866, when she removed to Ottawa, 111., where three of her children had preceded her, and there she died in 1885. Of the children, the eldest, Mary Helen, mar- ried William Blaine, of Butler, in 1851, living now in Fairbury, Livingston Co., 111., and having three children. Mr. Blaine was one of the most noted singing masters who ever sang the scale in these towns. The Blaines have already been sketched. The second child, Hallet C, married Harriet Hall, of Huron, and with their two children resides in Pittwood, Iroquois Co., 111. The third, John H., went to Illinois in 1856, there marrying Sarah Price. He has one son and lives near Ottawa, LaSalle Co. Dorr D. migrated in 1858, but returned to New York to marry an old schoolmate, Harriet, daughter of Solomon Allen. They have four children and are residents of Ottawa. Eliza D. went to Illinois in 1861 and lives in Ottawa. Harriet I. followed her brother and sisters in 1860, and became the wife of C. B. Pendleton, of Grand Ridge, LaSalle Co. Our Centers were relatives of the Butler family of the same name, Leonard, the father of Ganesvoort and Gipson Center being an elder brother of Nathaniel. Charles Allen, son of Solomon AUen, came next in order and lived here some years. As we have already seen, his home is now in Wolcott. Successive owners have been Jotham Post, of Butler, Wm. Southwick, Wm. Niles and the 74 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. present proprietor, Chester Ellinwood. Mr. Ellinwood has been one of the few democratic supervisors whom the town has had. His childhood was passed on the farm now owned by Ensign Wade. His wife is Mary E. Phillips of Newark. Their first child, Irene P., died in 1884, aged four- teen years. Their children, living, are Mary Louise, John C, Eobert and Chester E. The next house, on the north side of the road, was built by Dell Jones. After him it has had owners or occupants as follows : George Atkinson, Chas. Reed, Chas. Whitney, George Eote, Edward Boon and Wm. Pitts. On the south side of the way is the home of Henry Benjamin, built by himself. He has already received mention in our account of the Town district. The stream, close at hand, flows from the spring near which Alpheias Harmon located his log house. We now come to the place long associated with the name of Smith. It was orginally taken up by Luther Wheeler about 1810. His wife, Lucy Eundell, was a sister of Mrs. Joseph Wade. They were from Fairfield, Ct. They had three daughters and six sons. The youngest, Elizabeth, married John Harmon, son of Alpheus, and lived where Benjamin is. Another daughter, Anna, was Mrs. Ransom Ward. They went to Catta- raugus Co. The name, too, of Samuel Miller is connected with a part of the farm, also that of widow Starke. It would seem that the Smiths held what afterward formed two farms, those north and south of the road. Chauncey Smith, or, as he was generally called. Judge Smith, was born May 4th, 1785, in Suffield, Conn., and came to Butler, February, 1832. His wife was Priscilla Pinney. They lived here for many years, having a family noted for intelligence and worth. Judge S. died on the farm August 8th, 1853. His wife died in Flint, Michigan, December 20th, 1877, at the age of eighty-six. They were most exemplary members of the Presbyterian Church in Rose. Their children were numerous. Matilda and Adeliza died in childhood, and are buried with their parents in the Collins burial ground. Cordelia married Joseph Crawford and is dead ; Ruth is the wife of Rev. Thomas Wright, of Fenton, Michigan ; Melissa, the widow of Rev. Milton Wells, resides in Jamestown, Dakota; Lucy Ann married- George W. Henderson, of the north part of the same school district, and lives now in Hartland, Wisconsin ; two other daughters, Sally and Lydia, are dead ; Chauncey married Martha Wilder, and for many years was the most suc- cessful merchant in Wolcott ; he is now in Dakota — a railroad contractor ; his home is in Jameston, No. Dakota; Thaddeus took Frank Kingsbury for his wife, and is a resident of Flint, Michigan (Died in 1889) ; Silas N. is dead. To the Smiths succeeded one Lampson, then Silas Lovejoy, Henry Benjamin and John Weeks, who, though still residing there, has sold to Welthea Talcott, so the two farms are again united. Our last residence in this direction is the home of Miss Welthea Talcott, whose parents bought the Elder Daniel Waldo farm. The elder and his ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 75 SOD, Egbert, had bought of Chauncey Smith. This was in the time when clergymen tilled farms as well as preached. Daniel Waldo's history would tell us almost the whole story of the early ecclesiastical history of west ern New York. A native of Connecticut, he was graduated at Yale in 1788, and from that date to the time of his death was constant in his efforts for good. He was for several years settled over the Presbyterian Church in the Valley. He lived to be more than a hundred years old, dying in 1864, in Syracuse. I heard him preach in Fulton in 1863, he then being more than a century old. He was blind, but when he was led into the pulpit he had no trouble in proving that it was not a case of the blind leading the blind in any harmful sense. For several years he was the oldest survivor of the graduates of Yale. I have understood that he married ray great grand-parents, Deacon Shepard and wife, and that he preached at the funeral of the deacon. From Elder Waldo the farm passed to Thomas Forbes, who sold to George Chipman, from whom Mr. Talcott bought in 1851. Both Mr. T. and his wife, who was a Coleman, were born in Coventry, Connecticut. They are both dead and are buried in Huron. Mrs. T. died April 7th, 1881, and Mr. T. June 9tb, 1885. Two sons and a daughter are buried with them. This family maintained an ex- cellent standing in a neighborhood famous for the Christian character of its people. The sole survivor of the family, Miss Welthea, holds the old farm, and the house, which is a brick one, was built by the Waldos. It is the only dwelling of this material in the vicinity. (Sold in 1888 to Mr. Mclntyre, of Eose.) As members of this district I ought to include the Freeman family, whose early home was just a little beyond that of Judge Smith. The father, Moses Fi-eeman, came from New Jersey, while his wife, Orinda, was the daughter of Timothy and Orinda Janes, of Vermont. Mrs. Janes died in this place in 1832, and was buried in the Collins burial ground, while Mr. Janes survived to a great age, dying in Illionis, at the home of his grand- son, George W. Freeman. The family afterward lived west of Mr. Van Antwerp's, as already stated. Mr. F. died in 1837. Of the children given to Mr. Freeman and wife, there were five boys and one girl. George W. went to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1855, and still resides there. It was at his home that his mother died in 1857. Charles A. married in Iowa, moved to Minnesota, and thence, twenty-five years ago, essayed the over- land route to the Pacific coast, and has ever since resided there, his home being in Portland, where he is cashier of the Oregon Eailway and Naviga- tion Company. In the account of District No. 7, he was mentioned as having passed several of the early years of his life in the home of Austin Roe. In 1886, passing through Portland, I sought him out, and giving him a letter sent by my father, I found him an exceedingly pleasant and affable gentleman. Timothy J., after the war, settled in Missouri, where he married, and where he now lives. Ephraim died a soldier during the 76 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Eebellion. Moses, the youngest son, is married and living in Nebraska. The only daughter, Charlotte, married Alfred Williams, of Butler, and also lives in Nebraska. The last three of the sons served in the army during the War, all in Illinois regiments, and all served through except Ephraim, who died after about a year's service. Timothy came home with a captain's commission and a wound in the neck. Moses was not scratched, though he was in all the important campaigns from the first one in Missouri to the fall of Mobile. Facing the brick house we find the road with which we parted company, in our District No. 7 letters, when we left Martin Saxton's home. On this road are two houses belonging to No. 6 district. In the first dwells Daniel Evans, who came to these parts from Palmyra, and whose first wife was Calista Cornell; his second, Carrie Keisler, of Huron. This place also has changed owners frequently. The farm was originally a part of the Wood- ruff purchase, and here some of the family lived. Charles Allen bought of the Woodruffs. This Mr. Allen was a brother of the wives of Charles Sherman and Chester Ellinwood. He was himself a son of Ezra Allen, of Butler, and, through his mother, own cousin to the Kelloggs. I remember meeting, some years ago, at Patchogue, L. I., a son of this Charles Allen. The gentleman was a commission merchant in New York City, I think; but I shall not soon forget his enthusiasm over the old home on the confines of Butler. Charles Allen's wife was a Miss Leach, of Lyons, and to this place Mr. Allen moved finally, and died there. One son, Willard T., was in the army. After Allen, we find William Sherman on this farm. I am under the impression that we shall not find William again in our journey- ings, but this must be the sixth or seventh time that he has turned up in our peregrinations. Then came a Loveless, Newton Moore, Charles Smith. At some time in these years, during the sixties I believe, Jerome Davis held the farm. Jerome is a son of Paul Davis, noted in the history of these towns. His only sister was the first wife of Eron Thomas. His wife, Alice, is a daughter of Jotham Post, of Butler, and so, through her mother, related to the Roes of that town. (Martin Darling now occupies.) The very last house in the district is one now occupied by Nathan Loveless, son of Eansom Loveless, of Butler. This was the original site of the Woodruff home. The place was long held by the Benjamins, and was well known as the Benjamin farm. Just after the war Henry Marsh held it for a time. Whatever the character of the soil, there certainly are no better farms in Butler or Rose so far as convenience of location and freedom from hills are concerned. To him who passed any considerable part of his life in this town, all that pertains to any part of the Stewart district, even though it may run over into Butler, is interesting. I only regret that my sources of informa- tion have been so few that I could not give the minute description that I wished. EOSE NEIGHEOEHOOD SKETCHES. 77 SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 9. (Nov. 15, 1888— Jan. 3, 1889.) This school district is known in Rose parlance as the Lovejoy neighbor- hood or the Lake district, not from its proximity to Lake Ontario, for that is ten miles away, bat from the fact that the school-house was built near the home of the Lake family. The name of Lovejoy is readily accounted for from the long residence of Parmer L. and his descendants in the immediate vicinity. We can make no better beginning than to give in detail the facts of this first comer's settlement and life. Parmer (I think it should be Palmer) Lovejoy was born in ShefBeld, Mass., and there lived until the beginning of the present century, when he came to our town as one of its pioneers. It was in 1812 that, with his oldest son, Silas, he made the long trip to these western wilds. The lots that he had purchased were originally taken up by one Chapman, a Connecticut man, who had married his wife in SheiHeld. He had made a start for this New York home, wheu the courage of his wife utterly failed. She had heard of bears, wolves and Indians, and she had no heart to brave the dangers before her. She wouldn't go, consequently her husband had to look about for some way out of the dilemma. He didn't wish to lose either his wife or his purchase, and so finally secured Mr. Lovejoy's possessions in exchange for the untilled acres in New York. Eli Ward, who had married a daughter of Lovejoy, was already in these parts, and the Wolcott family was here. In fact, it was " Jim " Wolcott who showed the new comer where his land lay. The farm was one mile long and two hundred rods wide, thus con- taining just four hundred acres. There were no roads, but winding through the land was a clear stream, having its fountain head near the old log house of Alpheus Harmon. In later years the creek, for its earlier course known as Stewart's, as it grows and gets into Huron, is put dowu as Mudge. On the north bank of this rivulet, between two unfailing- springs, the pioneers cleared away the trees and built a log bouse. It was not so great a matter to construct a house then as now. Helping hands were found even in this sparsely settled locality, and there was no occasion to build beyond the builder's means. Says one of the first settlers, "Do you know how they laid the floor of a log house ! " Of course I was entirely ignorant, till he, resuming, said : "They just took a basswood log and split it up into as thin sections as possible. Then they put down sleepers and cutting into these they put the floor down as even as they could. Then where the women would be most likely to stub their toes they evened the surface, somewhat, with an adze. A hole in the floor let us down into a small cavity where were stored potatoes, etc., while a ladder led up to the attic, where, if he weie not too tall, a man might 78 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. stand erect under the peak. Here were packed away the boys and girls of the family, and in those days they were more numerous than they are now." A line drawn from the present home of Norman Lovejoy to that of Alonzo Chaddock would pass very near the site of the old home. An old weather- worn beech tree stands nearly opposite on the south side of the creek. Only a few stones and a slight depression in the soil mark the site of this home in the wilderness. Eeturning to the Bay State, the father and son prepared to take their families to their new home. The father was an only son, though his father's, Timothy, family was a large one, there being nine daughters in it. Several of these, as we shall find, became migrants also. Parmer Lovejoy' s wife was Esther Butler, a fit consort for a man who had undertaken to level the forest and to break up the virgin soil. His own family was very large, there being in it seven boys and five girls. Of these one boy and one girl died in their old home. The oldest son was Silas, whom we have already seen as his father's companion in his first trip hither. Parmer, Jr., married Widow Dolly Sears, nSe Davenport, and lived for a time in Bristol, Cayuga county, then on the Brockway place. Afterward he was at the Furnace, town of Wolcott, and then went to Michigan, where he died about 1850. His children were Norton, Sally, Lucinda and Harvey Puffer, known among his associates as " Puff." The whole family had the Michigan fever. "William, the third son, married Sophia Kellogg, from Connecticut, and passed his life on the farm where now resides Thomas Henderson, half a mile northwest of Stewart's corners. From the primitive lo^ house his residence progressed to the commodious house now standing. His children were Henry, who took Sarah Blaine for his wife, and built and occupied for many years the house now held by Oliver Bush, just on the confines of the Stewart district ; as we have already seen, he went to Illinois, and had one daughter only ; Wm.'s second son, James, we shall meet later as the occupant of the same place ; his daughter, Laura, we have met as the wife of Oscar W. Lee, a resident of Painesville, Ohio ; Minerva married Darwin Norton, born in Eose, and resides in Illinois. Parmer's fourth son, Henry, married Hannah Hicks, and began his wedded life in the old log house first built. He afterward went to Phelps, Ontario county, and then moved to Michigan, where he lived and died. He had two sons. The fifth son, Daniel, wedded Sophia Bassett, who had been brought up by Mrs. Aaron Shepard, of District No. 7. Him also we shall encounter in our way westward in the district. The sixth son, Harvey, married Perliette Higgins. His early home was in Pompey, whence he went to Michigan, where he married a second time. His children were a daughter, Mary Esther, by his first marriage and two sons by his second, Charles and Lucien. Parmer's oldest daughter, Polly, became the wife of Eli Ward, the man who was the first settler on the Toles place. He also had an interest in the lot which EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 79 is now owned by Eustace Henderson. From Rose they moved to Wolcott, where Ward cared for a grist mill. They returned to Eose, but afterward went to that Eose Mecca, Michigan, where they died many years since. They had sons, Henry and Cyrus, and daughters, Adaline, Mary Ann and Maria. Adaline became the wife of Elisha Chaddock, from Cayuga Co. All went to the west. The second daughter, Jerusha, married Dorman Munsell. We have seen them in Stewart's district, and traced all their children. Both husband and wife lie in the Lovejoy burial ground. The third daughter, Maria, married Cyrus Brockway, a native of Castleton,Vt. They settled first in Huron ; then came to Eose and were for a short time on the corner, just south of the John Gillett farm. Soon afterward they moved to the Furnace. There and in Wolcott they lived until Mr. B. died, aged seventy-six, in October, 1876. He was buried in the latter place. Mrs. Brockway is now living with her son Elisha, on the old Wilson place north of Stewart's corners. (Died December, 1891.) Though past eighty, she retains much of the vigor so characteristic of her father's family. Her reminiscences of the early days were especially interesting. She recalled the fourteen days' trip from the old home ; told, laughingly, of the stop- ping one night, when all washed in an old-fashioned sink, something, I should think, like a modern bath tub, containing several pails of water. " Come," said the energetic mother, "let's be washed," and, ranging from the babe at her breast, now Mrs. Harvey Mason, to the lively boys and gii'ls in their 'teens, all were soundly scrubbed. They brought with them an excellent cow, for, said the father : "I am not going into the wilderness without milk." " Didn't your mother dread such a journey ? " I asked. " Oh, yes ; it was a great undertaking, but she was so anxious to keep her family of boys together. She couldn't bear to think of her six boys being widely separated, and she thought a four hundred acre farm would keep them near her." " But," I say, " they did not stay after all." " Well, the most of them did," she replies. Continuing, she said: "Father brought a supply of provisions to last the first year, such as pork, flour, etc. He and the boys cut off the timber, enough to allow of planting corn the first season, and what big corn they did have among the stumps ! Then they sowed wheat right after, and they raised so much that father was able to sell a little. I remember a man coming to father and he sold two bushels. It was very high and was worth two dollars a bushel. I recall my sorrow at the man having to pay so much, and told mother how badly I felt over such a necessity. I guess the man was glad to get it, though. Yes, we had adventures with the wild beasts. We brought with us a big dog, a most valuable animal, for father said he wouldn't live in the woods without a dog. Well, he followed a deer one day until he tired him out, and luckily drove him near our home. Two of the boys ran out, and Daniel caught the deer around the neck, shouting to me to fetch a 80 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. knife. I ran for the big butcher's knife and the boys cut the creature's neck. We had venison for some days. At another time we got a supply of bear's meat through the treeing of Bruin near our home. After firing many shots at him, one reaching a vital part, brought him down. It was a bad place to be sick in, this home in the forest. "Why, we all had the measles — thirteen of us — not all at once, or we should have died, sure. Some one had to be well enough to gather hemlock boughs, from which we made almost our only medicine. In some way, we all pulled through, though father was never as well afterward as before. It left him with a very bad cough. Father was not a member of the church, but mother, who was reared with the Congregationalists, united with the Methodists under Eev. Wm. McKoon in his early ministrations. Of course she leaned toward the Presbyterians ; but there was more or less dissension in their first church in Huron, so she chose the Methodists. Father died in an apoplectic fit, when sixty-three years old, in 1830. He lies in the burial ground near where he built his first house. Mother lived to be nearly ninety years old, dying in 1858." Mrs. Brockway had three children. William and Prudence are both dead. As we have stated, she passed her declining years with her son, Elisha, whose wife was Elizabeth Odell of Junius. They have a boy, Willie, and two little girls. Mrs B. told me that she attended the first school taught in this part of the town. It was kept in Alpheus Harmon's barn and was presided over by Miriam Wolcott, daughter of Epaphras Wolcott, one of the pioneers. Parmer L.'s fourth daughter, Charlotte, married Gowan Eiggs of Huron, and is living still ; she has a son, Henry, and daughter, Hester Ann, who married Sanford Odell. Parmer's youngest child and fifth daughter, Julia, married Harvey Mason, and is yet living in the district. Returning now to the first settler and progenitor of all the Eose Love- joys, we shall find him, in time, leaving his first home by the creek and moving into a new one on the west side of the road, near where Widow Xancy Lovejoy now lives. Here he lived until advancing years prompted him to make his home with his son, William, nearly opposite. And here, as we have seen, he and his wife died. In person Mr. L. was erect and muscular, well fitted for life in a new country. He had a good repute for determination and for reliableness. Like all men of mark he had his peculiarities, and words of his were long repeated in the vicinity. Once when a party was in progress at his home he conceived a dislike for one of the guests, one O , from the regions south. Perhaps the hard cider jug had been too frequently passed, and to get rid of him he says to his wife: "Weigh him a piece of cake and let him go." The expression became proverbial. He had a notion that women loved to ride about too much, and he sometimes called them " gad-abouts." This doggerel is remem- bered of him: "Aunt Anna, Aunt Dolly and Old Widow Frolly have all ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 81 gone to Wolcott with Uncle Parmer's oxen." The first two "aunts" were his daughters-in-law, while "Widow Frolly " was the relict of Elnathan Munsell. He was the first of a numerous race, so numerous, in fact, that when parties were held in the neighborhood, it was customary to say in answer to the question, " Who were there? " " Oh! Mr. and Mrs. So and So and the thousand Love.joys." To get our bearings correctly, we must go back toward the east just a iew rods, and we shall find a small, weather-beaten house situated in a snug inclosure. Here, for many years, lived the Pattersons. The father came from near Newark, and was a carpet weaver. Though badly crip- pled, he managed to earn a living. His house %fas once burned, but the sympathetic neighbors rebuilt it. After his death his wife, Lucy, took up his work, and for a long time was the weaver of rag cari>ets that cover many a floor in the neighborhood. Always industrious, but never far be- yond the door of want, she passed away finally, in 1885, and, with her husband, is buried iu Xewark. Says a neighbor, "When the folks around here made donation visits to their ministers, 1 used to take a bushel of potatoes and other things to Mrs. Patterson." She left a son, George, who served in the army, but who now lives in Michigan, and a daughter, Celinda, who is a dressmaker. Since Mrs. P.'s death the house has been without an occupant, some of the neighbors renting the lot. Perhaps the first dweller here was the Widow Lampson, whose husband, a painter by trade, had died in Clyde. She had three children at least. A daughter married James Phillips, and the sons, Edward and Theodore, married Barbara and Phcebe Phillips, respectively. Thus these families were pretty well united. The Phillipses lived on the farm now held by Dorman Munsell. Polly Lampson died in 1849, aged fifty-four years. Oliver Bush dwells just beyond. Him we found living on the Dudley Wade farm iu District No. 7, but in '86 or '87 he made a trade with Sidney J. Hopping, who had occupied this place since 1872. Mr. Bush's wife before marriage was S. Mariette Stone. Their son, Leverrier, married Florence V. Humphrey, and resides in Syracuse ; Fletcher D. married Lottie Holleubeck, and is in Fair Haven, N. Y.; Lavello S. married Clara Jackson, and resides in Oneida. Mr. Hopping is a native of Elbridge, Onondaga Co., but is remotely of Rhode Island stock. His own father dying when he was two years old, his mother married a Kenyou and finally worked out to these parts. His wife was Jane Cook, of Butler, and his two children, Ada and Darwin, were born here. On coming to Rose he lived four years on the Joel N. Lee farm, north of Rose. This was in 1862. He afterwards went to Chicago, and thence to Sacramento, taking six years for this experience; but ill health drove him back, and in 1872 he bought this place of Alonzo Chaddock, who had held it only a short time, having purchased of Lucian Osgood, whose brief though happy occupancy was 7 82 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. cut short by the untimely death, in 1870, of his wife, who was Eudora M. Seelye. Osgood had bought of Henry Lovejoy, already met as the husband of Sarah Blaine and the son of William Lovejoy. He was the original owner and builder. We are now ready to make a regular peregrination of the district. The next abode toward the north, for here the roads deflect in that direction, is the present Henderson home. As heretofore noted, the house was built by William Lovejoy, and here he died in 1S6.5, aged sixty-seven years. His widow survived until 1878, when she passed away, very nearly eighty-five years old. Here he reared his children, and about him saw beautiful farms appear, where once was the primeval forest. After him, as proprietor, came his second son, James, who married Nancy Lake, of the same school district, and here James died in 1870, at the early age of forty-two. Thus, under the same roof, father, son and grandson passed into the mystery. James had a numerous family, as follows : Fanny, who married John Judge and lives in Wisconsin; Eliza, who became the wife of Isaac Jones and lives on the famous lime-kiln farm in the edge of Butler; Ella, who is Mrs. Seymour Henry, of Huron; Lewis, who married Emma, daughter of William Henry, of Huron; the next two, Augustus and Augusta, are twins. The son took for his wife Lucy, daughter of Halsey Smith, of the same district, and now lives on the first farm west of the lime kiln, on the most northerly road in the town, though his house is in Butler. Augusta married Henry Wellington, of Eindge, N. H., and resides in the old Granite State. Next came Thomas Henderson, son of Eustace and grandson of that sturdy early settler, Gideon. His wife was Georgie Waring, whom he married in Wolcott ; but it is not a little interesting to find that she is descended from the Lovejoys, her great grandmother, who early went to Illinois, having been one of that group of nine sisters whom our pioneer left in Massachusetts. Very aged, she some years ago made inquiries, through Mrs. H.'s mother, about that only brother who so long before had made his home in the wilderness. The inquiries prosecuted by Miss Waring, then a school teacher in the district, resulted in tracing the relationship. It seems very meet that some one of the Lovejoy race should continue to hold the old estate. The next place, across the road and a little further north, is the home of the widow of James Lovejoy. It is on the old Lovejoy purchase and makes a very pleasant home for Mrs. L. and for her aged mother, Mrs. Tupper, once Mrs. Ira Lake. From this place she can make visits, long or short, as she likes, to her children, whom we have found scattered from New Hampshire to Wisconsin. (Widow Sarah Jones has come back from Illinois, and holds the place. Her son, Alfred, married Nellie E. Lovejoy ; Charles, Eva and Frank are at home. Mrs. J. is a daughter of Richard Garratt^ Mrs. Lovejoy continues to live here much of the time.) EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 83 Proceeding northward, at our right, we shall find the home of Darius Lovejoy, whose father, Daniel, lived nearly opposite, and here his trade, that of a carpenter and joiner, enabled him to erect a comfortable home. His wife is Sally Sampson, a daughter of Gamaliel and Harriet Sampson, formerly of Butler. There are no children to be recorded in this narrative, though one epitaph in the cemetery tells of the loss of a child years ago. The Lovejoy characteristic of large families seems, in this generation, to be in abeyance. On the corner is a home long conspicuous in the neighborhood. Here, years ago, Daniel Lovejoy, son of Parmer, erected his house, and here brought his wife, Sophia Bassett. The usual transition from log to frame house was had ; the farmer living comfortably and finally dying in 1861, nearly sixty-nine years old. His wife survived him until 1867, when she, too, passed away, at the age of nearly sixty-four years. Of their children we have already accounted for the oldest, Darius. Besides, there were David, who married Parisade, daughter of Horace Peck, of the old Savan- nah family, and went to Michigan ; John, who married Jane Weeks, from New Hampshire, and lives in Glenmark ; Daniel married Jane Potter, of Eose, and lives in Cayuga county ; and Phcebe, the wife of Martin Darling. After the Lovejoys, the place was occupied for awhile by John Briggs, son of Jonathan Briggs, of North Rose. His wife was an Otto, [and after the death of her father they moved to the Otto farm, just over the Huron line, and the place passed into possession of Harvey Mason, of whom we have already heard as the husband of Julia, the youngest of the Lovejoy chil- dren. Mr. Mason's history is an entertaining one. Long past the four score years of the Psalmist, he says he is not conscious of any pains nor aches, though we are told that such years are to be labor and sorrow. He was born in Castleton, Eutland Co., Vermont. His father, Robert, was from Sheffield, Mass., whence he had migrated to the Green Mountain State, but like many other early New York settlers, he was dissatisfied, and so pushed on to the then west. His wife was Ruth Calender, both names being of most excellent reputation in the Bay State. Here, ;'. e., in Vermont, Harvey Mason was born, on the 18th of June, 1805. In 1814 the westward march was made, and Robert Mason first settled on the farm long known as the Carrier place, but now occupied by Isaac Cole. He built near here a log house. His companion in this western move was Jonathan Nichols, who lived for a while on the place now held by Halsey Smith. Afterward he lived on the farm known as the Chaddock place, now that of Wm. H. Cole. For a time the elder Masons made their home with Harvey, but they afterward went to Ohio, where their last days were passed with their daughters, Eveline and Delia. Besides Harvey there were children : Amos, who was drowned in Lake Erie, his wife, Susan Wilcox ; Robert, who died in Michigan ; Alvin, who died in Steuben county ; Eveline, who 84 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. married Levi Lewis, and Delia is unmarried. The latter two live in Cleveland, Ohio. Harvey Mason and wife began housekeeping or domestic life with Mrs. H.'s nephew, Daniel, on the corner, while Mr. M.'s farm lay further west upon the hill. Here, many years ago, he erected a commodious house, still standing; but he did not intend to occupy it at once. His wife, however, was anxious to have a home of her own, and wanted to move immediately. It was before the days of stoves and Mr. M. objected that there was no fireplace nor chimney. " I don't care," said the young woman, " I can cook against a stump." So said the veteran long afterward, "I thought if she was so eager as that for a home by her- self, I would fix up at once for moving in." And fix he did, making this their abode for many years, until 1871, when they moved to the corners. The children were three daughters : Laura, who married Dorman Munsell, 2d, and lives on what was the west end of her father's farm ; Almanda, who was the first wife of Winfield Chaddock ; and Lucy, who married Henry Gillett, and died in Michigan. Both of these daughters are buried in the Lovejoy burial ground, within sight of the window at which sits many an hour the aged mother, who, as she knits, no doubt recalls from the buried past many a pleasant memory of the loved ones to whom she must one day go. Mrs. Chaddock died in 1859, at the early age of twenty-six. Mrs. Gillett died in 1880, aged nearly forty-four. In early life Mr. Mason learned the house builder's trade and so could not only build his own home, but he was the framer and builder of very many edifices in the vicinity. As he is prone to state, "It was my trade that gave me a start." Possessed of a goodly share of this world's goods, and through an upright life having a lively hope of the life to come, he calmly awaits the inevitable summons. Both he and his wife have long been members of the Rose Methodist Church. (D. 1889.) In the battle of life Mrs. Mason has been no ineffi- cient ally of her husband. Many years since, he made a carpet weaving loom for her, and on it she has woven many thousand yards of carpet. During the War, in one year, she wove more than eleven hundred yards ; but the loom is among the "has-beens " — sold and gone ; but many a foot in this and adjacent towns are pressing a surface which is due to the nimble hands and feet of Mrs. Mason. (Mr. H. W. Clapper, who married Angi- nette Munsell, Mrs. Mason's granddaughter, now manages the farm.) Taking the road towards the east, a quarter of a mile along, we come to the cemetery frequently referred to. Just beyond are the large barus of the Toles farm, while across the way is the house. One of the first, if not the very first dweller here was Eli "Ward, who had married Polly Lovejoy. After him came Silas Lovejoy, Polly's oldest brother. He built a log house somewhere between the Toles house and that of his son, Norman. As near as I can learn, Silas L. had more experience in log house architecture than any man of his day. To begin with, he helped his father erect the very ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 85 first. Soon afterward, since the parent stock appeared to be very filling, be put up a structure for himself, quite near the original one. Then came a house on the road still further north, near a spring, and still marked by an orchai'd and some tansy. This third house was succeeded in time by the frame building, which preceded the house now in use. The old house is now Mr. Toles' carriage barn. It was in this vicinity and in these houses that his family grew up. Before leaving Massachusetts he had married Anna Xichols, a sister of Jonathan Nichols, the first man on the Halsey Smith farm. His oldest son, Xorman, was a babe of nine months when the long journey was made. To this first farm succeeded Nelson, who married Charity Morey, and for a while lived nearly opposite in the house now occupied by Eson Young, and whose present home is north of Wolcott. He has a son, Eson, and a daughter, Ellen ; William and Harmon died early ; Harriet wedded, first, Elijah Morey, and second, Watson Dowd, of Huron — thus becoming the mother of several well-known citizens of that town; Perliette married Ira Lamb of Xorth Rose, and moved to Michigan, where she reared a family of three daughters and one son, and there died many years ago. Maria married Albert Preston, of Huron, and died several years since in Minnesota, leaving one daughter ; Alvira became the wife of Wan-en Stone, of Victory, and died a number of years ago, leaving three daughters and a son ; Sophronia, the youngest, was the second wife of Winfield Chaddock, and is the mother of Winfield, second, and Edith, who married Ernest O. Seelye. With her children she has gone to Dakota. These children, nine in number, I have been told, heard their lullaby s while rocked in a sap trough. Highly decorated cribs and cradles could not be afforded then. Xo doubt childhood's sleej) was just as sweet as it would have been if robed in silk and cradled in down ; manifestly, it was more healthy. After disposing of his place to the Toleses, Mr. Lovejoy made his home near that of Mrs. Chaddock, west of the Lake school-house, and finally with her. His death came in 1S77, when he was eighty-six years old. His wife had died four years before, when she was in her eighty-first year. Ebenezer Toles, who succeeded Silas Lovejoy on this farm, was born in Otsego county, October 12th, 1805. His first wife was Polly Williams, whom he married in Auburn prison ; said to be the first couple ever wedded there. Mr. T. worked the overseer's farm and the latter was a great friend of the prison chaplain, hence the marriage as above. After bearing him four children, she died in 1838, at the age of thirty-three years, and lies in the North Rose cemetery. He next married in the same year Hannah Vincent, a native of Maine, born November 22d, 1804, who died in this house in 1879. When Mr. Toles came to the town he was first on the farm west of Carrier's corners, once held by C. C. Collins. Selling this, he moved to Wayne Center, but afterward came to this farm, where his earthly days ended in 1883. He and his second wife 86 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. sleep side by side in the adjacent burial ground. Mr. Toles was a member of the Rose Methodist Church ; his wife was a Presbyterian. The first wife's children were Matthew, who married Sarah A. Young, and lives now in Gratiot, Mich. ; Lucy, whom we met in District No. 5 as the wife of William Desmond ; Truman, who married Janette Baldwin. He died in Michigan in 1862, leaving a son, Truman ; Ebenezer, who was a member of the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, and who died in February last, at the age of fifty-one. He was widely known in the town as "Eb" Toles, having a more extended reputation, perhaps, than many men of greater wealth and worth. The second Mrs. Toles was the mother of Ezra, who died at the homestead in January last, at the age of forty-six ; Julia, who married Henry Jones, son of Erving, and died in 1887, at the age of forty- four years, leaving a son, Erving ; Orson, who now resides upon the estate. His wife is Lettie Hoyt, of Weedsport. Their children are three, viz. : Willie Y., Herbert H. and Orson. Mrs. Toles' brother, Adin, a wounded veteran of the Third New York Light Artillery, makes his home here. Mr. Toles has just erected a fine dry house, thus taking advantage of the march of improvement in farming. (Mr. Toles now lives in Wol- cott, and the farmer in charge is George Smith, reared in this district.) The next place east on the south side of the road, is the home of Bson Young, a son-in-law of Norman Lovejoy. Crossing the road, we are again on familiar ground, for here we once more meet a Lovejoy, this time Norman, the oldest son of Silas, the only representative of the third generation of Parmer's family when they took up the line of march west- ward. He grew to manhood in sight of his present home, and the evening of his life is passed on acres every foot of which he has been over again and again. He went down into the Lyman neighborhood to find his wife who was Lydia Morey, from Saratoga county, originally. Both she and the neighbors familiarly refer to Mr. L. as "Dad." I think he doesn't resent the name. As we have seen, one brother. Nelson, and a sister, Harriet, married in the same family. He has had three children. His oldest. Eleanor, (died in 1893), was the wife of Bson Young, a Butler man, who, on his farm of forty-eight acres, lives opposite, and has one son named after his grandfather, Norman ; Silas married Eliza Lake, and lives south of the four corners. The youngest child, Anna, died at the age of twenty-three, in 1860. These old people have a pleasant home, endeared by long years of occupancy. "That quince bush," says Mr. L., " is the most thrifty one in the town." I fully agreed that to beat it, the bush would have to bear several bushels of fruit. His life can show the usual progress from a log house to the comfortable frame structure of to-day. To no other one person is the writer more indebted for family information than to the veteran farmer, Norman Lovejoy. (Silas Lovejoy and family have lived here several years. His mother died January 23d, 1892.) Our ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 87 trip in this direction is over, for we now reach the farm of Eustace Henderson, whom we met in District No. 6. To reach our next range of lots north we can go by Mr. Henderson's, and turning to our left, pass the homes of John Salisbury and Isaac Jones. Then reaching the lime kiln, we take the west road, but it is not until we have passed the houses of Augustus Lovejoy and Chai-les Hurter that we reach once more the confines of District Xo. 9. If we are on foot we shall save much time when we leave Norman Lovejoy's by going across lots through his lane and pastui-e to the parallel road north. However, taking the road after passing Hurler's, we find a comfortable house, having a sightly outlook from its position on a hill. The laud hereabouts was first taken up by Caleb Drury. Of this particular portion, John Drury, of Huron, gives a very interesting history. He says the land was cleared by a Mr. Ferris, who, with his father and negro slaves, came from Virginia. To pay men for work done, orders were given on a store in Huron, managed by one Mudge. These accumulating, were traded by Mudge with a Williamson in Philadelphia for goods. Ferris was unable to redeem these orders, so the farm passed into W.'s possession, and from him John Drury, first, purchased. Then Mr. Drury sold to that omnivorous Sodus Canal Co. Afterward the place was bought by J. Gurnee, a Huron man, who built the house. Then came Henry Jones, son of John E., who lived here until 1885, when in April Kathan Knapp of Wolcott took possession. Mr. Knapp is a native of Columbia county, but has lived near Newark, and for several years in Wolcott, where he ran the foundry. His wife is Eliza Caton, from the city of Albany. They have only one sou, Fred, who manages the foundry in Wolcott. Going a few rods west we reach the home of Charles Buchanan, standing on the corner of the road leading up or down into Huron, on the west side of which, half a mile away, we should find the home of John Drury, a grandson of the first settler here. Caleb Drury, the first comer, was a native of Eden, Orleans county, Vermont. His wife was Jane Hudson. The first home was, as usual, a log house, under the hill, where an orchard and a well mark the old location. To these people was born a large family. The oldest son, Holloway, we shall meet further west ; John married Jane McFarland, of Vermont, and had six children. He went to Michigan in 1843, and there died. Elihu married Lovina, daughter of Alverson Wade, and after living a while near the Wade home, went west ; Anson married Sophia Munsell and lived in Wolcott ; Caroline, the oldest daughter, never moved to Rose, but married in Vermont, Solomon Wood, and went to Pennsylvania ; Sally and Nancy married Alvin and Wallace Buck, respectively, brothers, of Huron, and lioth migrated to Michigan. John, a son of John, now lives just north, as has been noted, on the Wolcott road. Caleb Drury, at the age of eighty, died in 184.3, and was buried in 88 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Huron. From the Drurys the place passed to Wolcott Blodgett, from Connecticut, who married Mary, daughter of Wooster Henderson, of Butler. He had three boys born here, but when they were small, the family went to Michigan. He sold to the Sodus Canal Co. Then for a time came one DeBow, from Canandaigua. His wife died here and he went back to Ontario county. To him succeeded David H. Town, son of Asa, of Dis- trict No. 5, and in 1857 we find it owned by Marvin D. Hart, who was born in Junius, Seneca county. His wife was Mary Jane Miner, of Butler, but born in Perry, Wyoming county. ]\[r. Hart made extensive repairs and additions, and as a leading member of the Eose Baptist Church, had a wide circle of friends in the vicinity. The writer recalls one festive occasion in the winter of 1865 and 1866, when a merry load of Rose and Butler young people made the welkin ring until a late hour. Then when we started away, and were going down the hill west of the bouse, the sleigh tongue fell down, and we were soon landed in the fence, luckily without broken bones. In the farm there are ninety acres, and with buildings in good condition, the place is particularly attractive. Mr. Hart left the farm about eighteen years ago, and after living in Marengo and Clyde, finally located on the Henry Eice place in the Valley, where he died, greatly respected and lamented, on the 21st of June last, aged fifty-eight. His children are Lycurgus S., who married widow Seaman, and lives in Wol- cott, and Alice M., who is at home with her mother. Mrs. Hart's father, Isaac Miner, long resident of Butler, also lives with her. He was born the 12th of April, 1792, in Stonington, Conn. ; he is probably now the oldest person in town. To the Harts succeeded the Buchanans, who came directly from Huron, but remotely from Rochester. The father, Joseph, died in Galen. His widow, who as a girl was Rebecca Vance, " from Pennsylvania, now occupies the old home. (Died February 13, 1890, in her eighty-first year.) Her oldest son, Charles, we have just passed at the corner of the road, where he has erected a house, in which, with his wife, Imogene Prescott, he is rearing his children, Robert and Hattie. Lclt us hope that this coming Robert may equal the reputation of that other and famous Robert Buchanan, whose verse has pleased so many. Mrs. B.'s second son, Robert, was a soldier in the 111th, and was killed before Petersburg, June 16th, 1864 ; Mary A. lives at home with her mother, while Louisa is Mrs. Landers, of Sodus. Down the hill, eighty rods away, on the south side of the road, is a small farm owned now by Charles Peck and George Wellington, son and son-in-law of Betsey (Kellogg) Peck, whom we first met in Butler. The last owner, before them, was David Wood, who, a native of Vermont, dropped dead some years since, when on his way to Clyde. I am told that the house was built for Silas Lovejoy, oldest son of Norman, and that he lived here until he went to reside on the Lake farm. Mrs. Peck, well EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 89 known to her friends as " Aunt Betsey," and her children have our best wishes in this new iindertaking. The red house, nearly opposite, and well back from the road, is the home of Daniel Lewis. He is a son of P. T. Lewis, who lives further west. Daniel L. married Mary, daughter of Dorman Munsell, and has three children — Lloyd B., Lena and Lester. The alliterative succession of L's will be noted. Whether, had there been more children, there could be found more names beginning with the favorite letter, I can't tell. Mr. Lewis' home is well known in the vicinity as the old " Holl " Drury farm, for here, during a long life, resided Holloway Drury, the oldest son of that Caleb whom we met half a mile back. He was twice married ; once in Vermont, and, second, here, to Prudence Aldrich, a sister of Peter, of Stewart's district. He died in 1877, at the extreme age of ninety-two, and was buried with the Lovejoys. He was, I believe, a member of the Methodist Church. Though for some years residing with the Lewis family, he died with his nephew, John. By his first wife, he was the father of Adaline, now more than seventy-four years old, who has been all her life a most singularly afflicted being. From her childhood, she has had no use whatever of her hands, they and her face having a form of St. Vitus' dance. Had she been taught to read in her childhood, her later years might have been more pleasant, but in spite of all adversities, she has done what seems almost impossible. Seated upon the floor, with her toes she cuts out blocks of cloth and sews them together, having thus made several bedquilts. She threads her own needle, using her toes only. In fine, whatever she does must be done with these members. She cuts out, very deftly, little heart-shaped pieces of papers, which, with the bedquilt blocks, she gives to visitors as mementoes ; no pun intended there. Her father's place passed into the hands of Mr. Lewis as compensation for the care of this life-long helpless person. We next encounter the small house belonging to H. Garlic. For some years this was the home of Alfred Graham, a good soldier of Company A, 2vinth Heavy Artillery, who died in 1874. His wife was Kate Eldred, of Eose. He was a nephew of Henry Graham of Rose, though reared in Huron. His father was Zachariah. A comrade of mine, I am glad to know that he was a good citizen as well as soldier. The place came into Graham's hands through his mother, who traded property in Huron with old Captain Sours. There were fifty- six acres in the farm. The house was probably built by a Wood, a relative of "Holl " Drury. H. M. Smith lived here for a while. Mr. Graham had one daughter, Ida, who married Millard Ward and died in Chicago. Crossing the railroad we find a very fine white house, where lives Philander T. Lewis, a native of the section of country near Rochester. Coming here many years ago, he married Anna, the only child of Daniel ^0 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. i I Tucker, the then owner. This farm was taken from the office by one John i White, who built a log house. Then came one Murray, who sold to the Sodus Canal Company, and then came Mr. Tucker, a native of Derby, I Connecticut. His wife was Anna Eyan, who, more than ninety-one years I of age, lives with the Lewises. (She has since died.) Mr. Tucker died j October 12th, 1876, and is buried in Huron, where lies also Mr. Eyan, Mrs. Tucker's father, who accompanied her to this town. It is in this ' house that Adaline Drury finds a home. Mr. Lewis has one daughter only — Anna B., the wife of Benjamin Dowd, formerly of Huron, now of i O.swego. (Mr. Lewis died August 15, 1890.) This east and west road that we have followed for a mile and -a half, ; ., terminates in one, north and south, and just opposite the end is the home '^'-^Vof Halsej M. Smith. This place was pre-empted by Jonathan Nichols, ■^■'-^ who erected the customary log house. The succession of owners is not /vU< clear, but I find the names of Eddy, Havens, Wm. Hallenbeck, who built the framed house. Early in the century Eobert Mason must have lived here, for in his own language Harvey M. says : "I have eaten no end of •: johnny-cake on that farm." It was johnny-cake eating and hard work that | enabled the first comers to pay for their farms. After the Hallenbecks '' came Andrew Pearsall, then Melvin Knights, from Saratoga county, and finally the present^wner, who is a sonjof Solomon _Smith, whom we shall meet further north. He married Maria Wilson, of Butler, and is the father of four daughters, viz.: Elva, wife of David Doolittle, of Huron ; Lucy, who married Augustus Lovejoy ; Cora and Egtta at home. (Cora is now Mrs. Harvey D. Munsell and Augustus Lovejoy works the farm.) iC/iiuii /~/ "a^ A few steps north is an old house belonging to the Tucker property, and 2 - "7(^^^ long used as a tenant house. Of such it would be too great a task to recall the occupants. There is one house, possibly twenty rods north, which lies or stands just on the line between Huron and Eose, and here I must remark that all the dwellers on the north side of this last Eose road have more belongings in Huron than in Eose. In fact, Mr. Knapp's farm lies in Butler as well as in the other two. If the line had followed the last line of lots in Eose, some of this trouble might have been saved. As it is, for several miles, these farmers are in two towns. This house, which stands on the line, was built by Solomon Smith, and he slept regularly in one town and ate in another. Mr. S. was born in Walliugford, Conn., and married in Wood- bury, Conn., Miss Sarah Eyan, a sister of Mrs. Daniel Tucker. The Eyans ] were from Southbury, New Haven Co. They came to Wayne county soon | after the opening of the Erie canal, and made their first stop at " 'Squire' Daniel Eoe's, in Butler, whose family they h.ad known in Connecticut. They soon came to this place, a farm of one hundred acres. Their children i •were William, who married Betsey, daughter of Jacob Wright, of Butler — \ EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 91 he died a member of a Connecticut regiment, at Hatteras, N. C, on Burn- side's expedition ; Harry, who married, first, Elizabeth Graham, and second, Maria Fowler, whose children are Ambrose, who married Cora, daughter of John H. Davis, of Clyde ; Sarah married Edwin McMullen; Helen married Edwin Gulett ; Clarissa and Eliza. Harry Smith was a member of Company H, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery. Solomon's third son was Halsey M.; then came Eliza and Frances, of whom the former was the wife of Albert Graham, of Clyde, the latter of Eichard Garratt ; the youngest was George, who married, first, Armene Lake, of Huron, and second, Ida Sedore. His only daughter, Georgie, is the wife of Ed. A. Bradburn, of Clyde. Solomon Smith, who died in 1875, aged 74, was in the War of 1812, in some capacity, and on this account his widow draws a pension. He must have been a very young soldier ; but no one begrudges the stipend which serves to soften some of the widow's rough lines in her -old age. She is eighty-nine years old, but quite well and vigorous, and retains her faculties remarkably. Her birthday is the same as that of her sister, Mrs. Tucker. Her home now is with her son, George, on the Eob- inson place, west of Carrier's corners. (D. 1889.) Retracing our steps, we pass Halsey Smith's, and there find the pleasant home of Richard Garratt. I think some of his old friends call him '-Dick." Mr. G. comes of that Long Island family that we found in District No. 5. He was himself born in Westchester county, and in early life, in spite of home protests, followed the sea, but when, in 1838, his folks came to this town, he came too, and some readers will remember him as the unfor- tunate victim of the accident at the " horning " given to the newly married Willard and Betsey Peck. In 1846 he married Frances Smith, and for many years has lived where we now find him. He built the house and the barns, and the tidy appearance of everything is owing to his watchful eye and diligent hands. He tells me that his west line marks the western boundry of the original Lovejoy purchase. His daughter, Sarah, married Frank Jones, and lives in Aurora, 111., while Mary was the wife of Michael A. Fisher, of Clyde. Mr. Garratt .showed his devotion to his country by enlisting in Company H of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, at an age when most men thought duty called them to stay at home. Continuing to Harvey Mason's home at the Four Corners, we turn west and go toward the school-house. Before we ascend the next hill, there are traces at our right of a house, where, in the years long past, dwelt Charles Lake and family. The Lakes were from Rindge, N. H., and Charles had married Betsey Murray, a member of the family that we found in the early days on the now Alonzo Chaddock place. Mr. Lake was a carpenter and joiner, and presumably there are yet standing specimens hereabouts of his handiwork. The children in this home are Miranda, Murray and Byron. The sons went to Michigan, while the daughter mar- 92 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. ried Win. Ray, and lives in Pittsford, Monroe Co. With her the mother died, while the father ended his days in Michigan. (Geo. Byron Lake died in Northville, Mich., June 12, 1891, in his 58th year.) The next house was for many years the residence of Ira Lake, from whom the school district takes its name. He was born in Weathersfield, Vt., in 1797, May 29th, and married Adaline Wellington, of Rindge, N. H. She was born in 1806, and is yet living, though now she bears the name of Tapper, having married a second time. Although obliged to use a crutch in getting about, on account of a fall, she yields very little to the infirmities of age, and passes her time in Rose with her daughters, in Oswego with her son, or makes visits to her old home in the Granite State. (Since died.) They came to Rose in 1831, and here reared their family. The oldest son, Henry, married Rosanna T. Deming, of Xewark, and now resides in Oswego ; Nancy became Mrs. James Lovejoy ; Eliza married Silas Love- joy; Wellington, who married Emma Potter, of Rose, was a member of the 111th jSr. Y., and was killed at the Wilderness, May 6, 1861, aged twenty-eight, and a flag upon his grave in the Lovejoy cemetery proclaims his patriotism ; the youngest son, Hermon, married Anna Houston, and lives in ^Si^orthville, Michigan. During the War Ira Lake went to the south, expecting to secure employment as a carpenter, but illness drove him home, where he died February 5, 1861, aged sixty-six years, eight months and six days. The house is now the home of Silas Lovejoy, born and bred in the district. A citizen of worth and repute, he keeps in excellent condition the acres so long tilled by his wife's father. Here are three daughters — Anna, Florence and Nellie. (Anna is now Mrs. Alfred G. Jones ; Anna, Mrs. David W. Harper ; Florence, Mrs. Xelson Graham. The farm is owned by Augustus Lovejoy.) Opposite is the school-house, whose frame has seen more than fifty years of existence. The covering has been renewed, but the skeleton goes back to the earliest days of many a middle-aged i-esident of the district. Passing on again we behold the quiet farm house. It is just west of the school house and on the same side of the road. It is on the Harvey Mason farm. It was built by him when he and his wife were young, and here they passed the long years — short in the retrospect — of their married life. After the the Masons moved to the corners, the place has been occupied by a succes- sion of tenants. Before reaching the old Chaddock place, on the north side of the road, we must go down a hill, at whose foot, on the south side of the road, is a large sulphur spring. I know of no other in the town. A little judicious care would make the place worthy of resort. As it is, many people have carried away barrels of its waters on account of its medicinal qualities. The water is not so heavily impregnated as at Clifton, but unless one is fond of venerable eggs, the water contains sulphur enough. Passing along. KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 93 a pleasant valley and then climbing again, we shall stand where industry has for many years been the prevailing characteristic of man and woman. It is now the home of William H. Cole; but we must go back many a weary year to find the earliest occupant, William Chaddock. He was a Massa- chusetts man, born in 1786, probably in the town of Rutland. He married there Dorothy Brown, and there they began their life journey. Afterward they moved to Cayuga county in this state, and there some of their chil- dren were born. Coming to this town Mr. C. located on lot 136, which I find earliest assigned to Robert Mason, father of Harvey, but I suppose he must have given it up. The first log house was put up in the orchard, or where the orchard is now. This was burned, and then a second one was erected nearer the road, and also near the present framed structure, which came in due time. The story goes that one of these houses, by mistake, was erected over a boundary line, so that a neighbor could claim it. The neighbor forbade his moving it, and proceeded to take legal measures for holding it. But when he came with his process, he was too late, for Mr. C. had gathered his neighbors and, in the night, had moved all the house and a part of the cellar. There was nothing left for him to attach. The most of Mr. Chaddock 's Rose life, however, was passed in the primitive log habitation. He died in 1854, October 27th, in his sixty-ninth year — not as old as men and women live to-day. It is noteworthy that the most of the very first comers did not live so long as their children have. They did not become acclimatized, or the excessive labor incident to break- ing up a new country broke them down. Chills and fever was a complaint which all suffered from and from which some never fully recovered. Mr. C. was a lifelong member of the Baptist Church, and always maintained the respect of his neighbors. It is said that be had to pay for his farm twice, through some rascality. His widow survived him until our centen- nial year, when she died at the age of 81. As was usual in the olden times, Mr. Chaddock's family was a good-sized one. His oldest son, William, was born in Massachusetts, but accompanying the family to this state, married Miss Lydia Bigelow, of Brockport. Her father was both Baptist clergyman and surveyor, and in the latter capacity surveyed the site of Rochester. The second son, Watson, married Maria Drown, and lives in Huron ; Alonzo we have met as a resident of the Stewart district ; Winfield we shall return to presently as his father's successor on the farm; Wesley married a Thomas, and lives in Huron. Why a staunch Baptist should name his boy after the founder of the Methodists is more than I can devise. There were daughters, too, viz.: Lydia, who became Mrs. Normad Seymour, of Huron ; Mary, wife of Clark Eldred, of North Rose; Caroline, who married successively Francis and John DeLong, of Huron, and Elsie, the wife of Newton Lee, of Cleveland, Ohio. (Mrs. DeLong died July 30, 1893.) Winfield, his father's successor, was twice married. His first 94 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. wife was Almanda, daughter of Harvey Mason, who died in 1859, at the- age of nearly twenty-seven. They had one daughter, Lucetta, the wife of Wm. H. Cole, who now occupies the old homestead. His second wife was Sophronia, youngest child of Silas Lovejoy, and thereby own cousin to Almanda, the first wife. She is the mother of two children— Edith, wife of Ernest O. Seelye, of Dakota, and Winfield, born after his father's untimely death. Winfield Chaddock was one of the town's most substantial and respected citizens. Stalwart in form, he was just as erect in character, and when sudden illness carried him off, in 1873, he left a large void in the Baptist Church, and the neighborhood. His widow managed the farm herself until June, 1883, when she followed her daughter to Dakota. Now in Okobojo, Sully Co., she is with her son, Winfield, waiting for the country to grow up. William H. Cole, having married the older daughter, Lucetta, purchased the farm on Mrs. C.'s departure, and now manages matters in the home of his wife's ancestors. He is himself a son of Isaac Cole, who lives on the old Carrier place, further west. He is a native of Saratoga county, but has lived many years in Galen. Like all the dwellers on this farm, he is a member of the Rose Baptist Church. Just what the peculiarities of the hill lot are, that they should make Bap- tists of all dwellers, even of those of Methodist antecedents, I can't imagine; for, lo! there is not much water near. One son, Charles S., is growing up, no doubt, to maintain the Baptist traditions of the place. (Mr. Cole evaporates apples extensively, and, with Louis S. Town, is interested in large peach orchards in Georgia.) Across the road is the pleasant home of Dorman Munsell. As we have noted, he is the second to bear the name — a son of that Dorman who moved from ancient Windsor of Connecticut. The farm itself was the early home of Faine Phillips, who, a half-brother of Mrs. Chaddock and Mrs. Norton, came here from Massachusetts, and here his life was passed. The log habitation was near the present house, possibly a little further west. For his wife he married widow Wood, whom the neighbors called "Aunt Peggy." She had several children by her fir.st marriage, and to one of these, Abner, the farm passed on the death of the old people. I have been told that they are buried in the Briggs or Bishop cemetery. If so, they have no memorial to mark their graves. Abner Wood married Mary Ann Barnum, daughter of Roger, whom we encountered on the western confines of District No. 6. Like all the others hereabouts, he went west. After several short ownerships, the farm was bought by Harvey Mason, who passed it along to its present proprietor. Paine Phillips had several children by his marriage with widow Wood, and three of these we have already met as the consorts of three of widow Lampson's children. She was herself a sister of Roger Barnum' s wife. Dorman Munsell married Laura Ann Mason, and has a family as follows : ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 95 Josephine ; Emogene, who married Byron Brayton, and lives in Hubbard- ston, Michigan ; Anginette is the wife of Henry Ward Clapper, and lives with the Masons on the corners ; Elnora married Daniel Lewis, and we have seen them on the old " Holl" Drury farm ; the only son, Harvey D., and the youngest daughter, Lizzie A., are at home. In common with nearly all the denizens of this town, Mr. Munsell has had the Michigan fever, and in the Badger State lived for some years ; but he appears to have survived the attack, and now lives comfortably in the neat house of his own construction, for he is a good cai-penter and joiner. ( Mr. M. is now in Clyde, and his sou, Harvey, manages the farm. ) Going down the hill and across the railroad, we find an orchard on the north side of the road. This marks the site of a former home. There is a shanty standing now, but once a log house held the family of Daniel Norton. The mother was Mary Brown, a sister of the first Mrs. Chaddock. There were sons — Joseph, Elijah and Darwin— and daughters — Emeline and Mary. Mr. Norton, after selling to Zadoc Taylor, moved to Lima, Livingston county. He must have been one of the very first owners of the farm. Eli Garlic may have been there before him. It now belongs to the family of Zadoc P. Taylor. Further west and on the corners, southeast side, is the home of Isaac Cole ; but it was long the home of the Carrier family, and the cross roads are still known as Carrier's corners. The first holder of this farm was Eobert Mason, whom we have frequently seen in these parts. A widow Babcock, former wife of Stephen, was the party, who, fifty or more years ago, sold to Amaziah Carrier, and went to the west. When the Babcocks took the place, the father was living. There were five children — Betsey, Jane, Stephen, Willard and Caleb. Mr. Carrier was born in Conquest, Cayuga county, but of Massachusetts stock. His wife was Lois Jane Bottum, born in Conquest also. She was a sister of the late Dr. Bottum of Lyons, but who, years ago, practiced in this and adjacent towns. The name was originally Longbotham, and as such is still a common one on Long Island. Mrs. Carrier's immediate family came from Schoharie county. The wedded life of the Carriers began in Conquest. From there they went to Huron and thence to Rose, where we find them. No people in this town ever enjoyed more thorough respect from their neighbors. Members of the Methodist Church, they gave a permanent respectability to the place of their dwelling. Though only their youngest two children were born here, yet the others were small when the family came, so here all were reared. Their oldest son, W . Seward, was a young man of much promise, who, after several years' study in Fulton, had begun the reading of law ; but the war of the Rebellion found him ready to sacrifice all personal ends for the good of his country. He became a member of the 10th Veteran Cavalry, and as such died in Baltimore in 1862 — one of the first whose ■96 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. body was brought back from the seat of war to his old home to sleep its last sleep. With his kindred he rests in the Lovejoy burial ground. Mary died in 1859, at the age of nineteen years ; Elbert E., after taking a diploma in medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., began the practice of his pro- fession near Syracuse, but died soon afterward, viz., in 1870, aged twenty- eight years ; Ella J. married George Aldrich of JS^orth Eose, where they live, having one son, John C; Lillie Estelle married Burton Partridge from Chautauqua county, and now lives in Wolcott. He is a Methodist clergyman of the Genesee Conference, though not now in the active minis- try. Amaziah Carrier himself, after a useful life, died in 1872, at the age of sixty-two. His widow now makes her home in Wolcott. From the Carriers the place passed to David Waldroff of Galen, who sold in a few years to George Fry, from whom it soon passed to its present proprietor. Mr. Cole is a native of Galloway, Saratoga county ; his wife is Juliette Northrop. His home for some years before moving tb Rose was in Galen. His older son, Wm. H., we have met on the old Chaddock place ; Sidney is at home ; the only daughter, Harriet, is the wife of John Gillett of Clyde. Mr. Cole is a prominent member of the Free Methodist Church. Diagonally across the way is the home of the Taylors, but it was here, in the years ago, that the youthful Robinsons sported. Henry Robinson, the first of his family here, was born in Eniskillen, Ireland, in 1797. His ancestors had migrated from Scotland to Erin in Oliver Cromwell's days, and to the last he was a stout champion of Orangeism and all that the name implies. The mother, Elizabeth, was born in the same place, though of English antecedents, in 1799. Together they sought a home in this western world, and first located in Phelps, Ontario county. After coming to Rose, his first work was done for Gen. Adamg,, on the famous Sodus canal, and on the general's Clyde farm. His trade was that of a stone mason, and a more thorough master of his art never handled a trowel. Many a foundation securely laid and walls compactly Ituilt, attest the reliableness of his work. I would defy anyone to find a specimen of Henry Robinson's work that, through any fault of his, was or is imperfect. If devotion to the Orangemen's principles begets such probity and upright- ness, let us pray for an increase of the tribe. An exemplary member of the Methodist Church, he finished his course in 1874 ; his wife in 1875, and both are found in the Rose cemetery. On taking this farm, there was standing on the corner a log house, and in this for several years the family lived. Then they sold to Wm. Underhill from Tyre, and bought of Wm. €haddock the next place west. Later, in the fifties, he bought of Wm. Havens six acres of land across the road, and having moved the Chaddock house over the way, there he and his wife lived until their deaths, as stated above. The children of these good people were numerous, and some of them are well known in their respective communities. The oldest, James, ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 97 iiiariied a Johnson of Phelps, and resides near Newark ; the second son is the Hon. Thomas Eobinson of Clyde. A lawyer of eminence, he has represented his senatorial district at Albany. Always of scholarly char- acteristics, he taught and worked until he secured a good education. With trowel in hand, he has borne no mean part by his father's side. As a teacher, he is remembered most vividly in Eose, Butler and other towns, where his school was always the best. As county commissioner of public schools, he won additional honors, and as lawyer and senator, he has still further enhanced the luster of the name, always of good repute. His wife is a daughter of Rev. R. N. Barber, whom he wed in 1863. His pleasant homo is in the western part of the village of Clyde, the site of Gen. Adams' old residence — a striking illustration of the vicissitudes of fortune in this land. The elder Robinson dug in "Adams' ditch," the younger owns Adams' old home. Who will dare to say that the poor man has no chance in America ! To-day one man drives, another rides. The next generation just reverses the order. The third son, William H., married Lena Hall of Morrisville, Madison county. He died September 30, 1872, and is buried with his parents in Rose. John W. Robinson, as did all his brothers, worked more or less with his father, but he desired an education, and was for a time a schoolmate of the writer at Falley Seminary in Fulton. Teaching and working, he secured an education, fitting him for the place he now holds at the head of the Wolcott union school. His wife, whom he married in Manchester, Michigan, divides with him the honors of the successful management of the school. ( Mr. R. is now at the head of the Newark, N. Y., high school.) Another son, Irving J., died in 1875, at the age of twenty-eight years. The eldest daughter, Catharine, was graduated from the Albany State Normal School in the second class fitted there. She died in 18-19, at the age of twenty-two. Eliza A. died in 1875, at the age of forty, while Jane, who makes her home with Thomas, is a teacher in Macedon. The family, from the begin- ning, took an active interest in education. First and last, five of the children were teachers. Three of them taught in the home or Lake dis- trict. The only regret, as we end the chapter, is that those in the cemetery are the only ones of this family who remain in the town. It is possible that the first settler here was Orrin Morris. He had children — Hiram and Lucinda. All went to Wisconsin. Zadoc P. Taylor, who succeeded the Underhills, found the log house still there. He built the frame house and the blacksmith shop on the corner, where he long worked at his trade. His wife was Aldula Allen, oldest daughter of Solomon Allen of the Stewart district. Both husband and wife were natives of Vermont, whei-e the former was born in Pawlet, in 1800. He died in 1881. To them were born three children — Geliza, who now (a Reed) lives in Savannah ; Uuth, who, with her mother, holds the 8 98 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. old place; and Allen, who, having married Elizabeth Lund, lives on the Clyde road. Ruth has been for many years a teacher, having had excep- tional early advantages at Oberlin College in Ohio. She has recently married William L. Brown of Orleans county. The Taylors also bought the Robinson place north of the road, and there Allen T. built the house now standing. (Mrs. T. has since died, and to the Browns has come a daughter, Aldula.) To the next place opposite, we have already had an introduction as the home of the Robinsons, from whom it passed to George Smith, the present owner, and him and his we met when visiting the family of Solomon Smith. William Havens, who once lived here and in other places in the district, came from Cato. He had two sons and several daughters. One of these married Elias Wood, who taught the first school in the district. He after- ward became a Baptist minister. A man by the name of Mandigo also lived here. He moved over to the Roger Barnum place in District Xo. 6, and there died. After crossing the road again, we find the site of the house which Wm. Chaddock, 2d, built many years since, though it succeeded a log house which he constructed after leaving the paternal farm. He had here twenty acres, and these he held until he bought and built opposite the Grahams, further west. Subsequently he bought and managed the grist mill in Glenmark. After selling that he moved to the Valley, and there died, in 1883. His widow, whom we have met as Lydia Bigelow, lives in the Valley home with her daughter, Mrs. Cephas Bishop. His children are Sarah, mentioned above as Mrs. Bishop ; Jared, who married Miriam Durfee of Marion, and lives on the Samuel Garlic place, west of the village. (Now in the Valley.) He was a member of the 67th N. Y. during the War. Judson has been twice married, first to Addie Hoyt of Weedsport, a cousin of Mrs. Orson Toles, and second to Katie Cuyler of Cato, another cousin of Mrs. T. His home also is west of the Valley. The youngest, Rosalie, is at home with her mother and sister. William Chaddock was a reputable, reliable citizen, and it goes without saying that he and his were or are all Baptists. From Mr. Chaddock the farm passed, first to Henry Robinson, and finally to the Taylors, who now own it. Only a short distance beyond is the house built years ago by Ebenezer Toles, who, when he took the place, found there a log house, built likely by Joel Mudge. Of the former I wrote in connection with the Orson Toles farm. Mr. Toles sold to Josias Vincent, who now lives in Clyde. After Vincent came Columbus C. Collins, whom we have met repeatedly in Dis- trict No. 7 and elsewhere. Collins was a dry joker at times, and to the writer's brother he once said, standing in his porch : "You see, we have Biblical surroundings. Over there is Shadrack ( Chaddock), yonder is a mere shack (pointing to a log house), and here — well, here to bed we go." KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 9^ Since Collins' clay there have been many possessors, as Ambrose Cope- man, who died there. He was a son-in-law of J. Baker, who lives further west. Thomas Eobinson came next, then John Barrick, Alonzo Streeter and Eobert Jeffers, from whom it passed to John York of North Eose, who still holds it. Our course is ended in this direction, and we must come back to the corners. Here we shall journey to the north through a valley with a stretch of woods at our left. The road is between the old lots 134 on the west, and 135 to the east. We shall go just into Huron, where the road divides lots 114 and 115 ; i. e., the lower part of these lots is in the town of Eose, the greater part in Huron. After climbing the hill, we find at our right evidence of industry and thrift in the pleasant home of Edmund G. Smith. The earliest trace of ownership that I can find is that of Dar- win Norton, who probably took the place from;the land office. Norton has been met as a member of the family west of the first William Chaddock. His wife was a Lovejoy. Then came Alonzo Chaddock, during whose ownershij) the framed house was built, and with him his brother-in-law, Frank De Long, died. He sold to S. Garlic, and he to Deacon Guthrie. The latter's daughter, Louisa, is the wife of Chas. Deady of District No. 5. Then came Mr. Smith, the present owner. He was born in Notting- hamshire, England, and came to this country in 1850. For some years he traveled with circuses and menageries, among others that of Van Amburg, where I suppose he repeatedly " saw the elephant go round."' It was in 1871 that he came to this place, where he keeps things in apple-pie order. No circus around him now. His wife was Elizabeth Livermore, a widow whose maiden name was Parker. Having no children, they give a home to their niece, Eliza, a daughter of Mr. Smith's brother, who died in England. (Married, Sept., '93, to Samuel V. King.) There is yet one place before we reach Huron. We shall find it a few rods beyond E. G. Smith's, on the west side. There are many years separating us from Orrin Morris, who, I have learned, after selling on the corners, came up here, pre-empted twenty-five acres of land and built his log house, which he sold to the widow of Paine Phillips. Then came names as Hurlburt, C. C. Collins, who joined the farm to his. Turner, then Brunney, an Englishman, whose foster son, James, of the 3d N. Y. Artillery, lies in the Lovejoy burial ground. To Brunney, who went to Michigan, succeeded John Eichardson, a native of Queens county, Ireland. He married, long since, Diana Plunket, as good a name as Erin ever pro- duced. They have four sons — John William, Irving, Frank and George — and one daughter, Sarah Jane. At the age of seventy-three, for he was born August 6, 1815, he tills his glebe, and waits the aid that government should give him for injuries sustained in the War. Already passed the age of military duty, he was a soldier in the 3d Light Artillery. ]00 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. ression attracts attention, and I find that thence rock was taken years , .since liy John Gillett for his adjacent lime kiln, and by the consequent income was he enabled to pay for his farm. ( Marcus Baker, a nephew of Julius, is in chai-ge now, 1893. He married Mary D. CTcnung, and their children are William G., Maud M., Benjamin and a boy baby.) Still further south and on the same side of the road is a small house marking the site of the early Crydenwise property. It is probable that the family came from Saratoga county, where Issac Crydenwise was married to Eleanor, daughter of John Covey, who took up the old Mirick place on the Clyde road, now the property of F. H. Closs. Mr. Ci-ydenwise was of Dutch extraction ; his wife of New England stock. They early moved to Ceneseo, where their children were born, and whence the husband enlisted as a soldier for the War of 1812. He, however, sickened and came home to die. The children were : Isaac, Jr., who married Sophia Thomas, and died in 1831, in his thirty-first year. He was buried in the Rose cemetery. His widow became the wife of Dr. J. J. Dickson. The other children were daughters, the oldest, Polly, who married Davis Hand, and finally died in Oakland county, Michigan ; Clarissa became the wife of Heman Foster, and died in Indiana ; Abigail married Aaron Foster, and died in Illinois ; Rachel was Mrs. John Fink, and died in Iowa, while Olive, sole survivor, became the wife of John Sherman in 1827, and lives in Joppa, Calhoun county, Michigan. Widow Crydenwise, first, married for her second hus- band Abraham Marsten, also of Saratoga county, and to them was born a son, Abraham, Jr. Mrs. Amos Dorris was a niece of Mrs. Marsten. This place was held by Dr. Dickson for many years, and from him or his heirs it passed to Avery Gillett. Near the John Gillett lime kiln Jos. Boynton, Sr. , built a log house in 1833. He sold to Eli Garlick, who was a black- smith, and had a small shop near, where work for'the neighbors was done. Through Elder, Marsten, Miner, etc., the place passed to A. Gillett. The end of this district is reached. In area it is one of the largest in the town, but like the other outlying ones, it does not have the school population of years ago. Readers have noticed how the dwellers here, as elsewhere in town, having gone to school together, there made acquaint- 102 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES ances that subsequently ripened into matrimony. Emigration has taken its — I am almost disposed to say — victims to the west, whence, I have no doubt, longing eyes have often been turned to the Lovejoy neighborhood. SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 3, OR THE LYMAN DISTRICT. January 24— April 11, 1889. In our rambles about Rose this is the first school district that we have reached lying entirely in the town, all the others having bordered on •adjacent towns. To the dwellers near the location of the district no .description is needed, but for those living remote, it may be stated that it lie.< south of the old Lamb's corners, now North Rose section, west of Stewart's corners, north of the Valley and east of the Co veil district. To €nt«r it, we may as well go north from Ensign "Wade's, past the old home of Ellis Ellinwood, that of Theodore McWharf, and our first halt will be at the house of the William Welch estate. Like many places in the neighborhood, it has seen many changes. In fact, in the district there are only four estates or parts of original i)urchases that remain in the families ■of the first proprietors. This section was taken up by Asahel Gillett, Sr., and Samuel Hand, from whom it passed in turn to Samuel Southwick, Ira and Hiram Mirick and Thomas Barabo rough. An early name associated with this place is that of Alonzo Mace, and it is a name only. Ralph Fuller owned it for a while. The land attached was at first scarcely more than a garden spot. Then came Moses Carr as owner, though he lived in the next house north. Thomas J. Graves, a preacher, was an occupant for several years, then August Hetta, Thomas Cullen, and finally the Welches. During the holding of Moses Carr a division of land was made by him and his brother, Lyman, &o that the house had twenty-eight acres connected with it, and this is the amount now held, though the family has forty acres north of the next east and west road. William Welch was of Irish birth, and after many years of industrious living died, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Clyde. His wife, Mary, survives him and is still on the farm. (Died July 15, 1892, aged 63 years.) There are several children, as Helen, Mary Ann, Katie, Edward, William, deceased, Thomas and Joseph. The latter two maintain a hardware store in North Rose, and one of them is P. M., which is, after the language of the lamented Nasby, postmaster. The farm seems to be well managed and industry is everywhere evident. (Now occupied by Will Shear and family.) In the next house dwell Isaac Osborne and family. He is a posthumous child of that Isaac who was long since killed by a lightning stroke. His wife is Mary Burkle, a daughter of the man once living on the corner farm now owned by her husband. Their children are three girls and two boys. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 103 Though he lives here his farm is further north, and just at present we are concerned with owners of this place. The place stands now in the name of Wm. Curtis, of Marion, who in some way traded with the late possessor, Philip Fry. Fry moved away three years since, and now resides near Newark. His wife is Catharine Cornell, and they have quite a family of children, as Amy, George, William, Daniel and Belle. They came here from the vicinity of Lyons, and Mr. F. is a brother of the George Fry who owned for a short time the old Carrier farm. Before the name of Fry, I find those of YanAlstyne and James Vanderburgh, who bought of Moses Carr. The latter was from Onondaga county, and went from Eose to Michigan, whence, I understand, he went into the army during the Rebellion. I believe he built the house. His predecessor was Thomas Bambo rough, who came to Rose from Lyons and went from this town to Michigan. He had married Widow Gee, and his farm numbered about one hundred acres. Back of Baniborough is chaos, though it is possible that the Mirick l)elongings covered this estate. Over the way in the days agone was a log house in which dwelt Lyman Carr, brother of Moses. The two brothers divided the Bamborough prop- erty, but finally this Carr formed part of the train westward. Nearly west of this i)lace may be noticed an old apple orchard. The east and west road once ran near it, coming out near the old Ellis Ellinwood home. Here were a log house and barn built by Samuel Hand. He was the father of John Skidmore's first wife. After Hand was James Gordon, a son-in-law of Jonathan Melvin, then John McWharf, Samuel Smith, a relative of the Miricks, and in 1834, Thomas Bamborough. Later came many tenants, till its disappearance in 1845. To the east of the corners is the old Oakes place, but this was described in the account of the Stewart district. It is the only one belonging to the Lyman neighborhood lying east of the terminus of the north and south roahim I did, very well. 'Why,' said he, 'you'd spin two runs before ten o'clock, then go home and get dinner and be back again before one o'clock and spin two more. How you did make things fly.' Oh, I could spin and wash and keep busy. Old Mrs. Mirick, just after we came up here, invited me and my sisters to a party, and we were the only ones in our neighborhood who had an invite. I tell ye, it just sot us way up." Mrs. L.'s conversation gave me a vivid picture of times more than fifty years away. How many boys of today have sisters who would give eight days' hard work to pay for making said boy's coatf I await an answer. Once more crossing the highway, we may enter the home of Michael McDorman. The latter, though of Irish birth, came hither nine years ago from Canada, and, having purchased a few acres of land, has erected a cosy house near an excellent barn, everything indicating the utmost thrift. His wife is Dillene Quertershan, a lady of the Canadian French. They have a promising family, consisting of Michael, Carrie, John and Edward. Exemplary members of the Eose Methodist Church, they enjoy the highest respect of their neighbors. Visions of school ma'ams and of pedagogic sway dance before ns as we approach the next building, for it is the school-house : the place where the young ideas of the district are taught to shoot, and the edifice itself is highly creditable to those who built it. Painted white, with green blinds, it is no " ragged beggar by the roadside sunning." It is the second build- ing on the site, erected in 1879, though the first school-house in the dis- trict was made of logs and stood to the westward over the hill, where Mr. Shear's tenant house now stands. There were two framed buildings there also. The first school-house was burned. I am wondering whether the youth of this neighborhood should be called "hard students" that they ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 111^ maDaged thus to use up five buiUlingjs. From the district school many a, boy aud ^irl went to the seminaries in other places, thus securing advan- tages that were denied to the fathers and mothers. The present location is singularly near the exact centre of the district. The next move takes us to the four corners, where we may see, facing the setting sun, what was, when erected, the very finest house in Rose. Now the property of Peter Shear, it was built by John Gloss before 1S2S. Though we have the record complete of this farm for more than sixty j"ears, the very earliest history is a little nebulous. If, as I have seen it stated, Oliver Whitmore was located just south of Joel Bishop, then he must have held this place once. Before him may have been a Mr. Belden. " 'Scpiire " Whitmore's son, Seth, was a surveyor, and to him is due the angle in the road near the Lyman farm. Possibly Mr. Gloss may have purchased his betterments. John Gloss, the progenitor of the Rose family of that name, was of New Jersey birth, very likely of remote Dutch origin, and his name must have passed through an interesting transition, perhaps from Klaus to its present English form. His parents had moved to the vicinity of Lyons, whence our subject moved to Rose. Before coming here, he had held contracts in constructing the Erie canal. However the farm had been held before Gloss' coming, his payments were made to the Rose and Nicholas purchase. The place lay on all four corners, and was unexcelled in convenience and fertility. At his coming, in 1S25, he dwelt in a log house jusP below the southeast angle of the cross roads. But Mr. Gloss had the means and the disposition to rear for his family a more seemly habitation, and the present structure was the result of his building, though much of the material had to be brought from Jack's Rifts. Perhai)S the family moved in in 1827. At any rate, the youngest children, twins, were born here in 1828. The good wife was Hannah Hamel, a native of Verona, Oneida Go. Their children were Harvey, about whom there will be more anon; George, who died in 1848 ; Lorenzo, who manned, in Ohio, a Miss Taylor. He afterward held an appointment in a government office in Washington, and from Georgetown Gollege his two sons, Ghaiies and Prank, were graduated. He now lives in New York City. The fourth son, Galeb Hamel, known familiarly in Rose as "Ham," we shall meet later. There were only three girls in the family, and of these two were twins. The elder sister, Eveline Adelia, died in 1848. The twin sisters, Juliette and Anjenette, were born in 1828, and, if reports be true, they were the light of the household in that, to those rural regions, palatial homi?. I have heard my mother say, when passing this house, "How many pleas- ant hours I have passed there with the twins." Juliette became the wife of Willis G. Wade, son of John, the pioneer, but died in 18.59. Near her, in the cemetery, lie her husband and infant son. Anjenette died in 185.3. The elder Glosses died early in life ; John in 1832, aged thirty-nine ; his wife 112 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. in 1831, in her thirty-seventh year. Upon the eldest son, Harvey, cares were thus thrown very early ; but I have never learned that he faltered for a moment. He married, in 1836, Evelina Henderson, daughter of Gideon, in the Stewart district, and until 1856 dwelt on the paternal acres. Here his only son, Frank, was born, and thence two infant daughters were borne to the cemetery. In 1856 he exchanged with Peter Shear his old home, taking in part payment the present abode of Wm. Closs, to the west- ward. In 1S5H he moved into the Valley district, taking the well known stone house of Hiram Mirick, and here lived until 1876, when, selling out, he went still nearer the centre of the village, this time to the old Collins home, and here he dwelt until his death, January 6, 1886. I am sure I speak within bounds when I state that no resident of this town ever more deservedly enjoyed the thorough respect of his fellow- townsmen than Harvey Closs. In 1857 and 1858 he was supervisor of the town, and was long a prominent member of the Piesbyterian Church. To the writer, both Ml-. Closs and his wife have additional interest from the fact that Mr. Closs went to school to George S"3elye, his grandfather, and Mrs. Closs to Cath- arine Shepard, his grandmother, while their only son was a school-mate in Falley Seminary. Mrs. Closs, the widow, is passing the evening of life very pleasantly in the home whence she may overlook the village. We now come to the present occupant of the old Closs farm, Peter Shear. He was born in Coeymans, Albany county, his name indicating a Dutch origin. His wife, Mary, bore the cognomen of Shear befor^ as well as after marriage. They came to this town thirty-five years ago, living first on the Van Sicklen farm, near Huron, and they came here in 1859. Mrs. Shear lives now on another farm, owned by Mr. Shear in Junius, Seneca county. The husband lives a divided life, managing thus two farms. His home in Junius he visits weekly, remaining here the rest of the time. He has long been kuown as a successful speculator in stock, perhaps more prominent in this respect than any other man in the town. In this farm there are 166 acres. His children, all born in Rose, are Stephen, Gertrude, "William, Fred, George and Minnie. With the exception of William they are in Seneca county, where Stephen married. William we shall see again. A divided interest necessitating the absence of the gentler portion of the household, may account for the lack of fix-uped-ness that once per- vaded the corner. There are slats wanting in the blimls, and we note the absence of that intensity of green and white that we like to see in blinds and house. Mr. Shear's family, I am told, are Progressive Friends. (Mr. Shear died January 26, 1890, aged seventy years. The place is now owned l)y Edward Welch, who has made all the improvements called for in the home, and more. His wife is Sarah Buckley, and they have one son, William. Mr. Welch came to this farm in April, 1893. His brothers, Thomas and Joseph, own that part of the old farm south of the east and west road, and ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 113 also some near the school-house. They have this season erected a large, handsome barn near the corner, and will later move the house north of the barn, and, perhaps, make it a counterpart of their brother's fine residence on the other side of the road.) Still moving westward, we pass at our right a tenement house of Mr. Shear, and soon come to a very pleasant place, the home of William Closs, " Ham's" younger son. Here, too, in antiquarian researches, we are lost in obscurity, for as yet I can go no further back than James Andrews, who was there as early as 1826. He sold to Solomon Whitney, and he to William Lamb, whom we have already noted as the husband of Almira McWharf. As owner, then came Peter Shear, and in 1856, Harvey Closs. Frank Sherman then held it for a time, and to him succeeded Joel Sheffield, repeatedly met in our town jottings. He and his wife, Nannie Osgood, began their married life here, and here resided for some years, until Hamel Closs, desiring a home near at hand for his sou, John, bought and located John and his lately wedded wife, " Gustie " Saunders, in this comfortable abode. But John tired of the farm and went west long ago, and is now living in Detroit, Michigan. After a succession of tenants, came the younger sou, William, who married Emma Hillman of Webster, Monroe county, and after living with his parents for a while, came hither. He has two children, Ralph and Archer. Something more than a stone's throw beyond, is the dwelling of Stanton E. Waldruff, who, a native of Galen, married Frances Vanderburgh, and thereby came to this farm, for many years held by William S. Vanderburgh. He was a native of Columbia county, and married Lovina Clapper. For many years he tilled these acres, and, full of years, died about two years since. Both he and his wife, who passed away in 1883, sleep in the Rose cemetery. Sarah, their oldest child, married Samuel Lyman. John W., the next child, and only son, after serving in the 9th Heavy Artillery dur- ing the War, went west and has been lost to the knowledge of his friends. The next daughter, Etta, became the wife of James Covell of the adjacent district on the west. Emma married Gideon Barrett of the Jeffers neigh- borhood. Mr. and Mrs. Waldruff, who hold the paternal roof tree, have three children. Fred, who having taken for his wife Lizzie Harmon, lives in the Valley. ( Fred died May 16, 1893, in Allegan, Michigan. Etta was married in 1891 to George W. Rice of Huron, leaving Edna only at home). A much enlarged and improved barn indicates progress. In fact, I am reminded, as I go about, of the great improvement in farm buildings. What would the i:)ioneers say, could they awake and arise, to a barn with matched siding and painted, yes, actually painted ? Why, in those earlier days it was rare that paint could be afforded for the house, let alone the barn. Before the Vanderburghs, this was the home of William Havens, twice encountered in the Lake district. He built the house. In 9 114 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. the Eose cemetery I fiud inscriptions to the memory of William V. Havens and Susan, his wife. They died, she in 1848, aged sixty-four, and he, full of years, in 1875, for he had attained the unusual age of ninety-five. The Havens bought of Harley Way, and he of Dr. Peter Valentine, who had helped his brother, Asahel, in paying for the place. The Havens came to this town from Cato. They had two sons — Dexter and William — now living in Weedsport, and several daughters, of whom one became Melesse Lawrence of Weedsport; another, Mrs. Hunt ; and Sally married a Drake- ford and went to the west ; another became Mrs. Elias Wood, already noted in the Lake district. Continuing toward the west, we find at our right the home of Edwin W. Catchpole, a part of the large Catchpole estate. Here Mr. Catchpole, with his wife, Alice Rich of Marion, and their infant sou, George C, takes all the comfort that can come to mortals. ( Besides George C.,' there are now children : Alice A., Rutherford Hayes and Edwin W., Jr.) Mr. Catchpole bought the place of the Klinck heirs ; for it was here, in 1877, fhat Henry Klinck passed from mortality to immortality, a death that to humanity seemed especially untimely, since there was a large family of children seemingly demanding a father's care. There were Henry, who, married, now lives in Shortsville ; George, who married a Harper, and lives in the Valley with his mother, his wife having died ; Cafrie is the wife of George Brown of Chili ; William lives in the Valley ; Edward ; Ellsworth, generally known as "Allie;" and Bert, who, I think, was bora here. George and Will are painters. Mrs. Klinck lives in the village, and at her home her aged father, Artemas Osgood, died in 1887. Mr. Klinck bought of John D. Waterbury, who, as was also his wife, Emma Adams, was bom in Nassau, Rensselaer county. In 1847 they came to Galen, and the next year to Rose, and here they remained for nearly twenty years, going hence, in 1867, to Huron. He afterward went to Pontiac, Michigan, where he died in 1884, aged seventy-six years. His wife died in 1862, at the age of forty-eight years. Her remains were after- ward carried to Michigan also. The living of our town have generally gone to that Peninsular state, but this is the first instance, in my knowl- edge, of the removal of the dead to that much sought locality. They were respected citizens, members of the Baptist Church. Of their five children, three grew to adultship, viz., Mary E., who married Hayden Lamb of Huron, but a member of our Rose family. They live in Pontiac, Michigan; Hiel Adams married Harriet Williams of Nassau, and resides in Clyde ; Emma E. married James Rockwell of Pontiac, and died very suddenly in 1887. William Morey of the same school district, who had married the widow Burch, a daughter of William Havens, was the preceding owner, and he built the framed house. His predecessor was Hosea Howard, a brother of Mrs. Elizur Flint. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 115 Just a little west of opposite is another house, with large barns con- nected, now the property of George Catchpole, who bought it in 1SG6 from Mr. Pitcher, who in turn had purchased a short time before from the heirs of Rufus R. Weeks, who was killed in the Valley in 1861 at the raising of a flag pole. This was a very distressing incident. After the injury Mr. Weeks was borne, insensible, into the adjacent hotel, now Pimm's, where, for three or four days, he lay unconscious until death came to his relief. Mr. Weeks was a native of Rensselaer county, but he moved to this town from Galen. Taken away thus in the prime of life, the loss to his family and friends was irreparable. Active and industrious, the raising of a pole seemed small compensation for the loss. The farm of fifty-one acres Mr. Weeks had bought of Alpheus Roberts, now of Huron, and he from Elias R. Cook of Sodus. The latter had not occupied, but had simply rented. At present I can go no further into the past. Mr. Catchpole has added largely to the barns, until now they are among the very largest fii the vicinity. When we come to the next house, that of George Catchpole, we have reached the western limit of the district and one of the land- marks of the neighborhood, for it was to this place that the brothers Pomeroy and Elizur Flint came in 1817. Pomeroy lived only two years, leaving a youthful wife, whom his brother married. The Flints were from Coventry, Conn., and coming here took up one hundred and ten acres, upon which imi^rovements had been made by one Paine and a log house built. Probably the latter came in 1810, and through his betterments, the land cost the Flints nine dollars per acre. The framed house that Deacon Flint in time built was a part of the upright of the present commodious farm house. The wife was Roxy Howard, a good specimen of the go-ahead Connecticut woman, and a model housekeeper. She died many years since, at the age of 70 years. Her husband survived until 1884, being then ninety-one years old. There are few characters standing out more promi- nently in town history than that of Deacon Flint. In 1812, he shouldered his musket, and, with others, helped man the fort at New London when assailed by the British, and for this service he became eventually a pen- sioner of the United States. He was once supervisor, and for many years served as a justice of the peace. He was the mainstay in the Presbyterian Church and one of its earliest members. His face, full of decision and will, is not often reproduced. Ever industrious, he rested but little, as some folks understand the word, even in his age. Two children grew up — Calista, who wedded George Catchpole, and Dwight, who married George's sister, Mary. The Catchpoles are of English birth, and George was born in Moulton, Norfolk Co. On coming to this country, they reached Huron by way of Geneva. In Huron, the brothers, Robert and James, located on adjacent farms, and soon won enviable reputations for genuine honesty. 116 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. industry and worth. George, having won the deacon's daughter, began housekeeping in Hui-on, just east of his father's. Dwight Flint soou after contemplated matrimony with Mary Catchpole. For some reason he did not care to take his wife to his old home to live ; so one day the deacon rode up to George's, but delayed making known his mission. Something^ was on his mind, but it was not until a good dinner had lubricated his tongue that he spoke his mind. Then moving back his chair, he said : " I may as well let you know what I came here for. The truth of the mat- ter is, we want you two to come and live with us. Dwight doesn't want to take his wife. home, and I don't see how we can get along without you. There needn't be any fuss about it. When Dwight is ready, just let him come here, taking everything, and you come to the old place." Says George C: "I don't suppose there was ever quite such a trade effected before nor since. I Vas satisfied with my place given me by my father. It was well stocked and the house was furnished. I asked my wife what she thought about it, and she replied that we should have to go. Well, one day Dwight rode off and got married. After a short trip, he came up to my place to stay over night. In the morning, wife and I got into his buggy and drove down here, leaving everything of ours there and taking all that we found here. That was in 1859, and there was never a shade of difference or trouble from that day to this over the trade." Calista (Flint) Catchpole died in 1872, and, subsequently, Mr. C. married Mary, youngest daughter of Artemas Osgood. Their home has everything neces- sary for comfort. Surrounded by great learns to receive the product of the 210 acres of the farm, our farmer friend ought to reign a veritable king on his domain. Five times his fellow townsmen have made Mr. Catchpole supervisor of the town. Fond of travel, he has once revisited England to see the early home, and has in mind to go again at no distant day. His only son, Edwin, we have just passed to the eastward. (Mr. Catchpole later moved to the Valley, and there his wife died in 1893. His son, Edwin, now occupies the farm.) Having followed this road through the district, we shall avoid turning on our tracks by imagining ourselves transported to the old home of Chauncey Bishop. It is just south from the old burial ground — some- times called Briggs' cemetery — and opposite. The house is now the home of Elder Anson H. Stearns and his wife, who was Charity M. Bishop, daughter of Chauncey, who found his wife in the present town of Butler, Chloe Wheeler, eldest daughter of Eli Wheeler, one of the earliest comers to that town, then making a part of the old town of Wolcott. She had taught school near in 1817 and 1818, and in the fall of 1818 was mar- ried. The groom's party, about twenty in number, went to Butler on horseback. In common with all pioneers, they began their life in a log house, somewhat south of opposite to the site of the present house, built ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 117 in 1S23. A visit to this edifice will lepay any one who likes the old. It has been changed very little, if any ; large posts and beams, all arranged for strength and convenience. Overhead there is no plastering, but the sleepers are bare, now, of course, being destitute of the nails and hooks which formerly were so handy. From these were suspended many con- venient articles for househould use, as strips of dried pumpkin and beef. Strings of apples were dried by the heat that the wide fireplace afforded. Everything tended toward hospitality, for which the early settlers were noted. The family that grew up here, though not so large as the first generation, was still an extensive one. The oldest, Charles C, is in Man- chester, Ont. Co. Charity M. married Eev. A. H. Stearns, a Baptist minis- ter of Massachusetts birth, being a native of West Hampton. He came to this state in 1861, and has been an especially successful pastor in South Butler, Wolcott and elsewhere. Together, they maintain the honors of the old homestead. Candace W. became Mrs. Chester Williams, of Huron. He dying, she moved to Illinois ; as did also the next brother, D. Clinton, who married Mary Ann Mead, of Phelps. (Clinton Bishop died Feb. 2-t, 1892.) The next son, Cicero, was drowned in Stony Lake, Michigan ; John Calvin, a civil engineer, married Mary Avery, of Lj'ons, and now lives at Pilgrimspoit ; Cephas B., having taken Sarah C^haddock as his wife, dwells in the Valley ; Celestia wedded Samuel F. Weaver, of Illinois, while the youngest, Cliauncey E., having married Mary Butler, of Weedsport, and after living in these parts for some years, went to Kansas, where he now resides. Cliauncey Bishop was another of those devoted men who gave an excellent reputation to the town. One of the constituent members of the Eose Baptist Church, he was for more than forty years its clerk. He died in 1880, in his ninetieth year. Plis wife, who was born in Cairo, Greene Co., died in 187S, in her eighty-first year. At one time or another the land near here must have been dotted with the log habitations of the first comers. The small edifice, a little south of opposite, stands near one of the early abodes, that of Samuel Hand ; but in recent times it dates from Elbert Briggs, a son of Jonathan. John Groes- cup came next, then Luman Briggs, Elbert's brother, then S. Wing Langley, who has improved the house. His wife is Mary Brisbiu, eldest daughter of James Brisbin, of North Rose. Mr. Langley is a son of Milieus L., who once lived on the old Joel Bishop farm across the way. (The children here are Guy M., Eugene M. and Lillian E.) Being on the old Briggs farm, the house belongs to the North Rose district. Again crossing the road, we may find a new house, an ornament to the street, where lives Michael Londrigan, whom we first met in the Lyman neighborhood. He came originally fi'om Waterford, Ireland. His wife is Bridget Dunn. There are fifty acres in the farm. He has a family of two boys and one girl growing up, James. Willie and Theresa ; one daughter, 118 EOSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. Mary, is dead. He bought of Johu Stewart, who held only a short time, having come from Lyons, to which place he returned on selling. Stewart bought from Chauncey Bishop, 2d, who built the new house, the old one, built by his grandfather, having been burned while he was away in Weeds- port to get his wife. Though the new house is undoubtedly an improve- ment, one cannot help regretting the old, especially it of the least antiqua- rian dispQsitiou. Before him was John Briggs, one of Jonathan's sons, whom Myron Langley preceded. Myron was a son of Millens L. His wife was Elizabeth Hibbard, of Butler, a sister of Marshall and Hamilton. The Langleys came from Huron to Eose. Millens' wife was Nancy Mosher. They had several children, as Melissa, Myron, Willard and Wing, then Julia, Emeline, who married a Whiting of Sodus, and Mary, wife of John D. Proseus, of Sodus. Elder John Bucklin, who preceded Langley, was one of the early Baptist preachers. To this place, the first Joel Bishop brought his sons and daughters, at any rate those who were not old enough to make homes of their own. He was an old Eevolutionary soldier, born in Guilford, Conn., Oct. 2, 1757, but coming hither from Charleston, Montgomery county, where he had already essayed a pioneer's life. He prospected in the winter of 1810—11, and in the spring his oldest son, Chauncey, and son-in-law, John Burns, came through afoot and began work. Burns was on lot 132, and Chauncey built a log house just where Londrigan's mansion is. The family followed in sections, but all were here in March, 1812. Here he lived for many years until a desire to be with his sons, Elijah and Reuben, prompted him to go to Ohio, where he and his wife, Phcebe Avery, died in Havana, Huron Co. Their family was a large one, so large that the largest modern house, with our notions of comfort, would not hold the young Bishops. Four .sons and nine daughters lived to have homes of their own and to add lustre to the family name. Joel Bishop was the sixth in descent from John Bishop, who, in 1639, settled in Guilford, Conn. During the Revolution he was for a time a prisoner of war in New York City. He never had any love for a Redcoat. In 1837, when 80 years old, he went to the Wilderness for the fourth time. He died at the age of 84 years. Chauncey and his family we have already passed, but there was a Joel, Jr., who made his early home on the Bender place. His wife was Zemira Slaughter (a cousin of the famous John G. Saxe), whom I find among the very first members of the Methodist Church in Rose. He afterward went to Butler, some- where in the forties, and lived many years, finally dying there. Elijah married Jerusha Howard, a niece of Mrs. Flint, and began living his con- nubial life in a log hou.se just south .if his father's. Reuben married Sarah Ann Gardner, of Lock Berlin. He lived with his father until the western fever took both him and the elder Bishops to the state of Ohio. Then come the nine daughters, viz. : Anna, who married, first, Elijah ROSE NEIGHBOBHOOD SKETCHES. 119 Buudy, wLose children were : Sally, who married George Stewart ; Phrebe became the wife of Thomas Lewis and went west ; Joel married a distant relative, also named Bundy, and died forty years since, near Fulton, N. Y. Another brother, Stephen, lived just west of Stewart's corners, in- a little house only recently destroyed, and being in the south at the begin- ning of the War, he is supposed to have lost his life in some way as an enemy to secession; and yet another, Truman, who moved to Missouri and died single. For a second husband Anna married Asahel Valentine, a brother of Dr. Peter. For a while they lived on the Vanderburgh place, then in the Valley. Joel B.'s second daughter, Clara, married John Burns, and was one of the first, if not the very first, settlers on the Benjamin Seelye place, in the North Rose district. He sold either to Henry Graham or Seelye. He also had a good sized family, as Bishop, who took for his wife Olive Fuller, the daughter of Jonathan F., met in District No. 5. Jane Burns was the wife of Asahel Lamb, son of Peter ; Nancy married John Palmington ; Hollister died in 1862, in the army ; then there were Achsah, who married John Ballantine ; Polly, who became Mrs. Sylvester McDerby, and Roxy, who married Jerome Palmington. All of them, old and young, went west. John Burns was a good Baptist, and leader of the singing. It is proper to state that I find John Burns recoi'ded, in 1812, as the purchaser of lot 153, /. e., 108 acres, just opposite the old Dickinson farm. Sally, Joel B.'s third daughter, was the second wife of John Skid- more. His first wife was a sister of Davis Hand, by whom he had a son and a daughter, Sally. He was early on the Ellis Ellinwood place, whence he went to Ohio, and returning bought what is now the Collier place, south of the Valley, and later went to Michigan. His children by second marriage were Truman, Chauncey, George, Catherine, John, Mary Ann, Rachel and Marilla. Like nearly all the Bishops and their affiliated branches, he was a Baptist. Sally Bishop taught the first school in town, in a small log house a mile and a half north of the Valley. Chauncey Bishop has been named. Phcebe Bishop became the wife of Gardner Gillett, a brother of Harvey, and began housekeeping in a log house opposite George Catchpole's, possibly on the Weeks farm. In this town and in Lyons seven children were born to them. Those surviving infancy were Cyrus, who married a Jewell, of Sodus ; Harriet, John, Joel and Cordelia. All went to Illinois. Then came Rachel, the wife of Dr. Peter Valentine, of the Valley. The sixth girl was Roxy, who married David Gates, of Huron ; then Martha followed, the first wife of Lyman Fel- ton, of Red Creek. They went to Ohio. The eighth daughter, Lucinda, wedded Ansel Gardner, of Red Creek, who, a carpenter, lived in the town for a while. In his trade he built the Proseus house, in the North Rose district, and the Baptist Church in the Valley. Becom- ing a Baptist minister, he went to Illinois and there died. They 120 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. had eleven children. Last of all was Harriet, who followed her sister, Martha, as the second wife of Lyman Felton. There, that is a gal- axy to be proud of. Can a Eose family, during the last twenty-five years, show its equal! Before dismissing the Bishops, I may say that they had their share of frontier adventure. Among many others, Chauncey tells this incident : He and Asahel Gillett once shot a bear, but fearful that the shot was not effectual, they hesitated about approaching the fallen Bruin. They came nearer only to find that their caution had been wise, for his bearship proceeded to arise and to place himself at bay between two trees in a way that he could be attacked in front only. As their last ball had already been sent into the beast, they assailed with clubs, but the beast was smart enough to knock the weapons away in succession, until, finally, going at him simultaneously, they took his life. Bear meat was a luxury for a time. This' affair took place on the gravel knoll opposite the residence of Luther Wilson. Xext is found the place long known as the Bender farm, now owned by John York, Jr., of North Rose. As we have seen, Joel Bishop, 2d, was first here and located his log beginning. He sold to Henry Graham. Then came a man named Sweat, then James Weeks, next Mr. Gardener, then Loren Beals, who sold to John Ira Bender. He came to these parts from Manlius, Onondaga county. His wife, Caroline Osborn, was born in Woodbridge, Conn. They have four children— Emily, the wife of James easier of Manlius; Jacob, Charles E., and Bertha, who, having married Wright Mclntyre, lives south of the corners. With her Mrs. B. makes her home, Mr. B. having died two years ago. Since Mr. York's ownership a fine large barn has been constructed. Charles Moore, a native of the Isle of Man, has the next liabitation. An industrious citizen, he is rearing a family of six children, Anna, Maggie, John, William, Joseph and Frank, who command the respect of the community. The building was once a tenant house of Peter Shear. Mr. M. has five acres in his holding. Beyond the corners on the east side is a small house built by Mr. Shear for his son William, and here the latter with his wife, Elnora Monroe, resides. They have an interesting group of children growing up about them. Their names are Perry, Sarah, Harry and Mildred. (The house and farm now belong to the Welch Brothers.) The possessions of Eliphalet Crisler attract us next. Mr. C. is a son of Adam Crisler, a resident of the north part of Rose. Mr. C. has five acres of laud, and in the extreme northwest corner, just on the street, is a little house which was once the dwelling house of the former owners. It was moved here when the new house was erected. Just back of it are the remains of a stave cutting and cooper shop, for Mr. Crisler is a cooper by trade, though latterly he has done more at house-building. Eliphalet's wife was Luciua Lake of Huron, and they have one daughter, lua. Mr. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 121 'Crisler bought of Francis Baker, who came here from Seneca Falls ; before that was from Webster, birt remotely was a Long Islander. His son Horatio married a daughter of Leland Johnson. Back of Baker is James I. Vanderburgh, who divided his ten acres, giving half to his daughter, Mrs. Weeks. N. B. Hand preceded, and he went into the army during the War. One Swett also held it for a time, and his predecessor was Elder Andrew Wilkins, one of the most successful of the ministers who have presided over the Baptist Church in Rose. His sons are Hervey, Hartwell, Frank and Fred. All of these young men have proved pronounced successes in life, despite the oft-repeated slander against ministers' sous. The good clergyman died in 1884, at the age of sixty-nine, and is buried with many of his former parishioners in the Rose cemetery. His widow, ■who was Laurie Barnes, lives now in the Valley, preferring a home of her own to living with any one of her boys. Another minister preceded, Elder Amasa Curtis of the Baptist Church, whose younger two children were, I believe, born in Rose. In those days clergymen apparently found time to till a few acres as well as to attend to the spiritual wants of their flocks. Since the elder performed the marriage ceremony for my parents, his name has always had a 'special flavor for me. Before the preachers, came John Hyde, who had married the widow of Isaac Gillett, and thereby the mother of Almira Gillett, now of Wolcott. If any one of the feminine gender was ever better known in Rose than the before mentioned " Almi,"' I should like to know the name. As a peripatetic seamstress, she became the depository of nearly all the secrets in town. Her memory is a i)leasant one. One of the most noteworthy structures on the street, is that which we must cross the street to inspect. It is built of brick, one of the few farm houses in town thus constructed, and is the home of "Ham" Closs, the youngest son of John, the first comer. His wife is Lydia Ann Jones, a sister of the late Mi-s. David EUinwood. Their two sons, John and William, have already received mention in this volume. Every- thing about and within the premises indicates care and taste. Mr. Closs, in addition to his farm, has given much attention to speculation, and few men in Rose are better known. We come next to the home of Mrs. Catharine Weeks, widow of Rufus K. We met the name when near the Catchpole farm, and can now learn a little more about the family. She was herself a sister of the W. S. Vanderbui-gh who lived so long on the Waldruff farm. As Sarah K. Vanderburgh she was born in Greene county. Her maternal grandfather Steinhart was one of those hated Hessians who came to New York with Burgoyue's army. A native of Hesse-Cassel, he had been impressed into the service of his prince, and so came to America. Once here he did not care to return, and marrying on the Hudson passed the remainder of his life there. Her father 122 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. was James I. Vanderburgh, and her mother Hannah Steiuhart. Of a large family of boys and girls, we are interested chiefly in William S. ; Elizabeth, who married Matthew Mackie, the Clyde nurseryman; Abram D., who once lived east of John Lymans and who married Hannah Finch of Dis- trict No. 5. Her home she has somewhat improved since buying of Dudley Wade. This was only a small portion, which, joined to the five acres had from the father, makes about six acres. Before Wade, Hamel Closs had owned it. The Vanderburghs were Baptists, while Mr. Weeks had been reared a Quaker. Our southmost station is attained when we come to the home of George Seager, who, formerly from Huron, having married Jeannette Howland, daughter of George, purchased the property from the Talton heirs. There is a new house here supplanting the old one, which some years since was burned. These people have three children— Claude, Clara and Floy. Mr. Seager's predecessor, John T. Talton, was also known as Williams, there being some mystery about his name, but his tombstone in the ceme- tery, beside giving his name as Talton, tells us that he was a soldier during the War. It was during his holding that the house was burned. After this the family lived for a time in the barn opposite, and here, in 1882, at the age of fifty-four years, Mr. Talton died. His widow, having married Mr. Walmsley, resides in the Valley. Mr. T. left three sons. There are some more than fifty acres in the farm, and here, years since, Joel N. Lee reared his family. As we have stated elsewhere, he and his family were Vermouters, and no better people ever made their home in this town. Exemplary members of the Methodist Church, they lived and exemplified Christianity. One of their daughters is well known as Mrs. Charles S. Wright, of the Valley, and Loviua we have repeatedly met as Mrs. C. C. Collins, now living in Wolcott ; Theresa married Charles Kingsley, son of Harris R., a former Methodist minister in Rose. On his death she returned to the village of Rose, and with her, until their deaths, the aged parents made their home, having given up their farm. Mrs. K. now lives in Batavia. The only son, Addis C, became a soldier during the War. Mr. Joel Lee finished his earthly pilgrimage in 1880, a little more than eighty-three years old. His wife died in 1876 at the age of seventy- five. Mr. Lee sold his farm to his son-in-law, Charles S. Wright, who rented it to different people, among others to Sidney J. Hopping, now living on the Dudley Wade farm, in the confines of Butler. The farm has had many mutations. Taken up by Stephen Brooks, there were at first 115 acres, all but 15 being on the east side of the road. Brooks sold 46 acres from the north side of his farm to Zenas Fairbanks. The remainder was sold to Joel N. Lee in 1826. In 1827 Mr. Z. F. sold ten acres on the road to his cousin, C. W. Fairbanks, and going down to the east end of the lot went into extensive mercantile business, shoe making, lime burning, etc. •a^W pa 4 Old and Np:w School House, Noktii ilu.-^j:. I \ •* s'/i . , lis ""^ •H ^"^ Plan of North Rose. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 123 Later the Fairbankses changed places, and afterward Zenas sold to John Hyde and went to the Covell district. In 1836 C. W. Fairbanks sold to Royal Turner, who also bought out Hyde. Mr. Turner was noted for his law suit tendencies. Both he and his wife lived to be more than 90 years old. Through many changes, the place passed to John B. Lyman and to Crisler and to Mrs. Weeks. (Mr. F. H. Closs now owns the Joel Lee part. ) As the next step will take us to the Valley district, we shall delay that move until we have visited- the northern portions of the town, preferring to work from the circumference inward rather than from the heart outward. So then, just under the shadow of the hill, at whose base the Miricks located, we must leave District No. 3. DISTRICT No. 2.— North Rose. April 11— June 27, 1889. The appellation North Rose is a comparatively new one. To the old inhabitants it was Lamb's corners, and the emigrant who left his native heath in the long ago would gaze in wonderment at our heading, mentally exclaiming : " What terra incof/iuta have we here ? " This hamlet of ours is fifteen years old, dating from the opening of the then Lake Shore R. R., now the R. W. & O. R. R.; up to the seventies, where now are houses, gardens, stores and shops, the Aldriches and Briggses raised crops, for the village lies exclusively on land that was once theirs. The railroad went a long distance out of its course to reach as far south as it does, running on one side of a rather short ellipse, almost a circle, but even then, it could not get nearer the Valley than two miles and a half. Locating a station here, known on the time card as Rose, the village is a consequence. As this is the only railroad passing through the town, it will not be amiss to follow its course from entering to leaving. Having nipped off a corner of Huron, it comes into Rose on P. T. Lewis' land, thence, extending southeast, it crosses the Huron road just north of Richard Garratt's ; still continuing thus, it runs diagonally over the next east and west road a few rods west of William H. Cole's. Coming through a deep cut, trains some- times pick up cattle here. On one of my walks I came along just after a fine cow belonging to Isaac Cole had been thus cut in pieces. (In 1893, Charles Harper lost two.) Crossing Cole's farm and the next north and south road, just south of Carrier's corners, it passes through Avery H. Gillett's possessions and those of Nelson R. Graham. On the latter's farm the grading covered up a fine spring, and on this account the elder Graham, Henry, claimed extra damages, but the company demurred and 124 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. left the matter out to arbitration. The award was considerably in excess of the amount demanded by Mr. G., thus justifying his claim. Its extreme southern range is reached when it crosses the Sodus road at North Eose, whence it tends northward, with just one variation west of Glenmark, and that a slight one, till a few rods south of the Huron line it runs into Sodus. What might have been is naturally suggested. I understand that neither Eose nor Huron would bond itself to help the enterprise. Had Huron done so and Eose had continued obdurate, naturally the road would have made its Huron station at Port Glasgow, and that place must have regained some of its prosperity destroyed by the building of the Erie canal. Lake navigation and railroad transportation would have made her a no mean rival of Clyde and Lyons, and leaving Wolcott quite in the lurch. Again, had Eose bonded and Huron not, the station could easily have been located as near the Valley as the end of the old Sherman or Merrick Hill, i. e., the present residence of Mr. Isaac Campbell. The Valley would have had the business since located in IN'orth Eose and the latter village would not exist. However, our village is a reality, but it is entirely too recent and new to be interesting. Were it placed on a western prairie it would be content with no such modest name as it now bears, but it had long since been Aldrich or Briggs City, or Maltopolis, or some equally sonorous word. Long ago it would have had a race course, half a dozen hotels, so called, a biiiss band and a national bank. As it is, the neighboring Valley becomes somewhat suppressing, and, perhaps, retards its otherwise more vigorous boom. There is little of the antique in a place only fifteen years old. Theie are no old houses, no traditions, even the shade trees look new, quite too new for history. We shall find no material here for another Miss Mitford's "Our Village," while the railroad and the immense malt- house quite as effectually prevent a reproduction of George MacDonald's " Annals of a Quiet Xeighborhood. The name is a happy one, locating as it does the place. Besides, there was already another Lamb's corners in the state, in Albany county. Now, then, we will suppose that we have journeyed north from the Valley, have passed through the Lyman district, and leaving the same at the interesting old house of Mrs. Charity Stearns, ii'ee Bishop, we shall find our first stopping place, singularly enough, to be the cemetery. More fortunate than some, we are still able to leave the cemetery, and we halt under a dense cluster of locusts, and find at our right the home of the late Jonathan Biiggs, while opposite are the barns in which he stored the products of his fertile acres. We now find as occupants the widow, her daughter, Mrs. Post, and her children. Mr. Briggs was born in Ehode Island, but when only three years old his parents moved to Cincinnatus, this state. His father was John Briggs, who married Margaret Jones, also a Ehode Islander, and sister of Pardon Jones, so well known in Eose. EOt>E NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 125 Mr. Brings himself early found a veritable helpmeet in Emeline Baker, a sister of Julius, of this same North Eose district, her native place being Watertown, Conn. It was in March, 1844, that Jonathan Briggs moved from Seneca county to this farm. Before the railroad got into it, it num- bered, with the accessions that he had made, 213 acres. He was bounded on the south by Bishop and Bender, and on the north byAldrich. Mindful of the Scriptural injunction to increase and multiply, these good people added to the world's numbers six sons and two daughters. Of these, the oldest, John, married Sarah Jane Otto, and lives, as has been seen, on the old Otto farm just over the Huron line ; the nest son, George, was drowned some years ago, at the age of twenty five years ; Birney, a carpenter by trade, lives in the adjacent village, and his wife was Anna Terry, of Clyde ; Luman and Lyman are twins, and they married twin sisters, Ellen and Helen Doremus, whose father also now dwells in the village, while Lnman's home is the Valley, and Lyman lives in Huron ; Elbert, having married Nancy Ewing, of Alton, abides in North Eose; Caroline is the wife of William Niles of the Valley, while the youngest child, Sophia, married George H. Post, from Waverly, Tioga county. She has three children — Nellie M., who recently married Julian S. Cross from Broome county ; Minnie E. and Alice E. In the same j'ard with the Briggs homestead is a large house constructed some years ago by Mr. B. for his youngest daughter and her family, but recently she has dwelt with her mother. Mr. Briggs was one of the solid men of the town, not con- spicuous in politics, but a man of superior judgment and ability. He was a good representative of the state that gave to the world Tristam Burgess and Nathaniel Greene. Earnest and honest, faithful, liberal and devoted, he was and is sadly missed from his town and church, he having been for many years prominent in the Eose Baptist organization, dying in ISSl. He was in his sixty-ninth year. (Mrs. Briggs died August 1, 1891.) Before Mr. Briggs, no one was long identified with the place. He bought of William H. King, of Seneca Falls, who by trade had obtained it. Mr. King never lived here. The last one occupying before Mr. B. was Henry Graham, who here, I believe, made his first essay at farming. One Smith also held, and before him John Brant. First of all was James Leland, who sold and removed to Ohio. Leland had three sons — Lewis, Gale and Isaac. The latter, returning to his old home on a visit, went bathing one day in the Lamb mill pond, and diving, struck his head against something. The injury received resulted in illness, from which he died in about three weeks. (Mr. John Briggs will soon occupy the old homestead.) The next house is that of William Smart. He passed his boyhood in No. 7. His wife is Nellie Perkins, once living in District No. 3. They have one child, Nellie. Mr. S. is employed on the railroad. 126 EOSE NEIGHRORHOOD SKETCHES. Further along is the abode of Edward Burrell, a native of Galen, who came from that town to Rose, and, on the once well tilled acres of Briggs, has planted his vine and fig tree. His home is a pleasant one. His first wife was Charlotte M. Odell, a native of Tyre, N. Y. Their children are E. O., who married Cornelia Hart of Huron, and lives in North Rose; Dorothea, died in infancy, and Cuthbert, who lives in Woodland, Cal. Mrs. B. dying in 1870, Mr. B. married, second, Jane A.. (Clark) Mains, in 1872. She died in 1887. Nearly opposite, Mr. William Hill erected in 1889 a very fine residence, and occupies it. He is a house painter and paper hanger by occupation. He came to Rose from Huron, being a native of that town. His wife is Alida, a daughter of Abram Doremus. Eugene Brewster is just finishing a house, next, which in no way suffers by com- parison with others in the village. He comes from west of the Valley and finds employment in the lumber yard. (Now the home of Ira Burt, late of Galen, who has left his farm in the care of his two sons, and with his wife has come to this village to reside. They have also two daughters married. Across the street a Mr. Taylor of South Butler is erecting a basket factory [Aug., 1893] and further east is the extensive evaporator of Hill & Quereau, lately sold to Mr. George Catchpole of the Valley.) This brings us to the railroad, and just over the same, at our left, we must see the immense malt house of John York, Jr. In fact it was visible some time ago, rising much more conspicuously than the single church which the hamlet possesses. To those who can find pleasure in such a presence, this building must be a source of no little pride. As for myself, I allude to it simply as a very striking edifice and illustrative of business enterprise. My birth, rearing and profession, however, lead me to look upon malt houses, brewers and saloons as not indicative of a community's true prosperity. Mr. York is from Huron, a member of the family that has given its name to a i)ortion of the southwest part of the town. His wife is Martha Weeks, a daughter of Caleb, and his home is at the right, the first house on the east corner, north of the railroad. In this part of the town, probably, Mr. York exercises a wider influence politically than any other one individual. The beginning of this structure was made in 1873, and it was simply a grain and fruit storehouse, being enlarged from time to time until, in 1882, it became a malt and storehouse, and assumed its present mammoth proportions. The builders at first were Mr. York and Robert A. Catchpole, of Huron. (The whole structure was totally consumed by fire, Thursday, May 11, 1891.) Had we glanced to the right, in crossing, we would have met the prosperous lumber yard of Charles Oaks. How desirable that there should be agreement in name and business. Mr. Wise ought to be a school master, certainly Mr. Good would befit the pulpit, and that Mr. Oaks should sell lumber, goes far to preserve the unities so desirable in nature ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 127 and art. The business was started in 1S71 by Straight & Mnnn. Three years since Mr. Oaks liought out Mr. Straight, who went to Wolcott, and is in the same business there. After one year's continuance with Mr. Munn, the hxtter sold out entirely to Mr. Oaks and went to Iowa. Since then Mr. O. has run the plant alone. (The oftiee of Mr. John Hill stands nearest the railroad, on the west side of the street. Mr. Hill deals extensively in fruit and agricultural implements.) The large hardware store of the Welch Bros, is on the west side of the road and north of the way leading to the malt house. Thomas Welch is also ijostmaster (though he has recently resigned). The building was erected by Lyman Briggs, nearly opposite and on railroad land, and was then moved to its pre.'-ent location. In their line of woik the Welch Bros, have no rivals in the town. Early and late tliej' aie devoted to their voca- tion. Naturally, they have been very successful. Back of the stores, facing the most of the nmlt house, are two dwellings, the first, Harriet Garlick's, the second, Frank Drury's. Lest we should engender confusion we will keep on this side of the street until we get to the Proseus corner. An Irishman was once sent to count a litter of pigs. He discharged his duty to the best of his ability, though he declared that one little rascal wasn't still long enough to be counted. Since preparing the following article, I have seen 'in the correspondence of papers, printed in Eose and vicinity, so many statements of movings, that, like a kaleido scope, the village must have been turned and the harmonies must be entirely different from those seen in August last. I describe the streets as I saw them then. So then, the next place is the store of Henry Garlick, under the manage- ment of his son, Charles. Eight here we may as well introduce a little Garlic into our composition, premising that the most anti-Spanish reader will not find the flavor divsagreeable. Captain Samuel Garlick, whose body lies in the Eose cemetery, was a soldier in Eevolutiouary days, having served eighteen months in the patriot army, though very young. He was a uative of Huntington, Conn., and when, one Sunday, the good pastor of the church, Dr. Ely, was preaching his usual discourse, there came a swiftly riding herald, who passed in a note to the preacher. Its purport was that the British were devastating the Sound coast. There was no delay for further service. The same God that enjoined prayer, counseled also watching, and fighting, too, if necessary. So pastor and people went into the fray. Young Garlick went with the rest, and thus made a record of which his descendants are justly proud. He was twice married — first, to Sally Lewis and second to Huldah Gilbert. By each of these wives he was the father of four sons and three daughters. The first family embraced Samuel, Eliphalet. Ezekiel. Eli, Sally, Eliza and Abbie. Of these, Eli married Margaret, a sister of Abner Wood, and daughter of that widow 128 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Margaret Wood who became the wife of Paine Phillips. His family was numerous, consisting of Abner, Sidney, who married a Messenger ; Samuel, who married a Weeks ; Sally, the wife of Henry Garlick, and Barbara. Eli, an aged man, lives now in a small house just back of the Welch Bros, store. He has been an industrious blacksmith all his long life. (Died in> January, 1892.) The second group of Capt. Samuel's children was com- posed of William, David, Henry, Judson, Mary, Maria and Lucy. David married Tabatha Angle, of Eose, while Henry, in whom we are chiefly interested now, took for his first wife Sally, the daughter of his half- brother, Eli. When Captain G. came to these parts, it was to make his home, in 1810, in Galen, on or near the Ketchum place, east of Clyde. He built the old Waldruff house. His father, a very aged man, accompanied him, and lived, I am told, to be one hundred and ten years old. His grave may be found near the old home, east of the village of Clyde. At the time of coming the country was a wilderness, and Henry Garlick says that his mother has ridden her horse by blazed trees from Galen to the old Mudge store in Wolcott, to do a little trading. On the morning after William Garlick's marriage, three inches of snow lay on the bed covering, so many and wide were the crevices in the roof. From Galen the family came to Eose, settling on the Messenger farm, in the western part of the town, buying of one Bacon. Full of years, Capt. Garlick passed away April 28, 1843, in the eightieth year of his age. His son, Samuel, lies by his side. To his father on the farm Henry succeeded, but much of his life has been passed in a gristmill and in a blacksmith shop. For a long time he ran the mill in Glenmark, and later the blacksmith shop in North Eose. His children are Charles, already mentioned; Frank, a farmer in Huron (now in Coxell's district), whose wife is Clara Terbush ; Emmaette, deceased, the wife of Eugene Elwood, and Edith, who is Mrs. Frank Eiggs. Eomaine Cole built the house in which the Garlic store is kept, just after the rail- road was opened, and ran a store for two years. Afterward Irwin Seelye and Lyman Briggs were in partnership here for two years longer, then Seelye had it alone till the Garlicks took it. (Charles Garlick was postmas- ter during Harrison's administration.) ' Somewhat back from the street is a small house, in which lives Frank Davis, a stone mason, who came here from Huron. He is the father of Ellery Davis, of the Town district. The building is noteworthy from the fact that in it was kept the first store in the place. Built by William Dickinson, it originally stood just east of the old school-house, on the site of Eobert Andrews' old shoe shop. Here the first place of trade was opened and maintained, till the house itself was moved to its present loca- tion, and pretentious structures put it in the shade. Again we find a store, managed by C. C. Shaw, from Sodus. The house was built by Irwin Seelye, but is now owned and occupied by Nancy Briggs. (In the lower story Jay E. Dickinson now keeps a store.) ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 129 John T. Hill lives next. He came here from Huron and is interested in the York storehouse. To him is due the credit of starting the village. His wife is Elizabeth Seager, and his children are Frank and Roy. Next we find the house of Alexander Skut, but of him and his more anon. '(Now the home of his widow and family.) Then comes the home to which Samuel Gardner came when he left his Huron farm. Mr. G. was a native of Rensselaer county, and his first wife was Hannah Brewster, of Lausingburg, and their only son we shall meet as we journey northward. For his second wife he married Happilona Chatterson, daughter of John P., whose home was in the Covell district, and thereby granddaughter of Betts, whom we saw in the Seelye neighbor- hood. (Her only daughter is Mrs. S. H. Lyman, and the latter has a son and daughter.) Murray Becker, a recent comer from Red Creek, resides in the next house, and, for a livelihood, carries the mail to Huron. (In 1893 the home of Mrs. Alfred Graham and mother.) His neighbor on the north, John Lamb, we shall learn more about when we get to the old homestead. Myron Huffman, a brother-in-law, lives with him. All Rose people have long known the next place as the old Aldrich farm ; but its history goes back many years before these people came hither. It is lot 151 in the old numbering, and hither, in 1813, came Isaac Gillett. He came from Hubbardton, Vt., where he had married Sally Sellick, who was a niece, through her mother, of Isaac Hickok. Though they hailed •directly from the Green Mountains, they were originally from Connecticut. Isaac's father, John, came also, and died in Huron in 1819. One of the Gilletts married Rhoda Avery, a sister of Joel Bishop's wife. Perhaps it is as well to trace Isaac Gillett further. To begin with, he was a cousin of Asahel and Harvey. From Rose he went to Huron, and at his death, in 1829, at the early age of forty-five, he was the proprietor of the hotel at Bay Bridge or Port Glasgow. His widow rented this for a time to Henry Graham, well known in Rose. After a while she married John Hyde, a * brother of the famous Zenas Hyde, and whom, as a shoemaker, we have seen in District No. 3 as one of the many dwellers in the old house on the present Crisler place. Making a visit to his old home in Massachusetts, he died and was buried there thirty years ago. To Isaac Gillett were born several children, as Isaac Newton and ChaunceyH., both born in Vermont and both went to Junius to live ; Prosper, in Missouri ; Moses, in Roch- ester ; Almira, born on the Aldrich place ; Rhoda, who married E. J. Jackway, an uncle of Avery Gillett' s wife, and went to Benton Harbor, Mich.; Sally, who married Charles Kelsey, of Galen, and died in July, 1888. Of these children, Almira and Rhoda were best known in this town. They long lived together in the Valley and took care of their mother, who finally died in Throopsville, in 1862. After the marriage of Rhoda, Almira 10 130 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. passed many years in this and adjoining towns as a nurse and seamstress,- her services always in request and her presence always enjoyed. If, from the misty past, she could call up all the gossip she has heard, what a reci- tal it would be for the readers and hearers ! Failing health now keeps her pretty closely at her Wolcott home. To Gillett succeeded Peter Lamb, a member of the family, whose name has been so long connected with this section. They were from Schoharie county, of good Dutch stock. The wife was Sally — , and the children were : Asahel, who married Jane Burns, Joel Bishop's granddaughter; David, who was an odd mortal; Hiram found his wife west of the Valley, in Diana Cooley, and lived once on the Catch- pole farm ; Perry ; Ira, who took Perliette Lovejoy for his companion ; Lorenzo, Louisa and Laretta. All went to Michigan, and all are dead. Simeon Mott was the next, but how long he remained I can not tell. He had a son, Chauncey, and a daughter, Jerusha, who became Mrs. John Ellsworth ; but it was a sad day for the latter when she took his name. She was a terrible shrew. Says John Lamb : "I was working with Ells- worth in the woods one day when Eusha came along. Her man was stooping down at work, partly under the sleigh. She took up a big knot ' and was about to hit him on the back. I told her if she did I'd hit her. By this time Ellsworth was out, and, taking the ox gad, he went for her. It was not much of a place for sympathy on either side." In 1833 Amos Aldrich came to this place, succeeding Mott. The house that he found is now George Aldrich's pig pen. He built anew, and with sundry repairs the place is as he made it. His wife was Sally Luce, and they came here from the town of Arcadia, though Mr. A. was born in Ehode Island, where at present one of the U. S. senators bears the honored name of Aldrich. Both husband and wife, after long and respected lives, sleep in the North Rose burial ground. Atone time they were members of the Eose Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their children : Joseph lived once west of the corners and then went to Ohio (died in April, ^1889); James Benjamin we shall meet east of the corners, while George, who married Ella J. Carrier, retains the old homestead. As they have a son, John C, we may hope that the place will continue in Aldrich hands for another fifty years. The row of houses that we have passed has taken the street front from the farm, but there are still fertile acres remaining. The family has found many queer water-worn rocks on the premises and Indian arrow heails, indicating the early presence of the aborigines. Mrs. A. has also a very fine Indian gouge, found on the farm, and. so far as I know, the only one ever found in the town. We are now at the corners, the site of the village that was to be, the place near which were the school-house, blacksmith and shoe shops, and several dwelling houses, but the incoming railroad changed it all. The southeast corner was reserved twenty-one years by Fellows & McNab, to EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 131 be given as a site for a church, but the church didn't materialize, though I understand that Henry Graham and others had spells of trying to raise money to construct it. So, after a while, the inevitable log house came and was occupied by many families, among whom were William Green and John Waterhouse. After a time, Cornelius Van Buren bought and built the house now standing. He was from Dutchess county, and for many years worked at blacksmithing, east of his home and then nearly opposite. He disposed of his lot, and for a while owned the Eldred place. As he and his good wife had no children in these parts, they passed all their possessions over to Henry Garlic for a home to the end of life, and with the Garlics they lived till they passed over the river. Myron Lamb, a son of John, followed. His wife was Anna Weeks, of eastern birth, a sister of ]\Irs. John Lovejoy of Glenmark. Mr. Lamb is a carpenter by trade, find- ing here, with wife and daughter, Minnie, a happy home. (The latter is now Mrs. Albert Dagle of Rose.) Carpenter Birney Briggs, a son of Jonathan, dwells next toward the south, for we will now run down the east side of the street. (In 1893 the home of George H. Ball, born in Cayuga county, who married Sarah, daughter of John Seager of Huron. They have one child. Myrtle. Mr. Ball is interested in raising raspberries, and is about building in District No. 3, near the old Oaks place. Mr. Briggs is in Rochester.) Martin Sours, a lecent comer, lives in the following place, once the home of Burton Partridge. Then comes another carpenter, Frank Proseus, a son of Mrs. P., on the corner. Certainly, with so many of this profession in the vicinity, there should be no lack of building forces. Judging from his own house, Frank must be a good workman. Still another carpenter, Warren Morey, follows in "Abe" Doremus' hou.se, and this brings us to Caroline street. (Mr. Dillon, a shoemaker, lived in the Doremus house in 1893.) Then we find the pleasant home of Henry Garlic, followed by a building in which Myron Lamb and Albert Dagle conduct a meat market (1893). John Weeks owns the building and lives in the upper rooms. In order follow the homes of Fred Grant, Thomas Welch and William C. Rose. In the first of the two houses belonging to Mrs. John York, dwells Mr. C. Halliday, who married Celinda Patterson, of the Lake district. Mrs. York resides on the corner. On Railroad street is the home of Nelson Parslow, who is the father-in-law of Edgar Dean, living on Gray street. The next sti-eet. Gray, runs parallel with the main road ; but I can't help thinking that the village had been prettier had it ranged itself around the four corners, thereby escaping the melancholy view of so many rears of houses and their accompaniments. In this respect, the mile-long, single-streeted New England village was far in advance of the more 132 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. ambitious towns of recent and sudden growth. But moralizing will not take us along the street, which, whether we like it or not, is a verity. On the west side we shall find Samuel Mclntyre, a gardener. (Mr. Edgar Dean has built and now occupies a fine house on this site.) Then Mr. Dagle. (Now occupied by Mr. Charles Bowman.) Mr. Charles Dagle, who, in 1893, lives in Huron, is a native of Kingston, Canada ; his wife, Adelia Kirwin, was born in Ireland. Their children are Louvinda, the wife of George E. Miller; Ida, who is Mrs. Valentine of Marengo ; Charles, died in infancy; Frank, died June 24, 1883, aged 32 years; Addison; Albert ; Wallace, died July 14, 1S91, aged 22 years ; Harvey and Auuabelle, at home. Next is Jay Dickinson, whose old home we shall flud in our eastward journey ; he is a carpenter by trade, and saw service during the Eebellion ; his wife was Elizabeth Bovee, and she has borne him a numerous progeny, consisting of William, Eobert D., Charles A., Stephen, George, John and Minnie, who is Mrs. Van Sicklen. Mr. Dickinson is a son of the late William Dickinson, and a carpenter by trade. Mrs. Frank Skut, with her daughter May, resides next. (Mrs. Skut is now Mrs. A. H. Mudge of Cortland.) Then John Morey, a carpenter. (Now inEochester, and the house is occupied by Manly Wright, the Eose station agent.) And next, William Green. Now we are at Caroline street, and on the coraer stands a very pretty edifice, the result of the generosity of the surrounding inhabitants. Where all were generous, it would seem almost invidious to mention names, but it may not be amiss to state that it stands on what was Aldrich land, that it cost $2,000, and that John York, Jr., Nelson Graham, Orriu Skut and others were liberal givers toward this very laudable object. On Caroline street itself stands the blacksmith shop of G. W. Stansell. The building, an old one, once stood quite near the corners by the school- house, having been moved to that point by Cornelius VanBuren. He, too, bad moved it from very near the point where the railroad crosses the main road, it having been the home of one Hudson. Across the way is the unoccupied Good Templar hall, erected in 1889. Eeturning to Gray street and continuing north, we pass the homes of George W. Stansell, whose house is a new one, John Bounds, Henry Courtermarch (occupied by J. M. Wolf), and Barnard Mitchell. Coming back on the east side we are attracted by the pleasant home of Everett Slaght. He married Harriet E., daughter of James B. Aldrich. He makes quite a business of berries, raising and dealing in them. (Mr. Slaght's present residence is Eochester, he being employed on the Western New York & Pennsylvania E. E. To him has succeeded Mr. David West- cott, who, a glass-blower by trade, has lived in Clyde and the west. His second wife is Sarah Ann, widow of Christopher Dickinson of Clyde, and oldest daughter of the late William Dickin-son, of Eose.) ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 133 Southward we find the homes of Wallace W. Winchell, C. M. Shaveiv who married the widow of John Hewson, and a house belonging to Samuel Warne ; Calvin E. Winchell, who dwells next, is a member of the family met in District Xo. 10. His son, Wallace W., married Mattie, daughter of Elmer Partridge, of Huron; Fi'ank L. Winchell married Louise A. Cole, and lives in Eochester. Ella Winchell is Mrs. Charles W. Oaks. Marcus Baker owns next, and Elmer Winchell occupies. Dr. T. D. Tibbetts, who keeps a drug store and grocery, follows. He came from Williamson, and married Josephine Derby. They have one child, Ross D. Dr. T. built his own edifices, and also the house of Mr. Henry Garlick. He carries the mail to Lummisville in Huron. Then follow William Eogers, George Seager and Lewis Sours, the house and blacksmith shop owned by George Miller and the abode of Abram Doremus, whose twin daughters married Jonathan Briggs' twin sons. Until he moved here he was a farmer in the western part of the town. (Xow the home of Charles H. Garlick, who married Mary E. Travers of Tyre.) Still further east, there will be eventually another street, and, already on hand awaiting the street, are the homes of Jerome Davenport, David Hill (not the governor), Peter Salter and George Parslow. Beyond these even is the abode of widow Hannah Quackenbush, in a house built by William Dickinson. We must not slight the very necessary hotel, which dates from railroad times, and which was constructed by Thomas Parks, butis now the property of William Eoe of Wolcott. It has had numerous landlords, of whom we might name John Decker, who died here, and the present Myron Brant, a son of that John Brant who years ago lived on the Briggs farm. (In 1S93 Miss Ara A. Barnum owns the hotel, which is kept by Mr. Guy Beadle. The street to the eastward has been built and changes have been made as indicated in the village plan.) North Eose as a post office dates from war times. In 1861 "Ben" Aldrich opened the office, and kept it where Mr. Thompson now lives, north of the old school-house. Then David Lyman had it in the little red house, nearly opposite the school-house. Morton Tripp followed in the Eldred house. Jonathan Briggs then had the honor for a while, having the office in the railroad station. Eomaine Cole was next, followed by Lyman Briggs, in 1877, who in turn passed the privilege of the place to Irwin Seelye, in 1882. He was postmaster till Grover Cleveland made Nelson Graham postmaster, in 1885. Irwin, however, continued as deputy until recently, when the country was made thoroughly safe by passing the office from an old soldier to Thomas B. Welch, who maintained the same in his hardware store. [Since writing the foregoing, Mr. Welch has resigned.] The house on the northwest corner of the cross roads is much changed from its former appearance. It was away back in the twenties that Gilbert Miner, a seafaring man, and a bachelor brother of Prentice Miner, already 134 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. on the ground, was persuaded to erect on this conspicuous corner a tavern. Ansel Gardner was the builder, but before the work of rum selling (in those days the chief business of hotel keeping) could begin, a great temperance wave swept over the country, meetings being held in churches and school-houses, and Othello's occupation was gone. Prentice Miner lived here some years, till, selling out, he went to Michigan. He had three children. I have heard him described as a short man, duck-legged, a sailor in early life, but could out- jump anybody in the neighborhood. The place was owned for a time by a Mr. Simmons, then by a Mr. Young of Geneva. Jonathan Briggs possessed it also, and from him, I believe, it passed to Franklin M. Proseus, who, a native of Dutchess county, came to Rose from Sodus. He enlisted in Company G, Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, and died in 1862, leaving a widow and two children. Mrs. P. was born in Sodus — her maideu name was Anna M. Lake — though the family was of Connecticut extraction. Her maternal grandfather, Horace Terry, died from wounds received at Sodus Point, in the War of 1812. Her son, Allen, married Sophia Andrews, and resides in Huron, while Frank, who married Nellie Tryon, lives in the village. His two children are Frank and Fern. On the east side of the road, a few rods to the north, two apple trees standing in the field are near the site of the McWharf home, mentioned in the Lake district series. A spring of clear cold water and a consequent stream were doubtless the motives for locating his home thus. He had fifteen acres conveniently near the home of Jonathan Skut, his brother-in- law. The latter's home was over the way and still a trifle to the north of the site of the present house of Orrin Skut. The family was immediately from Onondaga county, but the name is uncommonly suggestive of the Hudson river region, and of those sturdy Dutch burghers, whose stalwart proportions the members of the family still i)0ssess. However, the first Mrs. S. was Hannah Rowe, and she was the mother of a large number of children, as follows : Orrin, Charles, David, Andrew, Horace, Mahala, Caroline and Esther. With the marriages of these people we are interested only in that of Charles, who took for his wife an adopted daughter of Eli Andrus, and Orrin's. All the family went to Michigan, but Orrin tired of the country and came back. He says now that he is sorry that he returned. He had learned the cooper's trade, and in the newer regions of the west there was little demand for what he had to give. The elder Skuts, after living for a time on Crusoe Island, in Savannah, went to Michigan and there died many years since. The wood colored house, long prominent here, was built by Jonathan Skut and still remains, though repaired and painted. Here Orrin Skut lived for many years, tilling his forty-eight acres and pursuing his trade. He now lives in the village near. He did not follow his father immediately as owner, having managed it seven years as superintendent for a Mr. Angus, to whom Jonathan had sold. His wife KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHEB. 135 ■was Almira Lamb, a daughter of Isaac, one of the pioneers. Their children ■were : Alexander, who, though owning a farm in Huron, has his home in North Eose, and with him his father lives. His wife is Melinda Jones, of Huron, and they have three children — Cora, Annette and Orrin ; the second son, Ira, married Helen Creque of Wolcott, and died in 1881 ; he was a soldier during the War ; Jerome died in 1862 ; Jasper married Frank Park of Wolcott, and went west some years ago. The only daughter, Annette, is the wife of Alexander Ellinwood, of Clinton, Oneida county. Mrs. Orrin Skut died in January, 1886. With both Alexander and Jerome I was well acquainted, having been a fellow pupil with them in Fulton, and know personally of their sterling worth. Jerome was only twenty-two years old at his death. Orrin Skut has been, in one way or another, a town officer for eighteen years, the most of the time a commissioner of highways. (Orrin Skut died May 6, 1892, and June 12, 1892, Alexander died. The place is now occupied by William Dickinson, who married Irene, daughter of Frank Davis, and has children, Forrest, and a baby girl.) We are pretty near the confines of the town when we reach the next farm, that of Charles G. Oaks, a son of that Charles G. Oaks who lived and died in the Lyman distiict. He was a soldier during the War, and his wife was Huldah Wilson, a daughter of Robert Wilson, whose home this was for many a year. One more remove and we reach Daniel Skut, a brother of Jonathan. He, too, had a large family, which also emigrated to Michigan. His children were Robert, Apollos, Daniel, Abram, Truman, Betsey and Hannah, who became the wife of one Sumner, whose father was an early dweller on the Cephas Bishop farm. When the Skuts left, there were only fourteen acres cleared. In the farm, however, there were one hundred acres. The house, as usual, was built of logs, and water was brought from a spring. To this place came, in 1835, Robert Wilson, a native of Romulus, but moving from Dundee, Yates county. His wife was Catharine Raplee, changed, undoubt- edly, from tiie Hudson river name Ra^jalye. She was born in Dundee. Here these good Ba^Jtist people lived and reared their children, building finally the pleasant house now the home of the Oakses. The oldest son, Luther, married Cynthia Boynton, and lives on the next road east, hold- ing a farm formerly a part of the paternal acreage. Mary N. Wilson married Gilbert A. Chapin, and resides now in Denison, Texas. Huldah, the wife of Charles G. Oaks, died in January, 1887, leaving four children, of whom Katie is the wife of James Thomas, of Huron, while Charles W., Marilla and Robert L. are at home. Robert Wilson died in 1868, in his sixty-third year. His widow, quite infirm on account of a fall, makes her home on the old farm with the family of her daughter, Huldah. (C. W. Oaks married Ella L. Winchell, and they have a son, Seth Carroll ; Marilla Oaks is :Mrs. Edgar C. Davis, of Central Falls, R. I.) 136 E,OSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Our last house faces a road which was once a public way extending down to the Glenmark road, but which terminates now at the home of Ogden Van Sicklen. As laid out many years ago, it led to the property of Isaac Lamb, the first settler here. He was a stirring, enterprising man, and, in 1823, built a saw-mill west of his house, obtaining power by damming the stream which ran through the gully. This mill was in operation more than sixty years, and it fell into decay only when the need of it ceased. It doubtless is responsible for the denudation of the surrounding country, and through said destruction, the stream has dried up so that water power would be quite out of the question. Further up the glen, many years since, the same Ansel Gardner, before referred to, built a mill for carding wool, but it was never utilized. It was just back of Orrin Skut's home. Fifteen years after the construction of the saw-mill, Mr. Lamb built a grist- mill a half mile down the stream, and the road was correspondingly extended, having, up to this time, terminated at the sawmill. This must have been a very rough, winding, hilly way, and after the mill went down, I don't wonder that the road was taken up. As we approach from the east, we should have seen, first, the miller's house, in which lived many families, and at one time the Huffmans, with whom the Lambs married. Not a trace of it is now standing. Down under a steep bank, nestled the mill years ago, and many a bushel of wheat was turned into material for the staff of life by the water that long since ran by. It is easy to trace the old dam, and, with some difficulty, I can find indications of the race way, which bore the motive power to the mill, and as the fifty years roll away, in fancy I see the boys of then (the grand-sires of to-day), just as boys will ever do, leaving their clothes on the bank, while they seek happiness in the cooling waters ; or^ earlier in the season, trying to secure nibbles from passing minnows by the temptations of a wriggling worm. Perhaps, in winter, our boys of "ye olden time" have bumped their heads in essay- ing the pleasures of skating. All these fancies float before me on a burning hot day in August, and I, too, sigh for the consolation of the bath or the shade of the glen beneath. Imagination must be drawn upon to call back the old mill, of which there is not a rack left behind. One of the old stones serves Myron Lamb, at the corners in ^N'orth Rose, for a horse block, and the other is lost to sight and search in the morass near which the building was located. So much for these buildings of old ; now let us return to the abodes of men, and pause where Ogden Van Sicklen has his home. It was many years ago that Isaac Lamb broke into this primeval wilder ness and began his living. His cabin and his surroundings were like those of his neighbors. He came directly from Cayuga county in 1820. His wife was Sally Stanley, and they were both Methodists. After many years here, they yielded to their son, John, and, buying ten acres west of ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 137 Aldrich's, built a house and dwelt for a time. Mrs. L. died in 1846, aged sixty-nine. After her death the husband went to Lyons, where he died in 1862, at the home of Ira Mirick, his son-in-law, at the age of eighty-six. No trace of his home on the Glenniark road now exists. Both of these good people now sleep in the North Rose burial ground. Their oldest son, Isaac, Jr., married Emeline Hickok, a daughter of Moses, and we shall soon see him again. William married a Mc Wharf, as already noted, and died in Huron. John we shall presently meet; Martha, as the wife of Ira Mirick, must wait till we get to the Valley district ; Polly married John Baker, and, after living in Rose, went to Michigan ; Almira we have met as Orrin Skut's wife ; Jane never married, and died in Lyons some years ago. Somewhat peculiar in manner and speech, she is said to have resjionded to a query as to why she didn't accept a certain offer of heart and hand : " Do you supi^ose that I am going to take up with every old jackass that comes along?" Sally Ann became the wife of William Blighton, in Galen, and apropos to this same is suggested a couplet that irreverent youths sometimes sang in "ye good old days :" " So glad I come, old Daddy Lamb, Oh, won't you give me Sally Ann?" Isaac Lamb, Jr., and wife succeeded his father. They lived here several years, and had born to them a family, consisting of Munson, named for a brother of Mrs. L. ; Munroe, Betsey, Caroline and Almanda. Like scoies of others in this town, they took up the westward march and settled in Michigan, where doubtless these Lambs have increased to quite a flock. Lamb sold to Peter Shear, and he to William Hallenbeck, whose name we first encoitntered on the Halsey M. Smith place, in the Lovejoy district. He was from Coxsackie, Greene Co., and his wife was Rachel Ten Eyck, from the same town — ^both names betraying unquestionable Dutch origin. It was thirty- six years ago that Mr. H. came to this farm, and here he died in March, 1883, at the age of seventy-one, his widow surviving him a little more than one year, dying in October, 1884, at the age of seventy-three. Their children were not numerous, consisting of MartinF., who died in the army during the War, and Louise, who is the wife of Mr. Van Sicklen. The latter was born in one of the western states, and his father dying when Ogden was very small, his mother, who was a daughter of Elkanah Smith, returned to this town, and here he was reared. They have children, William F., who married Minnie, daughter of Jay Dickinson, of North Rose, and lives at home, and two girls. Belle and Rose. The framed house was built by Isaac Lamb, Jr., and the fine barn by Mr. Hallenbeck. (Wm. F. Van Sicklen and wife have a child, Mildred A.) On the south side of the road is the estate of John Lamb. The house was constructed in part by Wm. Hickok, who afterward dwelt south of the 138 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Valley, and was completed by John Lamb. John's wife is Jane E. Huff- man, a member of the family that once lived a little farther west, near the ■old grist-mill. Like many others, these good people went to Michigan, where they dwelt six years, but came back to this old pasturage, because, Mrs. L. says, "John was homesick." They reared a sizable family here and then went to North Rose to dwell, where "John " may work or not, as he likes. He knows where the biggest blackberries grow. Their chil- dren are Myron, Addison, and Mary Annette, whom, as Mrs. John Hetta, we shall meet in the Glenmark district. The place continues to suggest innocence, for Addison Lamb dwells here. His wife is Eliza J. McQueen, from Savannah ; but as people of that name formerly lived in the neigh- borhood, it is possible that her folks were once Eose inhabitants. They have one child, Cora I. (Now Mrs. Addison Dagle, of Huron. ) Continuing our route across the town line, having returned to the main road, we shall find, first, the valuable farm of Ishmael Gardner. His wife was Sarah Slaght, of Wolcott, and they have two boys to patronize the Nortli Rose school. No one must think that, on account of his name, Ishmael's hand is against every one, for no better nor more highly respected farmer lives on the street. He is an Ishmaelite in name only. Samuel Gardner, who lived here so long, was widely and favorably known. After working his farm up to a commendable condition, he moved down to the village, and there died, the supervisor of Eose, in 188.5. Ishmael is the sou by his first wife, while Ella, his only daughter, is the child of Happilona Chatterson, his second wife, who now survives him, living in Eose. Joseph Preston was the first settler on this farm. In the local annals, there is also a Hovey Preston, possibly a relative. Near the corner, on the left, as we continue north, we may see the place where James Catchpole wrought out his fertile and beautiful farm. Robert and James Catchpole came to Huron from Geneva more than forty years ago. They were from Norfolkshire, England, and another brother, George, became a wealthy resident of Geneva. It is quite unnecessary to state that the careful habits of these good people would have made them well-to do, wherever they were. They were not grinding, grasping folks, but good judgment, backed up by good health, industry and integrity, has given them enviable positions in this lake bordering town. The sequel has war- ranted us in the thought that their name was from the beginning suggestive, but that wealth, honor and repute might as well have ended it as the com- monplace " pole." James, the older, married a widow, Susan Knight, and their children are James, who retains the parent place, and with his maiden sisters, Mary Ann and Matilda, exemplifies how pleasant a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, individually as well as col- lectively. The next son, Benjamin, married Susan Comstock, of Huron, and has his home a little north of this district ; Robert married Lavina KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 139 Tindall ; Susan became the wife of Thomas Smith, of Geneva ; Ann became Mrs. Edward Thomas, late of Geneva : while Jemima, who married John Smith, we may meet if we go a few i-ods to the east and follow a private road till we find her pleasant home. Of her children, William, with a wife (who was a Post, from Butler) and two boys, lives at home, as also does James ; Nora married Fred Kelsey. and lives in Galen ; Maggie, a beautiful girl, died some years ago. The first James Catchpole and his wife are dead. Earlier than the Catchpoles, the names of Hiram Lamb and John Baker may be found connected with this farm. Across the road from the James Catchpole place, we find Dwight Flint and his wife, who was Mary, daughter of Robert Catchpole, 1st. The trade with her brother, George, has already been described. They have but one child, Augusta, who is the wife of Frank G. Gaylord, of Sodus. The barns ou this place were burned some time since, and have been replaced with most commodious structures. William Lamb once lived here, as did also Mr. Parley Lyon. Our limit in this direction is reached when we come to the home of Harvey D. Barnes. This place Robert Catchpole bought, away back in the forties, of Hiram Woodruff, and here he reared his children and devel- oped his farm, and here, too, he remained till advancing age prompted him to seek a home at the Valley. This was probably twenty years since. Mr. C. has been dead for several years, but his widow, in remarkalile health and strength, makes her home at the old place. (Died in 1890.) The family that was reared here consisted of Robert, who lives near Sodus Bay, in Huron; George, the present supervisor of Rose; Ellen, who mar- ried Garhardus Watson, of Galen; Mary A., the wife of Dwight Flint; Elizabeth, who is the wife of H. D. Barnes ; and Anna M., who is the wife of Joel Thorn, of Galen. This is the last farm in the district in this direc- tion, and the last one before making the plunge into the gorge through which we must pass in going hence to Glenmark ; but the place is a very superior one, and, as at present conducted, yields admirable returns for the labor expended. " Harve," as his friends call Mr. Barnes, is an old friend. We saw him first in District No. 7, the "boy" who lived with Joseph Seelye ; that outrageous youngster who sorely tried the patience of the old laily and drew many a satisfactory "ha! ha!" from the old gentleman. Had we time and place, a book could be filled in detailing the pranks of this man, who, as a boy, had all the mischief of the neighborhood laid at his door. But he lived through boyhood, served his country for three J ears in the Forty-fouith New York Volunteers, and coming home was fortunate euougli to marry his excellent wife. An admirable pair ; we have but one regret as we consider their surroundings, and that is, that while the farm is well tilled and stocked, it has no little Barnes. "Harve" is ■the son of Edward Barnes, who had married Hannah Tindall, a sister of 140 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. blacksmith " Parm," of the Yalley, and also of the late Mrs. Daniel Alex- ander. Mr. B., senior, lived in several places in this town and in Galen, in which town " Harve " was born. At one time he lived on the Dr. Dickson farm, i. e., the one now occupied by Harlan Wilson, west of the Linns Osgood place. He finally died in Michigan, his wife in the Valley. They had several children, among whom were Harvey ; Horatio, who- served during the War in the regular army and died afterward at Fort Plain ; and Mary, who died at her Uncle Brown's, in Glenmark. In part- ing with our old friend and his pleasant wife, I must extend sincere con- gratulations on the evident prosperity of both, and to the Eobert Catch- pole family for following Scriptural injunctions literally, in that the estate has been gathered into Barnes. Coming back to the North Rose corners, we are ready for a journey east- ward. Mrs. Proseus owns on the north side, and, as yet, her farm has not been cut up into house lots. Very near the angle once stood a black- smith shop, since moved down into the village and stands on Caroline street. The school-house is by far the most important building in the vicinity, and now that a new one is so constantly mooted, it will be in place to quote from the early records that have been preserved from 1821. Before the erection of this district, children went to the house down under the hill, west of Peter Shear's. One of the choicest reflections that one has in look- ing back to the beginning of our town is, that our fathers were so anxious to give to their children educational advantages. These may have been meagre ; undoubtedly they were limited enough, but they sufficed to give the young folks a start in life. To me the following extracts seem specially valuable: June 5th, 1820, Joseph Fellows and Andrew McNab leased six rods square of land in the southeast corner of lot 130 in Brother's allot- ment, for the sum of one dollar and for the term of ten years, to Joel Mudge, Moses Hickok and James Leland, trustees of District Xo. 14, and to their successors, for the purpose of furnishing a site for a school-house, the lease to be void if the school should not be maintained. October 21st, 1826, Gilbert Miner permanently leased the same site, only a little circum- scribed, i. e., it extended five rods back from the middle of the highway, and four rods east and west, but still in the same corner. This was done for the consideration of two dollars and fifty cents. At the rate of holding land then, the price paid was large for a deed in fee instead of a lease sim- ply. This was made to Asahel Gillett, Stephen Benedict and Gale Leland, trustees, and was given shortly after the erection of the town : " School Destrict No. 14. Beginning at the northeast corner of Nicholas' Four Thousand Tract. Thence west on the north line of said tract three miles and a half, thence north one mile and a half, thence due east until it strikes the west line of Destrict No. two, thence southerly on west line of ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 141 Destrict No. two and six to the place of beginning the above. Described Destrict being a part of Destrict number five and three. The above Described Destrict is erected into separate Destrict, and the Clerk of the Town is hereby ordered to Eecord the same.'' Martin Carterigat, \ Comnassioners of Eeastus Fuller, J Common Schools. WoLCOTT, June the 27th, 1821. On the 6th of October, 182(5, it was voted to build a new school-house : to begin preparations in the winter; to have it ready in the ensuing June; that it should be 18x26. (This was not completed till 1S28.) November 1st, 1845, preliminary steps were taken toward building another new school-house. At the adjourned meeting, November 7th, it was voted to build on the old site ; to have Henry Graham, Asahel Gillett and Hovey Preston co-operate with the trustees ; to build of wood with studs and braces and to paint on the outside ; to build 28 x 24, after a model pre- sented by Henry Graham ; to sell the old building and stove to the highest bidder ; to levy a tax of $300 to build with ; and to have the edifice completed the first of September next. Back of the old school-house is a small house in which lives William Thompson, whose business is that of a peddler. Here, before him, dwelt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith, father of E. G. Smith, whom we saw in the Lake district. Before them was Robert Andrews, that merry shoemaker who located first in the Valley, but afterward came here and built a little shop southeast from the school-house, which was long a congregating place for all the male gossips of the vicinity. A Protestant Methodist, he could pray long and loud ; could tell a good story, an.d was not without interest in a horse trade. Of his children, Kellogg, called "Cal," became a Protestant Methodist minister ; Mrs. Colcord lives in North Huron ; Mrs. Phoebe Sherman in Michigan ; Mrs. Dora Thomas and Mrs. Peter Paine are also in the west. From Rose, Andrews went to Huron. It is possible that Andrews built the red house opposite, or at any rate added to that little school-house that (IS x26) was the pride of the early settlers, for this was moved oft, and, I understand, made a part of this structure. I believe John Lamb owns it now. It was for a time the home of Jay Seelye, and here Michael Priudle, preacher, blacksmith and horse jockey, dwelt. His peculiarities still excite remark among the denizens of the place. I believe that Henry Garlic was here also, and that Elkanah Smith, often met in wanderings hereabouts, dwelt here once. The black- smith shop, where work was done, and where the small boy languished with switch in hand, was near the shoe shop, and finally melted away. (On the south side also is the second old school-house. ) 142 BOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. J. B. Aldrich has opened a new street, or rather has continued Gray street across the road into his orchard, and here, on the east side, Albion M. Gray is building a very fine bouse. (Mr. Gray was born in Mt. Vernon, Me., reared in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and learned his carpenter trade in New Jersey. He married Sarah A. Smalley, a relative of Abram Dorenius, in New Jersey. Their children are Charles A., John M., Elizabeth L., Otis A. and Alvin M. So far as I know he is the only resident ever given by the Pine Tree State to the town.) Further in the orchard, right among the trees, Irwin R. Seelye has planted his beautiful house. Irwin married Sarah Williams, of Marion, and has one child, Nettie. May they find much pleasure in their home among the apple trees, where annually they must be surrounded by those prettiest of flowers, i. e., apple blossoms. Across from Seelye's is a house owned by Wing Langley. (Robert Dickinson married Emeline, daughter of Birney Briggs, and built, recently, a very pretty home east of Mr. Gray's, and just beyond him. To them in Aug., 1893, a daughter was born. Allen Proseus, having already put up an excellent barn, is erecting an elegant residence. His wife is Libbie, daughter of Joseph Andrews, and their children are Harry I. and Isabelle.) Here the road leads up to the Huron part of the district, but whose only Rose dweller is Luther Wilson. A visit to him reveals one of the most pleasant homes in Rose. His only child, a daughter, died some years ago. Beyond him, in Huron, we should find Jefferson Chaddock and several others whose alBliations are with Rose. On the south side of the main road is a red building which years ago Morton F. Trippe bought of the Langleys, it having stood near the ceme- tery, and having been a tenant house for them, and moved to this site. Here he located his parents. Morton was a soldier during the War, and^ it is presumed, filially applied some of his earnings and bounty in this praiseworthy manner. He was graduated at Hamilton College, and became a Presbyterian minister, and is now serving his God in that capacity on an Indian reservation in the western part of the state. The post office was here for a time. Then came Cornelius Van Buren, who deeded the prop, erty to Henry Garlic, and he traded it with Katie Graham for the little farm over near P. T. Lewis', in the Lovejoy neighborhood. Here now dwell Katie, the widow of Alfred Graham, and her parents, the Eldreds. Clark Eldred was born in Deerfield, Oneida county, and married, first, Harriet Blanchard of Cato. His second wife was Mary Chaddock, a daughter of that William the first whom we met in the Lake district. His life has been passed i)rincipally in Huron and Rose. Now an invalid, he keeps close to his home. Mrs. E. is a good soul, who likes to meet her friends and pass a social hour. They have but two children, Katie and Lydia, who, as the widow Sobers, married Henry Garlic. (Mr. Eldred died August IS, 1889, aged 84 years.) ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 143' Tbe home of James B. Aldrich now attracts ns, aud entering, we shall find not only the head of the family, known among his friends as ''Ben," bnt also bis wife, Calista, her mother, Mrs. Jnlia Dickinson, and an invalid aunt of ^Ir. A. The home is home- like — and what more in way of praise conld be said ? Thirty acres of Mr. Aldrich's farm were bought of Darwin Dickinson ; the remaining seventy were a part of the old Amos Aldrich estate. As we have seen, Mr. A. has opened a street into his domain, anil already houses are going up thereon. The house was built by Emory Eoberts thirty-five years ago. Roberts, with his father, John, went to Michigan. They sold to -'Dar" Dickinson. They had bought of Henry Graham, and had lived here probably ten or twelve years. The Aldriches have only one child, Harriet E.. who married Everett SI aght of the village,, though he was formerly from Wolcott. Crossing to the south side we shall find the house of Morgan Lewis Smith. The politics of Smith's father, Elkanah, and the time of his biith, may be surmised by his Christian name. Mr. S.'s holding is a small one, consisting of thirteen and one-half acres only, and he bought of Jay Dickinson. The latter built tbe bouse. Mr. Smith's wife was, as a girl,^ Florence Jane Commett, from Newark. They have no children. Tbe Smiths came from Delaware county, and the elder Mrs. Smith lies in the Rose burial ground. Elkanah went to Michigan. James Brisbin has a small holding on tbe north side of the road, a part of the William Dickinson place. Mr. B. came from Pultneyville, and his wife is Lizzie, a daughter of Mr. Dickinson. Their only son, George, is at home. (Now in Clyde.) Maggie, a daughter of Mr. B. by his first wife, Elizabeth Malcom, is tbe wife of Wing Langley. Another daughter is Lillian E. Mrs. B. and George are members of the Rose Free Methodist Church. As we advance eastward we must notice deep excavations on both sides of the road. Hence have been taken many cords of lime stone for building purposes. I should conclude from casual observation that tbe rock is better adapted to making walls in bulk than to holding them together in the shape of lime. I think no successful effort has been made to burn this stone. Early in the century tbe quarry was worked by Prentice Miner, but whether he opened it or not deponent doth not aver. From this source material was obtained for the Erie canal locks near Clyde in 1823, and again for the same purpose at the time of the enlargement. Door steps and corner-stones innumerable have been taken thence for use in this and neighboring towns. If Miner (what an appropriate name) possessed any rights in the quarry, they passed to Dickinson, who took articles from the land office. The latter was born near Lake George in 1801 (December 19tb), and married first Cbailotte Vaughn, by whom he bad two children — Sarah Ann, who married her cousin, Christopher Dickinson, a printer, 144 ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. who lived in Albany and later in Clyde. She now lives in this town as Mis. David Wescott. The son, Robert Darwin, was well known in Rose, where he lived for many years, though he died in New York a commission merchant. His wife, Harriet Ferris, was a daughter of Deacon Ferris of Butler. He left four children— Harvey D., who, having married Clara Colvin, lives now in Idaho ; Clarence, since deceased ; Merville, in Idaho with Harvey, and Caroline. William Dickinson's second marriage was to Julia Emily Seelye, daughter of Benjamin, and their children were Charlotte L., who married, first, John Partridge, and second, Joseph Boynton. They moved to Napoleon, Michigan, where she died, leaving a son, Merville. Calista Dickinson we have seen as the wife of James B. Aldrich ; Eliza is Mrs. James Brisbin ; while Isadore Amelia married Philo B. Boynton. They live at Joel Lee's in District No. 6, and have three children— Emily, Joseph and Florence. In the second family of Mr. Dickinson there were only two sons — Judson and Jay R. The latter married Elizabeth Bovee of Rose, and lives in the village, following the trade of -a house carpenter. The former, through mental infirmities, was well known in the town, especially in the decade from 1860 to 1870. He died in 1882, and we cannot help wondering what he might have been if nature to him had ne'er been unkind. William Dickinson was always connected more or less with a mill', and in this place erected a structure for fashioning and smoothing stones, but it was not, I think, successful. The pond which supplied his power was immediately at our left as we crossed the bridge going east. Mr. D. was a man of great decision and determina- tion, and it means no disparagement when we state that he was familiarly known in town as " Bill Dick." He was a life-long Baptist, and I would give a great deal if I could settle one question as authoritatively as he, William Chaddock, Jonathan Briggs, Artemas Osgood and other contem- poraries used to rule on all matters of state and religion. The lyceum convened immediately after morning services and the place was at the entrance to the church, and here they served up whole chunks of solid wisdom. The world, I fear, will never know just how much it has lost. When Mr. Dickinson raised that oracular finger and emphasized his dictum with "I tell you " so and so^ and with a look that Lord Chancellor Thurlow might have envied, there was no gainsaying him. However much one might object to some of his opinions, he was uniformly respected. He died in December, 1879. and is buried in Clyde. His widow was born October 23d, 1799, in Kingsbury, Washington county. In her old age she finds a pleasant home with Mrs. Aldrich. (Died September 3, 1889, in her 90th year.) After Mr. D.'s death, the place passed to James Brisbin for a time, when he sold to Jonathan Briggs, who in time sold to Charles Barrick, and he has lived here for the last seven years. Mr. B. is from Lyons, of a Maryland family long settled there ; his wife is Emily Otto, a ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 145 daughter of Samuel Otto of Huron, but a resident of Eose when he lost his life in 1870. They have two children — Ralph L., who married Sarah Hall of Galen, and is now in Emporia, Kansas ; the daughter, Hattie E., is at home. A small house across the road belongs to the estate. It is surrounded by land belonging to the Briggs property. (Mr. Briggs has recently erected a steam saw- mill south of the road.) Proceeding eastward we must notice the elegant barn which Mr. John York has erected recently on the old Benjamin Seelye place. Like many farms in this vicinity, this has passed into the hands of the ISTorth Rose maltster, and plenty of money is rapidly effecting very noteworthy changes. I do not believe I could enumerate all the people who have lived here as tenants and owners, but going back to John Burns I can give the most of them. In Osgood Church's book of sales, this lot, 132, is assigned to Noadiah Gillett. Of this party, I have thus far obtained no clue what- ever. He may have been related to the other members of the Gillett family ; but if so, the survivors do not know it. John Burns certainly lived here and reared his large family. Possibly Henry Graham owned it for a brief time. The period of uncertainty, however, ends when, about 1840, Benjamin Seelye and family came from Washington county and located here. He was an elder brother of Joseph, who, from 1815, had lived in District No. 7. Mr. Seelye had had the care of his aged mother, and after her death he forsook the hills of his native town and came hither. His wife was Eunice Barnum, a native of Shaftsbury, Vermont. She had several brothers in Rose and Butler, as Roger, whom we have seen near Stewart's corners ; Bateman, who married a Richardson, in Butler, and Smith, who married a Mason, in the same town. A daughter of Smith B. married a Leonard, at Spencer's corners. All of " Uncle Ben's " children were born in Washington county, and the oldest we have already met as Mrs. William Dickinson ; Electa married, first, Garrett Clark, whose son, Byron, lives in Savannah ; her second husband was Oliver Millard, and with him she lived for many years in Lockport, finally dying there ; Polly was Mrs. William Farr, of Fort Ann, Washington county, till both went west, to Iowa. Emma was the wife of Jared Young, of Fort Ann, and the mother of Bell and Electa Young, who used to live with the Seelyes, of Eose, Bell married Melvin Gillett ; the youngest child, Caroline, became the wife of David Stanley, who, a miller, for a long time ran the grist-mill in North Huron. She died long since, leaving children, Plumie, who mar- ried a Clark, of Waterloo ; Alice, who became Mrs. Michael Vandercook, of Rose ; Elmer and Ellen. Benjamin had two sons, John Jay and Nehemiah. The latter we met two or three times in other districts in Rose. Jay married Minerva Boynton, of Huron, and for many years lived on the old place. Afterward he was in Huron and North Eose, and finally died in Waterloo, in 1887. His burial place is Huron. His children were 11 146 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Irwin, Fred and Burt. Fred married Lottie Sours, of Huron, and died in Wolcott, leaving a son, Gray P. (Mrs. Seelye married in January, 1890, Mr. G. F. Smith, of Horton, Kansas.) Burt is a successful teacher in "Waterloo. (Now in Brooklyn.) These Seelyes, Benjamin and Jay, were entitled to the respect and consideration of all who knew them. Praise- worthy citizens, they lived beloved and died regretted. As occupants or owners after this family, we can find the names of Elkanah Smith, Robert Jeffers, Wing Langley, and finally John York. Nearly opposite is a dwelling which Henry Graham put up for his daughter, who married Isaac Maybe. On the north side is a small bouse belonging to the Grahams, which was once on the Baker place, the build- ing that William Chaddock found there when he bought. It was sold to George Smith with one-half acre of land. It now belongs, as stated, to the Graham estate. The Graham farm follows, the place where Henry Graham accumulated his wealth, and where now his youngest son, Nelson, lives. The latter' s wife is Susan Genung, of Rose. The farm was first occupied by Moses Hickok, grandfather of Felton and Eugene. He probably lived here several years and reared his family. William, a son, used to tell about encountering a deer when visiting the spring down by the present site of the railroad. In this case the boy rather than the animal was hunted. From relationship, I fancy that the Hickoks were from Connecticut. Moses' wife was Zervia Felton, by whom he had William, Joseph Mun- son, Caroline, Emeline, Fanny and Luna M. Fanny, Caroline and Joseph died young. Luna married John R. Hudson and went to Michigan. Henry Graham was one of the most noteworthy figures in the history of the town. He was born in Ulster county, January 19, 1802, and died in Clyde, October 17, 1878, and was buried there. It is remarkable that at the time of his death his mother was living with a daughter in Port Byron, at the wonderful age of 102 years. She lived to be 106. Her name was Lydia, and with her husband, Henry, moved to Cayuga when our Henry was only ten years old. He saw the usual round of privation and adventure. He learned the carpenter's trade, tended lock on the Erie canal, and was a blacksmith in Canandaigua. His first wife was Roxana Demure, who died in 1811, in her forty-first year, and was buried in the North Rose burial ground. In 1831 he moved to Port Glasgow and leased and kept the hotel owned by Isaac Gillett. Later he came to Rose, to the Jonathan Briggs farm, and thence came to this, his long-time home. To begin with, he had 160 acres, but this amount varied from time to time. His second wife was Eliza Ross, of Auburn, and she survives him, living in Clyde. (Died July 23, 1892, in her 78th year.) By his first wife Mr. G. was the father of Henry, who for many years kept the Graham House in Lyons, whose wife was Jane Lambkin, of Port Byron ; he has been dead OLD RESIDENTS. Elizuk Flint. Amo;> Alukkii. \\M. Dii, kin;>(>n. Samuel T-vman. Henkv Gkaham. Stephen Collins. Franklin Finch. Addisun Weeks ChALNCEV IllsllDl', luNATllAN Rul'lGb. Benjamin Seel\ l. EOBE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 147 several years ; Albert came next, and he married Eliza Smith, as we have seen ; Adaline married Welcome Freeman and went to Ohio, and Eliza- beth became the wife of Isaac Maybe, of Butler. The present Mrs. Graham is the mother of Nelson ; Elmore P., who, having married Nettie Beach, of Seneca Falls, keeps up the old Purdy farm in Butler in fine style ; and Archibald, the youngest, married Rose E. Case, of Clyde, he has one child, Louise II. He maintains a large business in running a grist-mill and drug store. Henry Graham was a man calculated to arouse attention anywhere. His business talents were of the highest character, and at his death be was probably the wealthiest man in the town. He was quick and certain in his conclusions and rarely was in error. In personal appearance he was noteworthy, weighing generally about 250 xjounds. In stature erect and in motion courtly, he had much of what is styled old time gentility. Though never conspicuous in politics, he had talents fitting him for any position. He built the framed house so long prominent on the farm, but this has been moved to the village. Its predecessor, which Graham found there, is now a barn on the premises. The present well appointed house was built in 1886, and it seems a pity that no youthful Grahams are grow- ing up to utilize so much comfort and elegance. (Mrs. Nelson Graham died April 26, 1892. Mr. G. has since married Miss Florence Lovejoy, of District No. 9. In Sept., '93, was born to them a daughter, Susie E.) Julius Baker lives on the next place east, and it is a pleasure to talk with so well preserved and active a man, whose years are reaching toward the eighties. Born in 1810, I found him on a hot August day of 1888 using a cradle in an oat field, and full of jovial remark. He says that Dudley Wade used to court a red-headed girl named Goodsell, in Clinton, Oneida county, and that years afterward, when Baker was sawiug wood for Mr. Wade, he asked him, as they were sitting down to the table, if he remem- bered anything about her. " Don't you say a word about that red-haired girl before my wife," says Uncle " Dud," and, says Baker, " I didn't." ''Why, Wade hitched up the first horse that I drove when I went court- ing," continued Mr. Baker. He was born in Watertown, Conn. He was for many years a wagonmaker, and lived in various places, coming to Rose directly from Cayuga county. His wife was Eliza Leonard, who was born in 1811, in Westmoreland, Oneida county. For the last twenty-four years he has lived here. His son, George, lives near Wolcott, and Jerome in Auburn. Nelson is on the farm with his father. Jane uuirried Ambrose Copeman, from Aurelius, who died on the Collins place, east. Nelson's wife is Helen Barrett, a native of Ossian, Allegany county. Their children are Clara and George. Mr. Baker bought of William Chaddock, who built the house, and he followed Hiram Dunn. Unfortunately, I am obliged to leave the farm thus Dunn for. 148 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. For a long time I had supposed that the log house on " Sam " Osbom's place, built by his father, was the only one in this part of the town, but I am in error, for going down the hill beyond Mr. Baker's, and just before I begin the ascent of the next one, at my left, I find a log structure slowly settling down and returning to primitive dust. It was built more than forty years ago by "Jim" Phillips, whom we met in the Lake district, but for the most part its history is identified with that of the Feecks, who lived here several years. Nicholas, the father, came here from Aurelius, Cayuga county, and his wife, a Brown, was related to the wife of the first William Chaddock. They had six sons, of whom four went into the Union army, as did Nicholas himself. Alonzo was in Company H of the Ninth Artillery, and was taken prisoner with me at Monocacy. If he ever had any energy he lost it all on his capture, for after entering Danville prison he hardly lifted a hand to help himself. I have seen him lying on the ground and fairly covered with flies. They swarmed over his body and were even on his face and hands. " Feeck, in heaven's name, why don't you brush those flies off," I said to him one day as I passed. " Oh, what's the use ! They'll come again," was the languid response. Such an utter lack of grit could have only one result. He died before the first fall of snow upon our prison pen. William J. Feeck, who was in the 111th N. Y., lives now in Huron. Zadoc Taylor took the place, a small one, after Feeck, and it continues in his family. Our eastern course is run when we come to the home of Charles Harper, on the south side of the road, but to get at prime facts, let us go back to 1813, where in the books of Osgood Church we may find the following entry : Dr. Asahel Gillett, Cont. No. 102, March 10, lot No. 155, 50 acres, price per acre $4.25. This of course takes us to the land office, and back of Gillett must have been the bears and Indians. This settler was from Connecticut and was one of several Gilletts who have been found in the town. He was a cousin of Harvey of the Lyman district, and likewise of Hosea and Isaac, already seen in this district. His wife was Euth , but unfortunately they were childless. Honest and industrious, they paid for their farm and had money beside. They invited John, a son of Asahel' s brother Avery, to come and live with them as heir expectant, but incom- patibility of tempers spoiled the plan, and, as we have seen, John set up for himself. Then Alphonso, son of another brother, came to take John's place, but this scheme worked no better than the first one. The old people became suspicious, and they had always been exacting. One misfortune after another followed, till all the savings of many years were squandered, and Asahel finally died in the house of Avery Gillett, son of John, during the War, otherwise he must have been thrown upon the town. After Gillett came Albert G. Graham, Henry's son, and he was followed by the LaRock brothers, Charles and Joseph. Charles married a Hart and Joseph ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 149 a Seager. At present the former lives near Wayne Centre. Charles Harper came next, and he still holds the property. He is Galen born, being one of a family wherein seven members averaged 214 ponnds each in weight. His wife is Clarissa Winchell, born in Eose, and they have two children, David and Minerva. The house remains, without, much as it was in Gillett's day, but the interior arrangements have been altered somewhat. The Harpers are Methodists. (David has recently wed Anna Lovejoy.) We have now reached the eastern limit, and to get to the other part we must stand again on the corner by Mrs. Proseus'. We shall pass at our " right a fruit dryer on the Proseus place, and must then go over a deep glen, along which, years ago, were the saw and grist-mills of Isaac Lamb. Somewhere along here on the south side was the home of Isaac Lamb after leaving the old farm. The first house to be encountered is that owned by Cephas B. Bishop. The latter is a son of Chauncey, so long prominent in the annals of the town, and he married a daughter of the second William Chaddock. I am very sorry that I cannot tell more about Almon Howard, who was one of the first if not the very first resident here. He was prominent in school matters, but like many others went to the west. After him Ebenezer L. Sumner is fouud, but aside from some marriage connections with neighboring families, we have little save the name. He, too. went west. Then came Dr. Henry VanOstrand, who finally went to Albion, Michigan. Then succeeded Murray Waterman, who now lives in Lyons. The house was built by Mr. Van Ostrand, but was improved by Waterman. Then followed Henry Clapper, Eose born, but who has lived years in Wolcott. He was his son who married Anginette Muusell, grand- daughter of Harvey Mason. From Clapper the farm passed to Bishop ; this in 1863. There are eighty- six acres in it. The owner has not lived on his farm for some years, finding it more convenient to dwell in the Valley, and to thus afford a home to his aged mother-in-law. Cephas is a man of many a joke, and enjoys a good laugh. (Charles Garlick is now the owner.) The next place, that of Mr. Correll, is a part of a very large farm that was years ago in the possession of a Mr. Young, a wealthy Genevan, whose brother Thomas lived in the Proseus house and managed the estate. One of the first dwellers here was Joseph Aldrich, reared at the corners, being a son of Amos. To him succeeded one of the Lymans, then Alpheus Gillett, Ira Lathrop, and finally the present owner, a German. (Now the property of Mrs. John York.) Our last place in this district is reached when we come to the long time home of Pardon Jones, though he for many years resided in the Valley. I can find no earlier name connected with the farm than that of James Colborn, the same one who lived so many years in the Griswold district. Though his life more properly belongs to the latter neighborhood, it will 150 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. not be amiss to state that he was from Pennsylvania, and that his wife was Mary Waters of Alloway, town of Lyons, a sister of Mrs. John Deady of District Xo. 5. He probably came to this farm in 1816 and helped manage the neighl)oring sawmill. Here happened one of those harrowing accidents from which no age nor place is free. His oldest boy, a lad of five or there- abouts, was found dead in the path connecting the house and the place where the father was chopping. There was no mark of violence on his body, and his death was accounted for on the supposition that he had quietly followed his father, and finding a newly fallen tree across the path, had climbed upon this, and was sitting, possibly lying on it, when another tree, falling, struck the fallen tree so violently as to kill the lad by the concussion. Mr. Colburn was here possibly five years, when he was succeeded by Nicholas Stansell, who, in turn, ran the saw-mill. John Fosmire also was a resident for a time, but it is more than forty years since Pardon Jones located and staid. Mr. Jones was born in Ehode Island, and in his ways and sayings retained very much of that quaintness for which New England Yankees have been so long noted. In naming the characters of the town Pardon would come in early. In coming to Eose his first stopping place was near the Lymans, perhaps in that house where John Lyman essayed housekeeping, and then he went to the old Briggs place, afterward and for years that of " Ken" Sheffield. On this farm he lived two years, and then moved to the one so long connected with his name. Mr. Jones had filtered through several states and counties before reaching our town. His wife, Dorcas Burlingame, was a native of Cortland county, and her he had when he came to us. His only son, George H., is a resident of Auburn, where he is developing a very successful invention of his, viz., a turbine water wheel. Pardon Jones died September .5th, 1888, at the age of eighty-four years. Once more we are at the end of our school district, the second in popula- tion in the town, yet were it not for the village at its centre, so great are the changes in modern living, the number of children to attend the public school would not be so large as it was sixty years ago. Unless customs change, no Malthus can inspire us with fear of overcrowding the earth. SCHOOL DISTEICT NO. 10— " Covell's." Nov. 7, lSS9—Jan. 30, 1S90. However much we may obtain from written records, to him who writes there is no satisfaction like that gained from some aged narrator, M'ho. the toils of life all past, passes its evening calmly by the fireside, and. sur- rounded by loved ones, tells of the events of its earlier and active days. Such a source is had as we come to the district frequently referred to as ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 151 Covell's. "We enter it by turning to the west at Shear's corners, or if we took the west road, just south of George Stewart's, by continuing due west. This road is the longest straight stretch in the town. Beginning a half mile from the Butler line, it continues parallel with the Rose border and a little less than two miles south of the north edge, to within half a mile of Sodus. It must be, then, about sis miles in length. We enter our neigh- borhood through District Xo. 3, whose extreme western resident, Super- visor George Catchpole, was mentioned several months since. Our first stop is at a pleasant farm house on the north side of the road, where we shall find at home a man who, more than sixty years ago, came hither, and in the wilderness laid his hearth-stone. Stephen Collins was born March 8th, 1S02— eighty-seven years since — and, with his father, Thaddeus', family, came to Rose from Phelps. Earlier than this he had come in with his brothers, Alpheus and Thaddeus, Jr. In fact, his advent was made on horseback, in some way contributing to the good of his kin. After the coming of his parents and their making their home near where Mrs. Harvey Gloss now lives, he led the usual life of boys in these pioneer regions, getting a little schooling in the winter, and having always a pretty definite notion of what hard work was, till his marriage, in January, 1822, to Clarissa Wilson, a daughter of that Jonathan who had made his early home just north of Stewart's corners. They do say that Stephen was a most assiduous courter, and that sometimes the boys would untie his horse, which would result in his late rider's having to walk home. A neighbor says : " His horse was sometimes tied to the fence when I got up in the morning to start the day." Such ardor could have only one end- ing. So, long before attaining his majority, our friend essayed the yoke of matrimony, thus, it will be seen, never really knowing what liberty is. The full measure of home life, /. e., work at his fathei-'s home, was exacted in spite of his marriage. When the full time had been served, or a little after, he came down to this plain and took up his residence in a log house, built by Amasa Andrus. The farm itself was a part of the Nicholas pur- chase. Two brothers, James and Amasa Andrus, had come with Deacon Elizur Flint, first neighbor east, and Amasa located here. James, who was married, settled first on the farm where Will Gloss is now. Afterward he lived in a log house across the road from the present Collins place, built by one Hall. Neither paid anything on their lots, and so, after a while, both went to Huron and thence west. Stephen succeeded to the farm and betterments, paying therefor nine dollars an acre, a sum consid- erably greater than a new lot would cost. But his hands were young and strong, and with a clear conscience and a willing heart he went to work. He received less from the paternal estate than his brothers ; but he suc- ceeded quite as well, a tribute to the zeal and industry of himself and of his excellent help-meet. Gould there be embodied in these lines all that this aged man can tell of the days early in the century, we might have veritable 152 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. pictures of the homes and farms of those times. Let him narrate some of his observations : " Yes, we began in a log house, and began pretty much as others did. There was no mill near at first and grain had to be taken, at the nearest, to Wolcott. Then came the one at Glenmark, with saw- mills all along the creek to the eastward. Roads cut in and across wher- ever the people wished. Gradually, as the country was cleared up and fences built, it became necessary to lay out and maintain regular thorough- fares : so the temporary ways were closed up. We lived closely, using much Indian meal and pork. Game was tolerably abundant. Everybody thought strong drink necessary, and I bought, soon after coming here, a ten-gallou cask of whisky ; but some how or other I didn't take to the idea, and so never had it filled again. I had neighbors who were incessantly begging for it. One man, Solomon Fraly, was a lesson to me. He lived in the log house, mentioned before, and he drank himself into delirium tremens. I wanted nothing of the medium that would reduce men to his condition. There were log houses at frequent intervals, even more com- mon than the permanent homes of to-day. Quite a ways down there, toward the south, was a log shanty, in which lived a family by the name of Eiggs. They were wretchedly poor, so poor, indeed, that once they were said to have lived two weeks upon leeks. The Hall already men- tioned had married a sister of Mr. Eiggs, who was the father of Gowan Eiggs, so recently deceased in Huron. To put it in the mildest form pos- sible, this early settler was a man of very irregular habits. He sold to one Bascom. Then came a Van Wort, and he sold to Henry Ackerman, my son-in-law, and myself. The house became my barn, and it, in time, fell down. The Halls, Bascoms and Van Worts went west. You can not remember the funny way we had to resort to to gather our crops. Did you ever see grain drawn upon a bushi No? Well, this is the way it was done. We would cut down a small tree or take a branch of a large one and hitching a horse or ox to the end of it, would draw whatever could be piled on it, and we could get quite a deal, too. Then, too, in cutting grain we had to use the sickle entirely, and it was quite an art. Men had as much pride in their ability to swing the sickle well, as their sons, in the cradle, and grandsons in the reaper. We used to make a band of the first clip, then would lay on it enough for a bundle, and so continue across the field. When we had cut across, we would bind back, rolling our sickle up in our tow frocks, or hanging it on our shoulders. I used the latter way, generally. There was more made of the harvest season in those days than now. Liquor was considered a necessary part of the programme, and here is the refrain of some Pennsylvanians, who came up here to work. When making their first band, they would sing : '"Good Massa Longstraw, Bottle at each end. But not in the middle of the band, O.' ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 153 "This meant, I suppose, that they wanted plenty of drink, but none of drink's results in their bands. Homespun was our chief wear. In the year there might be woven fifty pounds of wool and one hundred of flax. How much money do you suppose I paid out in the making of that barn? Well, you couldn't guess. It was just two dollars and a half. Of course, it cost me more than that ; but grain was our standard and a day's work was rated at one bushel of wheat or two of oats. There were thirteen days' work on the framing of the barn. The house was built in 1839." The marriage of Mr. Collins and Clarissa Wilson, so early consummated, resulted in the birth of several children, as Mary Angeline, who, as the wife of S. Wesley Gage, now lives on the old farm, thus making pleasant the later days of her aged father. Mr. Gage is a native of Cayuga county. They have one daughter, Lillian M., who has had much experi- ence as a teacher, but is now at home. (Xow Mrs. J. A. Rose, Hillsdale, Michigan.) Their only son, Thaddeus W., died in 1S73, at the age of fourteen. Grace, a niece of Mr. Gage, finds with him a pleasant home. (Married in 1892 W. H. Lassell of Jersey City). Few people are better posted on contemporaneous Rose events than Mrs. Gage. Mr. Collins' second daughter, Damaris Adaline, married Henry Ackerman, and now lives in Huron. His only son, Thaddeus W., is well known in Wayne county, having been for many years a lawyer in Lyons, where he has held many offices at the hands of his fellow citizens. He is a graduate of Genesee College, now Syracuse University, then in Lima, and of the Albany Law School. I was a very small lad when I heard him and John Vandenberg of Clyde address the citizens of Rose in the old Baptist Church on the subject of slavery. I think it must have been my induction into the cause of abolition. He has been three times married. His first wife was Lovina A., daughter of William O. Wood of Red Creek. She was the mother of T. W. Collins, Jr., a rising young lawyer of Lyons. His second wife was Corinthia Bottum of Lyons. Stephen Collins' third daughter, Esther L., married James Winchell, then of Rose, now of Sodus, while Henrietta M. is Mrs. John Shear of Rose, near Stewart's corners, a brother of Peter, John Shear came from Junius. Mr. Collins has been for many years a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Twice he has gone to Lyons to live with his sou, but on the death of his wife late in 1886, he returned to his old home. Though we shall have occasion to refer to him often, we shall have to leave him now, happy, I trust, in the memories of a well spent life, and in the promise of a glorious life beyond. (Died November, 1892. In 1893 the Gages live in the Valley, and Prank Kellogg works the farm.) The next farm was early taken up by Charles Woodward, who sold his betterments to Moses Foster Collins, another son of that first Thaddeus. He it was, who, when the century was in its teens, went courting with his 154 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. brother Thaddeus " over east." He was attracted by the charms of Mary, daughter of Alverson Wade, who then lived on what is now the Lewis Town place, while Thad. was enamored of Harriet, daughter of Deacon Aaron Shepard. It was on these expeditions that to protect themselves from wolves, whose howls were alarmingly near, the sparkers armed them- selves with stakes from an old wood sled that chanced to be handy. Fortunately for them they didn't have to use them. This story was a favorite one of Uncle Thad.'s, and many a boy's hair has all but stood on end at the recital. Another even better liked by the small boy was about a bear that he and Mr. Beals once treed. They chopped the tree down, and then, by the help of their dogs, killed the animal as he leaped from the fallen tree. When an old man, and when to illustrate, it must have caused him a serious effort, he would get down upon the floor on his hands and feet to show how the bear acted. No circus ever gave one-half the pleasure that that home performance afforded ; and when Stephen Collins informs me that Mr. Beals was a Phelps man, that the bear was killed only a little further west, near the home of Francis Osborn, and that he went down the next morning to help skin it, the whole incident becomes a reality. Somehow or other I had grown to think that Mr. Beals and possibly Mr. Bear were only creatures of my good relative's imagination. Foster Collins married Mary Wade, and by her was the father of a numer- ous family. He was himself a member of the Methodist Church. Like his brothers, his life began in Phelps, May 22d, 1795, and he finished his earthly career July 14th, 1878, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to the names given here, there were several children not named, who died early and were buried on the farm. His wife was born in Paris, Oneida county, September ISth, 1799, and died in Ann Arbor, August 11th, 1879. They were married July 16th, 1816, in what is now Eose, by the Rev. Mr. Smith, possibly that Elder S. who was the first Baptist preacher in our vicinity. I am under obligations for data to Mr. Collins' oldest daughter, Harriet, who, born July 7th, 1817, is a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan. She married September 27th, 1838, in Pittsfield, Washtenaw county, Michigan, the Eev. Nelson Eastwood of the Baptist denomination ; their one son, John Foster, born December 3rd, 1846, is a Ph. I), from Michigan University, 1887, and an assistant professor of chemistry therein. Foster Collins' next child was Joseph Wade, born in Rose, September 16th, 1818, and he has been twice married ; first to Lucy Raymond, of Lodi, N. Y., and second, to Laurie Hincs of Michigan ; he is a Wesleyan Methodist minister and the father of eight children, all farmers. Next came Franklin B., born September 7th, 1823, an M. D. from Michigan University; he died in 1857, leaving one daughter, Mrs. John Bennett of Ann Arbor, Michigan; his wife was Cordelia Bristol, of Michigan ; he practiced medi- cine in St. Clair and died in Pittsfield. Frederick W. Collins was born ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 155 February 14th, 1826 ; he married Mary McDowell; has been a member of the Legislature ; has four children ; and is now extensively engaged in grain raising in Dakota ; post office, De Smet. Mary L. Collins, born February 11, 1830, became Mrs. Addison McDowell, and died February 11th, 1884, in Middleville, Barry county, Michigan, the mother of nine children. George F. Collins, born March 21st, 1834, married Alvira Hepburn, and a farmer, is in Nebraska; he has one son. Betsey M., the last of Foster Collins' children, and the only one not born in Rose, became Mrs. George Cook, and is a resident of Middleville, Michigan. Her birth- place was Pittsfield, August 9th, 1837 ; she has one daughter. Truly this Collins-Wade stock was fruitful and of excellent quality. Leaving Rose in 1834, the most of Mr. Collins' following years were passed in Pittsfield. In Rose he was one of the first board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church established in 1832. The Woodward who preceded Mr. Collins on this farm went first to the Valley, where for a time he kept tavern, and then went west. His wife was Clara, a daughter of Captain John Sherman, one of the first settlers. To Foster Collins succeeded John B. Chatterson, a son of that Betts C. whom we found in District No. 7. Before leaving the Hudson river region he had married Cynthia Sours, a sister of Capt. Philip S., long prominent in Huron affairs. His children were all girls, viz. : Happilona, whom we have met in North Rose as the widow of Samuel Gardner; Mary is dead; Emily lives at the old home with her sister Cynthia ; Melvina married Newman Finch of Rose ; Cynthia married Andrew Andrus of Huron, and lives on the farm whence years ago her parents were borne to their last resting places in the Huron burial ground. The Andruses have one daughter, Eveline May. Mr. A. is a son of Ben- ham Andrus, who once lived on the old Wright place in District No. 5. The farm that Mr. Andrus is managing is a pleasant one, and the house that he has added to and repaired has as fine an outlook as any in this part of Rose. There is every indication of careful, painstaking farming. The next house toward the west is on the south side of the road, and in it dwells the family of Henry Gar/clner, a numerous one, for I understand that he has thirteen children, though all are not at home. Several years since, J. Shanker, a German, bought a small lot here and built a modest habitation. He and his wife, adepts in their work, made and sold willow baskets, depending upon several dwellers in Rose for the raw material. They had four children, and are now themselves both dead. Just under the hill is a still smaller house, in which we may find Charles Ditton, whose wife, Lovina, is a daughter of James Phillips, on whose estate the place is. Down in the vale we may look either way along the site of what was to be the Sodus canal. There is a goodly quantity of water making its way lakeward, just as it has been doing for ages. The century was hardly begun before man, appreciating the power in this 156 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. stream, began to dam its waters and to erect saw-mills. Stephen Collins thinks that the first mill on the creek was built by one Whitmore, who lived near the Shear corners, and that it was nearly in front of John Phillips'. It was i^robably put up in 1815 or 1816. A road ran down to it, entering near Mr. Fisher's stone barn. Succeeding owners were Howe and Van Buren. Alfred Lee may have owned it. It went down before the beginning of the ditch. A little further north, one "Welch, an early comer, had a mill, and still further down the valley a dam was erected by Samuel Hunn, on which he had two saw-mills. After him came Simeon Barrett, under whom the mills went down, for General Adams prevailed upon him to let him run the water off just for a short time, and the site was not worth a dam afterward. Across the road where we may still see the ridge that formed the dam, Samuel Hunn afterward built a mill on John P. Chatterson's laud. Then down about where the railroad crosses the vale, Uriah Wade had his dam and mill. It is only recently that the old frame entirely disappeared. In fact, were we to follow back through this glen we might find traces of all these dams and ponds, where the collected water helped to fashion the material whence came the fences and houses of the early settler. Now the waters flow unvexed, save as sportive, naked boys lash them in juvenile glee, finding in some retired cove no end of the pleasure so dear to the juvenile heart and flesh. To be sure, as when I saw them, the sun may blister their exposed backs, but sweet cream will allay the pain, and to-morrow they will be as fresh for the fun as ever. Next there is a hill for us to climb and then we stand where two roads cross each other, making a point where the ancient and superstitious buried suicides and drove a stake through their hearts, making a terror for Godly survivors. But no such ghostly vision greets us, for here, rearing its white walls as a bulwark against ignorance and superstition, is a school- house, the one known throughout the town as Covell's, thus commemorat- ing the name of the good people who for so many years have dwelt beneath its shadow. It is the third building on the site. The old Chatterson farm extended to the northeast corner. On the southeast corner we have the old allotment of the Phillipses. William, the first comer of this family, was from the east, possibly remotely from Rhode Island. He had not that regard for comfort that some of his neighbors possessed, but with his wife, Jane Crandall, reared a large family, and died in 1847, at the age of sixty-three years. He claimed to be a Quaker in faith, a very rare belief in this town. To the best of my knowledge he was the first comer here. The east part of his lot, running from the east and west road which we are traveling to the next one south, he afterward sold to Samuel Hunn, who came to us from Phelps. In time, Mr. P. built his house on the other side of the street, where uow Mr. Stopfel resides, and our further discussion of him and his we will withhold till we pass down this road. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 157 On this corner in the long ago Hosea Gillett located, taking up a lot in the Nicholas purchase. To some of the old inhabitants he is yet a veritable figure, but to far the greater portion of Rose readers he is scarcely more than a name. He was said to be a happy-go-lucky man, patterned, perhaps, somewhat after his relative Harvey of District No. 3. I am told that both he and Harvpy married Burnhams, sisters, and that Hosea's marriage in January, 1812, was the vei'y first celebrated in town. I am also impressed that these Gilletts were the sons of Nodadiah Gillett, to whom was assigned the old Benjamin Seelye farm east of North Rose. It is said that his wife bore him sixteen children, and yet, when they had migrated to the west, she deserted him for another man. In the rather rough joking of that day it is claimed that she left him for fear that she would die childless. One picture of this pioneer presents him with a pair of breeches, whose warp was coarse swingle tow ; the filling was raveling from stocking, woven by his wife and colored by hemlock bark. He came early in the century, and finally sold to the Covells, whose first representative, James, came to Rose from Galen, though he had lived in Savannah and had married in Pompey. His wife was Anna Seymour of that town, and as it was the birthplace of ' ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, it is more than likely that they were rela- tives. Their first log house was a little west of where Joseph Phillips now lives. To them were born numerous children, of whom the oldest, James, never resident in Rose, went to Virginia from Clyde, and there died young. Maranda married Silas Brown and lived at Shepard's corners. Their only daughter became the wife of Lewis Barrett of Rose. Both Mr. and IMrs. Brown are buried in the Rose cemetery. Hiram married Huldah Bailey of Galen, went west, and died in Ohio. Seymour, of whom we shall see more, wedded Clarissa Crafts of Wayne Center, and now lives north of the school-house. Charles took for his wife Lizzie, daughter of John I. Smith, then living in the district. They now live in Michigan. After the death of his wife in 1863, Mr. Covell went to Michigan to live with his favorite grandson, James, Seymour's son, and died in 1872. He bore a good repu- tation among the early settlers of our town. In 1874 and later, this place was the home of W. H. Sutphin, who married an Osborne and now lives in Allegan, Michigan. On this place is now found the home of Joseph Phillips, whose father, William, has already been referred to, and a very pleasant home it is. I only wish that the owner had better health with which to enjoy his surroundings. For a number of years he has been a confirmed invalid, a subject of much sympathy among his friends. Years ago he took for his wife Joanna Waters, one of that family which has furnished helpmeets to the Deadys, Desmonds, and Colborns. Nature to them has not been unkind, for around their hearthstone has blossomed a whole bouquet of juveniles, viz. : Josephine, Jane, Rose, Maranda, Charles, Frank, Anna and Florence. Anna, as the wife of Charles Strong, 158 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. lives in the next house west, which was once Charles Covell's home. Lest the race may become extinct, she carries a babe in her arms as she answers the knock at the door. (Nearly opposite, Mr. Shoesmith is build- ing a house, August, 1893.) Francis Osborne lives in a large and commodious brick house. There is an air of comfort and culture about it pleasing to contemplate. To reach it, we must leave the Strong place on the south side of the road behind us ; must go down a slight hill, cross a well-bridged creek which a iuvenile Osborne has dammed for purposes useful and sportive, and there, just at the end of the impending rise, we shall find the home of the Osbornes. The early history of the farm is even more than usually obscure. It is probable that it was first taken up by one Dunbar, said to be a colored man. David Gates, who married Eoxy Bishop, daughter of the first Joel, possibly followed. There was here once a German named Nierpas, and Judge Hawley of Lyons once owned it. As tenants, were Broderick and Fairbanks ; but the early mists finally clear away, and we find Francis Osborne, who made this his home in 1836. He was born in Ireland, one of those unyielding north of Ireland Presbyterians who have made such excellent American citizens. He came to Rose in 1828, and settled first on the place just opposite the old Deacon Lyon farm on the Clyde road. His wife was Martha Cowan, whose parents, James and Frances, passed their last days in a log house a little west of the present structure, and after life's battles sleep in Rose cemetery, whither they were borne in 1842 and 1845 respectively. The elder Osbornes passed away, the father in 1866, at the age of seventy-seven years, and the mother in 1856, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. They, too, sleep in the Rose burial ground. Of their children, William M. married Ruth Foist, of a prominent Galen family, and now resides in Lyons. He lived for many years in the Griswold district on the road north of Ferguson's corners, and was a very prominent member of the Rose Methodist Church. James married Helen, daughter of Seymour Covell, and is the very next resident west. For Catharine we must look in the cemetery, where, at the early age of eighteen, she lies by her parents' side. Martha married William H. Sutphin, whose former home we lately passed, and who is now in Michigan. Francis the second occupies the old home, much improved under his care, where several years ago he brought his bride. Flora Adel Holbrook of the Valley, a daughter of J. L. Holbrook. They have only one child, a son, Mervin Marinus, of natural history proclivities. Mr. O.'s youngest sister, Harriet, makes her home with him. (Mrs. Osborne died June 1, 1893, aged forty four years.) The next place is that of James Osborne, whom we have already noted as having mairied Helen Covell. Like his brother, he has built his habitation of brick, and it is a fine substantial edifice, obviously useful. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 159 ;iDd certainly creditable to the street. These good people having no (ihildren have adopted two, Carrie and Edna. The former is the wife of John Stopfel and they occnpy the next house west, but on the south side of the road. It is the property of Mr. Osborne. These gentlemen, James and Francis, emulate the virtues of their ancestors, and are pillars in the Eose Presbyterian Church. Still to the west and facing the road running north is the home of Prank Garlick, son of Henry of North Rose. The farm of ninety-two acres was for many years in the possession of Hiram Hart, who came hither from Junius, the farm having been given to him by his father, who probably took the land from the office. The Harts had no children, and after selling to Henry Garlick, eighteen years ago, went to Ohio and there died. Mr. G. has repaired the house and built barns till the place is very much improved. On the east corner is the home of Charles Crisler, whose father, Adam, lives in the northeast part of Rose. His wife is Sibyl Day ; they have two sons, Ernest and Sidney. A cooper shop near by indicates one of Mr. C.'s avocations. From the data in an old Wayne county atlas, I conclude that this location once went under the name of Alvord, for next west, a quarter of a mile away perhaps, was the nominal residence of William and Mary Alvord, whose son, George, dwells next north of Mr. Crisler. His home is on the west side of the road ; his wife is Etta Johnson. Nearly across, and somewhat back from the road, is the residence of Henry Dunn, whose wife is Nettie Correll of the Glenmark district. They have one child— Nora. The house was built for him by his father, who lives a short distance north. Before getting to Hiram Dunn's, we must pause a moment at the abode of "Jimmy" Wraight, who is rearing a second family of youngsters with the aid of his much younger wife. The last estate in this district on this road is on the east side, and here for many years have dwelt Hiram Dunn and family. He was one of Saratoga county's contributions to Eose. His farm %as bought of John Adams and Col. Cook of Sodus. The log house found by him has been followed by an ample framed structure. His wife is Jane E. Thompson, and their son, Henry, we have already passed. They have had three daughters— Mary, Hattie and Rosa. Both Mary and Hattie became wives of Monroe Seagar, of the west part of the town. Hattie was first married, and on her death Mary became Mrs. S. Rosa is Mrs. Andrew Brower. Coming back to the corners, and again going west, we encounter first the house belonging to Eli Eiggs. It is, however, occupied by other parties, while the owner resides in the new house of George Wraight. The latter is the son of James, frequently called " Jimmy" W., wlio, on this spot in our centennial, 1876, in October, was most cruelly set upon and robbed. He then lived in a log house, and it had in some way become 160 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. known that he was in possession of a large sum of money. Certain parties came to his house in the night, and after nearly killing him, forced from him the location of the treasure and carried it off. The robbers were, however, soon found, and one turning state's evidence, the other was sentenced to a long imprisonment, from which he emerged only a few years since. Jimmy, as we have seen, survived the shock to his nerves and frame, and is now rearing a new crop of Wraights. Eli Riggs married Prances Wraight and has two children, Norman and Hannah, still at home. (Mr. Eiggs has since built a new house on his old site. The Wraight house is now owned by the widow of Walter Messenger.) A little further to the west, were we to look very sharp, we might find the remnant of a blacksmith shop, at whose anvil William Eiggs once worked. Beyond it and on the same (north) side of the road, William lived. He came here in 1866, and took up the farm from the land office. Of course there had been many predecessors there ; but they had gone, one after the other, he being the first to secure a clear title. Mr. Eiggs came here from Lyons, apparently a new family in our midst. His wife was Betsey Purdy of Dutchess county, and it is possible that the Riggses also came thence. Their oldest son, Henry, married Emily Finch, and lives in the north part of Eose ; Eli we have just passed ; James we shall meet in District No. 11. George died at the age of seventeen. Mr. Riggs has lost five children. He sold to John Creek, an Englishman, but the place is now controlled by Lucy Weeks. In the little house, just a few steps further west, his son Eli once lived. Both houses are now unoccupied and are passing into decay. Mr. Eiggs after selling here moved a little south into the Jeffers neighborhood, following Harley Way in the old hill-top home. This place is the last in the district. A few rods further and we should be at the end of our long road in the Wayne Centre district, and very near the Sodus line. We are once more at the school-house and a few paces to the north bring us to the hoiffe of Seymour Covell. To-day there is no man in Eose better known than " Seem " Covell. He has traversed this and neighbor- ing towns in buying stock till his rubicund and merry visage is recognized without introduction. As Mr. C. is an excellent talker, he may tell his own story : " You see, I married a school ma'am, and, with all of her folks, went to Michigan, Oakland county. I had just got things cleared up and was in a good way when I thought I'd come home and visit my folks. After I got here, I found them old and very anxious to have me stay with them. I couldn't refuse them, so back I went to Michigan, sold out and came home." "Yes," says Mrs. C, "and took me away from all my folks. You never thought of that." Mr. Covell is used to interruptions, so he placidly proceeds : " One day, after we had been back some time, some parties stopped, as I was working near the road and asked the loca- EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 161 tiou of certain landmarks. Uncle Ira Lathrop, who lived where I do now, remarked : ' I'd sell all I have for so much per acre.' I tell you it set me to thinking. I told him to wait a little while and I'd think about it. I hated to run in debt so much, but I thought it a chance I couldn't afford to lose. After a while I mustered up courage to tell him I'd take the farm. And then I was afraid he'd back out before the writings could be drawn. But he went down to the Valley, and we had the deed drawn there, and I was to have twelve years to pay in. Then the old lady wouldn't sign the deed." "And I don't blame her a mite; I wouldn't if I had been in her place," interrupted Mrs. C. "The idea of signing away one's home. I never would." Taking breath, Mr. C. proceeds : " In spite of the old lady's failure to sign, I got possession, and have been here ever since. The times were good, and the farm laughed. I made big payments. Corn fetched a big price. The hogs were heavy and sold well, and at the end of three, instead of twelve years, I was ready to square up. So I said to Uncle Lathrop, ' I'm ready to pay you if you can get Aunt Jemima's signature.' He managed to get her to sign by giving her a mortgage on certain property in town that had every prospect of running a long time. It did. She never got a cent of interest or principal. I was mighty sorry for her, but what was I to do ? Yes ; they were nice folks, Uncle Ira Lathrop and bis wife, who had been Jemima Parrish. They came here from Phelps. They hadn't any children of their own, but they raised three adopted ones, one boy and two girls. The son finally went west, while Ann married Clinton Hart, and for a long time lived up west of the corners. Martha is the wife of George Correll of the North Eose district, and Henry Dunn married her daughter. Somehow or other things didn't go first rate after the Lathrops sold the place. Both are dead now. Uriah Wade was here before the Lathrops, and he built the log house. He was a son of Alverson Wade, over east, and he may have taken the land from the oftice, but the orchard was planted by a man named King. After leaving here, Wade took up the nest farm north and had a saw-mill away down in the glen.'' So far from Mr. C. himself. Now, I may say, that as the evening shades of life appear, he and his companion have every reason to congratulate themselves on their happy situation. Mrs; Co veil was Clarissa Crafts, and her father, Abram, was one of the earliest settlers near Wayne Centre, where she was born. She was the school teacher in the district when her future husband fell in love with her. Their union has resulted in the birth of Helen, the wife of James Osborne ; Charles Henry, whom we shall meet on the next place north ; James Egbert, who married Hannahett Vanderburgh, and is now in Jackson county, Michigan ; Abram Delos, married Helen Griswold and lives south of the Valley ; Irving Seymour, who married Florence Dodge, of Hartford, Connecticut, and is in business in New Haven, Conn. ; and Huldah Ann, who is 12 162 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. at home. The house, much improved by Mr. Covell, was built by Lathrop. (Since -writing the foregoing, Mrs. Covell has ceased to be interested in things earthly, and has passed to her reward, dying Saturday, September 28th, 1889. Her health had been steadily failing for sometime.) (In 1893 Mr. Covell lives in the Valley, and the farm belongs to Joseph Phillips.) A large barn, with conveniences equally good, north and south, stands midway between the homes of Seymour Covell and his sou, Charles. The latter has been for some time the county superintendent of the poor. His first wife was Jane Haviland of Rose, who was the mother of his only child, Rose Adele, the wife of Frank Kellogg of District Ko. 7. He married, second. Miss Lillian York of Sodus, daughter of Norman York, who was a sergeant in Company D, Ninth Heavy Artillery. He was taken prisoner at Monocacy, and never saw the child born to him after his enlistment. A comrade in Danville, Va., I have seen him walk the floor hours at a time, talking to all who would listen of the wife and little one he was never to see. (Mr. and Mrs. Covell have a son, Ross Granger, born June 19, 1890.) Our dwellings along this road are all on the west side, facing the gorge, which was to have been the site of the Sodus canal, an institution whose building scarcely more than destroyed the mill privileges along the stream. Below us may be distinctly seen the old dams of Hunn'saud Wade's mills. A short distance north of Charles Covell's is the home of Seth Woodard, whose father, Charles, bought of Henry Young. The latter obtained of John I. Smith, who probably took from Uriah \Vade. Of the latter we can give the following facts. He was a son of Alverson Wade, encountered in District No. 6, and was an exceedingly busy, active man. His wife was Sally, a daughter of the first Thaddeus Collins. He was born in Chicopee, Mass., July 30, 1782, and was married in 1807. They had seven children, and all were born in Wayne county. In 1835 the family went to Michigan, taking a water route, by canal and Lake Erie, to Detroit. He settled in Concord, Jackson county. In Michigan he married again, his second wife being Mary Gates, by whom he had three children. Having been injured by a train of cars, he died October 11, 1871. Of these Rose children, the oldest sou, Thaddeus, lives in Illinois ; the next, Lawson, in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the next, Clinton, in Dakota ; the one following, Chauncey, in But- ler, Mich.; the oldest daughter, Paulina, Mrs. Samuel Eddy, in Jamestown, Dakota; her sister is Mrs. Cordelia Tripp, of Concord, Mich. The youngest son of the children by the first wife is M. D. Wade, of Indian- apolis, Ind. Sally (Collins) Wade died in Concord, May 14, 1837. Mr. Smith was one of the early emigrants, but I understand that he was for several years a justice of the peace here. Mr. Young had a mill in Glen- mark. He, too, migrated. Chas. Woodard came from Ontario county, in 1851. His wife was Caroline Horn, of Lyons, where he now is. His son, EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 163 Seth, the present occupaut, ruarried Louise M. Messenger, of Glenmark, aud their only son bears his grandfather's name, Charles. Levi B. Wood- ard and wife, parents of the first Charles, came with him, and for several years lived here. They were Canandaigua people. The old house to the north, now unoccupied, was built l)y LTriah Wade of hewed basswood logs. Clapboarded without and plastered within, no one would suspfct it to be a log house were it not for the thickness of the window casings. If I could get all the town history that the successive residents here could recount, I should have little lacking. The most of the dwellers, however, are " beyond the smiling and the weeping." The very last citizen in District No. 10 is reached when we come to the home of David P. Barnum, whose home we find just south of the railroad. He is a native of Putnam county, but went early to Junius and thence to ■ Wisconsin. His wife is Catharine Burch, of Juniiis. He came here more than twenty years ago. His children are Laura M.; Mary, who married Albert Ellis, of Glenmark, and Ara, who is at home. In politics Mr. Barnum is an uncompromising democrat. (Mrs. Barnum died December 30, 1889. Mr. B., October 20, 1800.) Coming back to the school-house, we will journey southward, and near the corners, on the east side of the road, is the home of James Phillips. I think his neighbors more often call him "Jim." He is a son of the first comer, William. Years ago he married Electa Bradshaw. Of his children, Stephen went into the army, served his three years in the 10th Cavalry, and died in 1864, on his return. His grave is one of those decorated by the Eose veteranS; George married in vSyracuse, and went there to live. He once managed the cider mill just south of his father's, under the hill. Laura became the wife of Charles Hurst, once well known in and about the Valley. Elizabeth married Charles Miner, of that vejy large family descended from the Baptist elder. Loviua, as Mrs. Charles Ditton, we passed on the road east of the corners. Near James Phillips' home was the old home of his father, to whom passing reference was made as we went along the east and west road. His log house, one of the most primitive in these ])arts, covered once the fol- lowing children : Israel, who, on reaching manhood, went west ; James, already mentioned ; Isaac, who married Louisa Palmer and went to Gene- see county ; JIary, the wife of Leonard Lomljard, who went to Michigan ; Levi also went to the Badger State ; Hannah, as the wife of Benjamin Snyder, followed her kin to the Peninsular State, as did Lovina, who mar- ried John Geer: William, too, joined the same procession and mairied west, but, having returned, he lives now in the old Samuel Hunu house. The youngest of the family. Joseph, we encountered west of the corners. After a time William Phillips bought land oj'posite, anefore her parents. Catharine married Anson Cady, of Galen. The youngest son, Jeremiah, made Anna Collier his wife, and, till this season, ran the farm. He has no children, and now lives in the Valley, leaving Edward Klinck in care of the home acres, one hundred and forty in number. (Mr. B. is again on his farm.) It should be added that Simeon Barrett bought of John Rhea, who, I find, in 1S37, selling to Thomas J. Lyman subdivi- sion Ko. 1, part of lot 425, in Robertson & Howard's tract, three acres, deeded by Fellows & MacNab to Henry Dodds. This covered, I suppose, some part of the old Barrett place. Rhea had a son, Arnold, and his busi- ness was largely the care of saw-mills. The house across the road has already been noted as the old Fink build- ing, moved from the west side of the north and south road. Now it serves a valuable purpose as a tenant house. 166 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Quite a distance back from the road is an old red house, which for many- years was .the abode of Samuel Hunn and family. He has been referred to before as the purchaser of the eastern part of the old Phillips lot, and as the builder of numerous saw-mills. He came to Eose from Phelps. His wife was Sally, a sister of Samuel Otto. For many years be was a prom- inent member of the Eose Methodist Church, valuable in all her counsels. He died in 1875, his wife in 1877, and both lie in the Eose cemetery. They had two sons, James and Parsons. The former married a neighbor's daughter, Catharine Winchell. He died in 1861, leaving children— Clay- ton, now in Indiana ; Sally Ann, who married Fernando Miner, and Margaret, the wife of Peter Paine. Mrs. Hunn married, for her second husband, Andrew Andrus, of Huron, and for her third, Albert Harper, a twin brother of Almon H., sons of Daniel Harper. Both were very large men, together weighing more than 500 pounds. Again a widow, she is liv- ing in the Valley. Parsons Hunn married Martha Weeks, and had two sons, Jerome and Harrison. After Mr. H.'s death, in 1868, Mrs. H. married David Brower, of the neighboring town of Sodus. The sons went west. I have the impression that the elder Hunns passed their latter days in the Valley. The old Hunn house is a tenant house belonging to Charles Miner. His wife's uncle, William Phillips, lives in it now. A very pretty white house marks the home of Charles Miner, a son of Eiley. His wife is James Phillips' daughter, Elizabeth. The house was built by Parsons Hunn, the place being a part of the old Hunn property. Miner bought directly from Peter Eeam. His children are Ada L., James O., and Lydia Jane (and ^Myrtle). This is a favorite neighborhood for mint stills, and just before reaching the house, on the side of the hill, is one of these tokens of Wayne county's peculiar industry. Mint stills are infinitely better for a section of country than mint juleps. Mrs. Abram Phillips dwells in the next house, though the same belongs to John Phillips, her son. Ourfiist mention of this family was in connec- tion with the Chatterson farm in District Xo. 7. They were Hudson river people, and, after living in Huron some years, Mr. Phillips died ; so his widow, with her aged mother, Mrs. Tipple, came here to live. The place was first occupied by James Winchell, a sou of Eiley, who married Esther Collins, and now resides in Huron. Mrs. Jacob Tipple, on Saturday, the 31st of July, 1887, was congratu- lated on the one hundredth return of her natal day. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Abram Phillips, about two miles west of Eose Valley. As Margaret Pultz, she was born in 1787, in Wittenberg, Dutchess Co. She is of good Dutch stock, her father having been Sebastian Pultz, a lineal descendant of the early settlers of New Netherlands. Mrs. Tipple always in her speech betrayed the race from which she sprang. In her father's familv there were six sons and three daughters, and though all grew up, Mrs. Margaret Tipple. Aged 100 years. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 167 none attained remarkable old age. She was next to the youngest child. Her father, who was a farmer, did not live beyond the ordinary span of life, but her mother died at eighty-eight. Those who dwell much on hereditary will see here a reason for the daughter's protracted living. Early in her life her father moved to Kinderhook, where she married Jacob Tipple. Here her children were born, though her family hardly equaled that of her mother. Her daughter, Eliza M., with whom she now lives, married Abram Phillips, who, years ago, worked a farm belonging to one of the noted Van Buren family. A son, Philip, married and lived to middle life, though he has been dead many years. His widow is living now near the lake. Many years since Mr. and 3Irs. Tipj^le moved to Otsego county, and after living thei-e a while, came to Rose, settling tirst in the Seelye neighborhood. Here Mr. Tipple died in 18.53. Afterward his widow went to live with Mrs. Phillips. Years ago, though conspicuous for the neatness of her home and person, she did not consider hers a strong body, and counted perhaps as many ailments as do most i)ersons of sixty and past. She was short and stout, and the word "comfortable" would apply to her appearance as well as any that I am familiar with. What a genial smile always wreathed her face when she greeted her friends. Middle-aged people remembered her as '• old Mrs. Tipple "' in their child- hood. From an article written by me at the time for Tlie Ch/de Times, I take the following : "After a hundred years of life we find her in her right mind, vividly recalling the days of old. To a lady past seventy, who recently visited her, she said : ' Why, Mrs. S., I am glad to see you. Do you remember my telling you, thirty years ago, 'You would live to be a fat old woman like me, yet ? ' She took her visitor's hand in both of hers and pressed the same in sincere pleasure over the meeting. A child of seven years accompanied the visitors, and, kissing the venerable lady, was kissed in return, 3Irs. Tipple saying: ' You must always remember that you have beea kissed by a woman a hundred years old.' The day itself, Saturday last, was one of the very hottest of an exceedingly hot season ; but the friends and relatives were present in large numbers. It was an afternoon of the liveliest kind of congratulations. The chief centre of all this scene of pleasure, Mrs. Tipple, clad in a plain black dress, with the whitest of lace caps upon her venerable head, sat in her favorite chair in the parlor, and received the many hand-shakes and cheering words of her numerous vi.sitors. She recalled with wonderful quickness circumstances pertaining to those whom she had known, but had not seen for many years. My own visit of two weeks since, she immediately mentioned. In person, Mrs. Tipple shows her weight of years. Her form is somewhat bowed, but her hair is scarcely changed in hue from that of youth. She uses no glasses, though she reads but little, and then only in her Dutch Bible. 168 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Her chair is a small, straight-backed rocker with no arms. Here she sits contentedly many hours at a stretch. A year since she walked unaided, but now she requires a helping hand, as when she took a seat on the fron porch to sit for her portrait. Had the family of our centenarian been as prolific as those of years ago, she would now count her children and chil- dren's children by the many scores. Her sou, Philip, had only two children, one of whom has three and the other two children. Mrs. Phillips, her daughter, has six children living. Of these, four were present, Mrs. Phillips herself will be seventy-eight in December ; but shows very few traces of infirmities. Her husband, Abram, died in 1884^, at the age of eighty-two. The sum total of Mrs. Tipple's living descendants is twenty- six, and of these fifteen were present. John H. Phillips lives in Rose ; William resides in Fairhaven ; Charles in Eose ; Mrs. Amanda Finch in Rose also. Those represent the third generation present. One grandson, Nathan Phillips, is in the south, and could not be present." (Died in Maryland, June 3, 1893.) This fete day was her last, for when the next 30th of July rolled around she was lying by the side of the husband whom death had torn from her thirty-six years before. " Like flowers at set of sun " her eyes had closed in their last sleep, July 7, 1888, and gentle hands performed for her the last sad office. She had no illness. " She simply ceased to live." Mrs. Phillips is above eighty-one years, but she has wonderful strength of body, and may herself attaiq^the great age of her mother. A sou, who works for his brother, Johu, stays with her nights, otherwise she is alone, and she says that she misses her mother sadly. "Her chair sat right over there and she was always in it. I can't tell you how much I miss her." The old lady was placed by the side of her husband in the Collins cemetery. (In 1S03 Clarence Phillips and wife are living here with Mrs. Phillips.) Nearly opposite this house, a road leads southward, passing the home of Isaac Boyce and Horatio Baker, and coming out upon the next east and west road near John Blynu's. Just beyond, and on the south side, lives Darwin Miner, another son of Riley. His wife was Kettie Messenger of the Glenmark neighborhood. He bought of Charles Bradburn, who took from James Hunn. As we go down into the valley, through which flows Thomas' creek, which was to mark the site of Gen. Adams' ditch, we may find a pleasant white house, looking northward out over the mint still, which John Phillips has planted down by the water. This is the Bradburn home. With an eye for the antique, we may be pardoned if reference is first made to an old log house, having two front doors, which stands to the left of the lane leading back to the barns. This is John Winchell's old house ; was first put up consideral)ly further -back and then taken down and moved to this place nearer the road and just at the point where the road takes a ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 169 short turn to the north to cross the creek. It may be as well to give a sketch of the Winchell family now, for we are approachiuo, in fact are in, what was once called Winchellville or Canada. Absalom Winchell was born in Egremout, Massachusetts, though the family was originally from Connecticut, married Byer (Abiah ?) Daly, and, in 1816, moved to the town of Galen, south of Ferguson's corners. His children were Jacob, John, Riley, Eussell, Lany (who married Calvin Race, and lived and died in Phelps), Sally, Lucinda, Maria and Lovina. Except Lany, all of these children will be met as we journey through Rose. Jacob, the eldest, a soldier in 1812, settled first in Galen with his father ; his wife was Katie Bradburn, of Massachusetts ; he afterward lived where Leland Johnson now resides, a little east of John Phillips ; he died at the home of David Bradburn, brother of his wife and husband of his daughter Jane. John was twice married, first, to Mary Losier, and with her lived in a log house west of Philander Mitchell's present abode ; she died there ; their children were : John, now living in Huron ; Catharine, the wife first of James Hunn, and last, of Albert Harper ; Sally Ann, married John Almond of Waterloo, moved to Indiana, and there died; Mary, married a Harper; Lucretia, a Bennett, and went to Michigan. After the death of his first wife, Mr. W. married again, this time Margaret Ackerinan, and moved to the log house near where we now are, on the Bradburn farm. By this marriage his children were : Lovina, who married Isaac Brewster, who died in the army during the Rebellion, leaving two sons — James and Eugene. Sarah Jane married James Van Aniburg. John Winchell died in the log house, and was buried at Ferguson's corners. His widow died with Henry Ackerman in Galen. The place passed from the Winchells to Helon Ackerman, and from him through Smith, Van Amburg and Lyman Covell to Andrew Bradburn, who came from Gt. Barriugton, Mass., in September, 1846, to the place formerly held by William Pixley on the Wayne Centre road. His wife was Harriet Jones, of New Marlborough, Massachusetts. The Bradburn children reared here were Thomas, now in possession ; Charles, who married Jane Brink of Huron, in which town he now resides ; Alice, who is Mrs. Gardner Barrett of Huron, and Edward, who married Georgie Smith of Rose, and lives in Clyde. Mr. Bradburu died in 1873, at the age of fifty-seven, and is buried north of the Valley. Thomas Bradburn found his wife in the person of Myra Johnson, a daughter of Leland. They have a son, Ray S., a black-eyed youngster, to gladden their fireside. In addition to his farm Mr. B. has long run a threshing machine. Mrs. Andrew B. makes her home with Thomas. Cros.sing the brook, we are facing the house of John Phillips, who has, by successive improvements, made his home a very attractive one. As already stated, he is a son of Margaret, who resides a few rods west. The farm is the old German Van Amburg place. His daughter, Eliza Jane, 170 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. married Mr. Phillips, who in time succeeded to the estate. The Van Amburgs were from Saratoga county, but German's wife was Elizabeth Finch of Yates county. Another daughter, Sarah Caroline, became Mrs. Harvey Clapper, once of Rose, but now of Wolcott. German Van Amburg died in 1878. The Phillipses have only two children — Clarence and Alice. The former married Ina, a daughter of Captain Daniel Harmon, formerly of the Valley, and the latter is Mrs. Luther Waldruff. The region beyond is known in neighborhood parlance as Minerville, from the many Miners who live in the vicinity. On the outskirts of the Ville is the home of Leland Johnson, who came from Pownal, Vt. His wife was Minerva Goodell, of Williamstown, JIass. Their children are : Benjamin S., who married Kittie Van Gelder ; Edna we shall meet in Dis- trict Xo. 11 as Mrs. George Worden, and Ehoda, also, as Mrs. Horatio Baker ; Myra, we just passed as the mistress of the Bradburn home. They have an adojited daughter, 3Iabel Wooster. Before the Johnsons was Samuel Cox, from whom they bought, and his father, S. D., bought in 1868 of H. P. Howard, now of the Valley. Before him was Forte Wilson, a brother of Ephraim, a resident further east. The latter's holding must go back very near to the land office. By his improvements Mr. Johnson has transformed the house and its surroundings. The next house has stood in the Bovee name for several years. Stephen was the first name, and his widow is still there. Her sons are George and Herman. The house belongs to Mr. Johnson. These last two places are on the north side of the road. The Miners on this street are sons of Eiley Miner, a son of that Elder Miner who was one of the first ministers of the Baptist denomination in the town. Riley was a stone mason by trade, and was well known in Rose. He had twelve children, eleven of whom were present at his funeral. There are ten sons in the Eiley Miner family and, save John and Philo, all live in Rose. John lives in Mauton, Michigan ; Philo lives in Summer Hill, X. Y. ; and Ursula, Mrs. Knapp, is in Weedsport ; Dora, the youngest, died February 17, 1891, aged twenty-eight years. In the four Miner dwellings we shall find first, William, who married Adaline Richardson. They have children, Ida, Irwin (now in the west), Arthur, Agnes, Flora, Jennie and Leon. In the next resides the widow of Riley. She was, I believe, a Xeal. (Here, too, live James Miner and his wife, Jennie Whaley, who was born in Onondaga county. They have one child, Blanche. Mr. Miner is a stone mason by trade.) Then comes Edward, who nuirried Dora Stearns of Sodus. Their children are Augustus, Ezra, Pearl and Sidney. Finally, we have Fernando, whose first wife was Sally Ann Hunn, a daughter of James and Catharine. She died in 1875. His second wife is Mary Hendrick. A neat, new house makes a very comfort- able home and an ornament to the street. The children in this family are EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 171 Minnie, wlio married Joseph Bishop of Galen ; Margaret, who is Mrs. Chester Phimb, of Clyde, and Samuel. (Lovina died in May, 1893, aged 23 years.) No part of the district has changed hands more often than these several holdings along this road. On a county map, published in 1858, I find names that to-day have no lodgment here. For instance, beginning on the south side of the road, just east of widow Phillips' home, we find J. O. Hunn, now Darwin Miner's home; then C. N. J. Van Amburg, one of the many owners of the Bradburn farin. "Mrs. Winchell " occurs, possibly the widow of John, and resident in the log house. Then came I. Churchill and J. Greatsinger, about whom I knew nothing. Then is the name of Mrs. Lyman, possibly the widow of Jesse, and finally, R. Winchell, just at the angle of the road, the site of Fernando Miner's house. This was the home of Russell Winchell, who died in 1859, aged forty-seven years. His wife was Lucinda Ackerman, a daughter of John Winchell's second wife, by her first husband. Their children were David, who married an Odell anarts, and the outlook is grand. Nothing but the final range of Rose hills hides Butler from view, while, north and south, we may look to Huron and Galen. The view from the front porch of this house is unrivaled in this vicinity. Mr Weeks is at home, impaired vision rendering long walks from his fireside impossible. He finds his way to the nearest neighbor, Riggs, on the northeast, but returning he is near his home. Though the outward world is fading, he sees plainly the events and scenes of long ago, and pleasantly recounts to me some of the incidents of his earlier days. EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 1891 He is a native of Columbia county, and came to Wayne county fifty years since. At one time lie owned the Dorman Munsell place in District 'So. 9, then he owned north of Shears' corners, on the west side of the road. Next he lived on the Hamelink place, south of his present home. Finally he bought of Constantine Word en twenty- five acres, and of Samuel Way fifty, and settled where he now is. Of his family that came up from Columbia county, one brother, Eufus, has already been mentioned in the account of District Xo. 3, he having been killed in the raising of a liberty pole. Mr. Weeks' wife was Phcebe Waterbury, a sister of the late John D. Waterbury, of District No. 3. Their children are : Nathaniel, who made Eliza Griswold his wife, and went to Michigan ; John married Helen Swift, and lives in the Valley ; Stephen found a wife in Margaret Grinnell, of Galen, and a home south of the Valley ; Julia is Mrs. William Griswold, of the Valley; Mary is Mrs. William Benjamin, and lives south of Clyde ; Delia is Mrs. Stephen Miller, now in Iowa ; while the youngest, Sarah, married Alonzo Case, from Sodus, and they, living on the old place, make a comfortable home for the aged parents. James Weeks has long been a stalwart, reliable citizen, not jirominent in politics, yet always ready to act as he thought right. In religious matters his leanings are toward the Baptist Church, though the Cases are Methodists. His grandfather, it is worth the while to state, died in his 100th year, and voted for Washington and Lincoln. (Mr. W. died June 8, 1892; Mrs. W. two years before.) The present Weeks house was built by a Jeffers. Nathan, a brother of Eobert, came to Rose early, and, in this town and in Lyons, reared a very large family. His first wife was Lucy Vandercook, and their offspring- were: Sally, who became Mrs. Samuel Boyce, of Rose; Betsey or Elizaljeth, who married, first, Lorenzo Griswold, and, second, Franklin Finch, both of Rose ; Mary Ann, the wife of Stephen Boyce of Rose ; Lydia, who married A. Ira Blynn, once of Rose (Balsamville), but now in Michigan, and who had sons, George and Addison ; Eleanor, as Mrs. John Burt, once lived in the house north of George Jeffers', now his property, but both went to Michigan and both are dead ; Julia married Adam McMillen, of Lyons ; Daniel, who made Malinda Myers his wife, went to Michigan and died ; Cornelius, who also went to the Wolverine State and there died ; Robert, of the Valley, who married, first, Marie Win- chell, and, second, Sarah Holbrook ; Nathan, Jr., married Lydia Ann Winchell and lived where George Jeffers is now ; he died in 1852, and his children are : Jane, who married Daniel Foster ; Ovid, in Galen ; Daniel and Lydia. Nathan Jeffers' first wife died in 1837, in her forty-seventh year, having borne him ten children. His second wife was Sarah Dunman, and their children are : John, already encountered near the home of Abner Osborn, at the eastern end of the district ; Janette and Jane, twins — the first being Mrs. William Deady, of Lyons, and the mother of six children ; 190 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. the second, Mrs. Hudson E. Wood, of the Valley ; Charles, at home with his mother in the Valley ; George, already met in the northern part of the district, and Laura, at home. Two children, James and Lucy, died in infancy. Mr. Jeffers himself passed away in 1854, in his sixty-fourth year. This is the largest family yet met in Rose. There were eighteen children, a number never met nowadays, except among the extremely prolific Canadian French. Had all these children produced as many children as their parents did, and there had been no western vent for this increase of population, this part of the town would have merited in an increased de- gree its name of Jeffers neighborhood. Mr. J. did not dwell uninterrupt- edly in Eose, but some part of his life was passed in Lyons on the McMil- len place, but he returned to end his days where his son George now is. Just below Mr. Weeks' home is a new house, erected by Alonzo Case, but used by him now as a tenant house. This marks the site of the first Worden house, where Alonzo Worden dwelt for many years. He, too, came from Dutchess county and died there, years since, at the age of ninety- one. His children were : Constantine ; Louisa, the wife of William Glen, of Lyons; Elizabeth, who married first, George Lapham and second, George Porter, now in Waterloo ; Delia, who is Mrs. Joseph Shaw of South Sodus; Martha, wife of James Colborn of the Valley, and John V., who married Caroline Hughson and lives south of Clyde. On this spot Nathan Jeffers first lived. A little south of opposite is a private cemetery, where very many of the early settlers were buried. It is in even a worse condition than some of those in other parts of the town ; for there are no headstones, with possibly two exceptions, those of Benjamin Way and his wife, but their inscriptions are illegible. Could I get all the history that the occupants of these graves might impart, my Eose rambles would be much more complete than I can ever expect to make them. Our southern limit is reached when we come to the next place, where dwells Derrick Hamelink, obviously of German extraction, but who came to Eose from Sodus. His sister Emma keeps his house, while their mother is a frequent visitor. He is an active member of the Eose Baptist Church. In reverse order the dwellers here have been E. Eooke, an Eng- lishman, now in Lyons, James Weeks, Eobert Foster and Harry Clapper. This is the old Clapper site, and here, many years ago, Jacob C. settled. He had nine children, at least, but of them I know very little, only one of the name, Henry Ward C, who married Anginette Munsell, being still in Eose. The oldest son was Jacob ; then followed Harry, who married Sarah Caroline Van Amburg of District No. 10 ; David, who married Mary Stewart; George ; Ann ; Eliza, who became Mrs. John Van Amburg ; Clarissa, who married Henry Dunham ; Martha, who married Abraham Ferguson in Galen; and a daughter, who became Mrs. Eobert Foster. EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 191 We are not through with this exceedingly irregularly shaped district yet, for coming through Worden's corners, we must climbalittle higherto reach the sightly abode of the Eiggs family. It is the old home of the Ways. Benjamin Way was one of the earliest settlers, and Dr. Eichard Yalen- tine's first professional visit was made at this early home. The house now standing dates from this pioneer. Both he and his wife are lying in the neglected cemetery south of the corners. They had children — Lydia, who became the wife of John Jeffers, and went west ; Truman, who died at the age of fifteen years ; Samuel : Harley, and Valentine, who enlisted in the Mexican War and was killed. Harley Way, who succeeded his father here, married Betsey, a half sister of Jesse Lyman. Their children were : David, who lost his life as a soldier during the Eebellion. He was one of those captured, with the writer, at Monocacy, July 9th, 1S61, and died in Danville, Va., in the season following ; Elizabeth W., who married Harvey Perkins of Wayne Centre ; Caroline, who was the first wife of William Desmond of District No. 5, and Mary Ann, who married a Preston, went west and died. To Harley Way, on this farm, succeeded William Eiggs, who was born in Lyons and came to Eose in 1866, as we have already seen in treating the extreme western part of District No. 10. His family was there discussed, and now we find him living with his son, James, who married Sarah E. Andrews of the north part of the town. The latter has three children — Anna, May and Ida. True to his rearing and habits, Mr. Eiggs has a small blacksmith shop near. Across the way we can trace the path made by James Weeks, as he travels to and from his home. The outlook from this point is extensive in every direction. There is one remove further, and under the hill is the house built long since by Samuel Way. His first wife was Emma, a sister of Eobert Foster, and his second, a widow, Mrs. Woolley. He had children — Emma, who married William Blakesley : Julia, who married a Dennis of Wayne Centre, and a son, whose name I can not give. Some years since he sold to James Weeks, went to Michigan and died there. Mr. Weeks now rents the house. Here ends the district ; a large one in area, but not so populous as formerly. The next step would be into the Wayne Centre district. DISTEICT No. S— "Geiswold's." Jamiari/ 1 — Janvari/ 29, 1S91. The southern boundary of this district is the line between Rose and Galen. It lies directly south of "Jeffers," and its school-house is on the same north and south road and not a mile away. It is not a little interesting to note that this same road has, at its several cross roads, not less than four school-houses, viz. : Griswold's, Jeffers', Covell's and the one at Glen- 192 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. mark. In the district are some of the very best farms in the town, and as a rule, the spirit of thrift appears. There are several roads and our route will necessitate some backward tracks. In the county atlas of 1874, this district is put down as including a part of Eugene Hickok's farm and E. N. Jeffers' place, but I am told that this is wrong. At any rate, both places are now in the Valley precinct. Accordingly, to enter " Griswold's,'' we will take the first turn to the left after passing the home of Eugene H., on the road running west from Fredendall's store. The first abode is on the west side of the road, and it is the home of James CuUen, a brother of the Cullen who was till his death on the old Fuller farm west of the Valley. Mr. C. is from the county of Waterford, Ireland, and he still cherishes the utmost fondness for the " auld sod." "I was born there and I hope to die there," were his words in reference to the place of his nativity. So strong is the hold that childish associations have upon all of us. " Beautiful for situation " has been the burden of many an emigrant's song ever since the days of the psalmist, as his mind reverts to the hills and valleys where, erstwhile, his childish feet essayed to walk ; where they ran the free course of childhood ; where, in later years, he told the tale of love, true the world over, to willing ears, and where, perchance, his sight was gladdened by the coming of his children. Switzers are not the only ones to suffer from nostalgia. The very woes of Ireland have made her doubly dear to her absent sons and daughters. James Cullen married Mary Murray, and their children are Albert, Anna, Joanna, Marelena and Nellie. He bought his place of George Beam, a brother of Fred, of District No. 11, and he in turn took from the estate of C. G. Burton. Eeam went to Eastou, Maryland. Burton was a Protestant Methodist minister, who never lived on the place. He bought of Johnson Wiley, who had married a Jeffers, and who finally went to Wisconsin. He took from John Jeffers, who also went to Wisconsin. The house dates from the Jeffers ownership, though he never lived in it. Before Mr. Jeffers, was William Dodds, who owned in connection with his farm just south of this. As for tenants and squatters, the place has had fully its share, and time would not suffice to name all those who at times have called the farm home. On the other side of the road and a little south may be seen the home of Ira Hart. He is a son of Clinton H., once of District No. 10, but now in the northwestern part of Eose. Mr. Hart married early and he has a fine growing family. He and his brother, Marion, just south, do not intend that humanity shall become disheartened through any fault of theirs. His wife is Cornelia Cushman from Oneida county, and they have had six children. Susan, the oldest, is dead. Addie is the wife of William Adsit; then follow Belle, Frank, Charles and Burt. The place stands in the name ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 193 of S..C. Hart, and came into his possession after the death of Captain (1) Alexander Eeady. This man was in his day one of the town notables. His title came from his claiming to have been captain of snndry vessels at various times. During the War interested parties colored his hair and managed to enlist him into the Ninth Heavy Artillery. While on guard one day in the south, a native, noticing his white hair (for the coloring matter had worn off), said : " Ain't you a pretty old man for a soldier ? " " Yes," is the Ready answer. " I have served in three wars. I was in the Mexican War and in the War of 1812. Oh, I know how to soldier." During his life Rose never suffered for want of Munchausen stories. Before him was James Watson, and his predecessor was Stephen Boyce, the husband of Mary Ann Jeffers. a daughter of the first Nathan. The family, afterward went to the west. This road of ours must have been started with no definite ending in view, for it comes to an abrupt stand at the north end of one of the drift hills for which the town is noted. The hill will not move, the road clearly cannot climb it, so the thoroughfare has to yield, and it makes a quick turn to the right and goes around, thereby making in the second angle a fine location for a homestead long occupied by a succession of good people. Today the dwellers are Marion Hart and family. A portion of the latter were helping him unload hay when I called in my neighborhood rambles. He, too, is a son of S. C. Hart, in whose name the place is held. Marion married some years since Saliua Cushman, a sister of his brother's wife, and they have numerous children. They are George H., Mary Ann, Clinton M., Ida J., Alice E., Nellie M., John L. and Rose N. Here is a good example for other Rose people to emulate. These little folks form no inconsiderable part of the Rose Baptist Sunday school. Mr. Hart came to this farm in 1875. There are in it ninety-seven acres, seventeen of them only being on the west side of the road. This for years was known as the William Dodds place ; for here Robert Jeffers' son-in-law lived and reared his family. His children were named in the article on District No. 11. Mr. Dodds built this house. The most of the hill farm was bought of John Drown, late of Huron. Parts, however, were bought of Alansou Pease and of William Burt. Years ago, at the base of the hill, to the northeast, a log house stood, and in it lived Robert Boyce. Further along on the north side, was another log house, where dwelt Emory Boyce. In this first structure an aged Mrs. Winchell died, as did also the first wife of John Drown. Mr. Drown, at nearly ninety years of age, till recently living west of Sheldon's corners in Huron, was a native of Parsonsfield, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, having come when thirteen years old, with his father, also John, to these parts, and stopped first on the extreme west part of the town — now Mallery's. Taking the road on the west as one line and running south 14 194 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. below George Milem's, and then on the east, almost to the Sodus 6anal, Mr. Drown had two hundred and thirty-seven acres. He cleared away the trees from the summit of the hill and there built his house, just as high up as possible ; lest, I Suppose, what his name signifies might happen to him and his. His first wife was Esther Jeffers, a daughter of the first Robert ; his second, Charlotte Boyce, and his third, still living, widow Mary Ann Whipple. It must have been a wearisome life on the top of this hill, but what a prospect the family had ! The water for family use had to be brought from the spring, still seen just south of the entrance to the Milem place. Naturally, Mrs. D. would occasionally object to the labor necessary to keep the kitchen running. Whereupon her rather easy-going husband , would say : " Well, come right out here and show me where you want the weli." She would go and tell him, and that is as far as the enterprise ever went. Their first child, Maria, is Mrs. Watson Chaddock of Huron ; the second became Mrs. Dudley Boyce, formerly of this town ; John A., now of Rose, has been twice married, first to Hannah S. Van Horn, a daughter of Matthias and his wife, Roxana 'Winchell, and second, to Mrs. Louisa (Trask) Sedgwick, but he will be met later in the Valley ; Sanford married first, Emily, a daughter of the late Gowan Riggs of Huron, and second, Artelissa Sedore, a sister of the late Mrs. Enos Pimm. She, too, is dead. The next child, Hester Ann, married Stephen Delamatter, and is in Michigan ; Thomas married Jennie Powers, and died in a New York hospital during the War, being a soldier ; Napoleon B. married Martha Harper of Galen, and died in Huron ; Jane is Mrs. Joseph Thorp of Huron ; Rosette married James Slocum, and moved to Kansas. By his second wife, Mr. Drown is the father of Madison, who married in Kansas. By his third wife he had Huklah, who is Mrs. Lafayette Legg, of the Valley, and Cornelia, who became Mrs. Stephen Brower. On leaving this sightly location, Mr. Drown sold the lower part of his farm to Robert N. Jeffers, and the north portion to William Dodds. Long since, all evidence of the homestead disappeared, save possibly a clump of trees, and were it not for such mousing recoi-ds as these, in a few years it would be difficult to make any one believe that the hill-top was ever the home of industrious parents and prattling children. Mr. Drown died November 2d, 1890, at the home of his son, John A., in the Valley. Nextwe skirt along the base of the hill, having fertile fields and orchards at our right, and the steep hill-side toward the east. When we get to the first west road, we must keep well up lest we go down the descent, whether we will or not. Soon the home of George Milem appears, perched on the ridge of the hill that has now sloped to an accessible altitude. Nevertheless, our horse will have to put forth extra strength as he pulls us up the road cut through the drift gravel of which the hill consists. Reaching the house, Mr. Milem is found jiutting together a new harvester, and data are EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 195 imparted as he keeps at his task, for the impending wheat harvest will not admit of any delay. His farm has one hundred and thirty-six acres, fifty of them being- in the old Stokes lot, and well back in the level swamp land eastward. This lot was once the property of Captain Stokes of glass factory fame in Clyde, and Walter Harper also owned it once. In former days there were several habitations upon it. The remaining portion he obtained from E. M. Jeffers and William Gillett. Mr. Jeffers bought of John Drown and Eobert Vandercook, and they of Garrett Y. Lansing. This must carry the line pretty near to the first owners. The house is on what was the Jeffers portion, and Mr. Milem has enlarged and improved it considerably. The Milems are of English origin. The first, William, and Thirza Sizer, his wife, came from Norfolkshire, England, to this town in 1851, and located just west of the head of this road, where Prank Knapp is now. Mrs. Milem died in 1856 and is buried in the Eose cemetery. Their children were Christopher, who is in East Portland, Oregon ; Sizer Ann, who married Eobert Hunter, and lives in Lyons, and George, our resident. Mr. Milem, Sr., went to Ohio in 1866, and is now living in Fowlerville. George M. was a good soldier during the Eebellion, serving in Company F, Ninty-eighth New York Volunteers, and putting in more than four years of service. He married Christina Lang of Galen, who bore him nine children, as follows : Thirza M., George H., Hester A.., William B., Minnie M.. Elizabeth C, Philip L., Mary E. and Carrie I. This is one of the most encouraging families in Eose. , Would that there were more like him. Mrs. Milem died in 1887, in her fortieth year, and till recently the oldest daughter did the honors of the household. The boys are helps upon the farm. Mr. Milem is a Free Methodist in religion and a Prohibi- tionist in politics. " And why shouldn't I be f " he says, " when I have all these boys and girls growing up to be endangered by the rum traffic. I'm down on that all the time." I am pretty much of his sentiments myself. It is impossible to overestimate the danger that alcohol is sub- jecting us to. In 1890, August 12th, Mr. Milem was married to Miss Julia Sedore of Eose. South of Mr. Milem's, under the hill, is a fine, unfailing spring, a source of comfort to the stock. Xear the road and close to the lane leading up to the house is another one carefully boarded up. Still further along is laud belonging to Alonzo Snow of the Valley road, whose possessions extend from road to road. On the west side is the home of Eugene Converse. The house is consider- ably south of opposite to Mr. Milem's, and is below the site of the house which once stood in the names of McConnell and Gillett, and in which one Converse killed his wife, several years since, while laboring under mania a po/ii, a tragedy liable to be acted wherever rum may be found. A number of trees still mark the location of the first structure. Mr. Converse has 196 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. just put up a new barn, and with his growing boys, will doubtless make- his farm one of the very best. There are fifty acres in it, and the lads are anxious to help. The place was bought of John H. Barnes, and as already intimated, must have been in the hands of others. The house is the one that Milo Lyman once lived in, and which he gave up when he built his new one. Mr. L. says : "I spent seven hundred dollars in getting the old house in shape, and in fixing up the cellar, and then it didn't suit me, so I just sold it for less than I spent in repairs, and started anew." It was moved down here and makes a very comfortable home for Mr. C. and his family. He is a native of Erie county, but much of his youth was passed in the Valley. His wife is Anna Harper, a daughter of Almon Harper, and their children are Edith M., John D., Ernest E., Arthur J., Flora D., and Daniel E. The family are communicants of the Eose Baptist Church. Mr. C. has been here seven years. Just below, and on the west side, is the home of Mrs. O'Donald, widow of Patrick. Her children are Joanna, Patrick and James. The belonging, a small one, was bought of H. W. Levanway, and Mr. O'Donald built the house. He once had a log house just under the hill as we turn west to go toward Milo Lyman's. Still further along, and the last place in the town, situated well back from the street, lives the Pultz family. They are Germans and came here from Lyons, buying the small place from Mr. Levanway. The children here are Emma, Ida and Daniel. They are Lutherans in religious belief. We must now return to the road leading west, and on the north side just beyond the turn is a red house which once abounded in active life. It is now the property of Milo Lyman, who has turned it into an evaporator. The house was built by Jacob Stack, a native of Strasburg, Germany, who lived and labored here for many a year. He was a cooper by trade, and worked long and faithfully in the Barnes shop, further west. His glebe was small, and he himself built the house. His wife was Eva Strang, a sister of Fred Beam's mother. We met Ream in District No. 11. Their children were many, and as follows : Jacob, who lives in Eochester ; Lana married James Lavender ; Louis lives with his mother south of Clyde ; Lizzie is the wife of John H. Barnes of the Valley ; Louisa married Wm. Dodds ; Katie married Byron Crandall of Eose ; Carrie, who is Mrs. Albert Williams of Clyde; Fred, deceased; George and Helen are at home with their mother. Mr. Stack died several years ago. The elegant home of Milo Lyman claims us next. This is on the north side of the road, and is the building erected after Mr. L. sold his old house to Eugene Converse. Painted a pure white, the structure is a landmark. If our call is in midsummer, we shall certainly find Mr. Lyman at work in the field. To reach him, we will follow a lane running back from the road, and will pass a scries of large barns conveniently arranged on a gentle KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 197 •slope, thus having that very desirable arrangement in a country of hard winters, viz., underground sheds. Just a little west of front of the barns is the site of the first framed structure on the place, and close by was the log house. The well is there yet, and an avenue of cherry trees leads down to the present abode. Milo Lyman was born south of Ferguson's corners, and at the age of four years was bound out, till he should be twenty-one, to Adam Learn, who lived south of Lock Berlin. Mr. Lymau had very few advantages of the schools. His youth was one of toil, and when the expiration of his time came he had very little to start with save a vigorous body and fifty-eight dollars, a sum coming from the sale of a colt which Mr. L. had given hinj a few months before. Fortunately Mr. L. turned his face Roseward, and lived for a time in the family of the first John Barnes. Still more fortunate, he secured for his wife Mr. Barnes' daughter, Rebecca, who has been an invaluable helpmeet during all the years of his married life. Their home, before coming to this farm, was south of where the Wykoffs live now, and the place was reached by a lane from the road extending from the Valley to Wayne Centre. They came to this farm just after the War. They have had only one child, John W., who was a most promising young man, a graduate of the State Xormal School in Albany in 1878. He had taught two years at Garrisons on the Hudson, when failing health conijielled his return to his father's house, where lie died May 28th, 1881, at the early age of twenty-three years. With the hope that a change of occupation might improve his health, the fond father had bought for him a store at Lock Berlin, but the young man visited it only once. Life's burdens were scarcely assumed ere he laid them down. Early crowned, he left a desolate household to mourn his departure. The Lymans were of •Connecticut origin, no doubt connected remotely with those in the Lyman district, although I have not succeeded in establishing the relationship as yet. The father, Jesse, was long favorably known in Rose, having lived in that town many years. He was once on the old Finch place, near Oriswold's school-house. For some years he kept the light-house in Sodus, and finally died in the Valley in 1863, at the age of sixty-nine years, and was buried at Ferguson's corners. His first wife was Betsey Sedgwick, another excellent Connecticut name, who died in 1831, aged thirty-seven years. Their children were Henry, who was for some years a clerk for Eron Thomas in the Valley, and who died in 18.50 ; Lydia married Charles Crafts and went west; Angeline became Mrs. Dr. Robert Copp, of Canan- ■daigua ; Milo, already noted; Philander S., who lives in Sodus, having kept the light-house there, as did his father before him, and John B., who lives in Michigan. Jesse Lyman was a shoemaker by trade. After the death of the first Mrs. L. he married the widow of Orrin Lackey. He had two half brothers, once residents in Rose— Thomas, who once lived near the Harley Way place under the hill, and afterward went west and died, 198 ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. and Levi, west of Ephiaim Wilson's. The latter has a son, Jacob, now living in the Valley. A half sister of Jesse, Betsey, married Harley Way, while another married one of the Valley Crislers. The Lymans have long been staunch supporters of the Rose Methodist Episcopal Church. The farm includes one hundred and forty-seven acres. The major part of it was bought of John Barnes, first, after the War. The latter had purchased it from James Colborn, Jr., who had traded with John Vandercook. John V. had received it from his father, Michael. Michael Vandercook had taken in part from John Clapper, whose possession goes back to the land office. He built the first log house. Lyman built the iiresent Converse house in 1875. Afterward came the present house, whei'e it is to be hoped Mr. and Mrs. Lyman may take many years of comfort. Though they are childless, they have adopted George, son of Mrs. L.'s youngest brother, James, of Huron. What man has done, man may do. Xo man in our town had less to start with than had Milo Lyman. Few have done any better. Energy, honesty and perseverance, accompanied by a faithful, devoted and capable wife, have placed him in the forefront of our towns- men, a man to be admired and emulated. (Mrs. Lyman died May 18, 1892. Mr. L. has rented his farm to Frank Mitchell, 1893.) Next west is the home of William H. Vandercook. This name, once so common in Eose, has pretty nearly disappeared. The farm occupied by Mr. V. is a part of the old Michael Vandercook property, but the original house was on the next road north. Somewhere on these acres Mr. V. has lived for more than fifty years. There are 108 acres in the farm, and the house, a fine brick one, is of Mr. Vandercook's building. Back of his barns, which are on the south side of the road, is an old log house, which was, in olden times, the abode of John Clapper. Mr. C. was a brother of Jacob, who once lived in the Jeffers neighborhood. It is a long time since this family lived here, and memory of them is not over vivid, but I find that there were five children — two daughters and three sous. These mar- ried as follows : Polly became the wife of Embury Finch, who once lived south of the old John Vandeicook farm, and is now a tobacconist in Auburn ; Sally married James Potter, a son of Godfrey, who once lived as tenant for Bockoven, ou the present John L. Finch place, west of the Valley ; George married Eliza Waring, daughter of Josejth and his wife, Susan ; Orrin and Abram both married daughters of this same Godfrey Potter, and all went to the all-absorbing west. Returning to Mr. Vander- cook, it is found that he married Helen E. Pitcher, a sister of John Barrett's wife. Their children were John W., who went to the Albany Normal School with Milo Lyman's son, and, like him, died, to human minds prematurely, at the early age of thirty years, in 1887, having mar- ried Mary E. Spaulding, of Schoharie county ; Emma Eliza died at the age of nine years ; Mary married Clarence Johnson, of Wolcott ; and Anna M., ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 199 ■who is Mrs. Frank Fellows, of Lyons. Like all of the Vandercooks, Wil- liam H. is a Methodist. The next place, and still on the north side of the street, is the old John Barnes estate. It is one of the best and most prominent in this part of the town. The century was not very far along when Mr. B. bought out the improvements made by Merrill Pease, and himself settled at the land office for the farm. It was a favorite remark of the old gentleman that when he came into the town, he had only his wife and his axe, carrying the latter on his shoulder. He was Dutchess county born ; but, with his parents, came early in life to Galen. A brother was the father of Harvey Barnes, of Huron, indicated in our Xorth Rose articles. He married Mary Cowan, a sister of Mrs. Francis Osborn, the mother of James and Francis O., of the Covell district. His first stop in Eose was on the present Espenscheid place, a mile further west. Coming to this final site he lived for many years in a double log house, still marked by the large chimney, the latter having been used for many years in the coopering, for which this section was long noted. Finally he built the commodious farm house still stand- ing. After long and useful lives, the aged people passed away, and were buried at Ferguson's corners. They reared a numerous family, as follows : George, who married the widow of Arnold Rhea, and lived, till he went west, where Alvin Barnes resides. At one time he took up land near where Espenscheid is now. George Barnes died in Michigan, leaving one daughter. The oldest daughter, Mary, married William H. Allen, and lived for many years in the Valley, where Mr. A. was a tanner. They afterward moved to Coldwater, Michigan, where Mrs. Allen died Aug. 12, 1888, leaving a son and daughter. Rebecca we have seen as Mrs. Milo Lyman. Alvin married Sarah Finch, and lives in this district. John H. Barnes married Elizabeth Stack, and lives soxxth of the Valley. He has only one child, Jessie May. Elijah married Mary S. Holiday, and lives at Fei-guson's coi-ners. Like his brotheis, be is a thorough and successful farmer. James mai-ried, first, Fanny Griswold, and second, Fanny E. Ferguson, of the corners. They live in Hui-on, and their children are Eveline, who is Mrs. James Gatchell, of that town ; Edwin B., at the Albany Noi-mal School, and George, who lives with his LTncle Lyman ; Margaret is Mrs. Philander Mitchell, whom we shall meet toward the end of the dis- ti-ict. Beside these theie were James, who died in infancy, and Sarah, who lived to be nine years old. John H. Barnes succeeded to this farm ; bxxt he pi-efers to live neax-er the Valley. His tenant now is James Laven- der, a native of Ireland, whose wife was Lana Stack. The last house to be encountex-ed befox-e reaching the corner is that of Harmon Van Amburg. Harmon has dwelt here many years. The original holding caxne from his father-in-law, William Griswold. He built the house himself. He is a native of Saratoga coxxnty — born in 1812 — 200 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. whence he came with his parents to Galen when he was quite small. By trade he is a carpenter and joiner. His wife was Emily, the first William Griswold's oldest daughter. She died in 1886. Their children were Deborah M., who died in infancy ; Rebecca A., who is with her father ; Sarah E., who died in Syracuse, and Ellen M., who married Wesley M. Abbott, of Otisco. She now resides in Syracuse. It is probable that under favorable circumstances, H. V. can beat any man in the town telling stories of the dim and misty past. He once knew all the dwellers west of the Valley and all of their antecedents. He was a brother of German Van Amburg, who formerly dwelt in the Covell district, in that part called Canada. (Mr. V. has since died.) Just opposite the Van Amburg home is a tenant house, belonging to Alvin Barnes, whose i^ossessions extend southward, and whose home we shall find on the west side of the road. It is a brick structure, and is in excellent keeping with the other farm houses of this locality. As already stated, Mr. Barnes married Sarah Pinch. They have two children — Matilda and Willard. I am told that this place was first held by one Green Plum. There is an absurdity in that name that strikes a hearer or reader at once. If it were sweet or ripe Plum, it would be different, but to be always Green is appalling. Well, Green finally sold out, or was forced off the farm and afterward became miMly insane, and thus died. To him succeeded Simeon Barrett, and his father-in-law, Ebenezer Pierce, that Eevolutionary veteran. These people were described in our "Covell" sketches. Then came Arnold K. Ehea, who died in 1852, leaving a widow and three chil- dren — John, Leroy and Chloe. All of them finally went west. The widow married George Barnes, and the latter managed the farm until John Rhea came of age, when he went to Michigan. John afterward sold to the present holder, Alvin Barnes, better known in Rose as "Alf." Still further south, and on the east side, is the farm house of James Deady ; but it is the long time home of John Vandercook, whose name is indissolubly linked with this locality, for he was the builder of the stately residence. Further back still, I find that this was the old Colborn farm, the place to which James Colborn, first, came when he left his early abode near North Rose. The youth of James Colborn was passed in the extreme western part of the town. His wife was Mary Waters, of Alloway, a sister of Mrs. John Q. Deady, of District No. 5. On this farm their mar- ried life was passed and here their family was reared. Beside several children who died in infancy, there were : Lydia, who became Mrs. Charles W. Griswold, of Palmyra ; Margaret, the wife of JohnVandercook ; James, whom we shall meet in the Valley ; Sarah, who also married a Griswold, William, and went to Missouri ; and William, who married Ephraim Wil- son's daughter, Caroline, and now lives in Wolcott, though for many years they were Rose dwellers. Another son, Jonathan, lost his life at the ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 201 siege of Fort Donelson, during the Eebellion. The Jater years of James Colborn's life were passed iu the Valley, where he died in 1871. He and his wife were life-long members of the Methodist Church. John Vander- cook, who married Margaret Colborn, succeeded to the old home and place, and to it added acres, till finally he had here about three hundred. In situation and commodious arrangements, Mr. Vandercook's place had no superior in the town, perhaps not in the county of Wayne. He had three children : Mary was educated in Lima, and afterward married Eobert Osborn, of Sheldrake, and is now in Indiana ; Frank went to Ful- ton to school for a time, and then went west, where he married ; Michael, named for his grandfather, married Alice Stanley, and he, too, is in Indiana. After the death of Mrs. Vandercook, a most capable and worthy woman, Mr. V. married again, this time a widow. It was only a short time there- after that he sold out and went west. At last accounts he was in California. (Died March 13, 1892, in Los Angeles, aged 72 years.) James Deady is a native of Eose, eastern part, Town district. He married Caroline Swift, of Sodus, and has passed the most of his life in Huron^ His farm there, now Wride's, was noted for its productiveness. It is claimed that his Huron orchard is the best in the county. He has three children : Charles S.; George L., who married Maggie Murray, of Clyde, and Willig J., who is a printer. He is now in New York, where he has worked on the Commevcial Advertiser. He is the boj" who started a paper in Savannah a year or two since. Mr. D., in buying, did not take all the Vandercook farm, retaining one hundred and seventy-seven and one-half acres. James Deady has boxed the political compass. For years he was one of the few thorough-going Greenbackers. He has probably talked more on that subject than any other man in Eose or Huron. No better view of farm and buildings can be had in Wayne county than that afforded of this place from the next road west. South of Mr. Deady's are farms belonging to William Glenn, of Lyons, and John Barnes, of the Valley. Both are rented to tenants. In the east place once lived a family of Finches, though not related to the other people of that name in Eose. The mother, a widow, came from West Dresden, Yates county. She had sons — George and Embury. The latter married Polly, daughter of John Clapper. He was lately a resident of Auburn. The place has changed hands a great many times. (In 1893 E. E. Legg is here. He married Dora Wright, from Canada. Their children are Ernest E., Ora and Mary. ) The last dweller on this road, before reaching the Galen line, is Henry W. Levanway. As the name indicates, Mr. L. is of French origin, his birthplace, Clinton county. He was sixteen years old when he came to the town of Macedon. He left home with five dollars in his possession, and became a resident of Wayne county with five cents left. After the 202 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. various and usual vicissitudes of childhood, he became a citizen of Lock Berlin, whence he came to his present home in 1857. He bought of one of the Van Amburgs, back of whom was a Brink. The farm now held is not quite the same that he originally purchased. The part opposite, all save the carriage house, was first sold to Elijah Barnes, from whom it passed to a Bishop, whose widow, living just over the line, still owns. Her large barn is on the Eose side of the road. Much of the Levauway place lies in Galen, but there are still about 100 acres in Rose. It extends well back and once touched the next road east. On the extreme eastern IJart of the farm, Mr. L. is now arranging sheds or barns for hay. Mr. L. cultivates extensively the osier willows used in basket making. All the buildings on the place, he either built or considerably repaired. The barns when he came, were of log, and the house was very old. His wife is Cyn- thia, nee Curtis, of Galen, but born in Columbia county. They have had only two children, Alauson, who died in 1857, aged three years, and Edra, who is Mrs. E. E. Barnes of Clyde — the clothier whose extensive advertisments are seen all about this section. Mr. Levanway was one of thirteen children, nine boys and four girls, all of whom grew up. It may be safely said that here is another of the self-made men for whom this town is noted. Only a few steps south of the Levanway home, is found the road run- ning west. It is the very first, thus far encountered, which forms a part of the town line, this time between Eose and Galen. Turning around the fine barn of Mrs. Bishop, we ride with one wheel in Eose and one in Galen. The Winchells once dwelt in these parts, and in the olden times there were log houses hereabouts. To-day there is no house on the Eose side of the street, but on the Galen side, at the corner, farther west, is one of the houses belonging to Herman Grenell. Mr. G. was born in Galen, a mem- ber of that family formerly so prominent in that town, but now found only in the burial ground or in the West. He married Marian Greiner of Galen, and their children are: Eugene, living just north; Lydia, the wife of Edward Luftman, who is at the old home, and Ada, also at home. Mr. G. bought of Harvey Warren, thiry-seven years ago, though the place was once in the possession of John Barnes, the early comer, and Franklin Finch was also here very long ago. There are in the Barnes place 100 acres. The buildings are of Mr Grenell' s erecting. Just north of the west side is a tenant house belonging to Mr. G. It should be stated that the home of the family is on the east side of the road, just after turning north. Going north, we shall find on the west side the 100 acre farm, once belonging to William Osborn, but now in the hands of Herman Grenell. His son, Eugene, who married Ida Glover, resides here. (They have one child, Florence.) Mr. William Osborn is a brother of James and Francis O. , living northwest of the Valley, in the Covell district. He married Euth Ann Foist of Galen, to whose father the place formerly belonged. After leaving this, he was in the Valley for a time, then went to the town EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 203 of Lyons, where he now lives, about two miles west of the village. He has but two children : Ida, who is Mrs. Vern Wilson of the Valley district, and Leona, at home. Mr. O. has long been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The next stop is on the east side of the road, at the home of George H. Green, who was born in Onondaga county. His home for many years was in Wayne Centre. He came to this place in 1879. He married Eliza A. Turner, a daughter of Eoyal, who formerly lived here. Their children are : Lorani, who married Jacob Barkley of Sodus ; Fi-ancis, at home ; Sarah, married John McMillan of Lyons ; Charles, at home ; Ada, married J. W. McRorie of Wayne Centre. Mr. Green has been a cooper, also a carpenter and joiner. He repaired the house in which he lives. In the farm there are 34 acres. Eoyal Turner, whose home was here for many years, came from Vermont, where he married Betsey Cooper. Some of their children were grown up before his coming hither. He lived here about forty years, dying thirteen years since. Mrs. Turner, only recently deceased, lived to be nearly ninety years old. Of their eight children, in addition to Mrs. Green, there were Mrs. S. D. Wilson of Boston, Mass., C. Clark, EliasK., in New York, and Marcus in Eahway, N. J. Mr. Turner bought of one Hoag, and he of Daniel Jeffers. James Colboru, first, many years ago, erected a stave cuttiug factory on this place, probably the first one in the town. Among so many possessors it is nearly impossible to name all, and equally difficult to preserve the proper order. William H. Espenscheid is our next resident, and his home is on the west side. Though born in Huron, he is of German extraction, the first of this nationality to be encountered in this western part of Rose, but by no means the last. His father was from Hesse-Darmstadt and has children John, Helen, Derrick and William, whose wife is Mary A., daughter of Henry Steitler of the Wayne Centre district. There are ninety acres in the farm, and Mr. E's. father bought of Philander Mitchell, 2d, who took from Avery Marsh, now south of Clyde, and he purchased from a Foist. Though the Espenscheids have no children, they have most beautiful flowers, on the principle, I suppose, that one must love something. The useful blends with the ornamental in the garden, as beets and onions are crowded by double poppies and sweat peas. All the colors of the rainbow are found in this cheerful corner, just south of the house. This building must date from some one of the earlier occupants. The farm buildings are opposite. There is no tax on the admirable views that the hill-top affords, and the passing farmer may get what pleasure he can from the same, for air and views are about all he can now get free. A turn to the west leads down towards Lyons, and on the north side is the place where Joseph C. Crandall has lived for forty-four years. He 204 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. was born in Dutchess county, but his parents moved when he was small to Chenango county. Thence he came to these parts. His wife was Sarah Brown of Ferguson's corners, who died in 1887. Their children were : Hannah, now dead, who married John Marriott of the Valley ; Byron, who married Katie Stack, and holds the old place; Sarah, Mrs. Thomas Heifer of Newark ; three others died in one week in childhood from scarlet fever. A stone in the burial ground at Ferguson's tells the sad story. "When Mr. Crandall came hither, his log house was located quite a distance north of the place where he subsequently erected his dwelling. He bought of John "Wejgel, who had purchased of John Miller. He had taken from one Shad, or Chad, who bought of John Clapper, who must have bought from the office. There are fifty-six acres in the farm. Though eighty-two years old, I found Mr. C. at work in the wheat harvest, and ready to proclaim his unfaltering Democracy. Byron C, who is now at the head of affairs, and his wife have only one sou, Frank. Henry Lincks dwells nearly opposite. He is Brooklyn, N. Y., born, though his parents came from Alsace. His father, Henry, a furrier by trade, married Mary Simon, and they are now residents of Lyons. Henry L., Jr., who married Carrie Fox, a daughter of the man who long owned the place, came here in 1881. He has greatly improved the plant, having erected one of the best barns in town. Better times will be followed by a new house. (1893 — The house is built.) The site of the old building is readily discovered through the rank character of the grain growing over it. Louis Philip Fox lived here for many years, and here reared a family of six boys and six girls. His wife was Lena Horn and both were of German birth. In German the name is Fuchs. Both the parents lie in the Fergu- son's ground. The oldest sou, George, died in California; Lena married Cornelius Barton, now in Lyons ; Fred is in Woleott; Louis is in Lyons ; Siloma married Ovid Jeffers of Galen ; Carrie married Henry Liacks ; Louisa is Mrs. William Goetzman of Galen ; Charles married jMary Lincks ; Jennie is Mrs. John W. Stewart of Lyons ; William died at the age of nineteen years, and Charlotte died in childhood. The house antedates the Fox family. The farm has eighty-two and a half acres. On the same side of the street, but a few rods further west, is the holding of William Loryman, a native of Yorkshire, England. He once lived on the Knapp place, north of Philander Mitchell's, but has been here many years. His parents, William and Anna E., came to this country and died with him. William has never known the pleasures nor the vexations of matrimony, his sister Susan having been his housekeeper. He has thirty acres, which he bought of James Wraight, and the latter took from Samuel Wessels. An old log house back of Loryman' s abode indicates an «ra much older than Mr. L.'s days. EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 205 IS'early opposite lives Charles Fox, and his residence marks the western limit of the district. As already seen, he married Mary Lincks and they have a numerous progeny growing up. Their names are : Nelson C, Albert H., Mary E. and Godfrey E. There are fifty acres in the place. As owners or occupants before Mr. Fox, were Lampman, Fred Fox, George Fry, Jake Garvey and Henry Wirt. Returning to the north and south road, we shall soon reach the old home of the Havilands on the west side. As the place has for some years borne the name of Foster, it is necessary to state that Cornelius R. Foster married the widow Haviland and paid off the heirs of the estate. Mr. Foster is a native of Vermont and many years since married Harriet, a daughter of Jacob Clapper. In the sketch of the Jeffers neighborhood, he was found on the old Clapper site, now the home of Derrick Hamelink. His children were : Daniel, who married Jane, a daughter of Xathan Jeffers, and Annabel, who became Mrs. Fred Fox, and is now dead. Daniel's home is just below this place and he works the farm. His children are Chauncey, and Lydia, who is now the wife of Louis E. Stopfel of the " Covell " district. (Chauncey married September 27, 1893, Miss Mollie Ferguson.) An aged man, Mr. C. R. Foster, still is active and alert. Henry Haviland was a native of Dutchess county, but with his family went to Waterloo many years since. He there wedded Jerusha Pierson, of a family that had migrated from Long Island to that point. They came to Rose sixty-four years since. Their first log house was considerably further north, and in the growing corn it is easy to distinguish the old site through the luxuriance of the stalks. The deeper green of the field tells how nature reciprocates the gifts of other days. The family came with oxen and a team of horses, and experienced all the discomforts of the early pioneers. It is said that Mrs. H. once walked to Waterloo where her husband was at work, she being thoroughly homesick. The Havilands built all the buildings. To them were born six sons and as many daughters. Many of them, however, died very young, and on one stone in Ferguson's r read the name of seven children, ranging from the iufaut to a daughter of twelve years. The death of the latter, Katherine, was particularly distress- ing, since it was occasioned by the use of an opiate, she being ignorant of its effects. Those who survived were Daniel, who married Charity Dubois and went to Michigan. He there enlisted and died at Memphis during the War. He left three children, of whom Mary is the wife of Henry Jeffers ; Burton, who works for William H. Vandercook (he has since married Mary Paine of Huron); and Sarah, who became the wife of Louis Mar- steiner of Lock Berlin. Louis will be remembered as the little boy, once living in Stewart's district. The second son, Peleg, though he has been much from home, is now there helping to care for his mother. (D. February 19, 189.3.) Sarah is Mrs. George Duell of Marengo; Harriet, 206 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. deceased, was Mrs. William Mix of the Valley ; Jane, also dead, was the first wife of Charles Covell, and thereby the mother of Eose, wife of Frank Kellogg. Mr. Haviland died in 1857, and with him now are all his children, save two. Mrs. Haviland Foster is quite feeble from successive attacks of la grippe. (Mrs. F. died January 2d, 1801, aged about 86 years. ) The road soon takes an abrupt turn to the east and stretches away towards Mitchell's hill. Originally it ran crookedly through the low land, past the old Haviland house, and thence easterly to the brow of the hill. Just before reaching the foot of the hill, we encounter the State road, com- ing down from the old Jeffers haunts, and we shall have to climb it a little way, till we find away back from the street the house now owned by John Smart, but which has had a great variety of possessors. Taking them in order, it is pretty safe to claim this as the original Ackerman home, for here David A. and his wife lived until his death, about 1821. The Ackermans were from Saratoga county. Mrs. A. was Margaret, daughter of Henry Clapper, and thereby sister of John and Jacob. Their children were : Lucinda, wife of Russell Winchell ; Louis, who lived in Victory; Henry C, who married D. A. Collins, a daughter of Stephen of District No. 10, and is in Huron ; Helon B., who married Lovina Winchell, and Cyrus, who wedded Mary Loughton and is in California. Mrs. A. afterward married John Winchell, and bore Sarah Jane, who became Mrs. James Van Amburg, and Lovina, who was twice married, first to Isaac O. Brewster, and second to Philo Miner. Mrs. Ackerman-Winchell died with her son Henry in 1876. The place was sold to Daniel Ackley, who built the house and who went west. To him succeeded the Englishman, William Loryman. A pine tree standing near serves as a landmark to the second William L., who lives in the western confines of the district. After him came Hiram Knapp, who was born in Sodus and married Sarah, a daughter of the first Philander Mitchell. The place of twenty-five acres passed from him to Mr. Smart. Retracing our steps to the east and west road, the hill is climbed, and we look out over the prospect that it has been the lot of the Mitchells to view for many a long year. No name in Rose annals has a more de- servedly conspicuous place than that of " 'Squire " Mitchell. For many years he was the justice of the peace who adjudicated for this section. Absolutely honest and trustworthy himself, his word was his bond, and his judgment was held in the highest esteem. He was born in Bridge- water, Vermont, and married first, Betsey Ann Andrews. They had four children : Mary Ann, who married, first, John Ferguson of Galen, and second, Nelson Griswold of this same district; Leonard, the oldest son, lived along a mile east on the valley road ; William married Jane Grenell of Galen ; they now live in Lyons ; Barnard married Sally Ann West- OLD RESIDENTS. John Barnks. Phil \ndek Mi rt hell. Ali'iiels Ciilli.ns. James Weeks. ToEi. N. I, EL. .SiiLoMfi.N Allen. Chaki.es Siiekmax. I,^MAN ],el. P;lias Shekmax. AVm. llii KiiK. Duiil ev Wade. C'iiesti-.k Ellinwdoii. ROSE NEICtHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 207 brook, and is a resident of Xorth Rose. The first Mrs. Mitchell died and was buried in the long-neglected Jeffers burial ground. His second wife was Sally Winchell of the numerous family described in theCovell district. Born in Egremont, Mass., May 3d, 1800, she was twenty years old when she came to Rose, or Galen. Her first son was Philander, Jr., who, having married Margaret Barnes, retains the old homestead. The second son, John N., was a victim of one of the rural sports long so popular in this town. He was in his seventeenth year, when September 1, 1849, he left his home for a night of cooning, and was brought home a corpse — a terrible blow to the fond mother. A log was to be rolled down a hill, all for fun, and the boy was caught by it and crushed. The first daughter, and Mrs. M.'s eldest child, Lucinda., is still at home, andwas the careful attendant of her aged mother until her death, which occurred Monday morning, Decem- ber 20, 1890, at the age of 90 years, seven mouths and twenty-six days. Sarah married Hiram Knapp ; Lovina is Mrs. Fred Ream of " Co veil's " district. " 'Squire " Mitchell took up his eighty acres at the Geneva Land oflice, and he repeatedly walked to that place to pay his interest. He taught school in the Valley, and daily walked backward and forth, attend- ing to home duties as well as to those of the school. The century was well in its teens when Mr. M. became a dweller in these parts. Orrin Lackey and his young family came with him. His first log house was considerably further north than the site of the i>resent structure. As in other cases, there is no trouble in locating the old house, for grass and grain here grow stoutest. His first framed structure was burned, and then came the brick house, so long a landmark from this hill-top. It was in 1870 that, caring for a young horse, he was kicked, and so killed, at the age of seventy-seven years. The Mitchells have long since been devoted members of the Rose Methodist Church. Philander Mitchell, second, who now maintains the credit of the name, lias two children — Darwin P. and Franklin. The former went to South Butler some years ago as the principal of the public school. Afterwards he bought an interest in a store, and has since then conducted a mercantile business in that place. He married Miss Jessie Clapp of South Butler. For a long time he has been the interesting correspondent from that place of the Clyde Times. The younger son, Frank, is a valuable adjunct to his father in the management of the farm. (In 189.3 on the Milo Lyman farm.) It is necessary now to descend one steep hill and to climb another, when we stand at the corners where the school-house is located, and on whose southwest angle is the house built by the first dweller from whom the dis- trict is called. The first William Griswold was a native of Saratoga county, but the name certainly betrays a Connecticut origin. He came hither directly from Victory. His wife was Rebecca Barnes, and, like him, was a native of Saratoga county. He here hewed out his home from 208 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. the wilderness. The usual succession of ]o^ and framed houses followed and in them was reared his numerous family. His children were Xelson, whose home was just east of his father, on the Valley road ; next was Lewis, who passed his life in Lyons, and was a wire weaver ; Charles Wesley married Lydia Colborn, a neighbor's daughter, and is a farmer in Palmyra; William succeeded his father on the homestead, and his wife was Sarah Colborn (died in Starkville, Col., April 10, 1891), another daughter of the neighbor, and he finally went to Missouri. His children were Albert, William, Frank, Xelson, Mary and Anna. There were four daughters in the first Griswold group. Of these Emily became the wife of Harmon Van Amburg ; Lydia married Jacob Xorris, of Marion ; Ange- line, now dead, married Byron Bissell, of Syracuse ; Melissa married first, Elisha Parsons, of Clifton Springs, and second. Smith Sweezey, of Marion. The Griswolds were God-fearing people and worthy members of the Eose Methodist Church. The second William Griswold sold to Eobert N. Jeffers, who passed the place along to another William Griswold, a son of Lorenzo, of the Jeffers district, and from him the farm passed into the possession of the James Deady family. James' second son, George, now lives here — he and his wife and one child, Eva, to carry the name along. Immediately opposite, on the northwest angle, is the school-house. It is the third in order. The first was built of logs ; then came the old stone edifice, long noted in these parts, which, in turn, gave way to the present structure. The corners have been the scene of many excellent meetings. There is but one home north of the school-house, and this we shall find on the east side of the road. To this point, or near it, Orrin Lackey and Sarah, his wife, came from Vermont, fellow travelers of Philander Mitchell, in the small years of the century. His son-in-law, Amos S. Wyckoff, was subsequently near. Their children were Susan, who became Mrs. Wyckoff, to be met in the Valley district ; Lucy Ann, deceased ; Judd B., who mar- ried Martha Hurlbut, and who was mentioned in the Jeffers series ; Sanford married Sarah Ann Wiley, of Rose, and is now in Michigan ; Joseph, a soldier in the Mexican War, now dead ; Orrin W., who lives in Baltimore, and married there. The senior Lackey died in 1831, at the early age of forty years. His widow became the second wife of Jesse Lyman, who for some time resided on the place, which passed eventually to Franklin Finch. The latter was born in Westchester county, and had married Matilda Harding, a native of Massachusetts, before he came to this town. His advent was in 1830, when he located on the Grenell place, in the south part of the town. He brought the Lyman and Wyckoff houses together and built the house now standing. He had four children, all of whom, except Selah, the youngest, were born in Fishkill, on the Hudson. New- man and John will be found in the Wayne Centre district ; Sarah is the wife of Alvin Barnes, of this district, and Selah lives south of the Valley. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 209 Though there is no evidence to substantiate the theory, there can be no doubt that this family is related to that east of the Clyde road. They came from the same portion of the state, and there is a marked family resemblance. The family has been connected with the Rose Methodist Episcopal Church for many years. The property is now in the hands of Alvin Barnes, and he has erected a very large and handsome barn across the road from the house. As his residence is further south, he has had tenants in this the old Finch homestead. Coming back to the cornei-s, we shall find on the south side of the road leading east, a tenant house, standing on the Deady estate. Just over the ridge of the hill is the long-time home of Nelson Griswold. This was a part of the original Griswold property, and here Nelson built his house and barns, and here he died in 1859. His wife was Mary Ann, daughter of Philander Mitchell, and he was her second husband. Their children were Fanny, who married James Barnes, now of Huron. Salinda, the next daughter of Nelson, is Mrs. Edgar C. Crane, of Bola, 111.; Edgar lives just east ; Philander married Sophia Soper, of Rose, and lives in Galen ; John W. married Delia Cole, of Lyons, and is with his mother on the farm. He has two children — Nellie and Ray. Again we must go up and down the hills, and descending a steep incline, we cross a fertile valley, and on the north side of the way, just at the foot of the next hill, Edgar Griswold has erected his home. Like many of the people in this vicinity, he keeps bees, and the air is full of busy hummers. His wife was Anna Hersey before marriage, and their children are Julia and Bessie. The next hill is very steep, one of the worst in the town. Beyond its summit, on the north side of the road, the relict of Leonard Mitchell has lived in widowhood for many a long year. Leonard, a son of the first Philander, married Mariette, a daughter of Michael Vandercook, and located here on a part of her father's farm. At one time there were 140 acres in it, but now the number is ninety-five. He first built a framed house and then followed it with the commodious brick edifice still standing. Leonard Mitchell was one of the noteworthy Methodists of his day ; no one was more zealous than he. Even a short time before his death he had expressed to his wife his conviction that it was his duty to go west and preach. He died in 1865, after an illness of only four days : brain fever induced by a sudden cold. His children were Eliza, who is Mrs. George Jeffers, of District No. 11 ; Phoebe, who is the wife of Henry Tyndal, now at Iron Mountain, Mich, (a Presbyterian minister reared in Huron), and William A., who lives with his mother on the farm. Two children died unmarried, Frank in 1887, aged 30 years, and Sarah in 1886, aged 25 years. William Mitchell, who now runs the farm, married Eliza York, of 15 210 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Huron, and has one boy, Willie. (Wm. M. died April 22, 1893, aged 40 years.) Down and up we go again, and at the right is a house fast being dis- mantled. It is the old home of the Vandercooks. Michael, the first of the name hereabouts, came from the eastern part of the state to Lyons first. He next went to Canandaigua, and thence came to Eose to the farm now held by John Finch, east of Wayne Centre. That place he traded with Samuel Bockoven, of Lock Berlin, for this location on the hill. His family was reared mainly on the Finch place. His wife was Mary Jeffers, a sister of Eobert, the first, and Xathan. The Vandercooks and Jeffers were singularly intermarried. Of six Vandercook brothers, three mar- ried Jefferses, and one sister became the first wife of Xathan J. Their children were Sally, who was Mrs. Peleg Randall, of Lyons ; Lydia was Mrs. David McDonell ; Cornelius, who died at the age of thirteen ; Eliza- beth was Mrs. Adam Fisher, of Clyde, whose only daughter, Sarah, after graduation at Lima (Genesee College), married George Barton, a dis- tinguished teacher of New Jersey ; John, whom we have encountered on the present Deady place : Marietta has just been passed as Mrs. Leonard Mitchell ; Phoebe, the wife of Constantine Worden, is only recently deceased ; William Henry was found in the earlier description of the dis- trict. The elder Vandercooks died here and the place now belongs to their youngest son, William H., who began his housekeeping here many years since. Long used as a tenant house, the structure shows the result of neglect, though the brick filling back of the clapboards indicates a dis- position once to make the house comfortable and enduring. The barns have gone and nothing works in good shape except the fine smoke house, apparently of recent making. It would seem that Samuel Bockoven was one of the first if not the very first owner of this property. At sundry times Eobert and Isaac Vandercook resided in Eose. They were sons of Henry V., who also had married a Jeffers. They went west long ago. Still journeying towaid the rising sun, we come to a modest house on the north side of the road, the home of Andrew Stickles. It was once the property of James Lavender who now lives on the old Barnes farm. I have understood that Mr. L. built the house. At this point a road leads north, coming out by John Blynn's. The only house near, or in it, is a small one on the east side, the home of Henry Knapp. Here, for some year's, lived the Dunham or Donahue family, the head of which was for so long a time one of the blacksmiths in the Valley. The first Milem was also here, long ago. Old inhabitants tell of a log house still further to the east, where dwelt Nelson Coleman ; then one Horn, and afterward the place was joined to the next, or Jeffers farm. Also a log house was on the southwest corner in earlier days, and iu it lived Benjamin Johnson. But these are names cinly. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 211 DISTRICT NO. 12.— Wayne Centre. June 11—Juhj 9, 1801. This record of District No. 12 is very incomplete. The removal of the •first settlers and their children has left very little source of information. It is a most peculiarly shaped district, extending: from the southern line of the town to within less than one mile of the Huron border. It includes parts of both Lyons and Sodus ; but I shall confine myself strictly to our town of Eose. In this district we shall find many Germans, who seemed to have overflowed from Lyons eastward, and to have thus taken the places of the original settlers. To my inquiry as to the reason for this German influx, I was told that many years since, the father of the late Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer located in Lyons. Xaturally others of his race came to a place where he, who had learned English, could interpret for them, and found homes near him. In time they spread out, and the Rose occupancy is the result. For a long distance this district has the dwellers on one road only. For our purposes it will be as well to enter from the south. To do so, we shall have to go west from Ferguson's corners till we reach this highway. The first house is on the west side of the road, and has long stood in the name of A. H. Mallery. "Captain" Almon H. Mallery was born iu Columbia county, though the family was of Connecticut origin. His father, Harvey M., who had married Emma Stone, came to this town more than fifty years ago, and the first home was on the next place north, the original farm being very large. This place, next to the Galen line, and for twenty years occupied by tenants, was bought of Mr. Nichols. "Capt." M. has been twice married. First to Adaliue Dunn, who bore him one son, Harvey, a resident of Lyons. His second wife before marriage was Mary Horubeck, born in Ontario county. Their children are James S., married and living in Bast Palmyra, and Emma, who is at home. The family many years since moved to Lyons, still retaining, however, the possessions here. The title by which Mr. Mallery is known is purely complimentary. When a lad, in Columbia county, he was the chief boy iu a party of twenty or more who trained with wooden weapons. The title was given him then and has clung to date. As be says, everybody but his mother called him " Captain." On an old map where we should expect the initials A. H., I find only C. The maker was obviously deceived. Valentine Goetzman is the owner of the next farm, though he does not at present reside there. He bought of William Espenscheid, who purchased from Oscar Mallery. Oscar Mallery mariied Anna Ferguson and had three children — Harrison, George and Sarah. He afterward went to Newark, and there died. There are one hundred acres in the farm, which is now in 212 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. the care of Philip Humbert, who married Carrie Goetzman. Mr. G. is a German by birth, as is also his wife, who was Saloma Hoetzel. Their children are : William, who married Louise Fox, of the family to the northeast ; Mary, who became Mrs. Louis Fox, of the same family ; George married Carrie Einkel, and lives in Lyons ; Sarah, who luarried Philip Mindel ; Carrie, Mrs. Humbert, and Albert, who married Anna Stell, and is with his father. Before reaching the next dwelling, we shall pass on the east side a large farm belonging to the Mallerj- farm, for this almost surrounds the Goetz- man place. John Mjers, who planted his house on the west side of the road, purchased a lot of one and a half acres from "Capt." A. H. Mallery, and in 1867 put up his buildings. Like most Germans, he manages to get the most possible from his glebe. He is a native of Baden, and his wife was Margaret Ohl. Aside from tilling his own lot, Mr. M. finds plenty of employment in helping his neighbors. They have had five children, all of whom have gone from home. They are Phcebe, who is Mrs. Henry Christ, of Lyons ; John, who is in Chicago ; Conrad, who married Mi-s. Mary (Eeynolds) Ferguson, and is in Lyons ; Sophia, who is the wife of Andrew Baker, of Lyons, and Carrie, who also finds a home in the same place. The next residence north is a handsome white house, the home of Henry Steitler. It is located in the southeast angle of the cross roads. With its convenient surroundings, it is visible from afar in an eastern direction, and is pointed out as the last house on this road toward Lyons. Mr. Steitler is an Alsatian, and his first wife was Mary Weikner, by whom he had Mary, the wife of William H. Espenscheid ; Henry, who is married, and lives in Galen, and William, who married Mary Luffman. Mr. Steitler's second wife was Mary Eankart, who has borne him Charles and Edith, both at home, though Charles has taken to wife Bertha Trask. There are about sixty-seven acres in the farm. Before leaving this section we must retrace our steps, and place ourselves very near the beginning of the century. Then the road, such as it was, ran along the west ridge, on the preemption line, and not as now, at the foot of the line of hills. As a consequence, whatever traces of early settlers along that way might have existed, they all long since disappeared. It is more than probable that the first comer to this vicinity was John Drown, fir.st. who came hither in 1813 from Parsonsfield, then District of Maine, erected into a state in 1820. His wife was Sally Ayers, and somewhere on the okV ridge preemption road, south of the east and west one, he located his habitation. He had a large family. He bought of Samuel Hoyt, but paid at the land office. His brother, Solomon, who came in 1812, lived just south of him on the same road, having bought at the office. The last dweller on this road, on the west side, and so in Lyons, was a Mr. Tuck, EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 213 ■whose wife was a sister of Josiah Calcott of Huron. Calcott himself married Katy, a daughter of the first John Drown. Ruth, another daughter, became Mrs. Daniel Hayford of Huron. Solomon was twice married. The name of his first wife I have been unable to learn. By her he was the father of John, William, Warren, Charles, Betsey and Solomon. His second wife was Fanny Dennis of the Wayne Centre family, and by her he had eight children. He finally went to Pennsylvania and there ended his days. Several of his children became Mormons, and went off at the time of the excitement and were lost sight of. The first John Drown afterward lived at the foot of the Dodds hill, in the Griswold district, and there his wife died. He, too, went to Pennsylvania and died there. It seems that he had made some extensive purchases of laud in that state. When the Drowns left their first settlement, they sold to Aaron Waterbury. The first settler where Steitler is was Jonathan Colborn, who was a Pennsylvanian. He, too, came very early in the century, having first stopped south of Lyons. His wife was Hannah Hamilton. The farm at first con- sisted of one hundred acres. Mr. Colborn died at the age of eighty-eight years, in 18.57, and his wife followed him in less than three months, aged eighty-one. Both were buried at Ferguson's corners. Their children were James, whom we found in the Griswold district ; John, who went to Michigan ; Thomas, who married Sally Bowers, from the now Klippel farm, and became a Mormon. He had five girls. Clarinda became a Crippen, and lived near Rochester ; Catharine became the wife of Ezra Yincent, and both joined the Mormons. On this farm a Vincent followed Jonathan Colborn, but whether he was Ezra or Josias, I am unable to state. Au old map has at this point the name of B. Albough, from whom Mr. Steitler may have purchased. Over this whole section, as far as its early history is concerned, there seems to brood a deep twilight, not to call it night indeed. After passing Steitler's, should we go east, we should find only the shut- up house of Anthony Turvey, who now lives in Wolcott. This place is now on the north side of the road. Again, were we to go west, our way would soon be met by the lioundary between Rose and Lyons. It is the famous new preemption line ; but which every dweller in these parts, young and old, calls " The Pre/^emptiou." Were they all Cockney born, they could not iusist any more decidedly in putting in that absurd h. Our north and south road runs only a few rods away from this noted meridian. Fred Trautman resides in the next house, located a little north of the corner, and is on the west side. It was said that a Harvey Gray was first here. Then came Josias Vincent; after him Jacob Mitchell, and next Conrad Young, who sold to the first Fred Trautman. The latter was of German birth and his first wife was Magdaliua Baltzel ; their children were George, who lives in Buffalo, and Fred, 2d, who, having married Ida, 214 ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. daughter of Ovid Jeffers of Galen, now manages the place. After the death of Mrs. T., Mr., Trautman married again, this time Barbara Smith. He, himself, died in July, 1889, and his widow with their children— Elbert, Philip, Emma and Jessie — resides at the Centre. An older son, Charles, died. There are ninety-three acres in the farm. The man who holds the next place is, obviously, a careful farmer, for everything is in most excellent condition. This farmer is Henry Klippel, who came to America from Hesse-Darmstadt in 1852. In 1860 he came hither, buying of Lysander Clark, who took from one Bixby, and in time the line runs back to the Colborns. The house was built by Bixby. Mr. K. married Catharine Austerly, and she has been the mother of numerous children. Mr. Klippell has a standing joke, viz. : " I have seven boys and every boy has a sister." Many say at once, " Why, then you have four- teen children." A remark which pleases Mr. K. not a little, and for any one to see through his statement immediately, and to respond, " You have eight children," is just a little disappointing. The sons are: John H., who, having taken Louisa Fox for his wife, lives in Lyons ; George B., in Lyons also ; Philip F., in Chicago ; Edward D.; Sylvester D.; Charles M., and Frank E. The last three are at home, but doubtless they, too, will soon seek more remunerative situations elsewhere. For the rising generation the farm has very little attraction. The only daughter, "every boy's sister," is Isadora. In the place are 117^ acres, much of it tim- bered swamp land. Mr. K. was one of the very first successful propaga- tors of peppermint in the town. On the same (west) side of the road, well up and back, is the home of Michael Weeks, though everybody in town pronounces the name Wicks. This is the site of the old Benjamin Craft place. The three brothers, Benjamin, Abram and Thomas, came to these parts from Dutchess county as early, it is said, as 1810. This being the case, they must have been among the very earliest settlers within our present territory. Benjamin Craft died in 1858, at the age of seventy-nine years, and his wife, Elizabeth, survived until 1861, dying in that year, aged 81. Both are buried in South Sodus. It seems certain that Benjamin C. was the first settler here. He had originally 100 acres. His sous were Jonathan Pine and Benjamin, Jr. The daughters were : Deborah who married Abraham VanValkenburg ; Lydia, who married a Ferguson of Galen, and Margaret, who became the wife of Andrew Rhinehart. The latter was killed during the War. J. Pine Craft succeeded his father on the farm. In town parlance, he was generally known as Pine, and this name is the only one attached to the Craft in the South Sodus ground. He died in 1867, at the age of sixty-six years. His wife was Amy, a sister of Michael Weeks, the present proprietor, and she sold to him. His wife was Frances M. Tooker before marriage. Their only child, Ida F., became the wife of Charles O. Baker, a great grandson ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 215 of Benjamin Craft, the first settler. He resides in Galen. Ida died iu 1887. A monument in the South Sodus burial ground tells the story of her early death at twenty-two years, and that of her infant, Frances E., who lived to be only seven months old. The life chapter of mother and child is soon written. There are now only forty acres in the place ; but Mr. W. keeps everything in admirable order. The house was built by the first settler. The next house, still on the west side, is that of William McEorie. The farm buildings are on the east side. We are yet on the original Craft farm ; for this place of fifty acres the first Benjamin gave to Benjamin, Jr., who built the most of the buildings. His wife was Lucy Ann Goewey. Of their children, Squaire B., an infant, is buried in South Sodus ; Schuyler is dead also, and Betsey Ann went west with her parents, where they died. To the Crafts succeeded Elisha Barton, whose wife was Caroline Warren. Of them my record is very meagre, for I can only mention the death of Elisha in ISTiJ, aged fifty-three, and that of his wife in 1884, at the age of fifty-four years. The present owner, William McEorie, is a native of Missouri. His parents, however, were natives of Galen, whence they went before the War to the west. The father, William, was a Union soldier, and, as such, was killed. The widow came back east, and our citizen was reared here. His wife is Ada, a daughter of the George H. Green met in the Griswold district. Their children are : John W. and Earl F., two as bright little fellows as are often encountered. (In 1SS3 McEorie is in Lyons, and McMillen is on the farm.) Whatever there is of the hamlet of Wayne Centre may be said to begin here. The settlement is doubtless the result of the saw and stave mills and cooper shops located at this point. The task is quite too great to trace out all the owners and occupants of the small lots. It is probable that all this land once belonged to the Crafts, and from them passed to their heirs and relatives. The small village has come in the interval of fifty years. There are traces of houses, now destroyed, and of shops that ceased to be remunerative. Perhaps it will be as well to keep to the west side as we near the corners. After passing a large evaporator, w-e find the home of Samuel W. Lape, a native of Eensselaer county, though reared in Sodus ; has been postmaster, both in South Sodus and here ; he was a lieutenant in the Ninth Heavy Artillery, Co. D, and is now a justice of the peace. His wife is Julia Ann, a daughter of David J. Seager. In early life Mr Lape was a school teacher. He has twice taken the census of the town ; iu 1880 alone, in 1890 the 1st district. Philip Rodenbach comes next. He is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, and is one of the most substantial citizens in town. His parents came to Eose for a single year, in 1835, but afterwards went to Lyons. He came again 216 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. in 1852, and has been here ever since. He has four brothers, and the five brethren average above 200 pounds each in weight. Mr. E.'s wife was in girlhood Margaret Klippel, a sister of Henry, of the same district. There are four children, of whom George H. married Josephine Wilder, and lives in Grand Forks, Dakota ; Albert P., now in Eochester, and twin daughters, Carrie E. and Kate M. The former is the second wife of Charles O. Baker of Galen. Mr. Eodenbach bought of William Van Ostraud, and his ten acres are a part of the old Benjamin Craft estate. To his labors as a farmer Mr. E. has added the work of a blacksmith. His shop is still extant, but latterly he has not done much in it. Xo man in the place enjoys more respect than our friend, who now ranks as one of the oldest inhabitants. The fine residence of Joel H. Putnam is just north, and it is one of his own building. Before this, was a house in which Jacob Young resided. The saw-mill back was the joint property of the three brothers— Conrad, John and Jacob Young. Jacob, whose home this was once, now lives on a fine farm just north of the Worden place ; but is in the town of Lyons. His wife was a Twamley, Martha, a daughter of the family so long identified with this vicinity. Mr. Putnam owns here only six acres, but he has a large farm eastward from the Corners, where his son Hervey lives. At this point he manages an extensive stave factory, a cooper shop and keeps up a very large store-house for barrels. Not the least interesting item about his premises is a fish pond, covering several rods of area, scooped out of the black muck down to the underlying clay, and fed from unfailing springs along the banks. Here he has placed eighty German carp, and they seem to thrive amain. It is woi-th the time to visit the pond to see the fishes fed. Mr. Putnam was born and reared in Marion, but claims descent from the brave old "Israel Put" of Eevolu- tionary memory. His father was Cornelius, born in Hartford, Conn. His first wife was Happy Miller, and his second, Sophia Harris. His grand- father was Eufus Putnam, Joel H. Putnam married Eliza Alles, a native of the Isle of Guernsey, and they are the parents of Dewey C. , who married Nellie Koon, formerly of the Valley, and he lives at home, having three children — Hazel. Olive and Eay. (Also Joel, and a girl, both born since writing the foregoing.) The second son will be found on the east road, and the third son. Wells J., is in Chicago. The approaches to the cooper shops and mills are passed next, along with the foundations of a house, burned a year ago. Then comes E. Piatt Soper, a native of Smithtown, L. I. His first wife was Charlotte Cady, of South Butler ; his second wife was Sylvia Grant, of Butler. The children by his first wife were : Josephine, who married F. Priest Wilcox, of Orleans county, a farmer ; and Erwin, who married Nettie Deputron, and lives in Auburn. His second wife is the mother of Elbert EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 217 G. and A. Vianna, both young people at home. Mr. Soper has thirty-four acres here, the results of several purchases, representing the names of Craft, Shaw and Bartou. Mr. Soper, like many people hereabouts, does coopering also, and his shop and barn are opposite. He is a brother of Egbert and Daniel, once living in the east part of the town. On the corner is the home of Alfred Spong, of German birth. He has three children. Before him occurs the name of H. Dunham. Obviously, the site is an old one, but I can not undertake the finding of all those who have lived here. Glossing the road, on the southeast corner, is one of the oldest houses in the vicinity, associated to some extent with Abraham Van Valkenburg, remembered as the husband of Deborah Craft. There were several chil- dren in this family that reached maturity, and are : John, who lives in Leroy ; Benjamin and Isaac, both in British Columbia ; Abraham, who married Dora Barton, of Lyons, and who also lives in Leroy ; Betsey mar- ried Andrew Baker, of Sodus, who was killed in logging ; and Margaret, who married John P. Shaw, long a resident on this corner. Mr. Van V. died in 1863, aged sixty-two years, and Mrs. Van V. in 1876, at the age of sixty -eight years. A daughter by the name of Adelaide died in 1881, aged thirty-two years. The Shaws who dwelt here are both dead, and, with their predecessors, lie in the South Sodus burial ground. They died, respectively, in 1880 and 1884, at the ages of forty-three and forty-four years. They left two children — Sheridan, now in California, and Emma, in Leroy. Albert and J. Wesley died in childhood. Mr. Shaw was a member of the !)th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, and Abraham Van Valkenburg, his father-in-law, died in service as a member of the 160th Infantry, rather an old man for soldiering. Turning to the south, we pass Piatt Soper's shop and barn and come to the home of various people, whose residence is more or less transient. Abraham Van Valkenburg's homestead was next. The store and post office are kept by John Trimble, who came hither from the town of Ontario four years since. His wife was Viola Woolsey, of Sodus. He has ten acres of land, having bought from Mrs. Dennis. The post office in Wayne Centre dates from 1863. (?) Joel H. Putnam received the appointment, and he deputized Moses Dennis, who was later made full postmaster. The service was meagre, coming only once a week, gratis, from Lyon^. In 1878 the office was put on the route between South Sodus and Lyons, and had mail twice a week. In the days of John Camp, of Lyons, the office began getting a daily mail. After Dennis, as incumbents were S. W. Lape, Augustus Conroe, Joel H. Putnam and Trimble. Next south is a house erected by Conrad Young, which passed afterward to the father of Dr. J. J. Dickson, late of the Valley, and in it he died. It is now held by Anthony Hebgen. The holdings south of this point are small and have changed owners and occujiants many times. 218 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Returning to the cross roads, the school-house is found on the northwest corner. I do not know how many buildings have preceded it, but learn that the first edifice stood to the northward, where a road diverges from that of the preemption, standing just over the Lyons line. After many years, a site further south was selected. Here are held religious services every Sunday, alternately in English and German. They are Methodistic in character. The point is one on the Lock Berlin charge, though it has , belonged to South Sodus and to the Valley. In many respects the latter union seems the more natural and desirable. Whatever dwellings there may have been in the past, there are no indi- cations of houses till we reach the home of widow Miller. As she says, it has been the widow's abode for many years, since before her for twenty years was the widow Bennett. The site is an admirable one, commanding a wide view to the south and east. Here Philip H. Miller, a native of Alsace, came many years since. His wife was Mary M. Klippel, another sister of Henry. Their children are : Edward, now in Dakota ; Wells, who married Libbie Dodds, and lives in Lyons ; Frank, married and lives in Lyons ; Walter, who is at home ; Matilda, the wife of C4eorge Wraight, of the Covell district ; Carrie E. and Maud C, who are, I believe, teachers. Mr. Miller died sixteen years ago, leaving directions that the place should be managed by his widow for eighteen years, when the property should be divided. She is now nearing the end of her trust, and, apparently, has done her part faithfully. She tells me, however, that the boys of to-day don't like the farm, and she can not get hired help to do as she would like. ' ' Should Miller see those arrow weeds standing in the fence corners, it would make him turn in his grave," was her remark, as she dilated on the decadence of the times and the disposition of the young men of the present to selfishly go for themselves at once. Mr. Miller bought of Jacob Mitchell, who took from the widow Bennett, who had been there for a long time. Before her and her husband are the names of Heldrigel, Vin- cent and Wm. Morris, the latter of whom probably took up the land from the office. Our road crooks around toward the west, and on the south side is the most sightly edifice in the vicinity. Tunis Woodruff, who located here many, many years since, was singularly fortunate in his situation. Back of him was only one name, probably that of Lewis Morris, who went west. The Woodruffs, good. God-fearing people, dwelt here many a year, and hence passed to their reward and last resting place in the South Sodus inclosure ; Mr. W. dying in 1864, at the age of sixty. There was once a burial place north of the barn, but who were placed there I have no means of learning. The spot was finally plowed over. The farm has one hundred acres. There were three Woodruffs reared here — George, now in Lyons ; Isaac, in the west, and Mary, who once lived in ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 219 the Valley as Mrs. Ansou Waring. After the Woodruffs came Constan- tine Worden, and this was his home for twenty-four years, he only last spring, /. e., 1890, leaving to live in Lyons. His wife was Phrebe, a daughter of Michael Vandercook. Her death toob place four years ago. Their children were : George, of the Jeffers district ; Leonard, who mar- ried Maggie Weeks, and is east of North Rose, and William, whose home is northeast of Wayne Centre, in the town of Sodus. Mr. Wordeu still holds the farm, renting it to George L. Reynolds, of Lyons. This road runs into the town of Lyons, and thence into Sodus, but on the very top of the hill we turn to the north and, for a short distance, follow the thoroughfare that forms for some rods the town line. Just beyond the foot of the hill it crooks abruptly to the right, /. e., east, and our first halt is at a small house, in which resides the widow of Isaac Warren. lu 1S53 the place was put down as the home of William West, but of him I can give no details. The Warrens were among the very first settlers in Rose, coming in along with or soon after the Craft family. The progenitor was Comstock Warren, who, after the birth of his children, took a load of bark to Geneva and never returned. His leaving was one of the mysteries that afflicted our friends many years ago, and must have been more than a nine days' wonder. Xo satisfactory explanation was ever made of what could draw a man from his family in this abrupt manner. There may have been home incompatibility, the man's habits may not have always been just correct ; but be these suppositions as they may, a woman, practically a widow, was left with small children to maintain. Mr. Warren was from Dutchess county, and only Isaac C. and Caroline, who, as Mrs. Elisha Barton, was many years at the Centre, continued in Rose. The sons, George, Jacob and William, went west; Hannah, who, as Mrs. Abram Morris, went to Michigan ; Maria, who married Leonard Brown, of Lyons, and Abbie, who is Mrs. Rufus Rowland, of Michigan. The land taken from the office was paid for by the Warren sons. Upon Isaac early fell the burden of hard labor, and he discharged his duties manfully, till illness prostrated him upon a bed of suffering. His wife was Emeline Bennett, of Sodus. This place was not the old home ; that was farther along to the north, where Walter White now lives. On that site they lived and here was born their only son, James, to be met later. Isaac Warren, after yeai's of hard work, was afflicted with rheumatism, making him bed-ridden for sixteen years. Nearly helpless during all this time, it seemed a sad sequel to his former life of activity and usefulness. He died in 1883, and is buried in South Sodus. Near him lies his mother, Sarah, who passed away in 1875, at the age of eighty-two. The house in which Mrs. Warren now lives was built by Mr. Morris, and by him sold to Isaac Warren. Across the way, just where the road takes a northerly course, is a neat house, the home of the Sutherlands. Years ago this bore the name of P. ^20 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Bennett. The first of this family was buried in the South Sodus cemetery. There are in the place eight acres, and the occupants of the house are •Charles and his sisters, Elizabeth and Rebecca. Mr. S. for some years drove the stage between Wayne Centre and Lyons. Land belonging to the Twamley family surrounds these places. On the west side of the road, which here is about forty-five- points to the east of north, is the place where the Warrens long lived. James, son of Isaac, succeeded his father here, and here he lived with his wife, Ella Lape, till his early death, in 1878, at the age of twenty-five. His taking off was one of those distressing affairs that sometimes end in what began as pleasantry and fun. A party in September had gone out for a night of pleasure in hunting raccoons. The animal had been treed. The tree had been cut down, but a limb had been detached and left hanging to an adjacent tree. This, of course, could not be seen in the night, but its descent was none the less sure, and its stroke none the less fatal. A widow and a fatherless boy were a heavy price to pay for diversion. This boy's name is James Isaac, and he is at home with his mother. She afterward married Walter White, who came hither from Chautauqua county. They have three children— Flora, John and Walter. In the old farm there were one hundred acres. The house built by the Warrens followed the original log house of the pioneer. In the old 1853 map, the name of W. West occurs just south of the Warren place. This farm is on the old allotment. No. 220. Further north, on lot No. 526, was, years since, the name of J. Boweu. I have nothing more. Across the road is lot No. 517, and on the lower part of it is a house belonging to Charles LaRock, now of Wallingford. He bought of S. W. Lape, who took the land from the office. This part of the town had many acres in the land office till a comparatively recent date. On the upper or northern part of this lot is the home of Monroe Seager, but years since the name of J. Ellis is found. Mr. S. bought directly from Edward LaRock, who took from S. W. Lape, and he from the land office. On this place Mr. Seager has erected a fine house. He has been three times married. First, to Anna Wraight ; second, to Harriet Dunn, of the Covell district ; and third, to Mary (Dunn) Wager, a sister of Harriet. There were two children— Amanda, now deceased, who married Edward LaRock (leaving a daughter, Anna), and Monroe. The latter is by the third wife, the former by the first. There are twenty-eight acres in the farm. Some ways back from the road, on the west side, are the walls on which stood the Woodruff steam sawmill. In 1857 this blew up, injuring seriously several men and killing George Grenell. As the trees were nearly all cut off, it did not pay to rebuild, and consequently we have to-day only a history. The owner, however, was anxious to sell, and he ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 221 succeeded in exchanging the small farm with David J. Seager, who lived next north, for a colt, a pair of oxen and a watch. However good this trade was for both parties, it eventually wrought great misfortune for Mr. Seager, as we shall presently see. The Seagers came from Danbury, Conn., and the first of the family to settle in this vicinity was John K., who, with his wife, Clara Jackson, came first to Lock Berlin, in Galen, and thence to York's settlement, and thereby became the progenitor of the Seagers of Eose, Huron and Sodus. Long since, the first comers found final resting places in the cemetery near York's corners. At present we are specially interested in David J., who was in his seventeenth year at the time of the family migration. In time he wedded Hannah Warner, a daughter of the Asher Warner who was slain in the British attack on Sodus Point in 1813. It may be quite as well to state here the names of the second generation of Seagers. In addition to David there were: John B., who settled in Huron, and was the father of CTCorge, living north of the Valley ; Harrison, who settled in Sodus ; Syrena, who married William Sebring, of Eose, and Clarissa, who became Mrs. Adam Crisler, also of Eose. To David J. Seager and his wife was born a large family, as follows : John, who married Mary York, of the settlement, and formerly lived to the north- east ; Julia Ann became Mrs. Samuel Lape of the Centre ; Monroe, as we have seen, has been three times married ; Benjamin, who was a sergeant of Company D, Ninth Heavy Artillery, married Louisa LaEock, and resides in Huron ; Susan, the wife of Warren York, lived and died in Huron ; Asher W. we shall meet in the next house north ; Daniel, a Huronite, married first, Eliza Hart, a daughter of Samuel C, and second, Lucretia Daly, ixnd has one daughter, Ada ; Munson married Emma Dunbar, a daughter of John, and lives in Eose ; Clara is Mrs. Charles LaEock, of Wallington, and has four children — Eose, David, Maria and Charles ; George W. married, first, Emma Spong, of the Centre, and second, Candace O. Rumpus, of Huron, his children being Maud, Ernest and Earl ; Hannah, who married Samuel Davenport, and lives at home with her aged parents. Mr. Seager has done his share of hard work, having taken from the land office his claim and having cleared and nearly paid for it. His claim was north, where Asher is now. He had paid in principal and interest more than the estimated value of the lot, when in trading for the Woodruff lot, he unwittingly violated the terms of his contract, and his lot, improve- ments and all, were sold from under him. This was a terrible blow, enough to dishearten almost any man, but Mr. S. is not the only man in Eose whom man's inhumanity to man has compelled to pay for his farm twice over. So from the spot where he reared his family he moved to the smaller holding, where he now is, and where he and his wife await the end of life. Mr. Seager has seen many changes on these plains. When he came fifty- three years ago, there were deer to be found, and aside from fifteen acres 222 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. of improved or cleared laud (one Baldwin had been there), his surroundings were those of the wilderness. (Mrs. David Seager died December 30, 1891.) Passing northward, we find where the longest road in Rose, that going by the Covell school-house, enters this north and south way. Toward the east and also west of us huckleberries abound, and so the respective places are called huckleberry swamps. When David Seager lost his farm, his son, Asher, was only a boy, but he vowed that if he lived long enough, he would yet own the old homestead. The War came, the boy enlisted, served his time in Company D, of the Xiuth Heavy Artillery, came home, married Mary J. Weeks, a neighbor's daughter, raised mint, saved his money, and finally realized his boyish dream. To-day he has the old place, and has erected a fine house near the site of the framed building built by the father, and which now forms the hitter's home ou the Woodruff place. The site of the first log house may also be seen in the door yard. Mrs. Seager is an invalid, and they have no children ; but they have taken to their hearth and hearts the daughter of one of Mr. S.'s army comrades, and Jennie is, to all intents, their own. Mrs. S. died December 1, 1890. (Mr. Seager married, in 1892, Elizabeth A. Klippel, of Lyons.) Crossing the road and going a little further to the north, we find the home of Abram Wager. There are 117 acres in the place, and he bought in 1855 the contract of John Seager and father, so that, practically, he took his farm from the land office. It should be remarked, in passing, that this locality is known in neighborhood parlance as Seagerville. The house in which Mr. Wager lives was repaired by him, he finding an old one on his coming. Mr. W. has put np one of the largest barns in these parts. Unless struck by a cyclone, there seems to be no reason why it should not long continue a landmark on this road. Close by it, in fact joining it, he is now erecting a carriage house and horse barn of similar model, viz., high studded and with a hip roof. Few farmers in town will be better fitted when this work is done. Abram Wager is a native of this part of the town, and his wife was Hannah Paylor of Galen. Their children are : William P., who married Eosette Phillips, a daughter of Joseph P., of the Covell district, and who now lives in Galen, having two children, Ida and Ada. (Mrs. Wager died August 26, 1891, and Mr. Wager has since married Carrie Raver of Buffalo. Their home is now on the Van Buskirk farm in Jeffers district.) Luther married Ella Potter, and lives Just north ; Alice E. and Albert are at home. The newness of this part of the town is especially evident, as we reflect that in most cases the children of the original contractors are dead or extremely old, but here we have Mr. Wager in the prime of life, yet he settled with the office for his farm. The Wagers are from the family of David, who was born in Dutchess county, and came to this town long since, locating his lot in York settlement, KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 223 ■where the Dixons now live. His wife was Clarissa Dunbar, a sister of Henry Dunbar, a fellow migrant, to be met later. Their children were : Eliza Jane, who died in 1SS7 ; Mary Ann ; Sarah M., the wife of George Dixon ; William Henry, a member of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, Company D., who married Mary Dunn, and died in 1879, and Mrs. Wager afterward married Moqroe Seager ; Abram, the second child, we have already met. Beyond the barns, toward the north, is a fine new house, where Luther Wager is tasting the sweets of newly wedded life. This home is the end of our northward journey, though on an old map of the county T find one more name, at the extreme end of the road, /. e., where it terminates in the east and west way. In the southeast angle thus made ai-e the words J. Reynolds, but there is no trace of a habitation there now. Eetracing our steps, we will imagine ourselves in Lyons, and about to reach Wayne Centre by the nearest course. After crossing the preemption line, there is only one house to be met as we near the hamlet. Indeed, we shall have to look sharp or it will not be seen. A lane reaches up through the fields to the house where lives Samuel Chambers. He came hither from Binghamton. His wife was Nancy Finch of Lyons, and they have one child — Eosa. There are thirteen acres in the holding. Passing the corners, there is first, on the north side, the house belonging to John Lester, though he is not residing in it. His home is Wallington. Ezra Dunham is the occupant. S. Chambers once owned here. Opposite is the old home of the Van Valkenburgs. Valentine Kaiser is the next dweller. He is a son of the Valentine encountered in our " Jeffers " rambles. He is now the mail carrier between Wayne Centre and Lyons. There are several reminders of old homes to the eastward — log houses and old framed structures — but they have all been merged into the i^osses- sion of Mervin Harrington, a native of Savannah, who, coming hither, bought the belongings of Mrs. A. Eidgeway, Geo. H. Green and some of the Thomas Lambert lot. Over his property the cyclone of ISSS passed in all its fury. It strung his barn all over the premises and ujirooted many trees. The barn he rebuilt nearer the road, but the trees were pretty effectually done for. His wife is Mary, a daughter of the Lamberts, next east. Mr. H. is a veteran of the 3d Light Artillery, and his latch- string is always out for old comrades. The Lamberts are of English birth, and to the next place east, Thomas L. came many years ago, having taken from the land office a claim of fifty-six acres. He had three children — ■ Thomas, who went out west and died ; Mary, who is Mrs. Harrington, and William, at home. Mr. L. died in 1884, and is buried in Eose. We now come to the farm standing in the name of Joel H. Putnam, liut his son, Hervey T., is the occupant. The latter married Hattie, a daugh- ter of Egbert Soper, once of District No. 7. They have four children — Wheeler, Grace, Inez and Victor I. This is one of the oldest locations in 224 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. the neighborhood. The house and barns, together with the farm, indicate industry and prosperity. There are in all about 200 acres ; but the farm represents the former homes of at least two families. On the south side, where the buildings are, was Ebenezer Toles, whose children we encountered in the Lake district, and he bought from Dodds. There are in this part some ninety- six acres. North of the road are indications of earlier resi- dents, very likely one of the Crafts. Still north of the road, a trifle further east, is an old house, the former habitation of the farm owners. Mr. Putnam bought of James Elmer of Lyons, and he purchased from Thomas Sweet. This is the old Abram Craft place, the spot to which these people came so early in the century. Here the late Mrs. Seymour Covell was boi-n, and here she was married. Thence the family went to Michigan. Abram Craft came from Dutchess county, and took his lot from Fellows & McNab. His wife was Huldah Newberry, and their children were : Joel, James, Thorn, Clarissa ( Mrs. Covell), and Charles. The latter married Lydia Lyman, a sister of Milo. The whole family moved to White Lake, Oakland county, Michigan, but the Covells, as we have seen, returned. The continuous migration west- ward of some families seems almost startling. Alaska offers new oppor- tunities for those who, till its purchase, had to stop at California. A large brick house, obviously roomy and comfortable, next claims our attention. It is on the south side of the way, some way east of the old wooden structure, in which dwelt for so many years the men and women who called this place home. I am told that Thomas Craft first dwelt here. He was a brother of Benjamin and Abram. I have learned that the name of Van Wort is also connected with it. It is certain that John Dickson was long a resident on these acres. He was from Kingsbury, Washington county, a fellow townsman of the Seelyes, Benjamin and Joseph. Beside the son, Dr. Dickson of the Valley, he had a daughter, Sophronia, who married Thomas Mirick, and after his death married again. She, too, is dead. As we have seen, the first John Dickson died in Wayne Centre. After the Dicksons comes the name of Joel Hall, who went to Palmyra. Succeeding him was W^illiam Stanton of Lyons, from whom the present owner, Newman Finch, purchased. There are 101 acres in the farm. Mr. P. built his house in 1880, thus making a very handsome addition to the dwellings of Rose. The old house yet remains, rather a sombre reminder of the days when people worked hard and had few comforts. Mr. Finch married Malvina Chatterson of the Covell district, and they have four children, viz.: Eda, the wife of George Youngs of Lyons ; Ina M.; George W., and Lila May, all at home. I am informed that down in the woods, to the north, lives William Weeks, and that before him was Jerry Lethbridge ; but I must take the word of my informant for all this, since, like Chas. Lamb, concerning sun- rise, I have had no ocular evidence. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 225 The home of John L. Finch, however, stands out prominently. This house is one of his own building. It is on the north side of the street, some rods west of the old location. With the farm buildings, Mr. Finch has a most delightful outfit for work and pleasure. His wife is Amanda Phillips, a daughter of the late Abram, and so granddaughter of Mrs. Jacob Tipple, who lived to be more than one hundred years old. This place was where Michael Vandercook first located, though his house was further east, and on these acres his children were reared. To him suc- ceeded Samuel Bockoven, who had traded the farm in the Griswold district. The Bockoven house was the one across the vale on the north side, now shut up, but formerly Mr. Finch's home. As we bid good-by to the street and the Wayne Centre district, it is with just a little regret that, unlike the Finch house opposite, there are in this handsome cage no Finches of a younger growth to make it lifeful and musical. Just a few rods beyond the confines of the district, is the summit of the hill which marks the western limit of "Jeffers," and it is meet to stop and to look backward over the scene. North, south, east and west are the homes of industrious people, and before them were those of former generations. Time speeds along. Many of the former dwellers are in the cemeteries, near and far, and many are yet fighting life's battles on other fields. Born and reared with these beautiful surroundings, let us hope that, whether here or elsewhere, they are worthy representatives of the town, so long conspicuous for honesty and sobriety. SCHOOL DISTEICT NO. 10.— SODUS; oe, "The Preijmption." August 13, 1891. No one has the least idea of the size of the town of Eose till he under- takes, as I have done, a house-to-house visitation. Were this a town in Massachusetts, the frequent convention of her citizens in town meeting would result in familiar acquaintance throughout its limits. As it is, we find here, in the extreme northwestern part, people who have scarcely heard of the first settlers along the eastern border. In fact, as the post office address here is either South Sodus or Alton, in almost every instance, and as going to Eose Valley simply to vote does not necessarily beget intimacy, many of our Eose dwellers in this district are more like Sodus people than Eose citizens. I don't mean to intimate that a stranger would be able to detect any physical characteristics peculiar to either town, but I do mean that their conversation and thoughts are more on Sodus than on Eose. We shall enter this district by going north from Seagerville, north from Wayne Centre, and I have seen somewhere in the southwest angle, as th(; 16 226 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. road ends, the name of S. Howard, but to-day there is no trace of any dwelling. Turning to the west, remembering that the boundary between the pre- emption and the York settlement district is a line continued north from this road, which ends here, we first encounter, on the north side, the house of Daniel Martin. Mr. M. was born in Lyons, but he was only a small boy when his father came to this farm. His wife was Katie Baruum of Arcadia. They have only one child, Myrtie E. In this farm there are forty-seven acres ; he bought of his father five years ago. Daniel Martin, Sr., bought of DeWitt W. Parshall, the wealthy Lyons banker, lately de- ceased ; again I turn to an old map, and there I find the name of I. Farr. The early days are thus obscured. A mint still is passed before reaching the next place, on the same side of the way ; here dwell the Eekuglers, a German family from Wurtem- berg ; the first comer, John, is dead, but his sons are yet on the place. The place was bought of D. W. Parshall, who had purchased from E. M. Louis and John Horn. The name of J. Seymour also occurs here earlier. In the original farm there are eighty-eight acres, and to these have been added twelve acres on the north. The first John's wife was Sophia Einkel ; his sons, Charles and John, are now managing the place, and ap- parently very successfully. There is a very pleasaut house on the corner, northeast, where this road terminates. Crossing to the southeast corner, we may see where Samuel P. Thomp- son and family reside. Mr. T. was a good soldier in the Sth X. Y. Cavalry, and his worth is recognized in his holding official positions in Rose. His wife was Emily Burns of Rose ; they have two sons, James P. and Robert L., both at home. Mr. Thompson's father, Robert P.. was born in Sara- toga county and came hither long since ; his wife was Elizabeth Fulton ; their children are : Albert, living to the northward ; Eliza married Henry Taylor of Sodus, and Samuel. The grandfather, Ezekiel, also came to these parts. The old home was on the Sodus side of the road and to the north, near the site of Mr. Thompson's barns. The well is still in use from which water was drawn in the old open bucket so long ago. It was in this old location that the elder Thompsons died. An earlier name here was that of E. M. Lewis. To the southward, just where the preemption road turns off to enter Sodus, at the very angle, on the Rose side, was once the name of E. Lemon, but I have no aid to this suggestive appellation, and so must leave it as it is. Northward from Rekugler's and Thompson's, keeping to the right, we shall find where, for some time, was F. Myers, but he has sold to the Rekuglers and gone to Michigan. Before him was Geo. Sucher. The house, somewhat ancient, is the home of tenants. Albert Clary lives next, a nephew of the Samuel Clary found in the '-Jeffers" district. KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 227 Were it not my determination to keep to the right, I have no doubt I could find much of interest in the people who dwell on the west side of the road. There are more Sodus residents than Eoses ; but I must confine myself to my fiower garden. Albert Thompson resides in the next house. As previously stated, he is a son of the Eobert Thompson once living to the south. His wife is Sarah, a daughter of Caleb Weeks, who lives on the next road east. Their children are Franklin, Albert, Ernest and Edna B. There are thirty acres in the farm, which was bought of Morris Wager. This gentleman lives now in the Valley district, and will be met there. The place was bought many years since from the widow Sutton, whose husband, presumably, took from the laud office. As the old home of the W^agers was on this road, about forty rods north of the old Tindall home in Huron, it will not be amiss to give some data here concerning a name having so many representatives in this part of Eose. John Wager, the first comer, was a native of Dutchess county, and with his wife, Mar- garet Dunn, came early in the century to Pilgrimsport, the spot of debark- ing for so many of the early settlers of this region. Afterward he moved to his Huron home, and there died, in 1856, at the age of ninety years. His wife survived him two years, and died, aged eighty- seven. They were buried at York's corners. They had six children, the most of whom will be encountered, either in the flesh or in memory, as we journey through the northwest part of Eose. Jacob lived a little south of York's corners, and had one son, James, who died in 1855, at the age of twenty years ; David has been mentioned as the father of Abram Wager, in the north part of the Wayne Centre district ; Catharine became the wife of Henry Dunbar, of Eose ; Margaret is Mrs. Caleb Weeks ; Susan is the wife of Alvah Jewell, both of York settlement; while Charles, the youngest son, now an aged man, dwells on the preemption road, though on the Sodus side and near the school-house, the old Fellows place. His wife was Mary Alvord, and their children are: Almira, the wife of David McDowell, and lives in Sodus ; Nancy, who is Mrs. Charles McDowell, also of Sodus, and Morris. The second child was John, who died during the War at Key West, Florida, a member of the 98th N. Y. Volunteers. At the left, a few rods south of the railroad, is found the school-house for this district. It is just over the line in Sodus. Xearly opposite was once a home, the abode of N. Utter. The place has been merged in the Tindall farm, and the old home is utterly desolate. The extreme northwest confines of Eose are reached when, having crossed the railroad, we come to the home of the Tindalls. Charles H. Tindall came here many years ago, from Pilgrimsport, a brother of "Farm," long prominent in the Valley. He was born in New Jersey, and his wife was Polly A. Camp, who was born in Ohio, but of a Connecticut family, long conspicuous in Litchfield county. In her infancy, she was 228 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. taken back to her New England home, and there she resided till she was fourteen years of age. For this portion of our land she then acquired an affection that years have not been able to efface. Coming on a visit to Pilgrimsport, she met her future husband, and, instead of returning to Connecticut, as expected, she formed a lifelong union with him. Event- ually, they came to this point, where they have been for more than fifty years. The house, built by Mr. T., stands very near the town line. The Eose portion of the farm was bought of John Wager, who took from the land office. There are in this part some sixty-five acres. Of their chil- dren, Louisa married William Gatchell, of Huron; Lovina married Eobert Catchpole, of Huron, and both are dead; Lucy married Henry Gatchell ; Polly is Mrs. Ealph Palmer, of Sodus ; Eosette became Mrs. Philip Weber, of Sodus ; Alonzo, deceased, married Sarah Munson ; Charles, at home, and Jerome Worth, who, having married Ida Clark, lives south of the Valley. The elder Mr. Tindall died in 1883. His widow, pleasant and retentive in memory, with her son, Charles, still remains on the old place, so fraught with agreeable associations. By a former marriage, Mr. Tindall had one sou. Myron P., who married Emeline York, and lives in Huron. SCHOOL DISTEICT NO. 2.— HUEON; or, "York Settlement." August 22-20, 1891. We will enter this district, or that part of it belonging to Eose, from the north, and the first resident therein we shall find in the person of Adam Crisler. Adam, it will be observed, is a good name to begin with. As we enter the premises of this man and observe the cooper shop at the right, we should be justified in thinking that a Crisler dwelt here, even if we did not know the name; for no Crisler ever thinks himself properly equipped till such a shop is added to his possessions. Following a lane, we soon reach one of the cleanest, neatest homesteads that I have found in my Eose rambles. House, barns, yards— everything is the soul of neatness and order. Over all, waves an umbrageous elm, a faithful sentinel, keeping guard over these results of honest toil and industry. The home is on the west side of the road. Mr. C. is a member of the family, for many years identified with Eose. He married Clarissa Seager, a sister of David, of the Wayne Centre district. Their children are : Jared E., who married Eosina Lake, and lives in the Valley ; Charles M., who married Sybil Day, and is in the Covell district. Mr. Crisler has been here twenty-four years, but before him the place seems to have had many owners. Of these I can give scarcely more than the names. Mr. C. bought of William Woodward, who bought of E. West. He took EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 229 from Gideon Wibur ; he from William Sebring, and before bim was the first owner, Henry Dunbar, to be met in the eastern part of the neigh- borhood. There are seventy acres in the farm. The name of Stephenson occurs in old records, on the east side, just south of the Huron line, but I have no other trace. On the east side of the road are fields belonging to Gilbert Brown and to Alvah Jewell. Mr. Brown's extensive berry field is here, some eleven acres being given to this culture. Next south, we find Samuel C. Hart, who has long been a Rose dweller. He was mentioned in the Covell district article, he having resided many years on the farm now occupied by George Wraight. He was born in Ontario county, and his wife, who died in 1865, was Ann Witherell, from Vermont. Their children were : Mary and Ann Eliza, both dead ; Marion and Ira, whom we met in the Griswold neighborhood, and William H., at home. Mary married Geo. Knox, then of Rose, but now in Michigan, and left a daughter, Lillie Ann ; Eliza married Daniel Seager of Huron. Mr. Hart came to Rose iu 1842, and he tells me that his first place was bought of one Nichols, perhaps the Nicholas property. His present holding of thirty-eight acres he took from the land office. He built the house now used by him. Near it is an old, unoccupied structure, erected by John Weeks, and back of that is a log house, used by some of the line of squatters who, all through this section, preceded the permanent settler. Mr. Hart has long been a member of the Baj^tist Church. South of Mr. Hart's, a road begins, which, with many windings, finally runs through Gleumark. On the southeast corner is the fine residence of Frank Weeks, who, a sou of Caleb, married Lucy Creek. They have only one child, Jennie. The next place to the south, and still on the east side, is the old David Wager place. It is now held by George Dixon, who married Mr. Wager's daughter, Sarah. The Dixons were originally from Ireland, where Abel, the immigrant, married Alice Twamley, a native of Wicklow, and a i-ela- tive of the Twamleys, on the borders of Lyons, near Wayne Centre. Abel must have halted first iu New Jersey, for in that .state some, if not all, of his children were born. The first Dixon who settled near Glenmark has long been dead, but his widow, at the age of ninety years, died a few weeks since. As the Wagers have already been given, it will be proper to give facts concerning the Dixons. There were several children, namely : Ben- jamin, who went to Ohio ; William is in Michigan ; Jane is in New York; Ellen, who married first, John Howard, second, Harry Traher of Glenmark; Hannah, the wife of Monroe Jewell ; Mary, deceased, who married James Russell ; after Ellen, should have been named George, who lives here, and Abel, who died in War times, a member of Co. G, Ninth N. Y. Heavy Artillery. He sleeps in the burial ground at York's corners. The gene- 230 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. sis of this place is short, since it goes back through Dixons and Wagers to the land ofiBce. Still moving southward, we find a house where lives "William Weeks, another son of Caleb. The fathei- built this house. William married Lueze Welch, of Sodus, and they have one daughter, Ora. Opposite dwells Caleb Weeks, who married long since Margaret Wager, a sister, I think, of David, and once a neighbor on the north. Their children are : Frauk, living on the corners, north ; Hannah, the wife of Nelson Dunbar, of Huron ; Jane, the wife of Asher Seager ; Martha, the wife of John York, of North Rose ; Sarah, who is Mrs. Albert Thomp- son, of the preemption, and- William, the son, dwelling across the way. At the angle in the road, where it turns abruptly to the west, is a log house, only recently occupied. As late as 1888, a family by the name of Porter lived in it. It was built by one Joe Miles, and among other occu- pants was Monroe Seager. This house, still well preserved, of hewed logs, with mortar clinking, on the east side of the elbow, is without doubt the last used pioneer edifice in Rose. Similar houses in the eastern part of the town disapjieared years since. Our district, so far as this road is concerned, is ended, but if we ride down into Seagerville, turn to the east and proceed till we come to the house of Frank Garlic, and there turn to the north, we shall again enter York settle- ment, stopping first at the home of Frank Miner, though I understand that, owing to some differences, his place has been set off to the Covell's neighbor- hood. Mr. Miner, one of the sons of Riley Miner, married Mary A. Mitchell, and has children ; Jennie, Maud, Franklin, Zenas, Minerva, and John. He succeeded upon these twenty-seven acres P. Brower, who had married a daughter of Philip Marquette, one of the first if not the very first owners. There seem to be several of this name living in Glenmark, whence came Philip, who died in 1861 . He had two daughters — Amelia and Elizabeth. The former is dead and the latter is Mrs. George Pritchard of Sodus. Crossing the railroad, we pass through the Dunbar possessions, whose name the cross roads bear. On the southeast angle there was, long ago, a log house, where dwelt various families. Before that it was the site of many charcoal pit burnings ; for here Henry Dunbar worked many a weary day and night. Bushes and old-fashioned flowers still indicate the haunts of man. Diagonally across is a small building, where Aaron Dunbar once kept a grocery. On the northeast corner a blacksmith shop once stood, and in it were shod the farmers' horses of this vicinity. To the west, we shall find but little, only an old house, now nailed up, built by Henry Dunbar's son-in-law, William Chamberlain. Still further west, on the north side, is a small house, where lives widow Daly, once the home of P. Chamberlain. ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 231 North from Dunbar's corners, our first stop is at the house of Aaron Dunbar, and here it was my good fortune to meet Henry Dunbar, the man after whom the corners were named, and whom I find, despite his ninety years, a treasure house of early Eose data. He was born in Dutchess county, and came, with his parents, to the town of Galeu in 1809 or '10. There they died. Since his twenty-third year he has lived in Rose. He was first on the present Adam Crisler place, which he took from the office. In 1837 he took this place from the same office, and has been here since. There were at first some 156 acres. He was an actual pioneer, and his memory of events, in the long ago, is very vivid — stating months and days of that period with no hesitation. For instance, it was the 27th day of January that he came to these then unbroken roads. " Yes," he says, "there was nothing but woods here. There was plenty of game. I once followed a flock of deer two days, and shot four of them. Just below here, where the railroad crosses the road, Andrew J. Sebriug shot a big wolf. There were two of them, and he killed the larger one, and got a bounty for his scalp. My hearing is poor, but my eyesight is pretty good for a man who has burned as many pits of charcoal as I have. You know that is awfully smoky business, and it hurts a man's eyes." His wife was Catharine Wager, who died in 1870, at the age of seventy years. His home now is with his son, Aaron. ( Died February 13, 1893.) The children were : John, once living just to the north ; Levi, who married Lucy Day, and lives in Huron ; Xelson married Hannah Weeks, and also lives in Huron ; Aaron married Mary J. Burt of Sodus, and has two children, Benjamin and Cora ; Rhoda became Mrs. Wm. Chamberlain, and is dead ; Melissa is Mrs. Chas. Knox, and is the sole dweller iu the house to the east of the corners, and yet in this district. Mr. Chamberlain was killed by the running away of a team of horses. The original Dunbar log house stood about where the present house is. John Dunbar's late home is found next north. He married Harriet Davenport, who died thirty years ago. Their only child, Emmaette, married Munson Seager, after whose decease she kept house for her father. Her children are : Harriet, who married a Pierce of Huron, and Nellie, at home. Formerly he ran threshing machines, "portable saw-mills, and, obviously, has known what labor is. He had been particularly unfortunate in certain accidents, which had crippled him considerably. His place is a part of his father's original purchase. John Dunbar died June 11th, 1890, aged about sixty-five years. He was buried at York's corners. No finer farm buildings can be found in this part of Rose than those that are nearly opposite, yet a little further north. Here is the home of Alvah Jewell. He was born in Dutchess county. His father, Isaac, who had married Charity Shaw, came here more than seventy years since. He died in Lyons. Alvah' s wife was Susan W^ager, a daughter of John. Their 232 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. children are : Henry, who married Sivilla Winget, and is on his father-in- law's place in Huron ; Malinda, deceased, married Allen Eobinson, of Huron ; Alanson married Mary Coats, and died in 1873 at the age of 23 years, and his son, Franklin, lives with Alvah ; Elizabeth is Mrs. Thomas Hewson ; Franklin married Miranda Barrett. Mr. J. has 170 acres. Of these, he bought twenty-eight of Philip Marquette, forty from his brother, Barney, and eighty-two from General Adams, who took from the office. On the B. Jewell place, opposite, there was formerly a house. Mr. J. is a Eepublican in politics and Methodistic in religious preferences. His post oflace is Alton. A few steps to the north is a house where Henry Jewell formerly lived, but which he now lets to a tenant. Opposite is the home of Gilbert Brown, and when I find that he was a fellow company man with me in the Ninth Heavy Artillery, he seems very much like an old friend. He was badly wounded at Snicker's Gap, at the time Early was trying to get away after his sortie on Washington. Gilbert was born in the town of Marion, and married Arloa Adams of that town. Their children are Clara L. and Elroy G., both at home. Mr. B. bought of Thomas Hewson, who moved to Sodus. He bought of Aaron Winget, and the latter took from the oflice. The house was built by Hewson. Mr. Brown is a zealous cultivator of berries and has a large dry house. He also has a mint still. There are eleven acres in his place. In religion he is a Disciple. The house standing out so prominently on the north side of the way, long stood in the name of the widow Shannon. There must have been many of this name here and to the north, years ago, since the name is common in the York's corners burial ground. Samuel Shannon, in solitary bachelorhood, lives on the paternal acres. He has nicely repaired the house, and it is too bad that with so many unmarried women in town he does not take some one to his heart and home. Perhaps he has his reasons. (Died April 8, 1892.) He was a good soldier in the Ninth Heavy Artillery, as was also his brother, Theodore, who died in 1867. To reach the next house, we shall have to run down a long lane, past an old barn belonging to Shannon, to the end of the lane, where we shall find the residence of the widow of John Seager. She was Sarah York of Huron, a sister of the North Eose maltster. Her children are : Elizabeth, who is Mrs. John Hill, of North Eose; Sarah, who married George Ball, of the same place, and George, Warren, Norman, Oscar, and Jennie. This hold- ing has had some mutations. It is first found under the name of Jacob Wager, and this was more than thirty years since. He had at least one son, who died long since. In old age. Jacob went to live with William Wager, near Glenmark. Also some part of his old age was passed with Mrs. Ehoda Chamberlain. After Wager comes the name of Joanna Phillips, who sold to the widow of John Seager. The latter died just west KOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 233 of Dunbar's corners. There are twenty-five acres in the farm. The old house in which Jacob Wager lived is still standing, an isolated relic. Still further back, and still more inaccessible, for we must follow a private way from Henry Jewell's house to reach it, is a quite pretty place, held and occupied by John Austin. Coming back to the road and taking a glance to the north, into Huron, where we may see the elegant buildings of Lumau Barrett, now occupied by his son, Gardner, we retrace our way, having thoughts of Green Erin aroused as we pass the home of Shannon, since everybody knows that no finer stream than that flows through the meadows of Ireland. From Dunbar's corners we ride east, passing the home of Charles Knox, the son-in-law of Henry Dunbar, and when I pass, I find Alvah Jewell engaged in clearing up new land, a labor which took so much of the time of the ancestors here. The pioneer on heavily timbered land had experiences that the dwellers on the prairies know nothing of. It is, however, sad to think of the value destroyed in getting our laud ready for cultivation. If the great trees thus cut off could only have been held for subsequent use, instead of being piled in great heaps for burning, what a storehouse there would be for coming time, but that is not the way. The growth of many, many years are felled, rolled together and burned. Fires are kindled around the stumps, and seed is planted at first in what seems to be very uncongenial soil, but great crops have been raised thus. Land that will support great trees will grow immense grain. The school-house which the York settlement children seek, is found by following the road by Alvah Jewell's, just beyond the Barrett place, on four corners, known as York's. Near here resides Benjamin Winget, and close by, on the north side of the street, is the temjile of learning. At any rate, it represents the altitude of knowledge to which the most of the boys and the girls of the settlement attain. The York part of the name comes from dwellers in Huron, though there are several women of the name married in Rose, and John York lives in North Rose. Back of Mr. Winget' s is one of the finest chestnut groves in the state. I have never seen a more beautiful collection of these stately trees anywhere. It was a happy thought to allow them to remain and to thrive thus, forming such a charming background to the school-house, and such a playground for the children. Bryant's forest hymn is suggested at once : " Father, thy hand hath reared these venerable cohmms." 234 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 1.— " Glenmaek." September 3—17, 1891. This section was well named. Frequently, names are misnomers, but there is no want of application to this up and down region. Sodus bay has many approaches, many streams running down from the interior. These have worn away the laud so that deep glens lead down to the main waters. It is possible that, in remote times, the lake itself occupied a higher level, and that these frequent gulleys represent the bays and inlets of the past. If so, where the farmer to-day raises corn and potatoes, immense fishes once swam in glorious freedom. We shudder at what would happen were the lake to again rise and claim its own. What a submerging of peaceful homes and fertile farms. Just at present, there seems more danger of the still further retirement of the lake. Had General Adams' dream of a Sodus canal been realized, and had the Sodus branch railroad ever been built, our glen-marked region had been to-day much more than the ragged, scattering hamlet that it is. Thomas' creek, whose sandy bed formed so considerable a part of the general's scheme, here has an exceedingly rocky bottom. In fact, I think, at the mill site in Glenmark, there is a cataract, where for untold ages, the waters have plunged over the outcropping limestone. There is not another place in the town where the layers, or strata, are thus developed. The gorge through which the water runs after passing the falls, is a deep, brier-lined chasm, whose depths can hardly be appreciated from the road which winds along the verge, the traveler protected by a rail judiciously placed between him and the abrupt descent. Many a Rose citizen has grown to maturity without dreaming that his native town has broken scenery as rare and engaging as that which people with well-lined purses travel many miles to see. These same people ride over dusty roads to the Bluffs, but they omit this wooded, glen-pierced country, so varied and picturesque. Its beauties and varieties must be seen to be appreciated. There is not the least attempt at regularity in the roads about this district. They have simply adapted themselves to the glens and streams. In fact, there was no other way to get about. The three roads that lead into the district are merged just below the falls and follow the creek north- ward. This final gulley reminds one of the neck of a jug, for through it all travel and all water seeking the lake must pass. Our entrance to Glenmark shall be along the road which leads eastward from Dunbar's corners, and our first farm will be at the home of David Johnson. The line which divides the Glenmark and York settlement dis- tricts just misses Mr. J.'s house, but he is in the eastern neighborhood. Huron is his native town, and he was in Company G, Xinth Heavy EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 235 Artillery, during the Rebellion. There are thirty-five acres in the farm, which he bought of William P. Angle, who bought from the office. The latter went west some years since. Angle started the house which Johnson completed. It is at this point that the road turns abruptly to the south, though it runs thus only a short way. To the southeast, the woods once standing there afforded shelter to camp meetings in the times when piety, if not more fervent, at least was more demonstrative. Mr. Johnson's wife was Naomi Andrus, also of Huron. Their children's names are : Jennie, who married, first, Herbert Ackerman, second, a Mr. Burch, and Eilla, the wife of Kingsley Clum, who came from Galeu to Rose. The Clums live in a house somewhat back from the Johnsons. Mr. C. is of German extraction. They have two sons — Augustus and Claudius. The next place reached, as we follow the eastern bend of the road, when it turns again, is the home of Calvin Daly. He bought of Samuel Osborn, who took from John Weeks, now of Xorth Rose, and he from Theodore Shannon. The latter followed Charles Angle, whose possessing must have been among the very first. Then comes the home of Joseph Andrews, whose sou-iu-law, Asa Potter, lives with him. Across the railroad, out in the open field to the south, is the place owned by Oscar Weed of Huron. He bought of Abram L. Barnes. When this was covered with heavy timber, Eron X. Thomas owned it, and he sold to Robert Catchpole and others, who cut off the wood and then sold the land. ZSTear at hand was the old Abel Dixon home, where he ended his own life through insanity, on account of the railroad cutting through his farm. This was in 1871. Lemau Ellsworth is our next neighbor, or, at least, the place stands in his name, and his son-in-law, James Calkins, lives here. Mr. E.'s wife was a Hufiman, of the family once living near Xorth Rose. Still progressing toward the northeast, we reach the place whose occu- pants have been sober for many years, for here Jonathan Sober, a native of Pennsylvania, came many years since. There are fifty acres in the farm. Mr. S. died several years since. Of their children, Huldah, deceased, married Albert Baker ; Mahala married George Jewell of Galen ; James, having married Kate Myers, is in Sodus ; Lewis married Alice Wager ; Albert, who married Lydia Eldridge, went west and died ; Eugene, a son of Lewis, lives with his grandmother. The wife of Jonathan Sober was Mary Garlick, the oldest own sister of Henry. Mr. S. took the place from the office, though it is probable that there were contract settlers before him. (Mrs. Sober died February 27, 1893.) William M. Green, a native of Galen, is found next, on the east side. His holding of five acres runs back to one of the glens for which the region is noted, and it is cjuite irregular in surface. For twenty-five years Mr. Green has earned an honest living on and from his glebe. He built ■236 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. the house, having bought of David Johnsou. Mr. Green is a brother of the George H. Green who was found in the Griswold district. The Green iamily, of which these two brothers are representatives, moved to Huron, and there the parents died. Early in life, Mr. Green wandered into Eose, and there he found his wife, Lydia Marsh, a daughter of Amos, who lived so long in District No. .5, or Town's. Their children are : Elmer, now in Glenmark ; Miss Lelia, at home, and Alice, the wife of Marsden Crisler, of the Valley. (Lelia Green was married June 29, 1892, to Emory J. Weeks of Eose. They have a daughter, Eva L. Mrs. Green died June 16, 1893.) Toward the north, and having a substantial aspect, is the old Garlick homestead. To-day it is the abode of the widow of Walter Messenger, who died March 30th, 1890. This family is of Sodus lineage, where both husband and wife, who was Jane Jewell, were born. They came hither in 1874. Their children are all married. Polly is Mrs. John Shepardson, of Sodus ; Sarah married Sidney Garlick, a son of Eli, and lives nest north ; Louise is the wife of Seth Woodard, of the Covell neighborhood ; Nellie married Darwin Miner, west ot the Valley, and Walter married Ida J. Seager, and lives in Huron. The house dates from William Garlick. The original Garlick log house stood considerably further back from the road, where cherry trees now are. Mr. Messenger bought from William Chaddock, who traded his mill property at the falls with Henry Garlick for this. In the hands of sons and father, this was Garlick land for many years. Back of Garlick was Bacon, who followed the Lumberts, a family having numerous representatives, but very little real ownership. They, with other equally irresponsible people, were, more than fifty years since, prevailed upon to accept a free trip to the west. A canal boat was chartered at the expense of several public-spirited citizens, and some sixty or seventy people of both sexes, and of all ages, were loaded on and given this ride toward the setting sun. Save in a few cases where the adage, "A bad sixpence will return," was illustrated, the riddance was effectnal. I suppose the donors of that excursion laughed heartily for years over the feelings of the communities among which these bouquets of Eoses were scattered. The Garlick genealogy was given at length in the description of Noi'th Eose. The Traher place is next encountered. Here lives Ellen Traher, whose first husband was John Howard, who, a member of the Ninth Heavy Artillery, died in a southern prison. She purchased ten acres of the old Converse farm, and has a small though ample home. (Her second husband, Harry Traher, died last spring, having long been an invalid.) The road thence, for some distance, is down a steep decline, but the traveler who likes variety will be abundantly pleased with what he finds here. The face of nature is seamed and gashed with cuts so deep that he thinks himself lucky in getting along at all. At the foot of the hill, at ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 237 the left, is the district school-house. Unhappy, barefooted children are puzzling over their tasks as I pass, and are wondering what schools are made for. We begin to take bitter doses early in life, that we may be happier and better later. The original site of the school-house was just about on the line, in the narrow place, where the road and stream lead out into Huron. The old foundations were visible on John Lovejoy's farm, when he came into possession. The home of Mr. Lovejoy is built on the hill-side, and he has irregulari- ties of surface wherever he looks. Mr. L. is the son of Daniel, whose home we found in the Lake district, on the corner. His wife was Eliza- beth Jane Weeks, born in Eindge, N. H. Her father, Addison Weeks, came to Eose in 1854. His wife was Eliza Wellington, and their home was opposite the present Lovejoy abode. Another daughter is Mrs. Myron Lamb of No. Eose. The Weeks family of New Hampshire has long been one of the best in that state. To the Lovejoys were born these children : Sylvia, who married Frank Soper, of the Valley, and who will be met there; EfBe, the wife of Nelson Bush, and Addison, who married Huldah Andrews, and is at home with his father. Addison's children are Frank and Ida. (Also, 1893, Myron J. and Addison Eay.) Mr. Lovejoy built his house, having bought his place of Oscar Weed. The farm is a part of the old Converse estate, and has fifty-two acres in it. Dwelling nearly opposite is Leman Ellsworth, who occupies the old Addison Weeks place. The house has a water-edged garden back of it. Near this was the carding machine, maintained for many years by Horace Converse and his son. In the long ago, when wool was spun and woven at home, it was necessary to have the fleece worked into long, uniform rolls for the housewife to reduce to yarn. Then the carding machine was busy. Now that is relegated to the great factory, where spinning and weaving have become lost arts. Mr. Ellsworth was born in Phelps, and his only child is Alice, who married James Calkins, living on the farm to the southwest. They have one child, Eva. The road and the stream are comrades as they lead out to the north. • At the left is the hill-side belonging to John Lovejoy. At the right are the lowlands of Ishmael Gardner. While the Eose part of the district is ended, it will not be amiss to follow on for a while. After a short dis- tance, the road forks, to lead up and out in diverse ways. Should we go toward the east, we will be led along the darkest, most dangerous road in the town. It winds along the steep, densely-wooded hill-side, having on one side the descent so steep and deep that trees, growing in the bottom of the glen, have their tops on a level with the road. Following this to its exit from the woods, the traveler will find himself near the home of Harvey Barnes, the old Catchpole farm, and in the North Eose district. Monday, August 4th, 1890, Thomas Farnsworth, of Glenmark, drove his 238 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. horse at high speed down this road, till, by some mishap, the whole equipage was launched over the verge and the man was Instantly killed: another of the accidents that have from time to time carried sorrow to certain homes in Rose. The west fork of the road carries us up a steep and winding way, pass- ing several houses belonging to Oscar Weed. By the time we reach his home, the road will have swung around to the west. The large mansion of Mr. Weed is on the north side and is surrounded by shrubbery and trees. Close by are acres of fruit trees, usually the source of large returns. Mr. Weed has made the growing and drying of fruit a specialty. The Weed family came to Wayne county, originally, from Long Island. From it, is said to have come the famous Thurlow, so long the arbiter of New York politics. Oscar Weed was born in Galen, and his wife is Rebecca, nee Watson, also of Galen. They came to this place in 1850, and to the 150 acres of the old Peter Paine farm he has added others, till now there are between two and three hundred acres therein. This elegant house he built in 1864. When constructed, there were numerous children at home to make merry its halls and chambers. The mutations of time have removed the most of these from the roof tree, so that now the Weeds find their habitation considerably larger than their needs require. These children are : Watson, who was graduated from Cornell in 1878, and is now a Unitarian minister in Ware, Mass. (now, Scituate); Addison, a graduate from Cornell in 1879, is a farmer in New Hartford, Oneida Co.; Mary, also a graduate from Cornell, is a teacher; Gerhardus, who died in 1878, at the age of eighteen years; Oscar Dillwyn, at home ; and Ruth, who died at the age of sixteen years, in 1882, while visiting her brother, Watson, in Dakota. The latter married Frances Wright, of New Hartford, and was preaching in the west at the time of his sister's death. Addison married Ida Cleveland, also of New Hartford. It is noteworthy that both these sons have been the parents of twins. Returning to the point where the road from York settlement runs into this, we shall find, just south of the bifurcation, the store and residence of Albert E. Ellis. Mr. E.'s wife is Mary, a daughter of the Barnum whom we found in the extreme north end of the Covell district, but who, owing to the death of his wife, lived, till his death, October 26th, 1890, with Mrs. Ellis. The store and home are neat and attractive and betoken thrift. The site is one of the most noted in the town ; for this is where the old Converse Hotel was located, and near here were the shops and mills which once made this an exceedingly busy hollow. The complete genesis of this locality at this late date is almost hopeless, but I will do the best I can. The name of Converse was once very common here, coming from Horace, who migrated hither from Pittsford, near Rochester. While a deal of business seemed to be done here, a class of people was called into the EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 239 neighborhood whose presence gave all honest people much uneasiness. For instance, one man stole a horse from a clergyman. For this he re- ceived a sentence of four years in the Auburn prison. After his release, he became a respectable citizen in a western state. Visits from ofBcers of the law were frequent and necessary, and Rose farmers must have learned that rural quiet is vastly preferable to activity associated, as this too often is, with vice. Converse managed a blacksmith shop, built two saw- mills, conducted the carding machine, maintained a grocery, built and ran a hotel. This latter structure, after his death, was allowed to fall into decay. Mr. Converse's wife's name was Abigail. They had three sons and one daughter : Harriet, who married Charles Angle and went west ; George married widow Spsan Alford ; Henry married Rebecca Angle ; Charles succeeded his father in the business, and finally died in 1861, at the age of 47 years. It is more than probable that much which was laid at the door of these dwellers in the Glen, they were not guilty of, for the old adage, "Give a dog a bad name and send him to the d — 1," applies fully in such cases. It is likely, too, that many instances told to-day are quite legendary. James Van Auken built the carding mill and he sold his right to the Sodus Canal Co., from whose possession the place passed to Horace Converse. James Van A. was a brother of Simeon, and it is probable that he was the earliest owner. He joined the march to the west. How many other owners there may have been to date I can not state. The road is narrow, and on the side of the glen, till we pass through and find, at the right, the place whose dwellers, in order, would afford a long list. Thomas Farnsworth, the latest tenant, was killed, as just noted. Mr. F. was born in England. His wife's maiden name was Julia A. Dunham. He bought the place of Sidney Garlick. The small building in which Ira Mirick once kept a store is still standing and yet indicates the purjioses for which it was built. Near this place, on the hill, is where some of the first comers buried their dead, and among others Simeon Van Auken's first wife, Olive. A number of small holdings are found as we pursue the road southward. At first, at the left, is an old blacksmith shop, where Eli Garlick shod horses. His home was the small house just beyond, now occupied by Christian Fink, formerly living south of Covell's. The road goes through a deep cutting and climbs quite an altitude until it emerges on the plain above. At the right is the place where the Marquettes and their descend- ants have lived for many years. Daniel, the first one, once lived further south on this road, nearly opposite the home of Seth Woodward. The last farm in the district, on this road, is that of James French, who may be found on the west side of the road, just before reaching the railroad and the beginning of the Covell district. Mr. French was born in Ireland 240 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. and came to this place twenty years ago, and bought of John Shear. He married Sarah Bunyea, who was born in Wisconsin, of French extraction. She is a relative of Mrs. Ishmael Gardner, of North Eose, and of Chelsea Deming, of Huron. They have three children — Temperance, Ernest and Wallace — all at home, though Temperance is a teacher. There are fifty acres in the farm. (One of the sons is now in railroad employ in Oswego.) Coming back to the point where this road emerged from the glen, we may turn to the east. In doing so, it will be necessary to cross a bridge which spans the creek just before it falls over its rocky verge. South of the bridge, there long exisited a dam, which retained the waters of Thomas' creek, thus affording power for the mills below it. (Since rebuilt.) Simeon Van Auken was the builder of the dam and grist-mill. He came from Junius, and his wife was Olive Whitney, a sister of Seth Whitmore's wife. The Whitmores — Seth and Benjamin — were mill men from an early date. Mr. Van Auken married for his second wife the widow Wright, nee Pot- wine, and she, too, died here. The Van Aukens were Presbyterians. They long since moved to Michigan and died. They sold to Dr. Peter Valentine, and he to Ira Mirick, who maintained a variety of interests. He sold to the Canal Co., from which Henry Young rented. This man lives now in Ontario. He had a son, Israel. John Brown, a native of Pennsylvania, married Eveline Tindall, a sister of Chas. H. and "Parm," of the Valley. He held the mill for some time, but finally went to Michigan. Before doing so, he was for a while in Victor, in company with Brownell Wilbur, once of Eose. The Brown children were : Charles, who married Celia Tracy, of Huron, and now lives near Jackson, Mich., and with whom the father died; Juliette and Alfred, both of whom are dead. William Chaddock sold to Henry Garlick, or rather traded with him, and he sold to L. E. Ellis, who came hither from Tompkins county. He was formerly a Protestant Methodist minister. He married Elizabeth L. Yale of Cortland county. Their children are: Albert E., already met further north, and Lydia, who is at home. Mr. Ellis was a member of Battery A, 3d New Y'ork Artillery, daring the War. The resi- dence of the family is a very pleasant place, on the north side of the road, the same having shared the changes which have come to the mill property. A private way leads towards the south, along the right bank of Thomas' creek, and in addition to a saw-mill we shall find the home of George T. Ellis. He is a son of Algernon, an Englishman. His wife was Clara Wolff, of Eose, and he bought of Wesley Burns, now of Alton. He pur- chased from George Correll, who bought of Ira Lathrop, who came here after selling his farm to the south, to Seymour Covell. Still following this by-path, we gradually mount to the level above and find the abode of Abram Doremus, born in Mentz, Cayugo Co. He once lived where Frank Weeks is, in the York neighborhood. He married EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 241 Betsey Featherly, and their children are : George, in Jackson, Mich.; Lydia, the wife of "William B. Hill, of North Rose; Adaline, the wife of Douglas Colborn, of the Valley; Jennette, the wife of Darwin Gillet, of Huron, and the twins — Helen and Ellen — who married the twin Briggs — Lyman and Luman. It should be said that these daughters, Helen and Ellen, are the oldest children. This is the old Featherly homestead; and in addition to Betsey there was Lydia Jane, who married Horace Morey. George Featherly was a son of John, one of the most noted settlers of the town. His boyhood's home was where the present Hetta abode is. His wife was Susan Kinkaid, and they bought this Doremus place of James Aldrich. The parents died years since, and this place of fifty-eight acres passed to Doremus, who repaired the house. This and the farm beyond are more isolated than any other places in the town. Still pursuing a private way, and crossing the track of the E., W. & O. R. R., we find the home of Horace Morey, who married Lydia J. Feather- ly. His farm he took from the land office. The Morey children are : John, who married Rachel Smalley, and lives in North Rose, and Warren, also in North Rose, who married Carrie Desmond. Coming back to the road, we turn to the right, and leaving at the corner the home of Mr. Ellis, so long a part of the mill belongings, we climb out of the glen. Years ago the table land beyond marked the beginning of the North Rose district, but in later times the dwellers in the first two abodes belong to Glenmark. The very first home is that in which lives Daniel Jeffers, a son of Nathan, and the place is the old Pardon Jones farm. Note of this was made in the North Rose series, but since then I have learned that the Nicholas Stansell who early settled there was a noted man in his day ; a companion of John Featherly, whose sister he married. These two men, with William Stansell, came to Lyons in 1789 ; the settlers whose coming entitled the county to a centennial in 1889. They located first on what was afterward the Dorsey farm, near Alloway. There was nothing in the way of hardship and privation that these pioneers did not suffer. William Stansell was with Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians in 1779, and the lay of the land charmed hira then. He was the leader of the expedition. It is traditional in the family that Featherly was a soldier in the Revolution also. Restless as the waves of the sea, these early hunters worked up into this section, and the name of Stansell is con- nected with this place, though it seems reasonable that he should have been before rather than after James Colborn, 1st. With the farm on the south side of the road, the name of John A. Hetta has been connected for more than thirty years. He was born in Germany and found a wife in Mary A. Lamb, a daughter of John, of North Rose. They have only one child— Etha Jane — recently married to Irving J. Lane, of the Jeffers neighborhood. Mr. Hetta has imparted to all his surrouml- 17 242 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. iujrs many indications of the thrift so characteristic of the Germans. It was to this ph\ce that the pioneer. John Featlierly, came when the century •was young. It is jirobable that he was of Herkimer or Jlontgomei-y county derivation. His wife was ^Mary Claus, the same nanie we have found Anglicized as Closs. In his way hither, he had lived in Lyons and Phelps. His final remove was to the cemetery in York's corners. The children were Frederick, who married and died at Three Eiver Point in Oswego county. Then followed George, met in the Doremus place; John, who went to Michigan ; Joseph, killed, when young, by a sleigh tongue ; Betsey, who moved to Cattaraugus county, and Catherine, who married William Baker, and once lived where the Sobers were reared, in the w^est part of the district. DISTRICT XO. 1.— "The Valley." November 5, 1S91— March 3, 1892. Pakt I. Our rambles in Rose have fully skirted the town, and now we approach the heart. For this purpose we will pass toward the west from District Xo. 6, or what is called Stewart's, and, passing the famous spring at the joot of the hill, we will pause first at the stone house on the north side of the road, for many years the property of Joel Lee. Of him and his, extended mention was made in the article ending District Xo. 6. It is on this location that one Lincoln is said to have squatted : but his happiness was disturbed by the frogs, that, to his fancy, were perpetually saying : ''Don't you want to buy here, Lincoln?'" This finally drove him out, when he sought a home further west, and on, let us hope, higher ground. Chester EUinwood afterward owned, and from him possession passed to his oldest son. Ensign. The latter built the stone house, the material for whose outer courses he drew from Lake Ontario. Henry Robinson of the Lake district was the boss mason in the construction, thus assuring the character of the work. The house was begun in 1841 and finished in 1842. Ensign was twice married, first to Catharine Rifenbach of Newark, and, second, to :Mrs. Egbert Brant of Lyons. She, Sarah J. Holmes, was born in Salisbury, Conn. By his first wife, he had two daughters, Jennie and Alice Irene. The latter died in infancy, and the foi-mer lived to be a beautiful, accomitlished young woman of eighteen years. In October, the 2lith day, 1889, ^ir. EUinwood was instantly killed by a train of cars in Newark. He had come down from Rochester, but, by mistake, took a train which ran no further than Newark. There he was killed while ou the track of the N. Y. Central R. R. By a singular fatality this E08E NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 243 accident happened on his birthday, he being seventy-one years old on that day. Mr. Ellinwood, for many years, was one of the most noted teachers of vocal music in Wayne county. An excellent singer himself, he succeeded admirably in imparting his knowledge to others. After leaving the farm, he lived in several places— as Newark, Eochester and Wolcott. I met him last in August, 1889. I took the Clyde and Wolcott stage as it passed the road which enters the post road just east of Ensign Wade's. Mr. Ellinwood was aboard, having taken the stage from his brother Chester's, east of Stewart's comers. Everj' inch of the land through which we were riding was familiar to him. As boy and man, he had played and worked in every field. As we rode by the Ellinwood burial ground, he leaned out and held the spot in sight as long as it could be seen. I did not mention the subject of his thoughts, but I well knew that in his mind were the wife of his youth, the child that died in infancy, and the daughter who was borne there just as she was budding into womanhood. Into the privacy of such reflections, I would be the last to intrude. Little did I think that before the snows of winter fell, the husband and father would slumber Ijeside his loved ones. On the south side of the way and some rods to the west, is the abode of Morris Wager, who came hither from the preemption road in the spring of 1880. His wife was, in girlhood, Ella .Silver of Sodus. Their children are: Rose; Iva; Charles; Myrtle, and Willie, all at home. (Eose has since become the wife of Wm. D. Hickok.) Mr. W. makes a specialty of raspberry culture. My earliest recollections of the place are coupled with the name of Samuel B. Hoffman, who had married the widow of Seth Brainard. She was an Ellinwood, Louise, a sister of Geo. W. and Orlando. The Brainards were from Oneida county, and were exemplary members of the Eose ilethodist Episcopal Church. Mr. B. died in 1842. He was the builder of the house now standing. Mr. Hoffman was also a Methodist and prominent in the councils of the church. Mr. Brainard was a pioneer, though he died in his .38th year. A few rods farther west and we find the road leading south, forming the western boundary of Mr. Wager's farm. Men seventy years of age can rememljer when the trees were cut off to prepare for the road. The trees were used in building a log house for Elder Smith, the Baptist minister, the same being located on the old Valorus Ellinwood farm, or where Henry Decker now lives. On both sides of the road are fields belonging to Ensign D. Wade. He followed his father, Dudley, on these acres. The father and family were named in full in the account of District Xo. 7. Ensign, as there stated, married Kendrick Sheffield's oldest daughter, Lucy. They have two children, Lulu and Frank. It is not impossible that Ensign may some 244 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. day attain to the reputation that his father had in Rose and vicinity. He certainly will if he will only add auctioneering to his vocation. Before Dudley Wade's occupation, this was for many years the Chester Ellinwood farm. He built the house and painted it red. It was changed very little in his day, and here his large family was reared. His wife was Sophronia Allen, a daughter of Ezra, of Butler, who had married a sister of Benj. Kellogg. There were several Allen girls, and, in those early days, extra girls sought service in families where they were not so numerous, so Chester courted his wife in the kitchen of the old Blaine log house, north of Stewart's corners. When they went to keeping house, it was in a primitive structure, near the present home of John Lyman, in the neigh- borhood then called "Peth." This was away back in the twenties, and he carried fruit trees on his back from the Daniel Roe place in Butler to set out here. It is probable that he was born in Vermont, and there he learned the trade of a tanner, at which he worked to some extent after coming to Wayne county. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. This corner farm was bought of Samuel Southwick. On the south side of the road, it included the cemetery lot and joined the Fuller farm on the west. The original log house was near the southwest corner of this burial ground. It caught fire in the early times and smouldered away two days before it was put out. Finally it was taken down and relaid, near where the Wade house now is. In those days there were 140 acres, extending, on the east, to the foot of the hill on Joel Lee's place. The children born to Chester Ellinwood were : Ensign Warren ; Charlotte M., who became the wife of Gibson Center, of Butler, and is now in Weedsport; Lucy Lemira, who married Peter B. Decker, from Newark, and lived in the Valley. Her sons, Charles Ensign and Franklin Pierce, died in infancy ; her daughter, Ellen Irene, married in Washington, Penn. Mrs. Decker died in 1852, at the age of twenty-eight years. Mr. Decker's second wife was a niece of the famous school teacher, Abigail Bunce. Mr. Ellinwood's third daughter, Mary, is the wife of Dr. G. C. Childs, long a noted physician in Clyde ; Charles Judson married Helen F. Gildersleeve, of Galen, and died in 1879, in Grand Rapids, Mich., leaving two children, Frederick and Dolly. Ezra Chester, the youngest son, married Mary E. Phillips, of Newark, and, some years since, located on the old Wisner or Center place, east of Stewart's corners. His oldest child, Irene P., died in 1884, at the age of fourteen years. His remaining children are : Mary Louise, John Clark, Chester and Robert Ensign. If there was one characteristic in these Ellinwoods more prominent than another, it was their love for music. As boys and girls, men and women, they excelled in song. Of Lucy Lemira it is said that on her death bed she picked out those whom she wished to sing at her funeral, not wishing, she said, to have any break- downs over her. Late in life, the elder Ellinwood moved from the farm. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 245 and died in 1877, at the age of eighty-four years. His wife had died eleven years before. The younger Chester lived here also for a time. Turning to the north and passing the evaporator of Ensign Wade, we shall find, on the west side of the road, all that is left of the home of Samuel Ellis Ellinwood ; in the town he was generally known as Ellis. He came hither from Oneida county, an uncle of Geo. W. Ellinwood, and for several seasons taught school, among other places, at Stewart's cor- ner. His wife was Submit Southwick, a daughter of Samuel S., one of the pioneers of the town. For many years they dwelt here, prospering, and uniformly possessing the highest esteem of all who knew them. They were among the earliest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Eose. Their home passed through the usual changes, from primary sim- plicity to the comfort of later days. They had only one son — David — who for many years dwelt here with his parents. The elder Ellinwoods died in 1879 and 1866 respectively, and lie now in the Eose cemetery. They were first buried in the Ellinwood ground, but when later their grand- daughter, Adele, erected a monument to them and to her parents, their remains were taken up and reburied. David Ellinwood was long prominent in local affairs, a man who liked a good horse and liked to drive him. He married Mary Jane Jones, of the Valley, a sister of Mrs. •'Ham-' Closs. She was an excellent lady, well worthy of the esteem in which she was held. They had two children — George, who is now in Eacine, Wis., and Harriet Adele, who is a teacher in Toledo, Ohio. She was the generous and filial giver of the mortuary tribute standing in the Eose cemetery. David Ellinwood and his wife went west, and died there in 1883 and 1884 respectively. There is one more house in this district toward the north, that of Theo- dore McWharf. Him and his I discussed at length in the No. 3. The house was built on lands purchased from Ellis Ellinwood by James Campbell, who died in 1869. His widow, Eleanor, lived in it till she sold to Mr. McWharf. She resided in the Valley till October, 1889, when she died at the age of seventy-five. She had long been an object of tender care and sympathy to the Methodist Episcopal Society of Eose, of which she was a member. On the leaving of David Ellinwood for the west, he sold to Thomas Cullen, a native of Waterford county, Ireland. His wife was Mary Dunn. Mr. C. died in 1884, but the widow and children are still on the farm. At the time of David E.'s selling, he occupied the house at the top of the hill as we go west from Ensign Wade's. It is proper, in passing, to remark on the excellent care manifested in maintaining the Ellinwood cemetery, as nothing speaks better or louder the character of a people than their care for the resting places of their dead. From the ancestor worshipping Chinese to the dead neglecting Turk, the distance is a long one. While 246 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. we may not approve the Chinese extreme, we ought to carefully shun the Turkish level. The CuUens, after buying the farm, which included both the old Bllinwood and Fuller places, instituted some changes. The barns on the north farm were moved up to a point nearly opposite the house, and the Ellinwood house was relegated to the use of tenants, a condition that can only have one end, viz., decay and ruin. Nature seemed to object to the new departure, for one day lightning struck the newly-placed structures and destroyed them. Since then a very large and convenient barn has been erected west of the house and on the same side of the road. Eecently the family has made quite extensive repairs on the house. Mr. and Mrs. Cullen have had four children— Thomas, Wil- liam, John and Mary, all of whom are at home. Before the David Ellin- wood occupation of the house, was Dudley Wade, who came here from his old home in No. 7. Before Mr. Wade, was Brownell Wilbur, who came, early in the fifties, to Eose from Hamilton-. Mrs. Wilbur, before marriage, was Elizabeth Roswell, a native of Washington county. Their children were Marvin A. and Helen A., both prominent in the intellectual and social life of the town. From this farm the family went to the place now owned by William McMurdy, south of the Valley. Thence they moved to Victor, Ontario Co., where the parents died. They were life-long, devoted mem- bers of the Baptist Church. In Victor, Marvin married Ida M. Dewey, and has a son and daughter. He was one of the best school teachers ever in Eose. He was once a candidate for the position of commissioner of schools, and had he been on the other side in politics, would have been elected. However, his defeat never seemed to hinder his growth in the least. Helen married also, and went west. She is Mrs. T. T. Maffit of Walnut Eidge, Ark. Erastus Fuller, the first owner of this place, was a native of Connecticut, and probably a descendant of the Mayflower Fullers. During his childhood, he suffered extreme vicissitudes, knowing very little of the pleasures of home ; but, as frequently happens, he came out all the stronger for this severe discipline. His wife was Anna Brown, and her children were Ealph, Mary and Almanda. The last we met in District No. 7 as the wife of Delos Seelye. Mary will be seen as the wife of Hiram Mirick. Ralph married, first, Mary Allen, of Butler, and, second, Barbara Hendricks of Eose. His children are Marina, the wife of S. Harrison Ellinwood; William Erastus and Jerome, all- of whom live in Fenton, Oakland Co., Mich. Erastus Fuller was one of the first officers in the town and always received the very highest respect and consideration of his fellow townsmen. An anecdote is told which illustrates well the universality of some stories. As a boy, I had heard the following from my father, given as an answer to a question of '"Squire" Fuller, who was desirous of knowing the difference between an owl and a sparrow- hawk : " It is fuller in the head, fnUer in the body, and/(/??e/- all over."' ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 247 I have no doubt that manj^ a Eose dweller considered it original, but it really dates from the days of Thomas Fuller, iirebend of Salisbury, in the days of Charles the First of England. He was noted for his fondness of punning, and the above was given by a gentleman named Sparrowhawk in reply to the prebend's query, as already told. As the clergyman was very corpulent, the significance of the rejoinder is evident. After a while the management of affairs was given up to Ralph, and in the early fifties, '53 or '54, he sold to B. Wilbur, and the family started west. Ralph, however, was fated not to see the promised land, for he died at Niagara Falls, on his way, after a very brief illness. The parents went on, and died in Fen ton. Where now is the substantial home of the family of Charles Sherman, Jonathan Ellinwood located very early in the century — 1818. If there was any one back of him on these acres, it was only some contractor, whose obligation Ellinwood took and carried out. He was a native of Vermont, so said, though it is possible that he was born in Massachusetts, and, like so many others, tried life for a time in the Green Mountain State, and thence emigrated to these western wilds. His wife was Naomi Weeks, and together they saw much of pioneer hardships. They were the parents of Chester, already encountered ; Thomas, who was drowned at Newark in the early days ' of the Erie canal ; Lucius, William and Betsey. The last was the wife of William Porter, probably from Oneida county. They lived for a time on the stone house farm, now Joel Lee's. Both are dead. A son, Henry, lives in Lansing, Mich. Lucius, who lived for many years on the farm now held by Harlan Wilson, married, first, Lucy A. Allen, of Butler, who died in 1838. Their children were Thomas Henry, for many years a citizen of Clyde, and S. Harrison, of Fenton, Mich. He was mentioned among the Fullers as the husband of Mai-ina. He has one son, Charles, who lives in Rose, Mich. Lucius married, second, Mahala Davis (a relative of the Butler family), who died in 1864. They had three children, two of whom — William S. and Lucy Ann — died in childhood, and Adelbert D., who mai-ried Frank, a daughter of Jacob Seager, of Clyde, the whilom band leader of the old Ninth Heavy Artillery. "Dell," as he was called, died in Lyons in 1889. Lucius died in Clyde in 1884, at the age of eighty-one years. The first comers, Jonathan and his wife, passed away in 1842 and 1840 respect- ively. It is remembered that the funeral of the former was held in the door yard, which sloped down to the road from the old house, now standing back of the Sherman house. Jonathan was a half brother of the father of Ellis, the nearest neighbor to the northeast. As is frequently the case, William, the youngest son, took the management of the old farm before the death of his parents. He married Clarissa L. Thompson, of Butler. One child of this union, Mary Matilda, lies in the Ellinwood burial ground. 248 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. and the father himself was laid there before his child, in 1844, at the early age of thirty-one years. The widow married William Sherman, a son of Elias D., and frequently met in our town wanderings. She went wevst long since. William lies in the BUinwood cemetery, having died in 1862, at the age of thirty-nine years. To them succeeded Samuel Hoffman, who sold to George G. Wickson, of Lyons, and he, in 1852, sold to Charles B. Sherman. Of Charles Sherman, extended mention was made in the No. 7 series, and now it is only necessary to make a few additions. Frank's wife was Eveline Moore,*of West Butler, and he lives in Eochester. Willard died in March, 1889; his only daughter, Ada -P., married Louis F. Lux, of Clyde, and lives in Eochester; George, who died in May, 1889, left a family^ to be met in the Valley ; Charles, who married Mary Gotier of New York ; Lucy, as Mrs. Putnam Sampson, still lives on the Clyde road ; Ezra, in Company C, 111th N. T., was an energetic boy, lost in the wild whirl of war ; his folks still preserve letters, written as a soldier. Nothing so well portrays the true farmer's lad as the postscript to a letter sent from Virginia in the winter of 1863. Here it is: "How does my mafe look this winter? Good-by." Out of the preparations for killing men, all about him, his mind goes to the peaceful home in the north, and he thinks of the colt which had excited his boyish pride and pleasure. I was a prisoner of war at the same time with Ezra, though not in the same place. He was on Belle Isle, and I have since learned that his father, Charles Sherman, and my grandfather. Col. George Seelye, frequently debated the organization of a crusade, to march through the south to liberate the captives. Perhaps it is quite as well for all that the plans of these well meaning, elderly gentlemen were not undertaken. The parents of Charles Sherman's second wife were from Oneida county, though the family was originally from Connecticut. Their children are: Chester T., Ezra A., and Hattie E. The name Ezra continues that of the boy who perished in the strife. It is claimed, and with propriety, that these young people (Hattie is 22 years old in 1893) are the youngest Eevolutionary grand- children in the country. Chester T. was married in 1892 to Harriet C. Kimberly, of Auburn. It was in 1854, or '55, that Mr. Sherman moved the old Ellinwood house back and constructed the present convenient and commodious edifice. The old house still stands near the corn house, a relic of the long ago. In addition to the Ellinwood farm, Mr. Sherman bought largely from the east and north part of Hiram Mirick's place, thus giving him one of the largest farms in the town. The northwest part of this he sold to his son, George, but of that more hereafter. Born in 1804, in Phelps, Ontario Co., and coming into the town at the early date of 1811 or '12, Mr. Sherman could tell pretty nearly all there was to be told of pioneer life. When young, though not a large man, he was very ROSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 249 athletic, and he and Isaac Crydenwise contracted to cut 100 cords of wood for Peter Gordon, of Galen. This they did, averaging six cords per day. Crydenwise was a smaller man than Sherman. When the town lines were run out, Mr. S. assisted in the survey, and it is said that he was one of the first to work on the Erie canal, when this great venture of DeWitt Clinton was started. After paying for several farms by his own work, he at last flagged, and finally passed away in 1883. The Rose Shermans are all descendants from that Captain John Sherman, of Revolutionary service, who was one of the early comers to the town. His grandson, Chester, now in government employ in Washington, has taken pains to look up his pedigree, and he finds that the pioneer was born in Shrewsbury, Mass., March 27th, 1764, whence he moved to Conway, in the same state. He had a brother, Caleb, born May 14th, 1762, and a sister, Chloe, born August 4th, 1765. He afterward moved to Phelps, N. Y. The first Sherman in America, of this line, was Captain Jt)hn, who came from Essex, England, to Connecticut, though he seems to have settled in Watertown, Mass. He was a cousin of Samuel, and the Rev. John Sherman, with whom he came to this country. From this cousin branch, descended Senator John Sherman and his brother. General William T. This first Captain John Sherman married Martha Palmer, and died in 1690, January 25th; his son, Joseph, was born in Watertown, Mass., March 14th, 1650, and married Elizabeth Winthrop, November 18th, 1673. He had three sons — John, born January 11th, 1674; Joseph, born Feb- ruary 8th, 1679 ; William, born June 28th, 1692, who was the father of Roger Sherman, one of Connecticut's signers of the Declaration of In- dependence. John was in the line leading to Rose, and he appears to have been in Marlborough, Mass.; for there were born his sons — Joseph, 1703; Ephraim, 1710; John, 1713 ; Samuel, 1718. Joseph married Sarah Perrum, of Sutton, December 25th, 1728 ; his son, John, born in Shrews- bury, Mass., April 8th, 1737, married Chloe Thayer, of Bellingham, Mass., 1761, who died in 1766, May 26th, at the age of twenty-five years. This brings us again to our Rose pioneer. He married Chloe, daughter of Elias Dickinson, of Conway, who also migrated to Phelps, and died in 1806. The family flight to Phelps appears to have been made in 1790. The further removal to Rose was not until 1811 or '12. A deed is still in existence, stating that John Sherman, in 1810, bought of John and Anne Nicholas part of tract surveyed for Sir John Lowther Johnstone and Lady Charlotte, his wife, by Seth Whitmore, 301 acres, except fifty acres, northwest corner, sold to William Orton, Jr. This location must have been along the west side of the old Block House road, now the main street of the Valley. He early built a log tavern, standing near the present residence of F. H. Closs. The children of Capt. John Sherman were: Claramond, born in Conway, Mass., October 7th, 1791, and who married 250 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Charles Woodard, once residing in Rose ; Elias D., born 1794 in Phelps ; Wealthy, 1796; Paulexana, 1800; Sarah, 1802; Charles Billings, 1801, and John, always known in Rose as "Jack." Of the Woodards extended mention will be made later. Elias D., with his father, was conspicnous for physical strength, and many an acre of woodland was cleared by their vigorous strokes. He lived in different places in Rose. We have en- countered him on the William Finch place, where he cleared a considerable portion of the farm. He was twice married ; his first wife was Wealthy Griswold, of Rose ; his second, Roxy Neal, who died October 28th, 1871, in Galesburg, 111. He had a numerous family; by his first wife, there were: William, frequently met in these sketches, born in Rose, as were all of Elias' children ; certain data were given concerning him in No. 7 ; to him and his wife came six sons : William Henry, killed at the Wilder- ness, a member of the 111th; Charles Eugene, died in infancy; Charles Elvin, now in Carsonville, Mich.; William B., also in Carsonville; Lewis E., Barry, Illinois; George Wallace, died in childhood; Mrs. William Sherman died May 9th, 1887, in Bridgehamton, Mich., and was buried in Forester ; Joseph Sherman was born Sept. 27th, 1823, and died in Bel- mont, Mich., January 15th, 1889 ; he lost one of his legs in a saw-mill, and it is said was the inventor of rubber cords for wooden legs ; Orra was born November 4th, 1825, and lives now in Watkins, N. Y., though he long lived in this town. He was a harness maker, and had a shop on Main street, next door to the house now occupied by Daniel Johnson, though the house is not standing now ; he built the houses occupied by Lucien Osgood and by widow Snow ; he has been three times married and has three children ; Eliza Sherman, born in 1827, died in 1884 ; Orrin, born in 1829, studied medicine and died in Rose ; Levi, born in 1834, is a photog- rapher in Rochester; he served in the cavalry during the War ; Franklin N., born in 1836, now in Three Rivers, Mich., also in the Rebellion, from the west; Elias D., born 1839, lives in Watkins ; Wealthy died in child- hood ; Elias D. Sherman, by his second wife, had a son, John, now living in Comstock, Mich. Elias D. died September 2Sth, 1870. Of the second generation of Shermans, Wealthy married a Mr. Joy, and both lived and died on the lake shore, near Medina, N. T.; Paulexana • married Luther Chapman, in Phelps, though they lived in Buffalo and Adrian, Mich. She died in 1844, and is buried in Buffalo ; Sarah became Mrs. Truesdale, and moved to Barry, south of Rochester, where she died. The youngest son, John, or " Jack" in Rose parlance, was a well-known dweller here. His wife was Olive Crydenwise, a sister of that Isaac C. who married Sophia Thomas. The children were: Cordelia, Caleb, Emily, Charles H., Harrison, Harriet. Charles was a Company A, Ninth Heavy Artillery. man. When the War was over he went west, married Nancy Keyes, in Michigan, in 1866, and went to Missouri in 1867. He has a large farm, ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 251 where he is rearing a family of nine children. John Sherman, on leaving Rose, went to Battle Creek, Mich., where he died, March 23rd, 1891. His Eose home at one time was at or near Minerville, northwest of the Valley. This man, old as he was, was a soldier in the Kebellion. He enlisted in Company H, 111th N. Y., February 6th, 1864, and was discharged Sep- tember 10th, 1864. His widow, at last acconnts, was still living in Joppa, Mich. In addition to Charles, already mentioned, of John's children. Cordelia married "Wesley Castor, and died in Oakland county, Mich.; Caleb, married, died at Fortress Monroe, in war times ; Harrison married Mary Copeland ; Harriet is the wife of Ephraim Allen, of Joppa, Mich., while Emily, unmarried, is living with her mother. Going back to Charles B. Sherman, the student of names will be glad to know that Billings, his middle name, is thought to have come from Clara Billings, a friend or distant relative of the family. The first name, Clara, was given to the oldest daughter, and Billings, later, to a son. The first son, Elias D., clearly bore in full the name of his mother's father, Elias Dickinson, the Phelps pioneer. Back of the Sherman house, the land rises until it reaches the very highest point in the town, said to be 140 feet above the level of the lake. From the pinnacle one may look easily into all the surrounding towns. We stand above the Mirick hill, on the west, and can see the range of hills west of Wayne Centre. Only the foliage of the trees prevents a clear view of the lake twelve miles away. Eastward the Loveless hills and those east of South Butler appear. To the south the ends of many ranges arise, those leading through Galen and beyond. Nearer, the outlook includes all that makes Eose attractive to the native or acclimated foreign born. The road, winding along as the Melvins, Harmons and Stewarts left it ; the farm houses, successors to the humble log houses which supplanted the wilder- ness ; the fields ripening for the harvest ; the farmers at their useful toil ; while "Eound about them orchards sweep," — the prospect is a glorious one ; but it may be doubted whether a dozen Eose people ever climbed the hill to see what it unfolds. The immediate north view is cut off by the trees still standing, but in my anxiety that the old trees may still remain, I will cheerfully forego any pleasure of the eye, in prospect, that Rose may still include a little of the "forest primeval." Many people who have traveled this, one of the most crooked roads in the town, will recall a house, I think it was always old, which stood on the east side, just as the road swings around to the south, after passing Sherman's. I understand that it was built by one George Fairbanks, who had married Eliza, a daughter of John Wade. Inclined to the use of the " ardent, "lie had, nevertheless, quite a local reputation as a horse doctor, butcher and sheep shearer. When ' ' half seas over ' ' he was extremely polite. He and his sought the oblivion that the west afforded to so many 252 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. denizens of this town. After him came a host of tenants, all of whom seemed to abound in shoeless, noisy children. In time the house dis- appeared. It is now the barn on the Louis Town place, in the Valley. The well was filled up, and only an extra growth of weeds marks its site. From this point southward, we are on land that once stood in the name of Thaddeus Collins, 1st, and after him, his sons. Before him, was the famous Nicholas and Rose purchase, and our first halt is at the home of the Harts. To this ijlace Marvin D. Hart, first met in District No. 9, came some years ago, and here he died, June 21, 1888. Mr. Hart was descended from William Hart, who came from England to Rhode Island in the eighteenth century. His sdn, Samuel, born June 2, 1791, when twelve years old, with an older brother, Rodman, migrated to Seneca county. He served in the War of 1812, and was later a surveyor. He was married December 18, 1817, to Hester Hobrow, born in Liverpool, Eng., June 4, 1791, locating on a farm in Junius. Marvin D., the fifth of six children, and the second son, was born April 5, 1850. In addition to a common school training he was one year at Oberlin. Coming to Rose in 1857, he was married September 23, 1857, to Mary J. Miner. Save four years, from 1871, spent at the old home in Junius, his residence was Wayne county till his death. For generations the Harts were Baptists. Mrs. Hart and her daughter, Alice M., with her aged father, Mr. Miner, main- tain a very pleasant and attractive home. Long resident with Mrs. Hart, her aged father, Isaac Miner, is the oldest man in Rose. Born April 12, 1792, in Stonington, Conn., he is very near a century old. His memory recalls vividly the War of 1812. He came with his parents to Winfield, Herkimer county, when young, and there was married to Survilla Gould. Later, he came to Butler, thence he went to Scipio, Cayuga county, and next to Castile, Wyoming county. Finally they returned to Butler. His wife lived till past the seventy-first marriage anniversary. He walks the streets erect, without the aid of a cane. His mind is clear and his memory retentive. (Mr. Miner died just short of his 100th birthday, December 31, 1891, and was buried in Wolcott.) Years since, a small house on this site was the home of the noted shoemaker, " Johnny '' Ogram. This man had a reputation peculiarly his own. No matter how many pairs were promised ahead, one could always have his boots " next Saturday night." If the recording angel took down all the swearing that was done on account of this foible of " Johnny," he must have been kept pretty busy on Saturdays, 'long toward 9 p. m. It is said that Michael Vandercook kept account of the number of his disappointments, and when he did get his boots, he sued the cordwainer and made him pay for all the trouble he had given him. Ogram was said to be a little more careful thereafter. His shop was built of logs and was hard by. Dr. John J. Dickson and Eron Thomas bought quite extensively 5«..... ■Ku.^ . it'-a . t. n«t at all, but to this queer building, one of whose most prominent features is a big chimney and which seems to be a great devourer of fuel. Here, should he look in, he will see the fruit speedily transformed into the whitest of dried apples, not in the least like the results of patient paring, quartering, coring and stringing of his time. Do you not think he would draw strange conclusions as to the likings of the present generation for dried apple pie ? In harvest what would be his wonderment at following one of those machines which cuts the grain and, binding it, drops it ready to be put into the shock. A few weeks earlier, would not his bones ache with very envy as he saw horses drawing a cutting bar, which did what it took many a sweep of his brawny arm with snath and blade to accomplish, and then when down, a machine, which, kicking like an exaggerated grass- hopper, stirred out the grass. Soon afterward, a man, boy, or perhaps a woman, comes riding along on a skeleton-like contrivance, which speedily gathers the hay into windrows. If away up in conveniences, the wagon and rack which follow will have a loader attached, and what cost him many a weary tug will now be done by horse power. He goes with the load to the barn, and just look at his eyes as he sees a large fraction of that mass, at the will of the party on the mow, put Just where he wishes, with no more effort on his part than merely to direct it. The horse down below is doing the lifting, and the boy who, in his grandfather's day, ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 323 sweat and suffered under the roof, with more or less hay seed down his back, cursing- the day he was born, is driving the horse. Do you believe this visitor from the cemetery would sigh to any great extent for the old times ? But since he is out, let's take him further and show him some of the utilities never dreamed of when he walked the earth. A creaking sound up aloft attracts his ears, and his eyes wonderingly behold the arms of an immense wind-mill. " Well, I vum ! What's that for? That beats all the contrivances of my day. We used to make little ones for fun, but this looks like business." "My revered ancestor, this is to pump water for the stock and to force it, when necessary, to all parts of the house and barn." "Do tell ! But I don't see any well for the water to come from, and I think that you folks of this centennial spell must be trying to live without work. In my day, we thought it the proper thing to drive the critters to the creek, summer and winter, and when it was real cold, it was somebody's job to keep the hole through the ice open. But just tell me where the water comes from. What ! you don't say that they just drive a pipe right down into the ground, and then set this 'ere thing to going ! If I had only known all about that, what a pile of digging and tugging I might have saved when I dug that forty-foot well, near the house, and stoned it up. But say, what's this about forcing water all over the house ? Tou don't mean to say that you have a cistern away up under the roof, and that you can let water run from it to every room in the house ? What's that ? Water runs into the bath-room ? You don't tell me that you've got a room where you can swim summer and winter ? Say ! let's get along toward the house. I want to look in. Bath room ! Well, I'm beat now ! When I was in my prime and the work was done, 'long toward night, we used to hitch up and all the men and boys went down to the pond and jumped in and splashed around till we'd had enough, but in the winter, why, we sort of waited till summer again ; but here you tell me that you can go in all the year around, and with warm water, too ! Now, just hold on ; that's going it a little too strong. I can believe a good deal ; but warm water to swim in in winter ! That won't do." However, our doubter enters, and where the capacious fire-place once devoured cords of wood, he beholds the modern " air-tight," consuming only a tithe of the matter, yet sending out vastly more heat, and as for convenience, as far beyond the fire-place as that was better than a stump fire. He soon understands how water may be heated and sent to the bath or any other room^ in the building. He beholds carpeted floors, where in his day they were, at the best, sanded. From the parlor or sitting-room come the notes from piano or organ, and his ears are delighted with sounds that were never heard in life. The tables are strewn with books and papers, telling of the doings of the outer world. Letters come from hundreds of miles away, yet have occupied only a few hours in coming. A relative enters, 324 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. who, twenty-four hours before, had left a point so remote that at the beginning of the century, to reach it would be the event of a life-time. A telegram is received, and the ghostly visitor will not credit the time and distance involved, and when the tinkle of the telephone bell calls him to the receiver and he hears distinctly the voice that must be miles away, his wonderment reaches its climax and he retreats to the quiet and seclusion of his grave. Our ancestors were eminently sober and God-fearing men. They early organized their churches, though they were first identified with the Pres- byterian Church of Huron. In 1825 the Rose Presbyterian Church was organized, and its first settled pastor was the Rev. Jonathan Hovey. Over it have ministered men not unknown to fame ; among others that William Clark, known to the old inhabitant as "Priest" Clark, who could think out his sermons "at the tail of his plough." His son. Colonel Emmons Clark, has just resigned his twenty-five years" command of the famous New York Seventh Eegiment. Daniel Waldo was here two years, from 1837, a man who survived his one hundredth year. The Baptist or- ganization has long served its day and generation, a type, in its inflexible principles and purposes, of that rock on which it is founded. Its pastors have been men popularly identified with all that conduced to the good of the town. The Methodists owed their planting to that horseback ride in 1812 of Daniel Eoe, from his home, near Wolcott, to the session of the Genesee Conference in Lyons, and, although the session was over, he prevailed upon Bishops Asbury and McKendree to send a supply to this, section. These roving Methodist bishops have left us very pleasant impressions of our country. In his journal, dated Thursday, July 2d, 1807, Asbury says: "This is a great land for wheat, rye and grass ; and the lakes, with their navigation of vessels and boats and moving scenes, make the prospects beautiful." Meeting in barns, homes and school- houses till 1824, the society in Eose was formed and has continued stead- fast to date. Perhaps no one in this gathering is more closely connected with all these bodies than myself. My great grand- parents, Aaron Shepard and wife, were constituent members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. S. was its first deacon. By its pastors the funei-als of my ances- tors were conducted. One of the first deacons of the Baptist Church was George Seelye, my grandfather, and for more than fifty years he went in and out among you. In the pews of the building every Sunday were gathered more immediate relatives than often falls to the lot of one mortal. By the Methodist Church my paternal grandfather was long licensed as an exhorter and local preacher, and from it my own father, who to-day sits beside me, went forth to his long ministry. As a member and as a work- er, my beloved uncle was long identified with it. By its pastor his funeral EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 325 sermon was preached, and now, in our cemetery near, be awaits the resurrection. Beyond that range of hills, to the eastward, "Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment day," Deacons Shepard and Seelye, with "Father" Eoe, were laid by gentle hands, to sleep the last long sleep with their kindred till God shall bid them rise. Our forefathers were foremost in all that pertained to the good of mankind. As early as 1829, a temperance society was organized, which included nearly all the citizens of repute in the town, and they subscribed to this pledge: "We, the undersigned, do agree to abstain wholly from the use of ardent spirits, except for medical purposes ; not to furnish them as a part of hospitable entertainment, nor to laborers in our employ ; in no case to give or vend them either by large or small measure, so as know- ingly to countenance the improper use of them, etc." Who can tell how much this society may have prompted the sober record of Rose for the intervening sixty years! Its first president was that sterling settler from Connecticut, long known to us as Deacon Elizur Flint. Of the first board of managers only Stephen Collins survives, but among his associates were Dr. Peter Valentine and Samuel Lyman, of course. These fathers of ours early became convinced of the total depravity of slavery, and abolition was long a popular doctrine. That barn of Samuel Lyman, the first framed structure raised in town without the use of liquor, became the fit harboring place of the escaped bondman, and by Lyman and his neighbors he was helped on to Canada. Such principles constantly instilled into the minds of the youth of this town, made it a good recruit- ing place when the war of the Rebellion broke out. The farmers' boys were among the first to put on the blue and to wear it till death came or the Rebellion was ended. Were there in our village a soldier's monu- ment (how devoutly I hope the day may come when it may be a reality), and upon it were to be inscribed the names of the battles participated in by those who called Rose their home, the list would include almost every one during the War— from that terrible defeat at Bull Run, through the Peninsular Campaign, Fredricksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, the Valley, the Gulf, to Appomattox itself; in every one of these, Rose boys were present, and it in lasting granite we could tell the story to our chil- dren, what a lesson it would be! My friends, the Fourth of July, ever sacred, ever memorable, never has a more fitting observance than when, as to-day, " Auld Lang Syne" is renewed. While pealing bell and roaring cannon recall the days when battles raged, let us rather think of those patriots who, with resolute in- tent, pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred 326 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. honor that liberty shoiald ever be maintained on this continent; and as they were faithful to their promises, so let us, of a later day, pledge anew our fealty to all for which the fathers suffered, and, like them, make our lives well rounded and useful. However many are here to-day, there are places we would like to see filled. How would it gladden onr hearts if, from his resting place. Deacon Flint could look upon us. Simeon Barrett, so lately departed, would shed lustre on this hour. Thaddeus Collins would, as of old, rub his hands together and say : "I feel that it is good to be here," and, Mr. President, what would we not give could your honored father, Harvey Closs, be a part of our exercises in person, as he is in memory? Can you not fancy the merriment that would follow were the cheery voice of Dudley Wade to resound in our midst? What an outburst would ensue should Eron Thomas arise to address you, or Dr. Dickson come among us! We would willingly be ailing if, from his tomb, we could draw our first physician, Peter Valentine, whose son has so long and so honorably served his town. Chauncey Bishop, Jonathan Briggs, Henry Graham, John Gillett, the Lovejoys, Chaddocks, Lees, Merricks, Kelloggs, Smiths, Hendersons, Seelyes, Munsells, Lambs, Jefferses, Eoes, Aldriches, Mitchells, Stewarts, Vandercooks, Griswolds, Deadys, Covells, Towns, Collinses, Vanderoefs, Colborns, Dickinsons, Hickoks, Shermans, Osgoods, Phillipses, Fullers, Chattersons, Ellinwoods, Oakses, Osbornes, Aliens, McKoons, Andruses, Benjamins, Catchpoles and Finche.s — all these and the many more who have made the town what it is, would we gladly welcome here to-day. And though we may not see them face to face, yet may our spirits join with theirs iu devotion to this home of ours, pledging ourselves to the maintenance of its fair name and our undying love for the town of Rose and for the county which is now in its second century ; and when fifty or a hundred years hence our descendants celebrate, may they, as truthfully as we to-day, repeat these words : "Ye hills of Wayne! ye hills of Wayne! Ye woods, ye vales, ye fields of gi-ain ! Ye scented morns, ye blue-eyed noons! Ye ever unforgotten moons! No matter where my latest breath Shall freeze beneath the kiss of death- May some one bear me back again To sleep among the hills of Wayne! " THE ROSE M. E. CHURCH-1 824-1 889. Read at Its Ee-Opening, August 27th, 1889. by alfred s. roe. " Nor heeds the sceptic's puuy hands, While near her school the church-spire stands." — Whittier. The teiTitory now covered by the Ro.se Church was included within the bounds of the Philadelphia Conference from its organization till 1810, when the Genesee Conference was formed, with the exception of the single year, 1808, when it formed a part of the New York Conference. From July 20th, 1810, to 1829, it continued as Genesee territory. Then came eight years of connection with the Oneida Conference, or till 1836, when the Black River Conference was organized, and as a i^art of it, we find ourselves till 1869, when the Central N. Y. Conference was begun. Again, in 1873, when the new adjustment came. Rose fell under the former or latest name and so continues to date. Were we to mention the districts upon which our vicinity has been located, they would be in Albany, till 1803 ; then Genesee till 1808, when it was Cayuga one year ; from 1809 to 1811, inclusive, the Susquehanna; from 1813 to 1814 it was once more the Genesee, and then, viz., in 181-1:, it became the Chenango, and so remained till 1820, when it passed into the Black River limits. Again, in 1825, it is the Chenango, but in 1828 it returns to the Black River, and there remains till 1833, when it forms a part of the newly constructed Oswego district. There is no further change till the new conference lines, in 1869, threw it into the Auburn bounds, and there it is to-day. As to circuit names, the very first, in the least looking this way, were Herkimer, Otsego and Seneca, which appeared toward the end of the last century. Oneida and Cayuga are found in 1799. In 1803 appears Ontario, and in 1806 we have the very neighborly name of Lyons. The moving into that town of Methodists from Maryland, gave the denomina- tion an early start there. Sodus is the next name in which we are inter- ested, and this is in 1813. In 1817 a division occurs, and we form a part of Cato, and so continue till 1821, when we take the significant title, 328 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. Victory. O'er all victorious we remain till 18.32, when we assume the Eose, and thus crowned, remain to this year of grace, 1889. We can only conjecture as to who of the early itinerants passed this way. In 1793 the Eev. Thomas Ware was appointed to the Albany district, and he states that his ride included Herkimer county, which then extended to the western line of this town. Grand old Revolutionary soldier that he was, we would like to think that our soil had borne the impress of his feet, and that the forests once standing here had resounded with his voice as, in passing through, he chanted the praises of God, a frequent diversion of these almost homeless wanderers. Freeborn Garrettson was one of the earliest appointed ministers to the circuits, which may have included our bounds, but during all these years we have no knowledge of our present town limits holding any i^ermanent settlers. There was, however, a semi- nomadic population that was here today and there to-morrow, forerunners of that stable class, which, following, cleared up the land and built for themselves comfortable homes. But there was no habitation too primitive for our Methodist pioneer, and I love to believe that at the very earliest date he sought out the settlers here. In 1807 Bishop Asbury records his pleasant impression of Lyons, where he was the guest of his Maryland friends, the Dorseys, and in Esquire Dorsey's barn, in 1810, the first session of the Genesee Conference was held. From notes contributed to a Wayne county paper by G. S. Jewell, now of Fleming, N. Y., I learn that regular Methodist ministrations in our vicinity were indebted to Daniel Eoe, of what now constitutes the north- west corner of Butler. A native of Brookhaven, Long Island, he had begun his married life in Connecticut, where his Methodist zeal was appar- ent, for I find that he is accounted the founder of our church iu the town of Derby of that good old land of steady habits. Revolutionary troubles had compelled his father's family to take up their abode across the Sound, and it is more than likely that his start in Methodism was had through the preaching of Jesse Lee, who first penetrated the chosen field of the "Standing Order." At any rate, when, in 1812, he became a central N. T. pioneer, his latch string was always out to anybody who could bring tidings of great joy. His learning of the session of the Genesee Conference at Lyons, July 29th, 1812, was somewhat late, but he hastened away upon horseback to that place and secured the appointment of a preacher who would restrict his wanderings to a range embracing what is now several counties. His own house was the chosen scence of preaching services at times, while the school-house near was often called into use. On such con- siderable occasions as quarterly meetings, no less commodious structure than his recently constructed framed barn would suffice. That building is still standing. The story is told that a certain minister, noted in the annals of another denomination, when told that Mr. Eoe had secured the EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 329 coming of the Methodists, said: "Well, let them come; we'll soon root them out." To this, Daniel Eoe responded : " If he is a mind to be a hog and root, why, let him root." From results, one may conclude that the rooting scarcely more than loosened the soil, thereby rendering our growth all the more vigorous. The preachers who rode this great circuit, Zenas Jones, Ebenezer Doolittle, John Rogers, Joseph McCreary and Joshua Beebe, have their names written not only in our record of Methodism, but we trust in the Lamb's Book of Life. Theirs were names long revered in a section of country covering nearly the whole extent of the Middle States. Their purses did not wax plethoric at the expense of their people, for we find that their average support was $84.65 per year. In 1816 Joseph McCreary received items as follows: Five and one-half bushels of wheat, $1.75; thirteen pounds of pork, 12.^ cents ; sugar and lard, 12J cents ; ten pounds of venison ham, 0.4 ; six pounds of flax. If, however, the preacher fared poorly, so did his people. Money was a raie article, scarcely to be had at all. The first local preachers were Samuel Bentley, John Seymour, Jacob Snyder and Joshua Beebe, who afterward entered the traveling con- nection. Daniel Eoe, Thomas Armstrong and Stephen Sprague were the first class leaders. Under the name of Cato circuit, matters progressed till 1821, when Victory began, and during its eleven years of existence, societies were or- ganized as follows : Conquest, October 19th, 1822 ; Hannibal, March 2.3d, 1825 ; Butler, April 8th, 1826 ; Rose, September 21st, 1827 ; Clyde, Janu- ary 22d, 1831. The society at Daniel Roe's in 1812 finally became the foundation of the Wolcott Church. The foregoing dates refer to the holding of the first quarterly meetings. Classes, as we shall find, were organized much earlier. So much for the nebulous portion of our church history. Now follows a period when the sun glimmers through the clouds and we can obtain some definite knowledge. Probably the first permanent Methodist within the confines of our present town was Alfred Lee, the forerunner of the other brothers — Lyman, Joel and John — who came down to us from the Green Mountain State. He came early in the century, and we may suppose that his Methodist start was had up among the rugged scenes of Vermont, through the labors of Garrettson, Hull and others. In 1818 or 1819 Caleb Mills, a local preacher and a carpenter Ity trade, used to conduct prayer meetings in the log school-house, which stood on or about the site of what was so long the post office. There are those who still retain a recollection of his wide-brimmed white hat and (juaint attire ; for in those days dress and walk as well as conversation proclaimed the IMethodist. In 1824 Charles Thomas and family moved into the town from Pompey, Onondaga county. He and his active, vigorous wife were trophies of the preaching in that section, begun as early as 1803. With them came, in 330 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. their employ, Zemira Slaughter, who was born in Willington, Conn, Sept. 11th, 1802. Though young when she came hither, she had been six years a member of a class, having been converted under the preaching of Daniel Barnes, who was a presiding elder in these parts in 1823-1. She was bap- tized by Abner Chase, a man long held in reverence by those who knew him. With this reijnforcement our founders proceeded to organize a class, and in 1821 this very important step was taken. The names were Charles Thomas and Polly, his wife, Alfred Lee, William Watkins, Abigail Bunce and Zemira Slaughter. Mr. Lee was the first leader, and he has been described to be as talkative, energetic and a great worker in every way. Charles Thomas was an active business man, but it may not dis- parage him in the least to state that ' * Sister ' ' Thomas was more often lefen-ed to in matters spiritual than her husband. She was short of stature, somewhat stout, very early married, the mother of a numerous family, but the very embodiment of zeal and energy in all respects. She frequently led the class herself, and her home was the chosen abode of the itinerent in passing. William Watkins, of Welsh birth, came with the Thomases, and was a tanner by trade. Abigail Bunce was the most noted teacher the old town of Wolcott ever knew. Renowned in her schools, she was equally worthy of recollection in the church. Of a tall, commanding stature, she was sure of a hearing whenever she arose. Of all these be- ginners, only Zemira (Slaughter) Bishop remains this side of eternity. As the wife of Joel Bishop, who was of Baptist rearing, she went with him to his church home, though she accounted herself a Methodist for fully eighteen years. Though her name may not appear on our books to-day, we are none the less sure that she can read her title clear, and we rejoice that bodily she can be with us after all these many years of pilgrimage, and on this occasion with us be glad at the sight of what God hath wrought. From the diminntive log school-house to this church, truly the step is a long one. Charles Thomas died in 1830, comparatively young. His wife, as Polly Clark, died in 1863. "Aunt Xabby'' Bunce finished her journey in September, 1875, at Red Creek, at the age of eighty-two. William Watkins, the father of Mrs. Lawson Munsell of the Wolcott Church, died in Portland, Oregon, November 3d, 1882, having left Rose about 1827. Alfred Lee joined the procession westward to Ohio, and there died May 26th, 1868, aged eighty-five years. The first meetings of these people were held in the log building, erected by the first settlers for school purposes ; but even this was sometimes closed to them, whether on account of their noisy ways or through accident, I cannot state. However, if the door was locked, they were in no way cast down, for they would have their meetings somewhere, and have been known to adjourn to logs, lying at right angles to each other, back of the school-house, and upon such improvised seats to conduct their religious ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 331 classes. They had not long to wait for increasing numbers, since a revival speedily followed, and before the fall of snow their class numbered thirty. Early in the twenties, extreme measures in the collection of church dues among the Presbyterians of the Port Bay, now Huron, Church caused many withdrawals, and the consequent increase of the Methodist Society. Owing to a misapprehension of the terms of their subscription, many had refused to pay, and hence had been sued. Naturally they felt aggrieved. In their first summer Ellis EUinwood and wife, who came up from Oneida county, joined them and remained steadfast to the end of their long and useful lives. Till 1832 there is not a written word to chronicle the work of this small baud of Chistians, yet by their fruits we may con- clude that they delved well in their Master's vineyard. The first quarterly meeting, in 1827, was held in Charles Thomas' barn, then standing where now is the store of George A. Collier. As George Gary was then presiding elder, we may suppose that he was present. Mrs. Bishop retains a pleasant memory of some of the early pastors, having vividly in mind Eevs. Jones and Doolittle, and can yet tell of the sermon preached by Charles Giles at quarterly meeting, proclaiming it both eloquent and good. I should state that her recollection of these men is coupled rather with the Pompey circuit than with that of Rose. Later, when the Collinses had become connected with the church, meet- ings were held, at times, in the barn of Thaddeus Collins, 1st, and Alpheus, his son, standing somewhere near the residence of Mrs. Harvey Closs. The quarterly occasions were made much of and large congregations assembled, sometimes coming from great distances. Our venerable brother, Stephen Collins, has told me of their going to Daniel Roe's, in Butler, and even to Victory, saying: "I have made more acquaintances at one of these meetings than I made during an eight years' residence in Lyons." Our founders were eminently a social people. I would that our later representatives might emulate them. We have only the barest glimpses of the ministers who passed through in these early days. Brother Stephen Collins, though eighty-seven years of age, was not of our body in his youth. His parents went to the Port Bay Presbyterian Church, while he first heard Baptist doctrine as expounded by Elder Smith, but later he cast in his lot with us, and here abides to-day. He says that regular preaching was had at Stewart's corners earlier than in the Valley. He recalls Joshua Beebe, 1818, Palmer Roberts, 1819 and 1820, while Wm. W. Rundell, 1821, used to put up at his father's house. Presiding Elder Renaldo M. Evarts, 1820 and 1822, lingers also in memory's gallery, while Enoch Barnes was to him like a brother. Seth Youngs and J. M. Brooks, 1823, are remembered as active, go-ahead men, the latter considerably the younger. James P. Aylsworth was the pastor in charge of Sodus circuit in 1821, and once, 332 ROSE NEIGHEOEHOOD SKETCHES. when asked his age, he ran his fingers through his hair, thus giving it a stand-up condition, and replied: "Now guess." He it was who told of his experience in the food line, when making his rounds. His appetite was equal to anything that was set before him, save in one instance, when he saw the good wife prepare the johnny-cake and set it to bake in the out-of-doors fire. That was well enough, but when he beheld the interest and proximity of a number of goslings, whose investigations considerably affected the cake, he concluded to forego eating for one day, though the woman and her family seemed in no way disturbed by the admixture. William McKoon was four times a laborer on the Victory and Rose circuits. Of him. Brother Collins says: " He did as much good as any man the circuit ever had. Ifo man in these parts could equal him as a preacher of funeral sermons." He spoke the final words over the first Thaddeus Collins and Esther, his wife. Samuel Bebins, in 1831, was the last rider of the Victory circuit, leaving it with a membership of 1,200 people. He is remembered as wearing a red bandanna on his bald head, and as being a man of a lively nature. It was a six weeks' circuit, or one requiring that time to make the complete round ; so one day, in leaving his Butler charge, he said: "Brethren, I don't like this six weeks' business. The devil gets around before I do." Perhaps he was active in securing the change, for in 1832 there was a subdivision, and Rose circuit appeared with a membership of 531. The first ministers over the new circuit were Elijah Barnes and John Thomas. The latter was an Englishman, and in a country where the latch string was always out, his conventional ways seemed very strange. Says one: "Why, he would knock at a door all day, or till some one opened it for him, never heeding the old-fashioned 'come in,' and I don't know as he would ever get off his horse unless bidden to do so." In 1832 our people were still worshiping in school-houses, though the Valley log building had given place to a framed structure. With the new circuit, a movement was made for the building of an edifice, and hereafter are copied verbatim the first written records of our Rose organization : "At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Rose, held in the school- house in Rose Valley on Monday, the 27th day of August, 1832, pursuant to publick notice, for the purpose of adopting measures for building a chapel for the use of the Methodist Episcoi>al Church in Rose. "1st. Resolved, That Elijah Barnes be chosen Chairman, and Eron K. Thomas act as Secretary. " 2d. Resolved, That the name of this Society be ' The First Methodist Episcopal Society ' in the town of Rose. "3d. Resolved, That there be nine trustees, and Jacob Miller, Abel Lyon, Chester EUinwood, Samuel E. Ellinwood, Geo. W. Mirick, Robert Andrews, Thaddeus Collins, Isaac Lamb and Moses F. Collins be said trustees. EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 333' "4th. Eesolved, That Eron N. Thomas be the clerk of said Society." Here we have somethiug definite, and, as corner-stones of our structure, we find certain representative names. Of the man whose name appears as clerk, I may state that he retained the office till his death in 1874. " Sister" Polly Thomas was well represented during these more than forty years by her capable, determined son. September Sth, 1832, at an adjourned meeting. Brothers Miller, Chester and Ellis Ellinwood, Mirick and Andrews were appointed a committee to agree on a site for a church and to circulate a subscription. The 19th of October, it was resolved that the site of said house be on the hill, north of Mr. Bassett's shop. It was further resolved that Thaddeus Collins, Joel N. Lee and Chester Ellinwood be a committee to build said house, and further, that it be 32 x 45 feet. The form of organization already given was certified to before Judge Arne, and September 13, 1833, was recorded in the clerk's office in Lyons. In 1836, February 26th, there was a reorganization of the church, and the number of the trustees was reduced to three, who were Ellis Ellinwood, Joel N. Lee and Geo. W. Mirick. We may conclude that proper measures were at once taken to build the church, whose site, given by Thaddeus and Chauncey Collins, was where the house of Mrs. Augusta Allen now stands, at the corner of the street leading to Wayne Centre. Owing to the abundance of cobble stones in the vicinity, I suppose it was thought the builders could use them cheaply and, at the same time, have a sub- stantial edifice. John Hannahs was the carpenter, and, as usual, "Sister " Thomas was a mighty power in the progress of affairs. Once, when the builder had fallen short of material and had gathered up his tools and departed, he was surprised at hearing a great clatter in his rear, and, turning, saw a woman standing up in her wagon and shouting to him to stop. It was Mrs. Thomas, who, fearful thatjif the carpenter went away it would not be easy to get him back, had followed to tell him that she had sent her men into the woods for timber, and that he might return and go to work. The masonry was done by John Layton. The most liberal contributor to the "chapel" was Polly Clark— our "Sister" Thomas— who gave $100 ; Thaddeus Collins gave $65, and other snms were given, ranging down to those of one figure only. Of the fifty-five givers recorded, only three are yet on this side of the grave, viz., Brother Stephen Collins, a brother of Thaddeus; Chauncey B., the youngest of the family, now living in Clyde, and Ira Mirick, of Lyons. In this way, $743.15 was subscribed, but, as the building cost over $1,200, there was quite a debt to begin with, in this way being too much in keeping with custom, the country over. The building was roofed in and seated temporarily before it was dedicated. In fact, my great-aunt, Mrs. Mary Wade, tells me that she attended revival meetings in the church just after the first corn hoeino 334 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. in 1835, and that the seats were boards laid upon the end of logs of wood sawed off at the proper length. There is extant a contract between Geo. "W. Wainwright and the trustees to complete, i. e., finish the church, bearing date of December 1st, 1835, and the work was to be completed on or before the 1st day of May following. July 13th, 1836, he acknowledges receipt of payment in full, viz., $375, on which day the pews, forty-eight in number, were advertised to be sold. Ensign Ellinwood, with his sisters, Charlotte and Lemira, were singers at the dedication. One of the selections sung was, "How Lovely are Thy Dwellings." This church long maintained the exceedingly quaint custom of separating families, the males sitting on one side and the feminine portion demurely occupying the other part of the room. When completed the "chapel" was a com- fortable one, the second church edifice in town ; the Presbyterians being a short time ahead. The pulpit was an old-fashioned, high-perched, box- like affair, between the two main entrance doors on the east .end. There were galleries on the other three sides. This building was for nearly twenty-five years the temple whither resorted the Methodist tribes at least one day in the week. Built, however, of cobble stones, and not, perhaps, supported as dwelling-houses are, it was deemed insecure, and people grew afraid of it. There was one unsuccessful attempt to burn it, but in 1859 it was again fired, this time to its destruction, and the edifice which had occasioned so many prayers, so much anxiety and work, was only a smouldering heaj) of stones. In those days the parsonage was just a little west of the church ; now some- what changed, it is the home of the Presbyterian ministers. Between it and the church was a row of horse sheds. It is a fitting commentary on the fears of some as to the security of the walls, that when the fire was over and the woodwork burned, it took the united work of many to pull and push down the pile of stones so long deemed dangerous. Truly, the temple was well built, a strong tower to those who feared Him. The true story of this quarter of a century it would take too much time to tell. There were the regular warfare against sin, the revivals where many were gathered into the fold, the marriages and the deaths, when the aged and the young were borne hence to their final resting places. The ministers who followed each other in these years were Burroughs Holmes, who became a prominent figure in his conference ; Joseph Cross, who, Brother Stephen Collins says, was the first minister he ever knew to wear whiskers, and they were kept well back under the chin and on the throat. Another has described him as a regular jumping-jack in the pulpit. His career was an eventful one — going south, and to the Methodist Ejiiscopal Church, South, he became the chaplain of the famous Black Horse Cavalry, and after the War returned to become a minister in the Episcopal Church. He was of English birth, which may account for his ready donning of ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 335 Confederate gray. In his Rose days, he was quite young, and before the War was done went to Clyde. Humility was then one of his strong points. How strange it seems to us that one's garb, or way of wearing hair or whiskers, should be thought worthy of special attention. When my father first ventured to let his beard grow, his father said : " Wear a very modest beard, my son, a very modest one." On his own face no one ever saw more than the stubble of a week's growth. Anson Tuller was a conspicuous figure, and, with his colleague, in 1837 and 1838, conducted one of the most extensive revivals in the history of the church. Tuller lived a long life of usefulness ; Kilpatrick, who was a man of great eloquence and effectiveness, located in 1846, and went west. From our Rose Church Moses Lyon went out to his mission, terminating last spring. He was a son of Abel Lyon, one of the first trustees. He was noted throughout this section as a sweet singer in Israel. John W. Armstrong came down from Eed Creek, and by our quarterly conference was recommended to the traveling connection. Anson Tuller was the presiding elder, and after the young man, who was a teacher in the Red Creek Academy, had withdrawn, he said : " That man has a long head, and it appears to be well filled," a statement well borne out in subsequent years. Austin M. Roe was sent hence, owing much, perhaps, to the promptings of William Peck, a brother of the subsequent bishop. He, doubtless, is well remembered to this day for his tobacco pipe and his horse, Selim. The membership was a substantial one, and a glance at the names of those who helped build the first church .shows many of the best persons in the town. Time would not suffice to sound the praises of all these excellent people. That first Daniel Roe, who lived to be nearly ninety years of age, I can remember as he rode about on his cream-colored horse, keeping to his saddle almost as long as he lived. In his garb and appearance he made a picture in my memory not unlike that of John Wesley. His youngest brother, Austin, my grandfather, came to Rose in time to help build the stone church. A Long Islander, he was a convert at those meetings conducted early in the century by Ezekiel Cooper and William Phcebus. Thaddeus Collins, I have heard my father say, used to yoke up his oxen and take the whole neighborhood to Stewart's corners to attend the meetings in the winter of 1833-4. There could be nothing good in progress in which he did not have a part. But in those days our meetings were not conducted without opposition. To many the fervor and zeal of the Methodists were a stumbling block. My great-grandmother said to my mother : " No, Polly ! you can't go to those meetings. They'll scare you to death." However, she seemed to have survived more than forty years of living as the wife of a Methodist minister, tolerably unscared. Again, as to ministers, were Jairus McKoon living, I wonder if he would be amused as he was, years ago. when Joseph Byron told of the " he-she 336 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. bears." Sitting on the writing falls of the school-house, which was long the home of Joseph Tipple, he almost lost his centre of gravity over the sad lapsus of the minister. William Mason located to become the steward of Bed Creek Seminary, a position which he long honored. He used to tell this story of himself, laughing as heartily as any one at the Joke. In settling accounts once on leaving a charge, a sixpence too much had been paid him. "Well," said he, " I'll come along and preach you a sermon for that some day." " Oh, no," said the careful steward, " we've had enough of six-penny sermons." Nearly all, however, preachers and people, have passed over. As we recall those times, we cannot help wishing that once more on this side the River, we might see the Lees, Thomases, Hoff- mans, Barretts, Griswolds, Wyckoffs, Mitchells, Winchells, Toleses, Vandercooks, Kelloggs, Lymans, Collinses, Miricks, Ellinwoods, Aliens, Holbrooks, Roes, Lyons, Hunns (thei-e were no Vandals) and all those who did valiant battle during all these primordial years. It cannot be ; but though they cannot come to us, we may go to them. From the burning of the old " chapel " to the present, may properly be termed a new era in the history of our society. Successive divisions and cuttings off had made the numbers of the organization vary considerably. Then, too, the spirit of migration had its weight in the membership, but through all this the church and the neighborhood kept up their proverbial reputation for regular attendance at meeting. Said William Haney, who came to us in the sixties from Boonville, N. Y. : " Why, this disposition to go to church astonishes me. When I get up on a hill-top and look forward or back on a Sunday morn, the road has the appearance of a Icftig procession. I verily believe that everybody, religious and irreligious, goes to meeting." The spirit imparted by our long line of church-going New England ancestry will not die in a generation, and our hope is that the succeeding generations will keep up the practice and spirit. However, the old house, with its memories of revivals, the preaching and singing for nearly twenty-five years, was a thing of the past. What should be done next I Measures were taken at once to rebuild — but where ? Shall it be on the old site, or will a new one be selected f Many said the hill was too cold and breezy, and that there was not room in its vicinity for horse sheds, while the newly opened street leading eastward from Eron Thomas' house, would be just the place. Really, the new street was opened for the church. Arguments, pro and con, were had, but finally the new streeters prevailed, and the present structure was the result. No sooner were the Methodists without a home than the Presbyterians kindly opened their doors, and, till the basement was finished, more than a year later, these people worshiped together, apparently to the edification and profit of all. In fact. Deacon Flint said he didn't care to hear any ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 337 better preaching than that given them by Mr. Salisbury. The debates and conferences of the fall of 1859 and following winter resulted in the breaking of ground in the following spring— perhaps in May— and the framing was started in July. Rev. Mr. Brown, of the Clyde Methodist Episcopal Church, was noted for his church building proclivities, and he submitted a plan to our brethren, which was, in the main, adopted ; but Brother Peter Harmon, the builder, was not entirely satisfied. So, broaching the matter to the trustees, they unanimously approved his suggestions— changes which make this edifice practically a home affair, in that the architect and builder was a member of the church. In December of 1860, the basement was completed and Brother Salisbury came from Wolcott to preach the first sermon in it. The room above the audience room was inclosed and floored and afforded a good place for banquets during the stirring war period, a time when the basement or lecture-room frequently resounded with patriotic appeals. So time passed along. The original cost estimated at $4,000 had swollen to near $7,000. Brothers Wells and Skeel had had their pastorate in the basement, but the coming of Brother Charles Baldwin started the era of finishing, and the work was pushed along to completion. The bell was in place, and on March 3d, 1864, the long houseless congregation assembled to dedicate their edifice. Peter Harmon, the builder, at the suggestion of Elder Dunning, then in charge of the Oswego district, got together an excellent choir, in which was prominent Chester Ellinwood, whose elder brother. Ensign, had led the singing when the old house was set apart. Seated here by the pulpit was " Father" Austin Roe, in a little more than a month to be gathered to his rest, the oldest man in the membership of the church. The sermon was preached by Dr. J. M. Reid, then president of Genesee College, while in the evening Rev. Samuel Clark, of Weedsport, officiated. Rev. B. I. Ives, the noted debt raiser, was also here, and his honeyed utterances succeeded in extracting something more than $2,000 from the audience to raise the debt. The old church was burned Monday night, April 18th, 1859, during the pastorate of Geo. H. Salisbury, and the new one, building through several years, was dedicated March 3d, 1864, while Charles Baldwin was minister. The very day of the burning of the Rose Church, the corner-stone of the new one in Clyde was laid, a coincidence worth noting. From that date to the present there have been very few changes. It and the parsonage adjacent have been convenient, comfortable places for service and the pastor's abode. To the majority of the membership to-day, it is the only building recalled. In this room, could a phonographic record have been made and to-day we were to set the cylinder back, there would come to us the tones of Dr. Reid in the opening address, and then would be heard the mild words of the pastor, Charles Baldwin, who, when he felt life sinking 23 338 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. apace, made his home among us, and finally, went from our church militant to that triumphant, his body lying with many of his church associates in the cemetery near. I^o one would mistake the voice of S. B. Crosier, who was prominent in many things in our village. Of him it is told that W. H. (better known as " Bill ") Saunders, showing to him the appointments of his newly fitted up hotel, he pronounced everything excellent if he would only keep the "critter " out, referring to that bane of civilization, alcohol. As the vibrations continue, there would come the beginning of a talk to the Sunday school children ; but the inexorable five minutes' rule cut the speaker off completely and he concludes with " I wish I hadn't begun." But there were pleasanter affairs to bring back our genial old friend, Eoyal Houghton, who gave two sons, Eoss and Oscar, to the min- istry. He was Houghton to the end, though his sons are now called Howton. Many ears will listen more intently when the next preacher's tones are heard, and we rejoice that they may be heard to-day. He was the first minister to stay the possible three years, from 1868 to 1871, Eev. Phineas Wiles. Eevs. Curtis, Edson and Day all arouse trains of familiar memories. Could our recording phonograph tell all the good things about those whose tones have been preserved here and elsewhere, it would render back to us the somewhat hesitating reading of an Old Testament chapter, wherein hard, double-jointed names abounded. Noticing the obvious amusement of his congregation at some of his efforts, the reader coolly remarks: " If any of you think you can do better than I am doing with these names, why, just come up here and you may have a chance to try." But the active Christian industry of D. D. Davis needs no story to recall it. By the way, the fact that the prominent initials precede his name does not prevent the important truth that he is the only D. D. ever stationed in Eose. Eevs. Hoxie and Beach recall long and successful pastorates, and of the latter, I will state that he kept the church record better than any I have ever seen. Were he to give lessons in this respect to his brother preachers, he would confer a priceless boon upon the future mousing chronicler. Brother C. E. Herman's interim of a single year brings us to a voice that, improving the possibility to remain beyond the old three years' bounds, is now, in its fourth year, able to speak for itself. All will know that I refer to him who has so long and so faithfully served this people, and whose zeal, in and out of season, has brought about so much that to-day gladdens our sight. Under the pastorate of Brother G. A. Eeynolds, our church has taken a new lease of life. While the member- ship of the parent church remains much as usual — subject to the fluctua- tions of removals and lukewarmness — a growing daughter is found in the North Eose organization, where thirty-five probationers form an excellent foundation. May the enteri)rise increase and prosper. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 339 While meiitioa has been made of the later pastors, we would not forget those who earlier toiled here. There was Harlow Skeel, who was preacher in a trying period and who is still a standard bearer in the Northern Xew York Conference, and I doubt not that many here remember his family as well as himself. Frank and Clarence both were graduated from Wesleyan in 1874. The former is now a ijhysician in New York. The latter found an early gra^e while following in his father's footsteps. It was during Brother Skeel's stay that the Rev. George Bowles, a local deacon, was expelled. He was an Englishman of massive frame and persuasive eloquence, as all who recall him will testify. In early life he must have been "an awkward hand in a row." He had been much abused and pro- voked by a neighbor, nameless here. So long as the latter's taunts were confined to Brother B. personally, he did nothing, but when the man assailed the character of the preacher's family, he said : " You may talk about me, but my children never," and pitching in he gave the sinner one of the best thrashings ever administered by a representative of the church militant to one of Satan's crew. It was, of course, very unchristian, but carnal man cannot repress a feeling of pleasure that the militant Methodist was also triumphant. In the eyes of the community, he was very much of a hero, having given what all considered a fully merited punishment. But the church must free itself from such odium, and so expelled, but on profession, readmitted, and in a few years reinstated. The example is not the best possible, but sometimes fire must be fought with fire. The presiding elder was Chas. A. Dunning, and I have wondered whether he may not have had a fellow feeling for Mr. Bowles, since of him the story is told that, in his earlier lile, he knocked down an impious jackanapes, who, in reply to the query as to whether he would not like religion, had answered : " Yes, I guess I'll take about three cents' worth." Contrition and repentance had accomplished for him the same end gained by our erring brother of Rose. M. D. L. B. Wells. Does anyone wonder that the bishop once referred to him as Alphabet Wells ? Geo. H. Salisbury. What a career of usefulness was cut short when death claimed him ! Having much of his father, Nathaniel's, ability he had vastly more tact and suavity, yet can anyone believe that, twenty- five years ago, there were those in the Rose Church whose righteous souls were vexed because he had patent leather tips on his shoes ? William Morse, O. C. Lathrop, so recently gone home ; Harris Kingsley, Cyrus Phillips, William Jones — all these names will have a familiar sound to some. But the past is past. From the insignificant beginning in numbers of six Methodists, sixty-five years ago, to the present, there has been a practical confirmation of the promise that where two or three are gathered together in His name. He will be in the midst of them, and that to liless. Through divisions or changes, through dissension within, through consid- 340 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. erable secessions, through removal and death, through our discriminating Baptist and Presbyterian brothers seeking here fair partners for life's journey, — through all these hazards the church has survived, and there have been found those who have kept the altar bright, the fires burning. If there be Pharisees, so also there are strong, faithful souls, who know no such word as fail, whose hand once placed to the plough continues firm to the end. Here, then, are the stages : A class in 1824, but no abiding city till 1836. Then a comfortable home till destroyed by fire in 1859. Again shelterless till March, 1864. Then twenty-five years in this structure, to-day renewed, beautified, it becomes more fitly than ever the place of worship, the abode of the Most High. May God in His wisdom sanctify and keep it. ACCOUNT OF MONEYS PAID IN BUILDING STONE CHURCH. Jacob Miller, $31 ; Abel Lyon, $25.75; Sol. Whitney, $15.50; Matthias Van Horn, $11; Moses F. Collins, $13.62; William Griswold, $6; John N. Chidester, $5 ; Lorenzo C. Thomas, $25 ; John J. Dickerson, $30 ; John Bassett, $20 ; Eron N. Thomas, $27 ; Chester Ellinwood, Joel N. Lee, $31.63 ; Samuel E. Ellinwood, $33.63 ; Robert Andrews, $29 ; Geo. W. Mirick, $31; Samuel N. Welch, $5; Moses Lyon, $13.38 ; Polly Clark, $100 ; Solomon Allen, $8 ; Thaddeus Collins, $65 ; Stephen Collins, $12 ; Joel Bishop, Jr., $3.50 ; Merrill Pease, $2 ; Samuel Hunn, $8 ; Samuel Jones, $5; A. F. Baird, $5; S. H. Brainard, $10; Enoch Knight, $5 ; William Mitchell, $2.26 ; E. D. Sherman, $2 ; Abram Van Tassel, $3 ; Orrin Moore, $10 ; Samuel Bucknam, $5 ; Ira Lathrop, $3 ; Uriah Wade, $5 ; Joseph Wade, $1 ; Nicholas Stansell, $12 ; James Aldrich, $2.50 ; Isaac Lamb, $12 ; Stephen Babcock, $6 ; Charles G. Oaks, $2 ; Orrin Morris, $2 ; John Mc Wharf, $2 ; Chauncey B. Collins, $38 ; John W. Lee, $2; Wm. McKoon, $1; Willis Roe, $2.50 ; Paul H. Davis, $.50 ; Daniel Roe, $2 ; Hiram and Ira Mirick, $5 ; Austin Roe, $10 ; John Q. Deady, $5 ; John Springer, $— ; John Ogram, $3.63. Total, $743.40. Wm. Lord, $ ; — Benedict, $2.50 ; Peter Valentine, $ ; — Twiss, $ ; S. Munsell, $4 ; H. Drury, $3 ; D. Munsell, $3 ; Wm. Walmsley, $2 ; Joseph Seelye, $10 ; W. Allen, $ ; Nathan W. Thomas, $ — -. SLIPS AND OCCUPANTS IN OLD STONE CHURCH. No. 1. Robert Andrews. No. 2. Stephen Babcock. No. 3. Solomon Allen. No. 4. John Bassett. No. 5. Jester L. Holbrook. No. 6. John W. Lee. No. 7. Abel Lyon. No. 9. Charles G. Oaks. No. 10. Lorenzo C. Thomas. No. 17. John Ogram. No. 18. Dorman Munsell. EOSE NEIGHBOKHOOD SKETCHES. 341 No. 19. Stephen Collins. No. 20. Erou N. Thomas. No. 21. Samuel E. Ellinwood. No. 22. Geo. W. Mirick. No. 23. Thaddeus Collins. No. 24. Chester Ellinwood. No. 25. Seth H. Brainard. No. 26. John J. Dickson. No. 27. Polly Clark. No. 28. Joel N. Lee. No. 29. Chauncey B. Collins. No. 30. Austin Roe. No. 31. M. A. Cornwell. No. 38. Solomon Whitney. No. 39. Moses Lyon. No. 40. Polly Clark. No. 41. Joel Bishop, Jr. No. 42. John A. Chidester. No. 43. Thaddeus Collins. No. 44. Stephen Collins. No. 45. Jacob Mil- ler. No. 46. Lyman Lee. No. 47. Matthias Van Horn. No. 48. Chas. G. Oaks. OFFICERS OF THE EOSE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUECH. Stewaeds.— Eron N. Thomas, from 1853 to 1874— Recording Steward, twenty-one years ; Ovid Blynn, from 1853 to 1879 and 1885 ; S. Ellis Ellinwood, from 1853 to 1867 ; Samuel B. Hoffman, from 1853 to 1869 ; Thaddeus Collins, from 1853 to 1861 ; John Vandercook, from 1853 to 1867 ; Wm. Benjamin, from 1853 to 1864 ; Geo. W. Mirick, from 1857 to 1865 ; John Harmon, from 1857 to 1861 ; Wm. Osborne, from 1861 to 1867 and 1871 ; Wm. Haney, from 1861 to 1867 ; G. L. Munsell, from 1863 to 1871 ; James Armstrong, from 1865 to 1871 ; Henry C. Rice, from 1867 to 1876 ; Oliver Bush, in 1867 ; Stephen Kellogg, from 1867 to 1879; Oscar Weed, 1867 to 1889 ; Wm. H. Vandercook, from 1867 to 18S9 ; E. Toles, 1871 and 1872; Philander Mitchell, 1875; Wm. Desmond, from 1875 to 1881 ; John Crisler, 1875 ; John B. Roe, from 1875 to 1885 ; Clay- ton J. Allen, from 1879 to 1881 and 1885 to 1889; D. Finch, 1881 and 1882 ; P. Soper, from 1881 to 1885 ; Abram Covell, from 1882 to 1889 ; Selah Finch, from 1885 to 1889 ; E. Burrell, from 1885 to 1889 ; James Armstrong, 1885 ; C. Barrick, 1885; Milo Lyman, 1888 and 1889; Edgar Armstrong, 1888 and 1889 ; Daniel Foster, 1888 ; Alonzo Case, 1888 and 1889 ; J. Morey, 1888 and 1889 ; C. Shaw, 1888 and 1889. Teustees.— Jacob Miller, 1832 ; Abel Lyon, 1832 ; Chester Ellinwood, 1832 ; Samuel E. Ellinwood, from 1832 to 1851 ; George Mirick, from 1832 to 1850 and 1860 to 1866 ; Robert Andrews, 1832 ; Thaddeus Collins, 1832 ; Isaac Lamb, 1832 ; INIoses F. Collins, 1832 ; Joel N. Lee, from 1833 to 1848 ; Samuel B. Hoffman, 184y and from 1860 to 1872 ; Charles S. Wright, from 1859 to 1875; John B. Roe, from 1859 to 1873; Eron N. Thomas, 1859 to 1874 ; John M. Vandercook, from 1860 to 1870 ; Harvey D. Mason, from 1860 to 1865 ; Lucian Dudley, from 1865 to 1874 ; G. L. Munsell, from 1870 to 1872 ; Wm. Osborne, from 1875 to 1878 ; Oliver Bush, from 1875 to 1888 ; H. Perkins, 1875 ; Peter Harmon, from 1875 to 1886 ; James Armstrong, from 1875 to 1878 ; Milo Lyman, from 1875 to 342 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 1881 and 1888 ; Clayton J. Allen, from 1878 to 1888 ; Wm. H. Griswold^ from 1878 to 1885 ; Philander Mitchell, from 1883 to 1888 ; David Finch, from 1883 to 1886; J. Crisler, from 1884 to 1886; Wm. Desmond, from 1884 to 1886 and 1888 ; Edgar Armstrong, from 1884 to 1887 ; Stephen B. Kellogg, 1888 ; Abram Covell, 1888 ; Daniel Foster, 1885. Class Leaders. — Alfred Lee, from 1824 ; Orrin Lackey, ; Joel N. Lee, from 183- to 1880; Samnel B. Hoffman, 1853 and 1854 and from 1857 to 1863 ; Thaddeus Collins, from 18.3- to 1854 ; Samnel Hunn, from 1853 to 1875 ; Nelson Griswold, 1853 ; Jester L. Holbrook, 1853 and 1854 ; John B. Eoe, from 1855 to 1885 ; David EUinwood, from 185- to 1856 ; C. D. Hinman, 184- to 1856 : G. W. Mirick, from 1857 to 1863 ; J. B. Barrett, 1857 and 1888 ; C. C. Collins, from 1857 to 1863 ; Henry Young, from 1857 to 1863 ; Leonard Mitchell, 1858 ; Orrin Sherman, 1860 ; John M. Vandercook, 1861 ; Wm. Osborne, 1862 and from 1872 to 1874 ; G. L. Mun.sell, from 1865 to 1872 ; Wm. Haney, 1865 and 1866 ; Philander Mitchell, 1865; Abel Lyon, from 1867 to 1872; Milo Lyman, from 1869 to 1885 and 1889 ; Edgar Armstrong, 1872 and from 1885 to 1889 ; Charles C. Eelyea, 1875 ; Ebenezer Toles, from 1875 to 1883 ; Wm. Harmon, from 1875 to 1885 ; Stephen B. Kellogg, from 1878 to 1885 and 1889 ; J. L. Finch, from 1878 to 1884; George Ream, from 1881 to 1884; Selah Finch, from 1884 to 1889 ; C. More, from 1885 to 1889 ; J. D. Morey, from 1885 to 1889 ; S. H. Lyman, 1885 ; Edward Burrell, 1888 and 1889 ; Stanton Waldrnff, 1888. OFFICERS SINCE 1889. Stewards.— Milo Lyman, 1889-93 ; Stephen B. Kellogg, 18S9-'91 ; Clayton J. Allen, 1889-'93 ; William H. Vandercook, 1889-'93 ; Edgar A. Armstrong, 1889-'93 ; A. Covell, 1889; Selah Finch, lS89-'93 ; Alonzo Case, 1889-'91 ; Edward Bnrrell, 1889-'92 ; John Morey, 18S9-'90 ; Oscar Weed, 1S89-'91 ; Daniel Foster, 1890-'93 ; E. Brewster, 1890 ; E. P. Soper, 1891-'93 ; M. N. Sours, 1891-'93 ; George Worden, 1891 ; C. E. Tague, 1891-'92 ; Eoswell Tracy, 1892-'93 ; E. A. Griswold, 1893 ; David Wescott, 1893. Trustees.— Edgar A. .\rmstrong, 1889-'93 ; Daniel Foster, 1889-'93 ; Milo Lyman, 1889-'92 ; John Crisler, 18S9-'91 ; Clayton J. Allen, lS89-'93 ; William Desmond, 1889-'93 ; H. S. Perkins, 1889-'93 ; Alonzo Case, 1889- <93 ; Oscar Weed, 1892-'93 ; Edward Burrell, 1892 ; M. N. Sours, 1892 ; E. Thomas, 1892 ; William Lyman, 1892-'93 ; William H. Vandercook, 1893 ; Eoswell Tracy, 1893 ; C. E. Tague, 1893. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 343 Class Leaders.— Stephen B. Kellogg, 1889-'93 ; Edgar A. Armstrong, 18S9-'93 ; John Morey, 1889-'90 ; Edward Burrell, lS89-'92 ; E. Thomas, 1891; George Worden,lS92-'93-, John L. Finch, lS92-'93; S. E. Waldruff , 1892-'93 ; C. E. Tague, 1892-'93. ministers in the victory and rose circuits. Wm. Rundell, Levi Brown, 1821. Enoch Barnes, Jos. Williams, 1822. Seth Young, J. W. Brooks, 1823. James Aylsworth, Mark W. Johnson, 1821. James Aylsworth, Wm. Jones, 1825. James B. Roach, James Hazen, 1826. Anson Tuller, Benson Smith, 1827. Anson Tnller, Matti- son Baker, 1828. C. Northrop, Wm. Johnson, 1829. C. Northrop, Wm. McKoon, 1830. Samuel Bebins, Wm. McKoon, 1831. Elijah Barnes, John Thomas, 1832-'3. Wm. McKoon, Lewis Bell, 1834. Burroughs Holmes, Joseph Cross, 1835. Burroughs Holmes. Joseph Byron, 18.36. Anson Tuller, Joseph Kilpatrick, 1837. Anson Tuller, Benj. Rider, 1838. Benj. Rider, Wm. McKoon, 1839. Wm. Mason, Josiah Arnold, 1840. Isaac Hall, John W. Coope, 1841. Isaac Hall, Isaac Turney, 1842. Rowland Soule, J. F. Alden, 1843. Rowland Soule, Moses Lyon, 1844. J. M. Park, Moses Lyon, 1845. Geo. G. Hapgood, Joseph Kilpatrick, 1846. John W. Coope, 1847-'S. Wm. Peck, 1849-'50. Hiram Nicolls and supply, 1851. Wm. Jones, 1852. Cyrus Phillips, 1853. Harris Kinsley, 1854-'5. O. C. Lathrop, 1856. Wm. Morse, 1857. Geo. H. Salisbury, 1858-'9. M. D. L. B. Wells, 1860. Harlow Skeel, 1861-'2. Charles Baldwin, 1863- '4. S. B. Crosier, 1865-'6. Royal Houghton, 1867-'8. Phineas H. Wiles, 1869-'71. Wm. H. Curtis, Philip Martin, 1872. J. L. Edson, 1873. J. H. Day, 1874-'5. D. D. Davis, 1876-'7. E. Hoxie, 1878-'80. C. J. Beach, 1881-'3. C. E. Hermans, 1884. G. W. Reynolds, 1885-'90. G. S. Transue, 1890-'93. W. H. Rogers, 1893. THE ROSE BAPTIST CHURCH. It is not a little strange that a bishopless church should have had its origin, and for some years almost its maintenance, in a family of Bishops, for had the people of this name settled elsewhere, our Eose Baptists had ■waited longer for their beginning. It has been stated that the church was organized January 3d, 1820. Be this as it may, the first date recorded in the church book is March 4, 1820, just in that era of " good feeling" which characterized President James Monroe's administration. The fly-leaf of this book of records is inscribed thus: "A book of the records of the Second Baptist Church in Wolcott." The church, then antedates the town of Rose, which was not known till 1826. The sixteen names given later were those of people representing various parts of the eastern portion of our country, but by far the majority were in some way allied to the Bishop family, which came from Montgomery county. Earlier than this, churches of this denomination had been formed in Wolcott Village and in Sodus. It is reasonable to suppose that these early comers had made regular journeys, when roads and weather permitted, to these remote places. In fact, the late Deacon George Seelye was wont to state that in his boyhood, he and his mother had ridden horseback to Sodus, crossing the floating bridge at the Bay on their way. They came to the new settlement in 1815, and Mrs. Seelye early connected herself with this church in the wilderness. The books of record are in the handwriting of Chauncey Bishop till July 7, 185.5, when, July 14th, the familiar script of Deacon George Seelye appears, and continues till September 3d, 1881. Then Lucien H. Osgood was elected clerk, and in his hand the books have been kept to date. From these books, whatever data recorded here are taken. Kept with the punctilious correctness of a good brother of the old school, the earlier volumes contain much that seems strange to our modern eyes and ears. Those founders tolerated very little nonsense, and if the member did not walk in the way prescribed, his brethren proceeded at once to know the reason why. " Voted that Brothers and serve as committee to labour with Brother or Sister for disorderly walk," is of frequent recurrence. It must not be inferred, however, that this often mention indicates more irregularity then than now, but rather that the people then were more particular, and that they had, seemingly, more time to look into the ways of their neighbors. Nor must the term " disorderly " be taken in its usual Town Hall. Free Methodist Church. Baptist Church. North Rose Church. Presbyterian Church. ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 345 •acceptance to-day, for then, in religious parlance, it meant usually nothing worse than failure to attend Baptist meetings or, possibly, a little family or neighborhood brawl. Of course, it might mean worse, and it did have a significance, in one or two cases, that brought much sorrow to the church. However, through evil as well as good report, the church has persevered and long has been one of the agencies for good in which our town has abounded. Probably no denomination is more democratic in its creed and govern- ment than the Baptist. Neither diocese, presbytery nor conference confines it. While holding to the prime tenets of the church, each body adopts its own rule, and herewith is given the "Church Covenant" of our Rose Baptists : "Having been baptized upon our profession of Faith in Chrif>(, and believing it to be our duty to walk in all the ordinances of the Gospel, which we cannot be in a situation to do without being united together in the order of a Gospel Church ; and that we may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. We do, therefore, in siHceriti/ declare the following Covenant to be a summary of Christian duties, which we look upon ourselves under the highest obligations to embrace, maintain and defend, believing it to be our duty to stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel, and not to countenance any of the vain, unscriptural tenets, traditions or customs of men. " We are very sensible that our conduct and conversation, both in the church and in the world, ought to be such as becometh the Gospel of Christ, and that it is our incumbent duty to walk in wisdom and prudence towards all them that are without, to exercise a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men, by living soberly, righteously and godly in this present world, endeavoring by all lawful measures to promote the peace and welfare of this particular church, and the prosperity of the Redeemer's Kingdom in general. As to our regards to each other, in our church communion, we esteem it our duty to walk with each other in all humility and brotherly love, to watch over each other's conversation, to stir up one another to love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as we have opportunity, to worship God according to his revealed will and, when the case requires, to warn, entreat, exhort, rebuke and admonish in the spirit of meekness, according to the rules of the Gospel. " Moreover, we think ourselves obliged to sympathize with each other in all conditions, both inward and outward, which God in his providence may bring us into ; also to bear with one another's weaknesses, failings and infirmities, so much as the law of Christ requires us to do ; at the same time to be careful not to suffer sin one upon another, or to have 346 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. fellowship with any one that is immoral in conduct or heretical in principle. Furthermore, we view it to be higjhly necessary for our peace and prosperity, and for the honor of God, to be careful and keep up a strict Gospel discipline among us, and to be careful in receiving members not to refuse the weak, nor to admit any nnbaptized person to our communion, or any one but such as make a good profession of repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and also to cut off or reject and put away any one member from our communion, fellowship, watch or care, whose conduct is such that the word of God requires us to do it, but in no case to be heedless, slothful or rash, but in all matters endeavoring to act in the fear of God, with a Christ-like temper of mind, that God in all things may be glorified in the church ; and particularly to pray for one another and for the spread of the Gospel, the increase of Christian knowl- edge, and the prosperity of Zion universally. " Now all these and every other duty held forth and enjoined on a Gospel church in the Scriptures of truth, we desire and engage to be in performance of, through the gracious assisfance of the Lord, while we both admire and adore the grace that has given us a place and a name in God's house, better than that of sons and daughters. '' In testimony of our full agreement and unanimous consent to the aforesaid Covenant, each one of us has voluntarily subscribed his or her name. (Signed) : Hosea Gillett, John Skidmore, Peter Lamb, Joel Bishop, Chauncey Bishop, Phoebe Bishop, Clarry Burns. Hannah Miner, Sally Skidmore, Eachel Bishop, Lydia Fuller, Martha Bishop, Simantha Lealand, Nancy Ticknor, Hannah Gillett." Just one-half of these names belonged to the Joel Bishop family. " Father and mother," Joel and Phoebe Bishop, were dismissed by letter July 3d, 1836. This covenant has received an almost monthly renewal of fealty from 1820 to the present. While these covenanters have had no such trial of their faith as had those of Scotland, few would presume to affirm that they had not the courage of their convictions, and that they, too, would not seal their devotion with their blood, as have done the faithful in all ages of the chnrch. The carefully kept records appeal to the reader, just in keep- ing with his own spirit. Does he look for material for merriment, it may be found in abundance, but should he turn to these pages for the long roll of duties carefully and regularly performed, for indications of a disposition to obey God's commands in the best way possible, he will find what he seeks in equal abundance. To err is human, and our common humanity has no startling exception in Eose. While we may pause over the name of the delinquent whom the committee visits to secure a renewed " travel " with the church, let us not- forget the many more whose names are never found in such connection. The prodigal son is ever of more mention and importance than that elder brother who never strayed. Of course, it is ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 347 natural that we should smile over some of the "labours" of the many visiting committees. For instance, it seems a little queer, and possibly a trifle indicative of the original Adam, when a certain ex-deacon is received by letter, and in only a few months has to be "laboured" with because of his refusal to pay his assessment toward defraying the gospel bill. Doubtless he believed in free grace as well as election. However, as he soon paid up, he was restored to fellowship. One brother was called upon to have his many shortcomings set before him, and, according to common report, he was deserving of the severest censure, but he, suspecting the nature of the errand, quite forestalled his visitors by telling them that the church had become so corrupt, he desired to withdraw from it. There was nothing left to do but to grant his wish. One sister was the subject of long and serious consideration, since she attended the ministrations of another denomination at the instance of her husband, who was not a Baptist. Among other reports presented, was one wherein it was stated: "She, wishing to cultivate friendship at home, thought it best for the present not to meet with the church, and the church voted to exercise Christian forbearance towards her for the present." The men and women who made up this first roll of membership were the sturdy pioneers of the town. They worked hard in clearing the way for later generations, but they found time to attend divine service better than some of their descendants. They were seldom absent from the covenant meeting on the afternoon of each first Saturday of the month. Then was transacted the regular business of the church, and on the Sunday following, alternate months, came the baptisms and receptions of members. In the early days the ordinance was administered in Thomas' creek, west of the Valley, and occasionally in Lamb's pond, near our present North Rose, but for some years the church has had a well appointed baptistry. The list of those who were faithful to the end is a long one, and were it made out, in it would be found the names of several hundred of the town's worthy citizens. They had their peculiarities of voice, manner and thought, and the expression of these characteristics often rendered meet- ings memorable, that otherwise would have been forgotten years ago. An old lady, now gone to her reward, has told me of one of the early worthies who was always on hand at all the means of grace, but who had a stereotyped form of ending his remarks. It was something like this, accompanying his words with a very vigorous scratching of his head, " Finally, brethren, I hope you will all prove faithful, and that you will persevere to the end, and as for myself, I mean to keep digging." His suiting the action to the word produced an impression that years could not efface. The story was long told with infinite gusto of one good brother, who was accused of the exceedingly ungallant act of pulling his wife out of bed in 348 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. the morning, a charge that he indignantly repelled, saying : " I had called her repeatedly, and as she failed to appear, I just took her by her lily- white foot and gently drew her from the couch." However clear the distinction was in the brother's mind, it never struck his fellow members as particularly vivid. The first meetings of the church were held at the house of Joel Bishop, and April 15, 1820, it was voted to request the churches of Wolcott, Galen and Lyons to constitute a council, "to examine into our situation, and if they see fit to show their fellowship of this conference as a sister church ■of Christ." April 27th, 1820, it was voted to present to the council as their views of doctrines and practice the confession of faith and plat- form of the Ontario Association. Moreover, it was voted that Brothers Chauncey Bishop and Hosea Gillett be a committee to represent the conference to the council. The record of this council is in the handwriting of John B. Potter, of Galen, who was clerk. Joel Blakeman, of the same town, was chairman. The council convened at the house of Joel Bishop, Wednesday, May 3d, 1820. Wolcott sent Elder David Smith, Jacob Purdy and Charles Sweet. From Galen came Brothers Potter, Blakeman and John Flint, while Lyons sent William W. Brown, Ebenezer M. Pease, and James Bryant. Visiting brethren, John Burns, from Wolcott, James Beard and Alanson Eichmond, from Lyons, were invited to a seat in the council. After the proper examination and deliberation, it was voted to fellowship the conference as a "church of Christ in sister relation." Those who constituted this assembly long since passed on, but the object of consideration flourishes in perennial youth. May 20, 1820, Chauncey Bishop was made clerk, and September 20, 1820, it was voted to apply for membership in the Cayuga Association, sending Cliauucey Bishop as dele- gate. The request was granted. In 1834 the church became one of the Wayne Association Baptist Churches. The first minister was Elder David Smith, whose name appears in the council of recognition as a delegate from Wolcott. His letter was accepted January 8, 1821. The list of preachers from that date to the present is a long one. It includes names that have been very familiar throughout the western part of the state. While few of them have been sounded by the trump of fame, by far the larger number are those of men who worked long and faithfully in the Master's vineyard. The second incumbent was ordained here. William B. Brown was called May 5, 1821, and the council which acted upon his case met at the house of Joel Bishop, August 20th, of the same year. Participants in this council had been invited from Wolcott, Victory, Cato, Ira, Mentz, Brutus, Aure- lius, Galen, Lyons and Sodus, while the local representatives were Zeuas Fairbanks, Hosea Gillett and Chauncey Bishop. How many responded to the invitation is not stated, but at the council Eev. John I. Twiss preached ; Eev. John Jeffers prayed the prayer of ordination ; and with Eevs. Twiss, KOBE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 349 Smith and Uavis, laid ou hands ; Eev. David Smith gave the charge ; Eev. George B. Davis gave the right hand of fellowship and made the concluding prayer. As many of the ministers continued to preach here after they had received letters of dismissal, it is possible to approximate only to the dates of their ministrations. Daring the intervals between regular pastorates, many candidates were heard, but no effort has been made to secure their names. It is possible that the following list may include some names whose owners were merely birds of passage, but the frequency of their appearance in the records is the warrant for their appearance here. Elder Brown was dismissed February 2d, 1822, but he was in and about the church for some years afterward. In fact, his name, with those of Luther Goodrich. Isaac D. Hosford, William Moore, Ezra Chattield and A. Barrett, fill the gap till 1834, when Eev. Martin Miner appeared and remained till 1836. Then, in order, we have Eevs. Issac Bucklin, H. B. Kenyon, Luke Morley and Hezekiah De Golyer, to 1837. The next four years were occupied by Eevs. B. Putnam, Dodge and John Fairchild. From 1841 to 1845, in which time Eev. Amasa N. Jones was ordained, Eev. Amasa S. Curtiss filled the pulpit ; and from 1845 to 1849, the Eev. Andrew Wilkins had his first pastorate in Eose. Elder Anson Graham came in 1850, and continued two years. January 1st, 1853, Butler Morley was received by letter, and the churches of Clyde. Lyons, Butler, Wolcott, Eed Creek, Marion, Sennett and Sodus were invited to participate in a council of ordination, which met and ordained the candidate January 20th, of the same year. Elder Morley remained till 1854, and June 11th, of that year, the Eev. Thomas T. St. John came and remained three years. After him, 1857-'59, the church had as pastor the Eev. Xelson Ferguson, and then, 1860-'62, the Eev. John Halliday, though between these two, the Eev. Leander Hall was ordained here, in March, 1860, remaining only a short time. Then followed Elder Ira Dudley, who went away in 1865. Eev. George Butler, an Englishman, was here one year, 1866, and the Eev. Abner Maynard followed till 1870. In 1871 we have Elder L. P. Judson, and in 1872 Elder W. O. Gunn. Eev. Thomas J. Seigfried is assigned to 1873, and the only settled minister till 1876 is the Eev. Eussell Collins, though some part of the time was occupied by the Eev. Eeuben Burton, now of Syracuse, but then in the Eochester Seminary. Then came the Eev. Thomas F. Smith, and his pastorate held till 1880. He was succeeded by the Eev. Andrew Wilkins, December 11, 1881, who continued till his ministrations ended with death, and his body was borne to the neighboring cemetery. The Eev. M. H. De Witt came next, going away in 1885. Elder L. G. Brown continued till 1887, and then Elder Clinton Shaw till 1890. The Eev. N. C. Hill presided for a single year, 1891, and then followed the Eev. Maxwell H. Cusick, the present incumbent. 350 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. To the older members of the church, each one of these thirty-three names will arouse many memories, not always pleasant, but, in the main, bearing out the usual proportions of the bitter and the sweet in this life of ours. The most of these preachers had families, and their wives and children bore their part in the annual routine of church and town existence. Comparisons wonld be invidious, but if one man was not liked by some, he was so much more popular with another faction that a good average was maintained. One man was conspicuous for his success in revival services, while another could preach the best doctrinal discourses. Another was noted for the zeal of his pastoral labors. Thus while no one man had in perfection all the ministerial graces, a glance over the whole array finds much to admire. While only one minister was called back to a second pastorate, it is highly to the credit of the church that very many of the former pastors have been willing to take up the lines again. Many will recall the bright faces of ministers' children who here grew to maturity. The Wilkins boys, two of them, had here their early boyhood. Wallace St. John became one of the most noted schoolmasters in the town. Clark Ferguson became himself a clergyman, and his sisters contributed no little to the life of the church. Elder Maynard's only daughter, Frances, married Gilbert White, and for some years lived in town, and the widow of Elder Wilkins is still a highly esteemed resident of the village. For many years the ministers have lived in the Yalley, but in the earlier days they resided out of the village, and not infrecjuently tilled several acres of land, thus conferring a deal of pleasure upon some parishioners, who thought sermons constructed at the "tail of the plow" much more efficacious than those which " smelled of the lamp." Elder Fairchild and his family occupied a log house, afterwards owned and used by Egbert Soper, standing on the side of the hill, just east of the present residence of Charles Osborn, in the east part of the town ; and Mr. O.'s home was the habitation of Elders Graham and Ferguson. Elder Bucklin's home was the old Joel Bishop place. Elders Curtiss and Wilkins, in the latter's first pastorate, lived a little north of opposite to the abode of Hamel Gloss. The first minister, David Smith, dwelt in a log house erected for him on the site of Henry Decker's home. Elder St. John resided on the road east of the white school-house in Galen ; Elder Halliday in the bee hive ; Elder Dudley, while he did not keep a hotel, did live for a time in the south tavern. One shot from Elder Guun did memorable execution, for he raised the money to pay for the parsonage where subsequent pastors have been domiciled. Though organized in 1S20, it was not till 1836 that a building was erected for divine worship. Before this, the people had used the school- houses at the Valley, and at Lamb's corners, along with private houses, particularly the home of Joel Bishop. Evidently they counted well the ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 351 cost before beginning. Very little data can be found as to the building of the edifice, but it appears that the architect and builder was Ansel Gardner, a son-in-law of Chauncey Bishop. Items concerning the building pei'iod are scarce, but Xovemljer 11, 18.34, the trustees appointed Chauncey Bishop, Ira Mirick and Peter Valentine a building committee. As the annual business meeting of 18.36 was held in March, in the school-house, and that of 1837 was held in the same month in the meeting house, it must be inferred that the edifice was completed in the interval. I have not been able to find any data as to cost. The site was bought of the late Hiram Mirick. Whatever changes have been wrought in subsequent years in covering and in refitting the interior, the old frame- work has not been altered. Xothing but fire or tornado could harm these timbers, so securely and honestly laid. The edifice made very little pretension to architectural beauty, but it answered well the purposes for which it was constructed. "Within, the way of life was made plain. Without, between services, the vexed (juestions of the day were discussed with as much zest and fervor as the time and place would permit. Few problems of politics, i>olitical economy, agriculture and other science escaped weekly solutions at the hands of these sapient farmers. No chief justice, wig-covered and wool- sack seated, ever gave expression to more oracular utterances than every Sunday fell from the lips of those who leaned up against the south side of the building and talked. Had plans, developed here, been followed, who knows but that the Rebellion might have been suppressed years before Grant wore it out '? In ISGl there was a reformation of the interior, changing the pulpit to the north side, so that the preacher might face, not only his people seated, but all late comers, and blinds were placed upon the windows. Of the latter improvement, I have not the least doubt, for I drove every screw, while Deacon George Seelye and John Gillett held the foot of the ladder and discussed the War. At this time, also, a bell was jilaced in the church steeple. In 1885-6 a very thorough renovation of the structure, within and with- out, was effected. The outlay of $1,400 was well expended, and the result has so metamorphosed the original structure that the early worshipers would pass it without recognition. The galleries disappeared, singers' seats were placed at the pulpit's right, a baptistry was constructed beneath the pulpit, and new entrances were devised, considerably adding to the capacity of the church. The basement has kitchen and dining-room, so essential to modern churches. The roof is covered with tin, but the old church sheds remain as in days of old. Good Baptist horses instinctively turn towards them whenever driven through the Valley. During these seventy-two years of existence, the Rose Church has elected to the office of deacon many men who have merited and enjoyed the highest 352 KOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. respect of their fellow citizens. The first appointed were William Briggs. and George Seelye, who were ordained to their office July 16th, 1835. Again, in 1843, September 19th, John I. Smith and James H. Ferris were ordained deacons. Elder John Mitchell, of Clyde, preached, and was also chairman. The pastor. Elder A. S. Curtis, prayed, and with Elder Mitchell and Deacon George Seelye, laid on hands. Deacon Seelye, also, gave the hand of fellowship. These were the only cases of ordination, but other deacons were appointed, as Benjamin Genung, William Guthrie, Luther Wilson and Jefferson Chaddock. The church has always been well supplied with musicians. The Holmeses, Genungs, Ellinwoods, Osgoods and others well maintained this part of worship. When, in 1835, Mrs. Deacon George Seelye appeared, she was the first of a long line of singers, for the Sheffields have contributed no little to the church music. Her son, Judson, at one time led, and after him Joel S. Sheffield came, and he held the leadership till 1892. Budora M. Seelye played the melodeon, both before and after her marriage to Lucien H. Osgood. Her sister, Estelle (Mrs. M. G. McKoon), followed her, with Mrs. Frances (Maynard) White, till Lucy (Sheffield) Wade took the place. Joel S. Sheffield's daughter, Hattie, is the present instrumentalist. William B. Kellogg and Felton Hickok were long singers in the choir. The incorporation of the church took place March 17, 1834, with David Holmes, Ira Mirick, Chauncey Bishop, Joseph Seelye and Peter Valentine as first trustees. This was entered in the county clerk's office, April 15. The annual meeting comes the third Thursday in February. THE ROSE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The old yet well preserved first volume of the records of this church has upon its first page the following interesting entry: "Records of the Third Presbyterian Church in Wolcott, February 17th, 1825. The Rev- erend Francis Pomeroy and the Reverend Benjamin Stockton, members of the Presbytery of Geneva, met at the school-house near Mr. John Closs' in Wolcott for the purpose of setting off certain members of the first Presbyterian Church in Wolcott, and organizing them into a church by themselves. Opened by prayer. The following members were set off and formed into a church, viz.: Males, John Wade, Aaron Shepherd, Simeon Van Aukeu, Rufus Wells, Moses Hickok. Females, Euuace Wade, Polly Shepherd, Lydia Van Auken." Then follow the articles of faith and the covenant. At the same meeting, John Wade and Moses Hickok were set apart as elders in the church, and Aaron Shepherd was made the first deacon. Several of these constituent members, having come from Xew England, must have been Congregation- alists, but Presbyterianism had the stronger hold in this locality, and a matter of church government was not enough to estrange those who accepted the prime tenets of English dissent. Of these first eight members, all died in Rose, worthy members of their church, save three, who took letters of dismissal to churches in other localities. These were Simeon Van Anken and wife and Rufus Wells. Till his death in 1840, December 24th, Elder John Wade missed very few meetings of the session. Deacon Aaron Shepherd passed away in 18-tO, and Moses Hickok in 1826. Polly Shepherd, as the widow of Asel Dowd, of Huron, died in 1858. The student of local history finds much to admire in these names, representing men and women who followed blazed trees to their new homes in the wilderness. Pioneers, when the century was in its teens, they had first cast in their religious lot with the church originally located at Port Bay, since known as the First Church of Wolcott. It was a long ride for the Wades and Shepherds from their home in the south part of the town to this early church, but all of them were Godfearing people and, in their old Connecticut home, had been used to all-day sessions of worship in the edifice on Town hill. New Hartford. However, all must have hailed a church nearer home with no little satisfaction. " The school-house near John Closs' " and that " near Charles Thomas' " long served these people 24 354 ROSE NKIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. in lieu of an edifice of their own. Session meetings were held usually at pi'ivate houses. March 8th, 1825, Elizur Flint applied for membership, and was received, and during the many subsequent years of his long life as elder, deacon and clerk, he went in and out before his fellow citizens, holding their highest respect. In April of the opening year, Mrs. Chloe Bishop united with the church and during their long lives she and her Baptist husband, Chauncey, walked in the most " orderly " manner their respective religious -ways. Occasionally they would go together, but as a rule they separated as they left the vehicle which brought them to the village. In another world, they are beyond sects and creeds. The Presbyterians had trouble with faithless members, as have had all churches from the beginning and, recorded in Deacon Flint's accurate and conscientious manner, the stories are entertaining reading, but as erring and weak humanity is not a product of any particular age or place, it is best to draw the mantle of oblivion over the deeds of those controlled by debasing appetite or unruly tempers. The membership of the church has never been large, but it has always included many of the best people in the town. As already indicated, its meeting places were migratory till 18.33, when a place of worship was dedicated on the site of the mill just east of the Baptist Church. It was not showy, but built after the notions of church architecture then prevalent, it long answered the needs of the society. In or about 1862 it was sold to the village for a school-house and a new edifice of brick was erected on its present location. The old structure, from its school uses, became a mill, and as such was burned several years ago. The new one was dedicated in 1865. A commodious building, put up at a cost of about $8000, it is a highly ornamental feature in the north part of the village. The site was purchased of William Vanderoef ; that of the first edifice from Hiram Mirick. Though sold for secular purposes, Sunday services were held in the old structure till the dedication of the new. The most interesting items in the records of the church are those per- taining to temperance and slavery. In the early days of Rose Presbyte- rianism, several men united with the church who were no temporizers in reform measures. Though no names are given as the writers of several resolutions, it is quite obvious to long-time observers of Rose matters that the man who first put up a frame for a barn, without the use of intoxicants, and who subsequently helped many a negro refugee towards a Canadian home, had much to do with the display of principles set forth upon these pages. The following statement was much to the credit of Rose people, irrespective of denominational lines: February 27, 1831. " The church unanimously resolved that they would hereafter receive to church fellow- .ship no person who would not agree to abstain from the use of ardent ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 355 spirits as a drink." The church had suffered much from a bibulous member, and dropped him only when thoroughly discouraged as to his reformation. The church's most serious trouble, however, arose over slavery, aud the following is on record : March 1, 1844. "At a meeting of the church to consider the subject of slavery, therefore '^Resolved, that slavery is a heinous sin against God and man — in the language of the General Assembly, utterly inconsistent with the law of God. and totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ, and we therefore believe Christians are bound to oppose the sin wherever it is intrenched, whether in church or state. "Resolved, that the church of Jesus Christ has no right to sustain a permanent church relation to so vote a sin. "Resolved, that we are unable to see why, if the church can safely sustain 3. church relation to this sin, aud permanently tolerate the sum of villainies in her body, why she may not safely associate with and tolerate any other known habitual sin by the same rule. "Resolved, that we cannot consent, with our views of the exceeding sin- fulness of slavery, to remain in a permanent church relation to it, and we believe if the whole Presbyterian Church will continue to connive with and fellowship this sin, despite the remonstrance of her members, and her acknowledgment of its inherent guilt ; then it will become the duty of the minority to do right if the majority will not. "Resolved, that we as a church will hold no fellowship or communion with slaveholders or their avowed apologists. "Resolved, that the above resolutions be entered on the church records." But these resolutions, however comprehensive and pertinent, did not satisfy the minds of the agitators, for that they continued to agitate is evident in that the church even determined to go out of the Presbyterian fold, hoping thereby to retain them. Accordingly, January 5, 1846, appears the following entry : "Resolved, with the concurrence of Presbytery, that the Presbyterian Church of Rose adopt the Congregational form of government." February 5, 1846, Deacon Flint writes : " Presbytery accede the right to the church to practice the foregoing resolution." Accordingly our Presbyterian became a Congregational body, and for some years there were no meetings of the session. To us of this day, these concessions seem to be all that any man or class of men could ask, but April 4, 1846, E. Flint and S. Lovejoy were appointed a committee " to visit those persons which have left the church informally and ascertain the reasons of their leaving." July 4, 1846, a good day for liberty sentiments, the com- mittee reported the following letter : 356 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. "May 12th, 1846. "To E. Flint: "Sir — We cheerfully comply with your request in giving our reasons in writing for seceding from the Presbyterian Church of Eose, in order that they may be recorded in your church records. And we give for our first and great reason that we do not believe the Presbyterian Church to be a true church or, in other words, a church of Christ. And we found our belief on the following facts: First, because she does not teach or practice the first great principle of Christianity, viz., the inviolability of human rights, but suffers unrebuked one portion of her members to chattelize and traffic in the souls and bodies of another portion of her own members, thus virtually reducing the image of God (in the persons of many thousands of her own acknowledged members in her church for whom Christ died) to the condition of things, to property, and by impiously robbing them of their inalienable rights, have reversed the great law of love, this distinguishing feature between a true and a false church, and have completely annihilated the distinction which God has established between the nature and condition of immortal man and the beasts that perish, thus sanctioning crimes in her communion, which is utterly subversive of a church of Christ. Second, that said church, with a full knowledge of these facts before her, did declare through her representative in her highest judicial capacity at the meeting of her last General Assembly, not only to the shame and disgrace of Christianity, but to our common humanity, that it was not for the edification of the church to take action on the subject. Thus, in effect, reversing her former decisions (though she never complied with them in practice), and sanctioning by that and subsequent acts in her lower judicatories, in refusing to bear witness against slavery, most of the crimes she charges against the church of Eorae, and for which she does not hesitate to call her a church of anti-Christ, thus we are forced to the conclusion that she must and does necessarily partake of the character of the church of Rome in an exact proportion as in her practice she approxi- mates towards her, and we have not arrived at this conclusion in a hasty or precipitate manner ; we have long and faithfully examined this subject, as in the light of eternity, and are fully established in the belief, not with- out evidence, but from facts which cannot be denied, that the Presbyterian Church, in consequence of her participation in and by the position she has assumed, does, while sustaining such position with regard to American slavery, stand as truly convicted before high heaven and the world as does the Romish church of withholding the Bible from a portion of the laity. Of abrogating the institution of marriage at pleasure, compelling thousands of her members to live in adultery or in a state of forced con- cubinage, that she governs and holds her church together, not by the law ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 357 of love, but by physical force, by the power of the sword and by pains and penalties — we cannot, therefore, in the light of divine truth, by the most favorable construction, believe the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America sustains the character necessary to constitute her a true church, or church of Christ. Samuel Lyman, Gideon Henderson, Daniel Lovejoy, Wm. Lovejoy." Whereupon the church adopted the following : "Resolved, that the report be accepted. "Resolved, that the report be adopted. "Resolved, that the names of Gideon Henderson and Deborah Henderson, Daniel Lovejoy and Wm. Lovejoy, Samuel Lyman and Clement Lyman and Caroline Lyman be stricken from our roll." While deprecating such a disintegrating course, one cannot repress a feeling of admiration for people in whose breasts love of oppressed humanity had too strong a lodgment. Eose never had more reputable citizens. As the cause of leaving the Presbyterian Church no longer existed, it is not surprising to find the following action : April 18, 1851, at the instance of Elizur Flint, the following preamble and resolution were voted by a church meeting: " Whereas, this church obtained leave of Presbytery to withdraw from its care and assume the Congregational form of government for the purjiose of I'econciling diffi- culties that existed between it and certain members, that harmony in views and actions might be promoted for the glory of God and good of man, and whereas after the lapse of five years, having tried the result of that action in vain, therefore, resolved, that this church ask Presbytery to receive us under their care and restore us to our former privileges, that we may enjoy the ordinances of God's house." Vote 21. Protest. Rose, April 18, 1851. "We, the undersigned, disbelieving in and wholly abhorring the cruel and wicked system of American slavery and wishing to maintain no voluntary connection whatever with it, now send our earnest protest against uniting with or putting ourselves under the care of any Presbytery that holds any connection with that portion of the Presbyterian Church that holds slaveholders in its bosom. And we now ask the members of the Congregational Church of Eose, assembled on the 18th of April, to consider a proposition to put themselves under the care of Presbytery, to take this protest into consideration, and if they vote in favor of the proposition thus to unite, to consider us as no longer holding church connection with them. Vote 11. From that date to the present, the church has continued in the Presby- tery. No religious body in the town has come up through greater tribulation, but it stands, to-day, a tribute to the sterling worth of its founders and fosterers and the cause which they loved. 358 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. The list of ministers is a long and honorable one. The Eev. Jabez Spicer seems to have remained only a short time, and was followed by Revs. Jonathan Hovey and Hubbel. In 1827-'29 Rev. Nathan Gillett filled the pastorate. One of the most notable clergymen of any denomination ever in the town was the Rev. "William, better known as " Priest " Clark. He was here from 1829 to 1835, and the impression left was lasting and salutary. Then came Rev. Jesse Townseud, 1836 ; Rev. Solon G. Putnam, 1837, and Rev. Joseph Merrill in the same year. The Rev. Daniel Waldo, another remarkable figure in the history of the town and state, was here from '37 to '39. Rev. Burbank was pastor till 1840, and was followed till January, 1847, by the Rev. Beaufort Ladd. Then came four years of the Rev. O. Fitch, and next the Revs. James Gregg and E. Everett to 1853 ; Rev. Chas. Kenmore, '54 ; Rev. B. Ladd, '59; Rev. Wm. Young, '65; Rev. Martin B. Gregg, '67; Rev. J. J. Crane, '70; Rev. Wm. Young, '75 ; Rev. J. A. Phelps, '77; Rev. E. G. Cheeseman, '82; Rev. J. McMaster, '85 to '88; Rev. Chas. Ray, '91; Eev. Nathan B. Knapp, 1893. The deacons have been Aaron Shepherd, David Foster, Elizur Flint, Francis Osborn, Wm. Garlick, Judson Garlick, Charles E. Tillson. The roll of elders includes John Wade, Moses Hickok, Rufus Wells, Smithfield Beaden, Elizur Flint, Martin Warner, Simeon Van Auken, David Foster, Gideon Henderson, Chauncey Smith, Wm. Lovejoy, George Wickson, Jesse O. Wade, Lorenzo N. Snow, James Osborn, Lampson Allen, H. K. Lovejoy, Harvey Gloss, Eustace Henderson, Frank H. Closs, Ira T. Soule. The first clerk was James Van Auken and he served till November 9, 1829. Then Smithfield Beaden kept the records till November 2. 1834. Next Elizur Flint took up the pen and he used it faithfully till October 24, 1882, when the following entry is found, "I, Elizur Flint, clerk of sessions of the Presbyterian Church of Rose, resign the office on account of the infirmities of age, being eighty-nine." To him succeeded Harvey Closs till September 13, 1885, and then the latter's son, Frank H. Closs, became clerk and still holds the office. The church belongs to the Lyons Presbytery. FREE METHODIST CHURCH. This body is an offshoot of the M. E. Church and dates from about 1860. Bishop Matthew Simpson, in his Cyclopitdia of Methodism, gives the date of the organization as August 23 of the above year, and states that its origin was within the confines of the Genesee Conference, dissatisfaction having arisen among certain ministers concerning the administration of affairs. This unrest had been growing for several years, and 1860 was simply the culminating date. In doctrines it differs in no essential respect from the parent body. It retains conference boundaries, Rose being in the Susquehanna ; instead of bishops it has a general superintendent, and in place of presiding elder, it maintains a chairman of the district. Probably the chief cause for the beginning of the Rose Free Methodist Church may be found in the discussions incident to rebuilding the place of worship of the old church after its burning in 18.59. Naturally there was much diversity of opinion as to the form, location and cost of the new structure. At any rate, in 1860, the seeds of the new church seem to have been sown. In the formation and maintenance of thjs church, none was more prominent than Thaddeus and Josephus Collins, father and son, and for more than thirty years the latter has remained steadfast at his post. Probably no name in the state, in the ranks of this body, is better known than that of F. J. Collins. By his presence, speech and purse, he has made for himself a foremost position among the faithful. His home has ever been open to the ministers, and once a camp meeting was held in a grove upon his farm. His only daughter is the wife of one of the success- ful clergymen of the denomination, the Rev. Wm. Winget, now of Buffalo, chairman of that district. Like so many other religious bodies in Rose, this began its worship in the Valley school-house. Soon after, the present house of worship, on Wolcott street, was begun; though added to in various ways, the original structure stands to-day, and just to the eastward is the parsonage. In no way pretentious, these buildings answer well the purposes for which they were erected. The edifice was dedicated January 8, 1863, sermon by the Rev. J. Travis, of Rochester. Rose first appears on the minutes of the Free Methodist Church in 1861, when it was to be supplied by Revs. Burton and J. W. Stacey. Wm. Cooley came in 1862 and remained one year. During his stay, the church 360 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. was dedicated. M. N. Downing served from October, 1863, to October 12, 1865 ; J. Olney and D. A. Cargil, from October 15, 1865, to October 6, 1866 ; M. D. McDougal preached from October 6, '66, to October 6, '67. McDougal served the next year with L. Graham. John Glen and D. Dempsey were pastors from October 6, '68, to October 11, '69. Next, J. B. Freeland and G. Eakins, from October 12, to September 19, 1870 ; M. N. Downing, September 20, '70, to September 15, '72; W. Southworth, September 15, '72, to September 12, '74; T. Whiffen, September 13, '74, to September 16, '76 ( T. Eoss supplying the last year ) ; O. M. Owen, September 17, '76, to September 15, '78 ; G. T. Sutton, September 16, '78, to September 14, '79 ; Y. Osborne, September 15, '79, to September 20, '80; J. Odell, September 21, '80, to September 11, '82 ; J. D. Osmun, Septem- ber 11, '82, to September 15, '84; T. Whiffen, September 16, '84, to Septem- ber 6, '86; George Stover, September 7, '86, to September 10, '88 ; J. B. Newton, September 11, '88, to August 24, '90 ; A. F. Curry, August 24, '90, to September 24, '92 ; T. J. Dunham, September 24, '92, to September 19, '93. The latest appointee is the Rev. D. C. Stanton. Wm. Finch, Philo Miner, the late Wm. H. Thomas, as well as F. J. Collins, have long been prominent in the councils of the church. The present clerk is George Milem. From this church, John Glen went out to his life of ministerial useful- ness and Thirza M., the oldest daughter of George Milem, has recently entered upon a similar work, and is now in Weedsport. Happily, in this denomination, sex is no barrier to Christian activity. The Rose Church is associated with Clyde, making one charge, and both belong to the Clyde district. THE "VALLEY" SCHOOL. " Nor fears the blinded bigot's rule When near her church-spire stands the school." — Whittier. The proximity of the village school-house to the Methodist Church suggests the above words from New England's beloved poet. It was a favorite scheme of the late Eron N. Thomas to have his church and the school near each other, and both on the street that he opened above thirty years ago, through his meadow land. There have been four stages in school-house building in the Valley. First, the log structure, next the red school-house, then the stone, and finally the brick building now in use. Mr. Thomas claimed that the first regular school in town was taught by Sally Bishop, near her father's home, and that Maria Viele, from Butler, followed her. David Smith, the Baptist minister, also taught in the same place, and, according to Mr. Thomas, he was the first teacher in the Valley, in the old log house standing near the present North Hotel. The same authority names as subsequent teachers, Abigail Bunce (" Aunt Nabby"), Catharine Eobinson, William H. Lyon, Gibson P. Center, John S. Roe (Butler), George W. Ellinwood ("Squire"), George Paddock, Jackson Valentine, Wallace St. John, John and Isaac Robinson. The first written data that I have been able to find is an almost illegible (through the faded ink) scrap, which reads as follows : "At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of school district number thirteen, in the town of Wolcott, held pursuant to adjournment at the school-house, on the 4th day of October, A. D. 1819, Milburn Salisbury was chosen moderator, and Jeremiah Leland was present as district clerk. "1st. Resolved, Unanimously, Jei'emiah Leland shall serve as clerk the ensuing year. "2. Resolved, That Alpheus Collins, Erastus Fuller and Samuel South- wick shall serve as trustees. "3. Resolved, That Thaddeus Collins, Junior, shall serve as collector. "4. Resolved, To furnish a book to keep the district records. "5. Resolved, To raise a tax of six dollars to repair the school-house, and to purchase the aforesaid book." 362 ROSE NEIGHBOEHOQD SKETCHES. Apparently the book was not procured till 1823, for only scraps of data appear. Possibly the six dollars did not suffice. October 24, 1820, Jeremiah Leland is directed by Ebenezer Fitch, one of Wolcotfs com- missioners of common schools, to notify the residents of said District No. 13, of a school meeting to be held November 4, at 3 p. m. The annual meeting for 1821, October 1st, made Thaddeus Collins, Jr., Moderator; Jeremiah Leland, Clerk ; Jacob Miller, Samuel Southwick and John Skidraore, Trustees ; Thaddeus Collins, Collector. Parents were to provide a half cord of wood for each pupil by the 15th of ensuing January. In 1822, Leland and Thad. Collins, Jr., were continued in respective offices. Alfred Lee, Milburn Salisbury and Elias D. Sherman were made trustees. Parents had an option of a half cord of wood for each pupil or pay thirty- seven and a half cents instead. The well-kept book appears in 1823, and the very first entry is to the effect that Lee and Salisbury, trustees, received of Elizur Flint, in cash, .roprietor pay fifty cents a cord for wood, if he fail to deliver his quota when called upon by the tnistees. In 1829 came the first report to the commissioners of common schools by the trustees, and it is noteworthy that the clerk spells the important word thus, " Commishoners." October 3d, 1831, Eron N. Thomas first appeared as clerk, and the spelling and penmanship improved at once. At this time it was voted to raise five dollars for repairs to the school-house. The year also marks the advent of a stove, for October 24, at a special meeting, it was voted to raise by tax .$25 for a stove. The chimney was sold to Abel Lyon for $4.50, the andirons to Samuel Batt for fifty- six cents. The report for the year 1831 sets forth that the school had been kept eight months, that the public money amounted to .$43. 44, and the amount raised above this was .$20.56, making an aggregate easy to average for the months taught. Teachers certainly did not get rich in those days. There were eighty-five pupils at school, but the whole number in the district between the ages of five and sixteen years was seventy. Old boys and girls went to school then. In 1832 it was resolved, "That the writing falls be lowered and made not so steep." February 8, 1833, at a special meeting, twenty-one votes were cast for and four votes against a change of school-house site. August 6, 1833, it was voted to raise twelve dollars for repairs, and for building a certain necessary small building. As this is the first mention of the same, curiosity is naturally excited as to whether any had existed previously. The report for 1835- gives 110 children taught, and 109 of school age. Not much for a truant officer to do. In 1837 matters had progressed to the extent of supplying wood by one person, he securing the job by bidding. The bills were to be paid pro rata, according to children sent. Lucius Ellinwood secured the contract at "75 cts. per cord two ft. wood." The first mention of a library is in 1839, when five dollars was voted for it. 364 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. But the new school-house had become an old one. To accommodate the builders of the hotel, now known as Pimm's or Whitney's, the building had been moved to the site of the old stone school-house. Ira Mirick and his wife, Martha, executed a deed for the land in September, 1845. The stone edifice was in process of erection, the contract therefor having been made in March preceding with William Dickinson and Henry Robinson " to build a good and substantial cobble stone school-house, to be 26 by 36 feet inside in the clear, to be divided into two rooms and an entra." The rooms were to be ten feet high and the walls sixteen inches thick. " The corner stones to be as good as those of Wm. Benjamin's House." (The present home of Truman Desmond, in Town's district.) The specifications throughout are very exact, and the structure was to be ready for occupancy the 15th of September following. The cost, complete, was to be $400. Like all of Henry Robinson's work, this was well done, and the stones laid by his diligent hands are yet in place. This building also had its day, and bills for repair became so frequent that either a new house or very thorough overhauling became imperative. June 26, 1861, Brownell Wilbur, moderator, it was voted to adjourn to the Presbyterian meeting house, and also voted to adjourn to E. N. Thomas's school-house, which latter vote seemed to be the effective one, for on the 29th of June, the district thus met, and by a large majority voted to pur- chase the unused Presbyterian edifice, and in this old-time structure, Rose Valley young ideas were nurtured for several years. Of course, this was only a tiding over till the people were ready to build a substantial edifice. The matter was so momentous that many meetings were called and many votes taken, till it was finally decided in 1867, March 28th, to build on the piesent location, on Thomas street. The total outlay for site, materials and construction was to be $4,000. Peter Harmon drew specifications and was the builder. As it was voted October 8, 1867, to put the wood for the year in the basement of the new school-house, it may be inferred that the winter term for 1867-8 was begun in the new edifice. To-day, the same, surrounded by trees, is a shrine of learning loved and esteemed, as a rule, all the more as the years increase, separating the pupils from it. The school has a good, local standing. It may be of interest to state that the annual bill for wood grew to be more than .$80, and in 1878 a coal stove was bought for one room, and the next year another stove of the same kind followed. Among later teachers may be named Messrs. H. E. Thornhill, George H. Stewart, and Misses A. M. Colburn, Cora and Lottie Knapp. The present principal is George D. Sprague, of Butler. His assistant is Miss Ara Barnum, of Glenmark. TEMPERANCE IN ROSE. Doubtless this town has had as little drunkenness as any in the state. Of course, there have been those who lingered long over their cui^s and who foundj'pleasure in strong cider, still they were the exception, and now more than a score of yeais have elapsed since there was a legal sale of an intoxicant in Eose. May such abstinence continue, even till the end of time. The town was just three years old, lacking seven days, when a meeting was called to see what could be done in behalf of temperance. That first record book is still extant, commencing with the handwriting of James S. Showers and ending with that of George Seelye, secretaries. The date of beginning is February IS, 1829, and the last entry is October 18, 1836. Just what caused the society to cease, it would be difficult to tell at this late date, certainly not for lack of material to be reformed. At the first meetinggof the inhabitants of the town called to consider the subject of temperance,^ Doctor Peter Valentine gave an address, James I. Woolsey was made chairman and Smithfield Beden was secretary. To us of to-day, the jjledge taken is of the most consequence, though there was a long and somewhat iiatulent preamble, apparently the result of the com- bined wisdom of all the town's teachers and preachers. The organization was named " The Eose Temperance Society for the Promotion of Temper- ance," and here is the pledge : "Article 3d. Any person may become a member [of this society by subscribing the following pledge': We, the undersigned, do agree to abstain wholly from the use of ardent spirits, except for medical purposes ; not to furnish them as a part of hospitable entertainment, nor to laborers in our employ, in no case to give or vend them either by small or large measure, so as to knowingly countenance the improper use of them, in particular in no case to violate the laws of the land regulating the sale of ardent spirits, and also to give our patron- age to those merchants and keepers of public houses who by their example and influence bear a decided testimony against the sin of intemperance." It was also stipulated that erring members should be labored with and held in line if possible ; if not, they should be excluded. To the above pledge, above three hundred names are attached, representing the best people in Eose at that time. The late Stephen Collins was one of the last 366 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. survivors. Possibly C. B. Collins, of Clyde, is the only one now living whose name was officially connected with the society, he having been one of the last board of managers. Now and then a name was dropped for failure to observe the constitution, and it seems not a little queer that a man should have been prominent in his chui-ch and still could not abide by the requirements of the society. One party, long au influential citizen west of the Valley, wrote asking to have his name removed from the list, saying, " My reasons are I do not lilce the conduct of some of the mem- bers as such and also that, in my opinion, it will lead to tyrannical government." 'Twas ever thus. In resisting the tyranny of a temperance society, many a man forged yet more strongly the links binding him to absolute degradation and woe. The first president was Elizur Flint; Vice-President, Chauncey Bishop ; Treasurer, Smithfield Beden ; Secretary, James S. Showers ; Managers, John Burns, Isaac Fulton, Stephen Collins, Peter Valentine, John Skid- more, Samuel Lyman. Deacon Flint continued to be president to the end, and he was ever ready with tongue and pen to promote true sobriety. At various times addresses were delivered by the Eev. Wm. Clark, by Deacon Flint, Smithfield Beden, Eev. Wm. McKoon and others. In a table of data, December 2, 1829, apparently for the year, we find that Rose used 700 gallons of distilled liquors ; that there were twenty habitual drunkards, eight cases of poverty, two crimes, one death, presumably owing to drink, and also the pleasing statement that the use of drink had diminished one-fourth. Had the same ratio of decrease continued, our town had become, long ere this, the most abstemious in the couatry. It is in place to recall other officers as follows : Chauncey Bishop con- tinued to be vice-president till 1832, when he was succeeded by Jacob Miller, then Dorman Munsell, Joel N. Lee, and finally Chauncey Bishop again. The treasurers were Smithfield Beden, Peter Valentine, Alfred Lee and Gideon Henderson. Secretaries, James S. Showers, Smithfield Beden, Truman Van Tassel, C. B. Collins and George Seelye. In addition to the first board of managers, already givea, were Alfred Lee, George Seelye, Elizur M. Ballard, Samuel Lyman, Caleb Mills, James S. Showers, Thaddeus Collins, Samuel Buckman, L. Leland, Anson Lee, Martin Warner, Jacob Miller, Samuel E. Ellinwood, Wm. Lovejoy, Chauncey Bi-shop, Wm. Griswold, Joel N. Lee, E. N. Thomas, C. B. Collins and Dorman Munsell. These more than fifty years old records have a wonder- fully sincere appearance. The people who made them were in earnest. Their society became auxiliary to that of the county, the members met, listened, discussed and did what they thought their best to suppress a ruinous practice. They appointed parties to labor in their respective school districts for the good of the cause ; still the evil lived on and, like the master of all evil, is rampant to-day. The meetings were held in the ROSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. 367 various school-houses of the town, and were regularly opened and closed with prayer. Names are always significant and here are those of the people who signed the constitution of the society. Those who were expelled or wished to have their names erased are here with the others. In the dim light afforded by so many years, all are much the same. For the sake of con- venience, they have been arranged alphabetically. Possibly, had women been admitted to management, the society had lasted longer, for it is the feminine contingent that keeps the temperance cause in the forefront to-day. The names of oflicers are not repeated in the list and the family name is given but once : Aldrich — Amos, Asahel ; Allen — Aldula, Betsey, Mercy, Rebecca, Winthrop; Andrews — Clarissa, Lydia ; Andrus — Eliza- beth, James; Matilda Baker; Lany Baird ; Maria Baldwin; Barber — John, Jr., Laura; Ann Barnum; Barrett — Simeon I., Tamar ; Lydia Bassett; Batt^ — Amanda, Collins, Samuel G., Wm. ; Beden — Amanda, B. G., Rebecca, Seth X., W. M. ; Bishop— Caudace, Charles, Charity, Ghloe, D. W. C, Eliza H., Harriet, Jerusha, Joel, Jr., Reuben, Zemira; Blaine — Abia, Fanny, Mary E., Sarah J., William ; Blodgett — Luke W., Mary ; Cynthia Boyd: Boynton — Abigail, Benjamin, Hannah, Minerva; Rufus C. Brainard ; Maria Briggs ; Brown — James, Mercy, Nancy M. ; Clarissa Buckman ; Bandy — Eliza, Phoebe, Sally; Burns — Achsah, Ann. Clara, Elisha, Olive ; Maria Busby ; Chaddock — Caroline, William ; Chapin — Ferzah M., Harriet; John Chidester ; Harvey Closs ; Colborn — James, Jonathan ; Collins — Catharine, Clarissa, Esther, Harriet ; Craft — Clarissa, Jacob, Lydia ; Cyrus Crippen ; Elizabeth Deady ; Dean — Daniel, Prudence J.; Ellin wood — Charlotte, Chester, David, Ensign, Lucy L., Mary, Sophronia, Submit ; Ellsworth — Jerusha, Jonathan ; Fairbanks — Cornelius W., George, Jane; Fisher — Elizabeth, Rebecca; Roxy Flint; Foster — Abigail, David, David, Jr., Emma; Fulton — Hannah, Mahala, Margaret I., Martha, Robert. Peter; Gardner — Ansel M., Esther Ann, Polly Gillett — Abram, Gardner, Hosea, Moses, Phcebe ; Sherman Goodwin Graham — Henry, Roxeany ; Grant — Benjamin, Patty; Gray — Deborah Eleanor B., Harvey; Griswold — Lewis, Rebecca; George Hamilton Hand — Clarissa, Mary ; Henderson — Charlotte, Deborah, Eveline, George W. ; Julia Hillcox ; Hinman — Enos, Mary ; Hoag — Elisha, Losina Holmes — Amanda, David ; Elizabeth Home ; Howard — Esther, Happy Hosea, Mary Ann, Wm. C. ; Catharine Hultz ; Aurilla Hush ; Jonathan Hutchinson; Hyde — John, Mary Ann, Sally; Jeffers — Nathan, William Knight — Eliza G., Enoch; Sylvauus Lackey; Lake — Adaline W., Betsey Charles, Ira; Lamb — Asahel H., Hiram, Ira, Jane, Lorenzo, Lorilla L. Louisa L., Perez, Peter, Sally; Polly Lampson: Lee — Alfred C, Betsey Laurissa, Mary N. ; Perus Leland ; Angeline Louue ; Lovejoy — Anna Daniel, Esther, Harriet, Maria Jane, Norman, Perliette, Silas, Sophia 368 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Lumbert^-Jabez, Eachel ; Lyman— Caroline, Clementina, Levi A., Sally Thomas J. ; Lyon— Frederick, Moses ; B. F. McCumber ; Marietta McKoon ; McQueen— Clarissa Ann, Orena ; Mason— Harvey, Julia, Rhoda D. ; Miller— Amy, Caroline, Daniel, Eliza; Mills— Betsey, George W., Huldah; Miner— Harvey, Prentice J.; Mirick— George W., Mary, Thomas ; Mary Mitchell ; Moore— Orrin, Sally ; Morris— Lewis, Lovina ; Sarah Morse; John Mosier ; Anna Mott; Munsell— Emeline, Gavin L., Jerusha ; John Ogram ; Osborn— Edwin, Martha, Warren ; Samuel Otto; Pease— Alanson, Charlotte, Merrill; Preston— Joseph, Nabby, Tabitha; Lucy Proctor ; Zena P. Rich ; Relief Richardson ; Eiggs— Charlotte, Gowan ; Roe— Austin, Catharine, Daniel J., Sarah ; Seelye— Delos, Eliza- beth, Louisa ; Benjamin Severance ; Patty Seymour ; Shepherd— Aaron, Polly; Simmons— G. F., Lydia F. ; Truman Skidmore ; Charles Skut ; Smith— Chauncey, Melissa ; Sarah Squier ; Stewart— Ann Eliza, Lydia; Swift— Anna, Selam ; Thomas— Caroline, Wm. H. ; Town— Asa, Emily, Hannah ; Nancy Tucker ; Twomley— George, Martha, Mary Ann ; Valen- tine—Anne, Asahel I., James VanAuken; Van Horn— Matthias, Prox- ena ; Elizabeth Vandercook ; Van Tassel— Abraham, Jerusha ; Van Valkenburgh— Abram, Deborah ; Vary Van Vleck ; Minerva Van Zile ; Wade— George W., Jesse O., John, John W., Wm. D. ; Barbara Walker; Ward— Eli, Esther M., Mary, Mary Ann; James C. Warn; Warner- George L., John, Nancy, Sally B.; Whitney— Caroline, Lucy L., Sarah, Solomon ; Luana Wilder ; Wilson— Henrietta, Jonathan ; Eve Winchell ; Wisner- Charles, Elizabeth, Jesse, Moses ; Solomon Wren ; Susannah Wyckoff. SOCIETIES. GOOD TEMPLARS. There is to-day a lodge of Good Templars in Eose Valley, and its mem- bers are zealous for good. Organized in June, 1888, the first chief templar was Jared Chaddock, and to him have succeeded Thirza Milem, Rose Stubley, Truman Desmond, Florence Niles, George Harper, George Chatterson and Almon Harper. From the beginning, there have been in all 175 members of the order. The good that has been done can never be told. Many young people have here received a stimulus to active opposi- tion to the drink curse. NORTH ROSE. The lodge, in this village, No, 696, I. O. G. T., was organized April 17, 1887, by Dr. Diamond, special deputy. Mrs. Sarah Seelye was the first chief templar, and Ara Barnum was deputy. Since then the following have filled the office of C. T., viz., I. R. Seelye, Cora Skut, C. W. Oaks, E. E. Brewster. Wm. Thompson, Charles Barrick, E. J. Weeks, T. J. Chaddock and Bert Oaks. The maximum membership was reached in 1890, when the lodge numbered 109 persons. In 1890 it built, at a cost of $700, the hall on Caroline street, an ornament to the village. ROSE BRASS BAND. Our town was ever musical. Church music of excellent quality has been a distinguivShing charactei-istic of all the denominations. It is no wonder, then, that a band should have been formed early. In 1857, August 14, an organization was effected with Daniel B. Harmon as leader, E. C. Ellin- wood, clerk, Joel Sheffield, secretary and treasurer. In the following Sejjtember, the 15th, Mr. Sheffield resigned, and C. A. Lee was chosen to fill the vacancy, and he continued in it till his enlistment in 1862. Z. P. Deuchler, of Lyons, was the first instructor, and after one year became a member. After him, for a year, E. B. Wells, then of Lyons, taught. Prom 1857 to August 20, 1862, when the band enlisted, the membership was as follows: * Daniel B. Harmon, Carroll H. Upson, Eugene Hickok, E. C. Ellinwood, * Alfred B. Harmon, * Charles A. Lee, * Ira Soule, 25 370 ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Walter A. Wilson, *W. F. Hickok, Andrew Healy, *Ira T. Soule, Z. P. Deuchler, E. B. Wells, * R. C. Earless, John Fosraire, Joel Sheffield and * William Harmon. The starred names indicate enlistments. At this time Jacob Sager of Clyde enlisted and joined, and our boys became the nucleus of the famous Ninth Heavy Artillery Band, and how they could play " Belle Brandon ! " 'Tis said that " Jake " once started Old Hundred as a marching tune at a funeral and switched off into " The Dead March in Saul," only when the surgeon, unable to make his horse keep step, shouted back : " What kind of a tune do you call that ? " Then he was overheard saying: "I thought I could march to anything, but I'll be d — d if I can catch ou to the Doxology.'' The War over, the "boys" came home, having escaped all the perils of the deadly fray. In 1S70 five members of the old band formed with others a new organiz- ation, which continued till 1884, and then disbanded after the Presidential contest. So many members went away from Eose, it was found impossible to continue. In 1870 Captain Daniel B. Harmon was leader, and he was succeeded in 1874 by Andrew J. Dougan. The members from 1870 to 1884 were A. B. Harmon, Ira T. Soule, Stephen Soule, Duane Armstrong, Ira Soule, James Race, Eugene Hickok, William Felton Hickok, Valorous Ellinwood, Lcvern Wilson, A. J. Dougan, Edson M. EUinwood, Fletcher Bush, Lycurgus Hart, Charles Benjamin, Seymour Benjamin, Henry Turner, Judson Sheffield, Mortimer Leach, G. A. Sherman, I. L. Wright, E. B. Wilson, George Fry, Constance Kunkel, George McWharf, W. D. Hickok, Charles Redding, Frank Proseus, Charles G. Oaks, Frank Mitchell and Emil Kunkel. Of this list Race and Dougan were in the army, and in the former list, Fosmire and Deuchler also were soldiers. The memory of the Rose Band is a pleasant one. From first to last, it had forty-one different members. Thirty-six are now living. Of the original nine members of the first organization, all are living save Walter A. Wilson. MASONIC. Freemasonry in Rose dates from 1865. Previous to this time members of the order had gone to adjacent towns for lodge meetings. The warrant of Rose Lodge, No. 590, is dated June 22, 1866, issued to certain parties who had worked under dispensation for one year. The charter members were James M. Home, M. T. Collier, Lucius H. Dudley, John J. Dickson, George Catchpole, Seymour Covell, Eugene Hickok, Seymour Woodard, James Covell, Samuel Gardner and P. Jerome Thomas. The first meetings were held in the brick building on Thomas street, now a shop. Subsequently excellent quarters were arranged for the lodge over E. N. Thomas' store, and the same are still retained. They are commodious and comfortable, ROSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. 371 and many scores of Rose dwellers have here taken the first three degrees. The first W. M. was James M. Home, and few men have ever filled that position with more grace and dignity. He continued to adorn the office till 1870, when James W. Colborn was inducted, and was W. M. for two years. Henry Klinck, of ever pleasant memory, followed for the year 1872. Then came Mark T. Collier for four consecutive years, and again in 1879. George Catchpole presided in 1877-8 ; Edson M. Ellinwoodin 1880 ; Valorous Ellinwood, in 1881-2, and again in 1891-2 ; Alfred Lefavor held the first office in 1883-4-5-6, and Enos T. Pimm was W. M. from 1887 to 1890, and again in 189S his name heads the list. For many years Eugene Hickok has been the careful and efficient secretary. ODD FELLOWSHIP. North Rose possesses an organization of I. O. O. P., known as Bay Shore Lodge- The present K. G. is Elmer Mitchell. It is said to be in a very flourishing condition. GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. Very soon after the close of the late War, there was organized in Rose a Post of this beneficent order, but it suspended a long time ago. In 1883, September 28th, a new Post was started, having eighteen charter members, and was named the John E. Sherman Post, Xo. 401, after a Rose member of the 111th, slain in the "Wilderness. The first commander was E. H. Cook, M. D., a member of the 75th. Then in 1884-5-6, E. T. Pimm followed, a member of the 9th Heavy. H. P. Howard of the 9th, also, followed in 1887. Jared Chaddock of the 67th commanded in 1888. Harvey D. Barnes, a 44th veteran, was at the head in 1889-'90. In 1891 and 1892, E. T. Pimm again led, and W. F. Hickok was installed commander for 1893. For many years the Post meetings were held in Pimm's Hotel, but in 1892 the Post was given quarters in the Memorial hall. SONS OF VETERANS. A Camp of Sons of Veterans, known as the Nelson Neeley Camp, was instituted March 15, 1893, with C. J. Earless as captain. Meetings are held in G. A. R. hall. 372 EOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. ROSE GRANGE. This farmers' organization, No. 148, was organized in March, 1874, with Henry C. Klinck, master, and Linus P. Osgood, secretary. It flourished for three years, surrendering its charter April 1, 1877. Oscar Weed was the second master, and Henry Klinck, second secretary. The other masters in order were : W. F. Hickok and Eugene Hickok ; the secretaries, Eugene Hickok and Frank H. Valentine. The total membership was thirty-eight. Many of these people now belong to the Clyde Grange. In a community so agricultural in its characteristics, it would seem that a grange ought to have a permanent home. ROSE NEWSPAPER. The Eose Timts was started September 15, 1886, by Burt E. Valentine, this being the first venture of the kind in town. It was a modest sheet, two columns, four pages, semi-monthly. December 15, 1886, the young editor enlarged his paper to four columns and eight pages, having his office over his father's store. His paper flourished, and a larger press was bought, and March 1, 1887, he moved into the old post office building of " 'Squire " Ellinwood. The paper then had seven columns and four pages, weekly, the subscription being one dollar per year. A little before this C. J. Earless had started the Farmer^s Counsel, and January 1, 1888, aunioa of the two papers was effected under the name of the Farmer^ s Counsel and Times. March 1, 1889, Mr. Valentine went out, and with G. A. Sherman, set up a job office. The paper continued in the hands of Mr. Earless, who still publishes it. The press upon which this paper is printed is specially noteworthy, since it is the very one on which John H. Gilbert worked off the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The identity of the press is established beyond a question. Let us hope that it is now doing better service than when sending out the delusions of Joe Smith. CENSUS GLEANINGS. These data are given to show, to some extent, the growth and develop- ment of Rose. Unfortunately, after 1840, the national census was not collated by towns, but by counties, thus rendering it impossible to secure the desired facts, and in 1830, the government sought only population items. Again the omission to take the state census in 1885 left a large defect in our data ; that of 1892 was only an enumeration of people. However, some interesting items are brought out in the figures presented. The croaker about old times finds that crops have not particularly changed in quantity. My own regrets are entirely over what is not shown, rather than on account of what is. The development of berry culture does not appear. The evaporating of apples and other fruits has no place, and the growing of onions, one of the town's chief industries, has no mention what- ever. Tobacco, also, would come in as a great factor. The state census of 1895 will be a valuable supplement to these facts. In 1864, the town paid out $244.31 for manures and fertilizers ; in 1874, the amount paid for the same object was .$2,367, and I am told by competent informants that in 1892, the amount must have been more than double the latter sum. Some of the gleanings of the early census takings, while not appearing in the tabu- lations, are very interesting. Thus, in 1835, the first state enumerating after the town was organized, I find that Rose had one gristmill, and that it ground grain to the value of $11,250. In 1845, there was still but one mill and its work was only a trifle greater. In '35, there were seven saw-mills, cutting up logs worth $2,172, to make lumber worth $4,450. In '45, there were eleven mills, sawing •$ 2,400 worth of logs into $4,900 value in product. One fulling mill, in '35, turned .$2,625 worth of wool into $5,250 worth of manufactured goods. In '45, the same mill's work was $2,000 raw into -$4,000 manufactured. One carding machine, in 1835, rolled $3,000 worth of wool into $3,750 worth of spinning material. In '45, the record was $3,000 and $3,500 respectively. One iron working plant, in '35, transformed $2,000 in ore into $5,000 in product. In the same year an ashery worked over $350 worth of wood ashes. One distillery is said to have changed $2,700 in solids into $4,300 in liquids. A tannery, in 1835, worked over $600 worth of hides into $1,200 worth of leather. In '45, the record was the same. In 1835, there was not in Rose, a deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic nor lunatic person. In 1845, there were one deaf and 374 EOSE NEIGHBOEHOOD SKETCHES. dumb, two idiotic and two lunatic. In 1845, Rose had two inns, two stores, 330 farmers, 63 mechanics, five clergymen, whose total salaries were $1,150, and three doctors. In 1838, Eose had 166 militiamen, her schools numbered 11, and there were 629 pupils, for whom the town drew $173.53 public money. In 1893, the amount drawn from the same source is $1,946.50. In 1830, the town had 29 people of foreign birth and 573 chil- dren between 5 and 16 years of age. In 1845,- there were 56 foreigners and 615 children, as before. In 1855, Rose had 329 owners of land and 435 in 1865. The record of illiteracy has always been excellent. In 1840, there were 101 persons above 21 years of age who could not read nor write. In 1855, this number was reduced to 34, and 1865 showed but 28. In 1840, the value of orchard products was $1,504. In that year dairy products yielded $6,054. In 1875, there were sold 214,195 lbs. of pork, while in 1865, 7,550 lbs. of tobacco are reported raised. Turnips appear only once and then in 1845, when 11^ acres produced 2016 bushels. In 1840, there were reported made 180 lbs. of wax, presumably beeswax, and in the same year the people sold 2,122 cords of wood. The population record of the town is as follows : 1830—1,641 1850—2,264 1875—2,215 1835—1,715 1855—2,115 1880—2,244 1840—2,031 1860—2,119 1890—2,107 1845—2,060 1865-2,209 1892—2,002 1870-2,056 The maximum, it is observed, was reached in 1850, or just 53 years ago. There are more families in Rose, to-day, than then, but they are not so large. The children do not appear. While the number of people is not so large as in some towns of less area, it must be borne in mind that with crowded masses there is also coiTCsponding misery. In the following scheme, I have not attempted to glean valuations from the assessors' returns, for these, subject to the changes of the Board of Supervisors, fluctuate too much. KOBE NEIGHBORHOOD SKETCHES. Census Tables. 375 1835 324 1840 1845 1855 1865 1870 1875 Voters. 469 438 566 Families. 419 473 536 Improved land, acres. 6913 10473 132721 13199* 14444 17042 Unimproved land, acres. 8577 4938 Cash value of farms. .$831771 $1051268 $1497800 $1496065 Cash value of stock. $125870 .$154295 $191245 $164852 Cash vahie of tools and implem'ts. §18091 $26663 In farm $53141 Apples, bushels. 28535 39284 76117 Cider, barrels. 399 739 1118 Rarlev ' acres. Barley, -^ ^^,gj,gig_ 541 311 429j 386 383 222 6013 3558 7368 Butter, pounds. 71697 66330 98242 83061 Cheese, pounds. 16257 7075 12046 1285 Milk, ga Ions sold. 46236 Pnrn 1 aCrCS. ^°'^°' 1 bushels. 1065i 150464 1805 1601 20866;22700 40035 41767 50498 Wa^ 1 acres. ^'^^' \ pounds. 131^ 41 2500 2869 TT„,, 1 acres. H^J' \tonB. 19084 2437 1863 1724^ 2308 2901 3909 TT„„„ f acres. HoPS'l pounds. 5 3400 5 3109 Honey, pounds. 4722 1964 4804 Maple sugar, pounds. 5904 446 442 6 OatB, {Se,,. 821 1760^ 1888* 1765 1758825477 44266 25708 58012 P°t-*-s,{-Xj^. 2555 1843 204* 284 27078 28455 13246 20355 29574 w-iro ' acres. ^y®' \ bushels. 84J 72 44* 34 391 687 885 140 466 Stock, {-X^3. 1545 1878' 1905 2057 1816 1539 473 519 556 754 750 894 Poultry, value sold. «830 $1050 $2265.25 $3136 Eggs, value sold. $2503 $3789.97 $4111 Sheep. 2405 4385 i 4702 3727 4583 1644 Swine. 1733 1950 1381 1241 1395 1709 \^^;„„ ' acres. 10 1 Wheat, -'P""^'"^ bushels, [winter, {-- ,. 138 45 22721 907i 15243 1759 20376 23700 8893 19101 30981 Wool, pounds. 6656,10736 11856 18794 8679 Buckwheat, { ^^'is. 1957 219 3677 311i 3270 151 2531* 289 4168 ■c.„„„„ ( acres. ^^^''^' \ bushels. 16 117 21 296 Peas } acres. ^®''^' t bushels. 125 1174 12 170 Value of all productions. $2245.10 Home made fulled cloth, yards. 2433 2453 134 12 Home made flannel, yards. 2407 2994 559 175 Home made linen, yards. 2611 3757 57 2255 Home made cotton and mixed goods, yards. 95 OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF ROSE. " An act for erecting the southwest part of the Town of Wolcott into a separate town by the name of Rose in the County of Wayne. Passed February 25, 1826. " Be it enacted by the people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the first Monday of April next, all that part of the now town of Wolcott, in the County of Wayne, compre- hended within the following boundaries (viz.) beginning at the southwest corner of said town and running from thence east, on the south line thereof, seven miles ; thence north five miles, thence west seven miles, or until it strikes the division line between said town^and the town of Sodus ; thence south, and along the east line of the town of Sodus, to the place of begin- ning, shall be, and the same is, hereby erected into a separate town by the name of Rose, and that the first town meeting, to be holden therein, shall be held on the first Tuesday of April next, at the house of Charles Thomas, in said town." The above is a true copy of records. Attest, D. Smith, Town Clerk for 1826. MEMBEES OF ASSEMBLY. John J. Dickson, 1845 ; Willis G. Wade, 1854 ; Eron IS". Thomas, 1862 ; Jackson Valentine, 1877-8. WAYNE COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff, William J. Glen, 1879, '80, 81. School Commissioner, 1st district, Wayne county, Thomas Robinson, 1863, '64, '65. Superintendent of Poor, Philander Mitchell, 1860, '61, '62; Charles Covell, 1883 to 1889. OFFICERS IN OLD TOWN OF WOLCOTT. Assessor and Collector, John N. Murray, 1810-11 ; John Wade, 1813. Commissioner of Highways, Joseph Wade, 1812-13 ; John Wade, Eli Andrus, 1814. r SURVIVING SUPERVISORS. a. C liLI.INWonn. M. (i. McKooN. S. W. Gagk. Gico. Ca I ( ni-ui.K. W. II. Gi