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Mr. Canfield was frequently called upon to take charge of these night excursions. One summer evening, Mrs. Canfield responded to a knock at the door, and was met by Mr. Lee, from Fitchville, (probably Hartland, as James Lee of that township maintained a station), who said with a smile, that he had some "cattle" out in the road. He had often been at the Canfield home with such "cattle" before. Mrs. Canfield invited them right in, and Mr. Lee, finding that no danger threatened, brought in two young mulattoes, a brother and a sister, whose story was stranger than fiction. They had been separated in childhood, the boy being sent to the far south, while the girl was trained up as a waiting maid. She was taken by her mistress on a journey to Cincinnati on board one of the river steamers. When they came up to the wharf, the mistress went up into the city for a visit, but thought it more prudent to leave the slave girl behind, as the Underground Railroad had many active agents even in that pro-slavery city. Finding the girl alone, the captain’s wife told her, that once in the city, she was free, and pointed out to her a house to which she could go and find refuge. While she was there in hiding, another traveler sought admittance, who proved to be her long lost brother. Words are but feeble to paint the feelings of these poor fugitives, at their unexpected reunion. The brother had started from the south up the river on a flatboat as servant to the crew. Tying up to the bank one day, they went ashore and soon were deeply interested in a game of cards. In their excitement over the game, they forgot all about the negro, who slipped away a short distance, and finding that he was unobserved, concluded that this was his opportunity to run, and run he did. The men missed him at length and gave chase. Seeing that they were gaining on him, he stripped off his shoes and then said he, "I ran my liberty race."
Mr. Canfield sent them to Oberlin, in charge of a hired man whom he could trust. It was a long ride, and perhaps he beguiled the time away, by playing a little upon their fears. At all events they were suspicious of him. At length, when they turned north from the center of Pittsfield, and came in a short time where he could point them to Oberlin, to use his own words, "They could not have been more rejoiced if they had come in sight of the New Jerusalem."
Mr. Canfield’s last experience of this kind was some years later, somewhere in the early 50’s. The family came home from church one Sunday and found a colored woman sitting on the doorstep, calmly awaiting the arrival of the family. She had come from far away Georgia. She could read with ease, and said she could repeat the life of Frederick Douglas from prefix to appendix. She made herself at home and seemed to be under no uneasiness whatever. The next day was the Fourth of July and Mr. Canfield took her his in buggy to the nearest railroad station and paid her fare to the next stopping place.
While there were so many people in the north who were bitterly opposed to slavery and preached the sentiment of Abolition, there were many others who were opposed to the activity of the Abolitionists.
At a Fourth of July celebration in Norwalk, in 1835, the following toasts were presented:
By Myron H. Tilden. - "Abolition - Let us not encourage a sentiment which would perpetuate a calamity so desolating."
By Ezra M. Stone. - " May the heresy of Abolition be arrested and convicted of sedition, and the sentence of the law be ‘death without benefit of clergy’."
By E. M. Phelps. – "The slavery of the South – A melancholy evil, but not to be remedied by a misguided enthusiasm at the North."
An Anti-Abolition Association was formed in Wakeman in 1835, of which Justin Sherman was President, Jesse Hanford, vice-president, Orrin Delano, secretary, and Martin, Bell, William Bostwick, Herritt Hyde, Joseph Haskins, George H. Hinman, James Sherman and Samuel Bristol, were directors. The object of the society was to "use all lawful and honorable means to prevent the Abolitionists from sundering the bonds of the Union of our beloved country," and from "stimulating the blacks to rise and murder their masters." It was further resolved, "not to support or patronize any minister, printer, teacher of common schools or seminaries who were Abolitionists."
These men were among the best citizens of Wakeman, and their action did not indicate that they wished to uphold slavery, but they feared that unwise and rash action of over-zealous Abolitionists might precipitate a civil war which would wreck the Union.
FIRST SETTLEMENT OF WAKEMAN
In 1816, Burton Canfield, Bennett French, Joel Crane, Waite Downs and other gentlemen, living in Southbury, Conn., organized a company and purchased of Bronson, Jesup and Wakeman, (who owned the whole of Wakeman township, see page 3), the whole of section three - the northwest quarter – and subsequently the northern tier of lots of section four - the northeast quarter, comprising over five thousand acres, at two dollars per acre. The original owners realized that it would be a benefit to them in selling the other lands in the township, if settlers could be induced to buy land of these gentlemen, so they made a bargain that the above purchasers should furnish one settler a year for a one hundred and sixty acre farm, until the entire tract should be sold. As there were thirty lots in the tract, that gave them thirty years in which to fulfill their contract, but the contract was fulfilled long before the expiration of the time specified.
In consequence of the above contract, largely, the character of the population that took possession of Wakeman was of the genuine Yankee sort; they were almost without exception from Connecticut. Most of them came from Southbury, New Haven county, some from Litchfield and Fairfield counties, and a few from other parts of the state.
However, no deeds for this land, or any part of it, were made until 1820. The members of the above mentioned company did not obtain deeds in common, but each received a deed for a definite tract.
The First deeds of Wakeman land were as follows:
March 29, 1820, to Bennett French, Lot No. 46 (south of Clark’s Corners, containing 168 acres, 3 rods and 17 rods of land, for $415;
Same, date, to Burton Canfield, Bennett French and Olive Wheeler, Lots 6, 16, 26 and 36 (west of 46, on the south side of the center road).
July 20, 1822, to Wait Downs, Lots 2, 23, and 34.
Same date, to Bennett French, Lots 5, 21, 24, and 25; 496 acres for $1323. Same date, to Burton Canfield, Lots 1, 13, 14, 33, 35 and 43; 991 acres for $1983.
July 25, 1822, to Olive Crane, Lot 12, and to the heirs of Olive Crane, Lots 15 and 41.
April 19, 1824, to Burton Canfield, Lot 55.
July 20 1822, to Amos Platt, Lots 28 and 29, and to Silas French, Lots 4, 32 and 45 (all of the village east of Pleasant Street is on this last lot), and to Samuel Bristol Lots 3, 31 and 11; to Amiel P. Pierce, Lots 22, 42 and 44, for $1001. 65.
These sales covered all the land contracted for by the above mentioned company, and the last name grantees were the only ones who became actual settlers here, although Burton Canfield lived here for a short time, at two different periods.
FIRST SETTLERS.
The first family to move into the wilds of Wakeman was that of Augustin Canfield, who came from New Milford, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. They started on the 29th of April, 1817, and reached here on the 23rd of May. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Canfield and four children, Burton Canfield (a brother) Seymour Johnson and a hired man.
The biography of all the early settlers will be taken up later in alphabetical order.
The second family was that of Amiel P. Pierce, which came about three weeks later.
Next came Samuel Bristol, who left Connecticut on May 28th and reached Vermillion on July 4th. The wife and son remained there with friends until Mr. Bristol could erect a log house for a home. Erastus French, a single man, came in the fall of 1817. In May, 1818, came Dr. Clark and wife. In 1819 came B. S. Hendryx and Abraham Bronson, and later in that year, Sheldon Smith. In 1820 came Silas French and Burton French. In 1821 came Chester Manvel. In 1822 came Justin and Philo Sherman, Leverett Hill and James Wilson. In 1823 came Merritt Hyde and Amos Clark. In 1824, Russell Barnes, in 1826 Sheldon Barnes, in 1827 Rufus Bunce, Isaac and Kneeland Todd. Justin Sherman kept a record of the inhabitants until 1827. One June 14, 1822, the inhabitants were as follows, the figures indicating the number of persons in each family:
S. Bristol 3, B. French 4, L. Hill 1,
S. Smith 5, C. Manvel 2, P. Sherman 7,
J. Minor 4, M. French 1, H. M. Clark 3,
A. P. Pierce 7, M. Johnson 3, S. French 6,
A. Buck 3, S. Hendryx 3, J. Sherman 9,
J. Wilson 1, A. Canfield 7, C. French 5,
Total 74 (See page 30)
The wife of Dr. Clark kept a diary for some time after she came to live in the Wakeman woods. It shows some of the hardships which were endured by her and other women in her neighborhood. The diary began in 1818, when she was living in the cabin which had been erected by Augustin Canfield for a temporary home. The houses occupied by the Canfield, Pierce, Bristol and Clark families were the only ones in the township.
"June 23. Dr. got back before night with the provisions. 24th. Doctor salted down the pork and hung our fish up to dry; the rest of the day he spent making benches to take the place of chairs. July 6th. Had Sam’l Bristol and Seymour Johnson to work for us cutting house logs and clearing a place for the house, 7th. Drawed logs for the house. Got the bottom logs laid and the floor timbers on. Began my school, had only Canfield’s children. 8th . Doctor started early, collected all Wakeman men and three teams, got them to drawing logs and laying the lower ones whilst he went to Florence to invite raisers, got whiskey and got home by noon. I had to stir myself pretty lively, had to bake, prepare myself, my house and victuals for visitors. Had to get dinner for six men. 9th. All Wakeman men came to finish the raising, had my work to do and get dinner for six men again. Kept school. It is my rule to keep school two hours in the forenoon and the same in the afternoon. It had taken all the Wakeman men to finish raising the house. Doctor caught a rabbit. 10th. Town meeting again today. The men have all come to get out shingles and get on the roof, cut out doors and windows, shall move in a few days. Dinner to get for them again. Got on pot, made a pudding and stewed my rabbit. 11th. Got out shingles enough to finish the roof and side and ends. 12th. Sabbath. Went with Doctor down to the windfall to see the potatoes and on the road he killed a rattlesnake with 9 rattles on it. 13th. Doctor went up to the settlement for boards. Got a floor laid and a pen made for the calf. 15h. Helped move down to our new house. I had no bedstead and no shelf and what to do with the things I did not know. 22nd. Doctor went to the windfall to hoe his potatoes. I baked bread and six pumpkin pies in my frying pan. 24th. Lecta (Mrs. Pierce) and Mrs. Canfield for a visit. Got roasted fish, bread and butter, pumpkin pie and some of Nancy’s sponge cake, but no table. Aug. 3rd. After school went with Lecta, Ruth Squires and Mrs. Bristol to the windfall after blackberries. They all came here to tea. Had fish, bread and butter, some little cakes, cucumbers and blackberry sauce. 4th. In the night he (Doctor) was sent for to visit the man bitten by a rattlesnake. It was about five miles. I got up and went to Canfield’s and staid the rest of the night. 5th. News came that a girl 14 or 15 years old by the name of Mary Slater was dead. The complaint was bilious fever. She lived in Florence. 9th. A man by the name of Amil Blackman came after Doctor to visit his child with the same disorder where the girl died. He said Mr. Slater had lost another child with the same fever. 16th. Sunday. Doctor and I set out in good season for meeting. I rode with Capt. Pierce. Doctor was called at noon to see the sick. Heard a Methodist exhort all day. 23rd. Sunday. Doctor went again to visit the sick. Sunday and alone is a fine time for homesick thoughts to hover around and force their way into my breast, &c. The sun had scarcely hid herself and shed her last twinkling rays on the tops of the trees when Lecta sent Lemuel for us to come up there. I eagerly inquired what was the matter, supposing some of them to be very sick and his answer was ‘David and Smith have come’. Oh, how my heart gladened within me. I imagined what they have got for us and he said ‘five or six letters’. You will readily know it did not take me long to prink. 24th. Monday, very warm day, arose betimes this morning. Had some blackberry vinegar to prepare, scoured a few things and did my housework, which I got through before I ventured to take my letters and read them over again. 28th. Before school I washed some brown clothes, washed my floor, did my housework, did up a cap for Mrs. Canfield. After school sewed on the girls’ workbags, wrote off my journal of the weather, towns, rivers, &c., on the road. 31st. Doctor went to mill. Lecta was sick. I went up to help her in the morning and staid all day. Doctor did not get home. Went to Canfield’s and staid all night. Sept.1st. Doctor came to Canfield’s before I was up. The evening was so dark he got partly lost, found his way to Bristol’s and staid all night. One summer I have spent in Ohio and the approach of fall fills my mind with dread. This harvest is past this summer. My sins are still unrepented of and I am in the same lamentable situation I ever was. 4th. Two men came here from Medina. They were from Waterbury and Doctor knew them 18 years ago. They spoke about going. I thought I would use some politeness and asked them to stay all night. To my disappointment they very readily accepted the invitation and said they would go to work with Doctor. Flour being so scarce in our neighborhood, I did not know how in the world to keep them, not having any chamber floor. I had but one bed up but we lived through it and treated them as well as we could and let them go. 5th. Doctor all at once started a notion he would go to Medina. He went and borrowed E. French’s fire works (flint, steel and tinder box) and started about 9 o’clock to go through the south road. On this road it is about 40 miles to Father’s (Dr. Clark’s father). They go from here 8 miles to where they take the south road (present Medina road) and from there to the first house in Medina is 30 miles. You will readily know I should not feel easy about him, for he will surely lie in the woods all night and so far from any living person it is not safe, but then I wanted him to go, one thing to get the letters (which she had heard were at Medina). I bought cotton for Doctor two shirts that was there and a pair of stockings, and besides his business was to get Ransom and a team to help build the chimney and do off our house. 12th. (For three days she had been expecting the Doctor.) Doctor had not got home yet. One week this morning since he started. I feel very anxious about him. I sometimes think the only hope I have that he is still alive was a bile that was just appearing on his foot when he started. The Lord only knows whether he will ever return to me or whether I am here to mourn alone in this wilderness world. 13th. Mrs. Canfield and myself had just started to go out in the field and he called to me and what was my surprise, I beheld the Doctor. He had been detained by a very sore foot. 25th. Doctor started in the morning to go to mill but it was general training day (the annual militia training day) at the new county seat and we could not get a horse. Got home about noon and brought five good peaches. Judge Sprague (of Florence) gave them to him and he gave me three of them. 26th. Got up as soon as it was light and fixed Doctor off to mill again. I was very homesick, &c. I continued until I made myself down sick. I found I could not stay alone ---- took my work and went to see Lecta and stay till night. I found her so homesick she could not but just live. Ruth Squire came for a visit and the conversation turned upon other things and I came home quite comfortable. Oct. 1st. Doctor is sowing wheat. Besides my house work I spread ashes where log heaps had been burned. 8th. Went to Canfield’s and baked in the afternoon and boiled some pumpkin molasses. 26th. I feel anxious about Nancy’s (her sister) health. Doctor says she better be bled in the foot and gave her iron and strengthening things, but he can’t tell without seeing her. I think I should as soon have old woman’s advice as doctors. (We do not realize how many homesick hours those pioneer wives lived through, hundreds of miles from relatives, with few chances to hear from them, as there were no regular mails.)
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF INHABITANTS.
Since these biographies were compiled quite a good many years have passed and many of those who were living then have passed away, and we have not obtained dates of death. Certain of the farms on which the recorded owners resided have gone into other hands. The readers who are particularly interested will have to consult present residents of Wakeman to bring the history down to the present date, - 1938.
ABBOTT, Hiram - born in Butler county, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1818. His wife, Charlotte Knickerbocker, was born in Lyons, N. Y., May 20, 1820. Mr. Abbott lived in Pittsfield, Ohio, and came from there to Wakeman. In 1836 he learned the trade of blacksmith of George Tillinghast, of Wakeman, and followed the trade in Wakeman until 1855, when he took up the trade of repairing clocks, watches and guns. He was ingenious and made a perfect calendar clock. He lived in the village until his death, May 29, 1899. His wife died Jan. 30, 1881. His children were Charles, born Oct. 29, 1841; Cecil C., born Jan. 23, 1844; Julia A., born Dec.7, 1860.
On the 13th of August 1853 Charles Abbott, with some other boys, was playing around some freight cars standing on the siding. While pushing one car another car was pushed against this one and the Abbott boy’s head was caught between the bumpers and he was instantly killed.
Cecil Abbott lived at Harbor Springs, Mich., for some years and died in August 1929.
Julia Abbott married Willis Cibson, of Wakeman, and died August 6, 1902. Besides his own family, Mr. Abbott brought up Fred Abbott, a nephew, and Josephine and Adeline Thayer, nieces.
ABBOTT, James – a brother of Hiram, lived here as early as 1850, in which year he purchased a village lot, or possibly as early as 1842 in which year a child of his died here. Another child died in 1850.
James lived with Hiram for some time, possibly after the death of his wife, but in 1880 he was living in Riverton, Nebraska. His wife was Lucy Stevens, of Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Mary Abbott married James Black. Atheretta married a Rutherford. Arminda married Joseph Utter (a basket maker who died here in 1853 at the age of 53).
Diadama married David Knickerbocker, a brother of Mrs. Hiram Abbott.
ADAMS, Joel – bought of Jehiel Fisk 79 acres of Lot 42 (part of Minot Pierce or Whitney farm) in 1835 and six acres of the same lot of Peter Thompson in 1837. He sold these tracts to Eli S. Barnum in 1842. In 1838 Joel Adams, Sr., of Lorain county, bought of Henry Bates 23 ½ acres of Lot 41 (north part of the Whitney farm) and sold the same to Justin Sherman a few months later. Both Joel, Sr. and Jr. voted here in 1837. The wife of Joel Adams died here March 27, 1840, at the age of 68, but whether she was the wife of the father or son, we do not know, nor do we have any further history of the family. In 1845 a daughter of Moses Adams died here, aged two years.
ALDRICH, Hiram – a son of James Aldrich, of Florence township, Erie Co., Ohio, was born in New York State, Sept. 11, 1823. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1828. In 1852 his father bought 104 acres of Lot 74, on the west side of the Butler Road and deeded it to Hiram the next year. He later lived on the west town line road, where he owned 50 acres of Lot No. 7. Some years after the death of his wife, he sold this farm and went to Iowa to live with a son, but returned to Ohio and died in Norwalk, April 5, 1900. His wife was Catherine Barnes, a daughter of William Barnes and Lucy Loveland, of Florence and Wakeman, and was born Jan. 10, 1833. She died March 25, 1882. Their children were, George L., born July 9, 1859, (of Sheffield, Iowa); Edmund, born April 17, 1862, and died in Cleveland, O., Oct. 7, 1918; Lucy A. (of Battle Creek, Mich.); Eva A., born March 10, 1866 (of Coldwater, Mich.); Clara, born May 21, 1868 (Mrs. Craven, of Marion, O.); William H., born Nov. 30, 1874 (of Sandstone, Minn.)
ALLGOOD, Burwell – a son of Daniel Allgood, of Brunswick, Co., Va., was born Jan. 4, 1816. His wife was Weltha Haughn. He came to Greenfield, Ohio, to Norwalk, thence to Wakeman where his wife died Aug. 16, 1849, leaving children, Cornelia (Bailey); David, Lovina (Mack); Katherine (Knapp) and Marks. In 1850 Mr. Allgood married Mary Ann Haughn, a sister of his first wife, and she had a son Frank, who died in Berlin Heights. Mr. Allgood lived on the William Barber farm in Wakeman and moved to Florence, at Tater Hill. He died there Dec. 17, 1865, having moved there in 1863.
The parents of the Mrs. Allgoods were Jacob and Rachel Haughn, of Greenfield, Ohio.
ANDREWS, Linus - In 1834 bought of Solomon Root 30 acres of the southeast part of Lot 31, and in 1836 bought of John Burr 30 acres of the middle part of the same lot (the Crawford place). In 1836 he sold 15 acres to C. C. Crandall and in 1837 sold 45 acres to William Parker. In the year 1836 he lost three children, a daughter aged seven in September, another aged three in December, and a son aged one year in the same month.
ARMSTRONG, William H. – was born at Albany, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1796, was married to Eunice Gibson, Dec. 25, 1820. She was born in Chenango Co., N.Y., March 26, 1800.
They had children:
Daniel David born Dec. 28, 1821,
Harriet C. " Aug. 19, 1824,
Andrew Stores " Nov. 6, 1826,
Elizabeth Eliza " Nov. 6, 1828,
William Henry, Jr. " Apr. 22, 1833,
Ann Lovina " Mar. 26, 1835,
Manderville Vallencort " Aug. 28, 1837,
Emmer Marie " Dec. 23, 1839,
Ellen Rosalind " Apr. 28, 1842,
Polly Jane " June 6, 1845.
Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong came to Ohio in 1852 or 54, living in Sullivan, Huntington, Russia, and Camden, in Lorain County, and in 1861 came to Wakeman. Mr. Armstrong was a stone mason and lived on the Butler Road when his wife died on the 3rd day of March 1884, then he lived with his children and died in Norwalk June 24, 1894, at the great age of 98.
Of the children, Daniel came to Wakeman in 1864 and died at his home on the Butler Road near the Ross corners, April 24, 1890. His wife was Amy C. Dennison, and they had two daughters, Mrs. John Garris, of Wellington, and Mrs. Della Fowler, of Wakeman.
Harriet Armstrong married Nelson Hendryx July 4, 1847, and came to Wakeman in 1865. She died in Wakeman Dec. 9, 1897. They had children, Albert, Myrtie, Ann, Eugene and Eunice.
Andrew and Elizabeth Armstrong died in New York State.
William H. Armstrong, Jr., died in Camden, January 8, 1886.
Ann Armstrong married Abraham Dereemer, of Camden, and finally went to live with her daughter in Indiana.
Manderville Armstrong, or "Cort" as he was called, was born in Otsego Co., New York, came to Camden with his parents, and to Wakeman about 1859. He was married to Clarissa Cyrenius, of Camden, July 11, 1861, and she died Oct. 8, 1864, without issue. He married, 2nd, Ruth Kingsbury, daughter of Lemuel Kingsbury, of Camden and Wakeman, Jan. 30, 1870. He died at his home in Wakeman – just west of the cemetery – Dec. 23, 1910. The wife died July 7, 1916. Their children were Clara May, Ella, and Leona (who died inf.) Emmer Marie Armstrong married Joe Dereemer, Joe Latham and William Dudley, in succession.
Ellen Armstrong went to Wyoming and Died in 1914.
Polly Jane ("Jennie") Armstrong married James Shafer, and 2nd, Byron Peck, and lived in Wakeman Village.
ARNOLD, Forsythe – son of Ziebon Arnold, was born at Wilton, Saratoga Co., N.Y., March 10, 1815. He came to Ohio in 1838, and in 1842 married Polly Beecher, of Florence Township. He had lived in Birmingham and worked at the carpenter’s trade. After his marriage he lived at Terryville. He bought a farm on Butler Road, being the north part of Lot 72 and moved there Nov.1, 1849. In 1855 he bought 46 acres more at the north side of the lot. His wife, who was born March 20, 1824, died in 1885. Mr. Arnold died Aug. 28, 1896.
Their children were:
Perry, born Sept. 23, 1844, died 1896, unmarried.
Carley E., born July 6, 1846, died 1865 at Cumberland, Md.
a Union soldier.
Lewis B., born Aug. 23, 1848, died March 1, 1913.
Helen A., born Nov. 4, 1850, died 1862.
Alice P., born Sept. 22, 1856, made her home in Wakeman.
ARNOLD, Harrison – one of a family of thirteen children, and a brother of Forsythe, was born in Wilton, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1817. He came to Ohio in 1845 and settled in Wakeman on the Butler Road south of his brother’s, on Lot 73. He married Sarah, daughter of William Parker, of Florence, in 1851. She died April 3, 1877 at the age of 44. He died on the farm May 12, 1889. Their children were Mary Josephine, born July 15, 1856, married, 1st, Fred Wood, 2nd, Edgar Selden, and died July 13, 1904; and Cora, the wife of Ed. Barnes, of Townsend.
BACON, Dexter E. – born in Canton, Conn., Sept. 17, 1823, was married at Clockville, N.Y., on Jan. 31, 1849 to Mrs. Mary Tuller, of Canton, Conn. The wife, who was the daughter of Zaccheus Wilcox and Temperance Case, was born April 10, 1813, and married Henry Tuller about 1833, and had two children, Lucia Jane, born July 19, 1835, and Hiram, born in 1837, and died in 1839. Mr. Tuller died Feb. 20, 1840. Mrs. Bacon’s mother married for her second husband Amos Tuller, and uncle of Henry. She died at the home of Mrs. Bacon in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon came to Wakeman in 1850, purchasing the farm of Nathan Downs, just north of the village, where Burney Haskins afterward lived. They had a son, Charles, born July 20, 1854, and lived on the home farm until has death in 1898. He married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of George W. Barnes, of Wakeman, in 1878. She died Sept. 11, 1915.
Charles Bacon had daughters, Sarah (Haskins) and May. Dexter Bacon died June 12, 1871.
Lucia Jane Tuller, daughter of Mrs. Dexter Bacon came to Wakeman and became a successful school teacher. She married Theodore F. Clark, a son of Dr. H. M. Clark, March 4, 1858, and died at their home in Iowa, March 15, 1917. Dryden Barbour’s wife, Jane, was a sister of Mrs. Bacon.
BAILEY, Samuel – born Aug. 19, 1796, at Lacomon, Pa., lived in Livingston Co., N.Y., until he came to Ohio. In 1821 he was married to Melissa Runyon, who was born at Cooperstown, N.Y., May 12, 1799. They came to New London, Ohio, in 1847, and to Wakeman in 1850. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom seven grew to maturity. Parmelia, Hannah, Amarilla, Jane, Samuel, Melissa and Sabrina. Mr. Bailey died in 1888 and the wife two years later. The children did not all live here.
Amarilla, born Nov. 17, 1830, married Dexter Parker, and lived with her sons in Wakeman until her death May 21, 1922. See History of Dexter Parker for her further history. Samuel, Jr., died in Oklahoma in 1913. Hannah and Melissa went to Wisconsin and married. Jane married Isaac Kilborn and lived in Michigan. Sabrina married Henry Strong - not of the Wakeman family – and went to Iowa.
BARBER, William - son of Edward and Jane Barber, was born in Wiltshire County, England, Jan, 16, 1828. He came to Summit County, Ohio, in 1848, and to Wakeman a year later. He was a cabinet maker by trade but gave that up and went to farming.
He was married to Hannah E. Stiles, a daughter of Henry Stiles and Sally M. Starr, of Clarksfield, on May 5, 1853. He bought a farm on the west town line road in 1855, being 56 acres on Lot 10, but two years later bought 50 acres of Lot 8 and kept adding to this until he owned nearly all of the lot, and this farm was his home for many years until he removed to the village, where he died April 11, 1913, and where the wife died. They had children:
Anna E. born Oct. 21, 1855, married Tom Barnes, is
deceased,
Francis M. " Feb. 24, 1858, made his home in Chicago,
Ella M. " Jan. 25, 1861, married, 1st, Asa Briggs.
2nd, Charles L. Peck, of Viola, Ill.
Edward John " Oct. 30, 1862, lives in Delaware,
Jennie M. " Aug. 25, 1864, died April, 4, 1916,
Henry S. " Feb. 14, 1866, lived in Wakeman Township
until his death,
Ida S. " Jan. 15, 1868, lives in Wakeman,
William C. " Feb 1, 1872, lives in Lorain, Ohio.
Edward Barber, the father, came to Wakeman in 1851. His children were Mary Ann, Sarah Matilda, Elizabeth, William and Edward.
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