The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 111 through 120

The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 111 through 120

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FRENCH FAMILY OF WAKEMAN.

Jeremiah French, of Stratford, Conn., whose ancesters were from England (Essex), married Hannah Edwards, in July 1737 - removed to Dover, Dutchess county, New York, some time after 1747. He had children, William, 1738, Mary 1740, Sarah 1741, Jeremiah 1743, Benjamin 1745, and Charity 1747.

The son, Lieutenant William, lived at South Britain, Conn., and had children, Bennet, married Currence Pierce, Avis, married Joel Pierce, Aner, married Gen. Ephraim Hinman, and Silas, who married Anne Curtis, and the history follows.

FRENCH, Silas - born in 1773, married Anne Curtis, a daughter of Benjamin Curtis, a Methodist preacher of Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 22, 1794. They lived in Litchfield county, Conn., and had a goodly sized family of children, namely, Phedima, Erastus, Burton, Sarah Ann (born in 1800, died in 1813), Sarah (born in 1803 and died an infant,) Laura (born in 1800, died in 1818), Jane and Amanda, twins, Fannie, Joseph and Marcus.

Mr. French was quite wealthy and began purchasing Wakeman land at an early day. He purchased of Burton Canfield, on April 3, 1820, Lots 6, 16, 26, and 36, on the south side of the center road west of the present village, comprising 654 acres. In July of the same year he purchased of Bronson, Jessup and Wakeman, Lots 4, 32, and 45 - 498 acres. In 1822 he purchased 50 acres of the southeast part of Lot 35, and the whole of Lot 3 - 166 acres. This made his holdings 1353 acres, at a cost of about $2600. However, he soon began to sell this land in smaller tracts, besides giving to each of his sons 160 acres and to each of his daughters 50 acres.

On the 20^th of May 1820,he started for Wakeman and arrived there on the 20^th of June. The party consisted of Mr. & Mrs. French and the children, Marcus, Fanny, Joseph, Jane and Amanda, besides Burton’s wife and Miss Sally Sherman. Last, but not least, was the family cow which was led behind the wagon. The daughter, Phedima, had married Sheldon Smith and was then living in a house on the east bank of Chapelle Creek on the farm now owned by Sumner Todd. The newcomers found lodging with the Smith family until a log house could be erected on the west bank of the creek on the north side of the road. Here Silas and his family made their home for a few years until a frame house was built. A few years ago William Timbs removed the old house and built a new one, the one now occupied by Mrs. Ed. Parker.

Mr. French did not use all of his money in making his land purchases, but it is said, brought about four thousand dollars sewed into the lining of an old coat, for safety. He set out an orchard soon after his settlement here, and later built and operated a cider mill. He died May 29, 1842, at the age of 69. Amanda French had married Joseph Washburn and Mrs. French made her home with them until her death Feb. 19, 1849, at the age of 80. The history of Phedima will be taken up with that of Sheldon Smith.

Erastus French, son of Silas, came to Wakeman in 1817, reaching here Oct. 26^th. He came in a light one-horse wagon, by way of Pittsburgh. It was dark when he reached the settlement and he came first to Capt. Pierce’s cabin, where he saw the light of the fire between the logs. The streams he had crossed were swollen and muddy on account of rains. He did not dare drive his horse into the larger streams until he had first waded across, so when he reached the settlement he was wet and muddy. Before he presented himself at the Pierce home, he took a bath in the nearest water he could find, but it so happened that this was a mud hole, and his appearance was not improved thereby. However, he met a welcome reception, and made his home with the Pierce family until his marriage in 1820. He paid $2.50 a week for his board at first but later cut down his expense by furnishing his own food and paying Mrs. Pierce 50 cents a week for doing his cooking. His bill of fare was generally mush, corn bread and milk.

He selected a location on Lot 32 and began making a clearing. His father gave him the deed to this land in 1823. He built a log house toward the east side of the lot. After making some improvements he went back to Connecticut on foot and returned with Sheldon Smith and wife, in 1819. He was married to Ruth Squire, daughter of Joab Squire, of Florence, April 26, 1820.

In 1835, he sold the south part of his farm, 59 acres, to William Bostwick. This is now the west part of the Stanley Pierce farm. He then built a frame house further north on the same lot and lived there until the time of his death March 12, 1884. He was born Sept. 16, 1797. His children were:

Laura,

died in 1849,unmarried,

Emily,

married Alvan Davis, and died about 1898,

Electa,

married Cyrus Moon and died about 1861,

Annie,

married Horace Bristol and died about 1860,

Mary,

married Collins Hendrickson, and died about 1860

Fanny,

died in 1860,unmarried,

Adelia,

married Oshea Coon, and died in 1903.

The wife, Ruth Squire, died June 19, 1845, at the age of 44. Mr. French married Laura Ann, widow of William Doughty, of Florence, in 1851. She was the mother of James Doughty, died in Civil war, and of Mrs. Campfield. She died in Fostoria, O., May 27, 1897.

Burton French, son of Silas, born March 13, 1799, came to Wakeman with Sheldon Smith in 1819. He had married Augusta Dayton, a daughter of David and Martha (Tuttle) Dayton, born Oct. 28, 1801, at Southbury, Conn., and died in Wakeman, Nov. 15, 1888. Martha Tuttle was a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Tuttle, a soldier of the Revolution. He was a son of Hezekiah and Martha (Huthwit) Tuttle, of South bury, and a grandson of Nathaniel Tuttle who settled in Woodbury, Conn., about 1680. The wife, Augusta, came on with Silas French the next year. Mr. French built and occupied the house in the village now occupied by M. T. Scott, on River Street. He died Sept. 16, 1874. Their children were:

Martha Augusta,

born Feb. 18, 1821, married Laris Robinson, and died in Wakeman, Sept. 25, 1848.

Mary Etta,

born Sept. 9, 1822, married Henry Ransom, of Florence and died at Ludington, Mich., March 6, 1894.

Burton H.,

born April 5, 1824, married in 1851, Hannah Celestia Bills, of Clarksfield, and died in Wakeman Sept. 2, 1898.

Berkley Dayton,

born Oct. 12, 1826, married Esther Stone, of Florence, moved to Kansas in 1856, and later to Colorado and died at the age of 75 - had children: Martha, Birney and George.

Bernice Tuttle,

born April 13, 1832, married Caroline, daughter of Joseph Coon, of Wakeman. He was killed by lightning in Wakeman, April 6, 1873. Their daughter Verna married William Wonser, of Wakeman.

Francis Clark,

("Frank"), born Jan. 13, 1835, married Hanna Adeline Haskins, of Clarksfield, moved to Perkins, Oklahoma in 1889,and died April 3, 1916.

Benjamin Curtis,

born July 1, 1841.

(Burton H. French used to live where Wallace Nay used to, and had children, Augusta H., wife of Harrison Fletcher, died in 1918. Della, married Wallace Nay; Jessie, wife of David Day, of Clarksfield, Hattie M. King. Burtie B., James B., and Myrtle Sherman.)

Marcus French, son of Silas, married Sally Sherman, of Oxford, Conn. She came here with the family of Silas French. He bought and sold a number of Wakeman farms. He used to carry on a hotel on the south side of the center road, west of the village. He had children:

Sennah,

married Truman Nelson, who kept a hotel in the house where Harrison Fletcher used to live, but removed to Crown Point, Ind., where Nelson died, and she married a Jones.

Ann,

married a Potter, and went to Indiana.

Jane,

married a Follette and went to Iowa.

Marcus and wife and the unmarried children, Mary and Silas, moved to Wisconsin many years ago, and their further history is lost.

Jane French, daughter of Silas, married Douglas Squire, Nov. 23, 1836, and died at Monroeville, Ohio, May 29, 1864 - had children: Elbert J., Martha A., and Maud C.

Amanda French, daughter of Silas, married Joseph Washburn, who had come from New York State as a farm hand. After the death of Silas French they lived on the farm for a time, then removed to Townsend, where she died Jan. 11, 1852. Her son, Alfred French Washburn, born in Wakeman in 1840, died in Oklahoma in 1898.

Fanny French, married George Squire, of Florence, May 23, 1830, and died in 1875. They had children: Wesley, b. Oct. 11, 1834, d. Jan. 22, 1909, m. Emma Brooks, a niece of Eliphalet Brooks, of Wakeman; Erastus, born May 8, 1837, m. 1^st , Miss Miles of Birmingham, 2^nd, Martha Thornton, of Terryville, and died in Wakeman. Fanny Eliza born May 28, 1839, died young. Washington Irving, b. Oct. 25, 1844, d. Oct. 9, 1901.

Joseph French, son of Silas, was a small boy when his parents moved to Wakeman, and his duty was to ride a horse hitched to the wagon ahead of the horses. At the age of nineteen, Feb. 28, 1828, he was married to Jeannette Shelton, daughter of Gershom Shelton, of Woodbury, Conn., but afterwards of Wakeman. They began housekeeping on the west town line road, on Lot 4 (Gamber farm), on the first day of April 1828. This farm of 112 acres his father deeded to him in 1830. In 1829, their house burnt, the first one to burn in the township. Another log house was built and they lived in it until 1841 when a comfortable frame house was built. He died there Nov. 13, 1876. The wife was born April 28, 1809, and died Feb. 16, 1895. Their children were:

Mary,

born Aug. 27, 1830, married Henry Wilson in 1852, and died in Wakeman, Feb. 1, 1899. Had daughters, Emma and Viola.

Birdsey Curtiss,

born Feb.7, 1832, married Phebe Arnet, of Fitchville, and died at his home in Brownhelm, Ohio, April 15, 1914.

Silas C.,

born March 14, 1835, married Minerva, daughter of Gideon Waugh, of Camden and Wakeman, in 1857. For many years he lived in a brick house on the center road east of Wakeman center. He died at Berlin Heights, Jan. 9, 1919. He had children: Alvah Joseph, died in 1912, Etta Minerva (Benham), of Berlin Heights, Elsie Janet, of Berlin Heights, Silas Henry, died in Oberlin, Elbert, Claire, who married Ethel Beecher, and died in 1905, and

Lillian Mabel (Read), of Chicago.

Douglass Squire,

born March 25, 1837, married 1^st, Mary Elizabeth Ferris,

of Pittsfield, Lorain Co., Ohio, in 1858. She died in 1876,

and he married, 2^nd, Mary Jane (Farley) Bergen in 1876.

She died in Oct. 17, 1904. His children were: Charles Wallace, Frederick Murphy, Chapin Douglas, Jennette Estella, and Mary and Luella, twins. He lived on the town line road south of his father’s home, but removed to

Colton, California.

Lewellyn W.,

born March 26, 1841, married Lydia Ferris, March 26, 1866, and died May 12, 1914. The wife was born Aug. 23, 1847, and died April 5, 1909. Their children were: Alfred, of North Carolina, Howard and Percy, both dead.

Annetta Josephine,

born June 13, 1844.

FURMAN, Benjamin – lived in Florence, but later in Wakeman on the northwest corner, opposite the Erastus French home (no house there now, on Bristol land). His wife was Mary Denton, a sister of Elias Denton, of Florence, and he was a brother of Elias Denton’s wife. Mrs. Furman died in Wakeman, Jan. 21, 1858, at the age of 48. He died in Sandusky, Jan. 30, 1888. Their children were Emily Maria (Coe), Rachel Ann (Blackman), Mary Elizabeth (Akers), Melissa Matilda (Fletcher), Sarah Augusta (Roberts) , Isaac, of Huron, Ohio, Johannah (Nutbohm), George.

GARRETT, Samuel D. –a native of Virginia, came to Wakeman about 1851, and purchased, in two parcels, what is known as the Wilkins farm in Lot 59. In 1858, sold out to William Whitford and went west, then came back, then went on to Virginia, and disappears from our history.

GIBSON, SAMUEL H. - came to Clarksfield from Greenwich, Ohio, in 1836. His wife was Bathsheba Sheldon, of Greenwich. He worked at cloth dressing, wool carding, &c., in Clarksfield until the shop was burned in 1841. In 1842, he purchased 100 acres of Lot 60 in Wakeman. He sold 28 acres of it to Justus Wheeler in 1844, and the remainder to Joel Rogers in 1852. He removed to Milan, and thence to Greenwich again. He had children: Jerome, Mary and Isaac.

GILMAN, John - who married Evalina Johnson, daughter of Marshall Johnson, of Wakeman, lived here, probably from the time of his marriage, until after 1858. The record of deaths shows that Melvin, son of John Gilman, died in 1858, and an infant son in 1851. Also Mrs. Gilman died in 1851 at the age of 63 (probably the mother of John).

GREEN, Elias - a son of Charles Green, of Connecticut, who settled in Milan, Ohio, in 1832, was born May 22, 1825. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Gershom Shelton, of Wakeman, Nov. 26, 1844. In 1847 he worked Mrs. Shelton’s farm in Wakeman. He bought the Silas French farm and moved there March 22, 1848. In 1857, he sold the farm to Benjamin Meacham, and removed to East Clarksfield. He lived in Akron, Ohio, for two years, and moved to Wakeman again in 1880, and died there March 11, 1882. His wife died at the home of her daughter in Clarksfield, May 18, 1897, at the age of 71. They had children:

Charles R.,

born Nov. 8, 1845, married Flavia Barbour, of Wakeman, and went to Olathe, Kansas. The wife died and he married again. He died May 13, 1915.

Hellena A.,

born March 30, 1848, died in 1850.

Alda J.,

born Sept. 5, 1850, died in 1879 in Akron.

Hepsie E.,

born April 21, 1852, married William Morris, and lived in Clarksfield, but removed to Berlin and died Sept. 3, 1925.

David S.,

born Nov. 24, 1853, died Nov. 8, 1907.

Gershom S.,

born Nov. 27, 1859, married Emma Hanford, of Wakeman, and lives in California.

Ezra L.,

born Nov. 30, 1861, married Jennie Delemater.

Mary A.,

born July 15, 1862, married Emmerson Fletcher, and lives in Cleveland.

Bessie H.,

born Dec. 12, 1865, married Mat Delamater, and lives in Havanna, Ohio.

Carlos H.,

born May 18, 1868, died Nov. 19, 1924, married Lelah Hand.

GREEN, William - born in Steuben county, N.Y., in 1822, went to Michigan when thirteen years of age, and came to Berlin, Ohio, a few months later. A few years later he went to Michigan again and remained until 1840, when he went to New York, but came to Berlin the following year. In 1844 he married Lydia Darling, who died in a few months, and in 1847, he married her sister, Lucinda.

In 1852 he came to Wakeman and carried on a blacksmith shop. In 1856 he sold out here and went back to Michigan, but returned to Wakeman in 1865. He used to live opposite the Catholic Church. He left Wakeman some time after 1880.

His second wife died in 1869. He married, 3^rd in 1871, Mrs. Lucia Choat, of Norwalk. He had children by the second wife, nine in number, among them being Charles, Eddicia, Effie and Dora.

GRIFFIN, Richard – born in Virginia, May 28, 1819, married Aug. 17, 1843, Amy S. Simmons, of Penn Yan, N.Y. (born Nov. 9, 1824). They moved from Penn Yan to Townsend, Huron Co., in 1850, and to Wakeman in 1856. He was a cooper by trade and lived in the house later occupied by Samuel Rowland. In 1867, they removed to Chesaning, Michigan, where the wife died May 1, 1894, and he died on May 19, 1908.

They had children:

John R.,

born July 24, 1844, at Penn Yan, married Lavina Rippon, daughter of Henry Rippon, of Wakeman, Sept. 13, 1866, and lived in Wakeman village until his death, Feb. 12, 1910, without issue.

Abbie,

born Sept. 12, 1846, married -- Curwood, and lived at Owosso, Michigan.

Jane,

born Feb. 23, 1848, married -- Cushman and lived at Otsego, Michigan.

Frances,

born in 1850 in Townsend, married -- Van Austin, and lived at Chesaning, Mich.

Helen,

born Dec. 6, 1854, died in 1889.

Delbert,

born Feb. 22, 1856, lived in Saginaw, Mich.

Charles,

born July 7, 1858, lived in Chesaning .

Amy,

born May 27, 1861, died in 1864.

Sidney,

born Oct. 2, 1863, lived in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Lila,

born June 23, 1866, died in 1885.

HALE, Franklin - came from Brownhelm, Ohio, to Wakeman and settled on Lot 81 just east of the Butler road, on what is known as the Sam Martin farm, having obtained the deed of 80 acres of the farm in 1851. He was twice married, the second wife being Miss Susan Groatt, of Camden township. He was born in 1821 and died Feb. 8, 1894, without issue.

HALEY, Patrick - born in County Galway, Ireland, (where the name was "Heavy" but changed to "Healy" and "Haley" in this country.) In 1842, at the age of nineteen he came to America. In 1853 he was married to Julia Hollern. They lived at Elmore, Ohio, but came to Wakeman in 1857, settling on the east town line. In 1859 Stephen Trowbridge deeded to Patrick Heavy 40 acres of Lot 93, where John Mockler used to live. Later he removed into Camden Township, but about 1885 bought the Sala Todd farm in Wakeman, where John Birmingham lived later. He died March 9, 1897. Julia Hollern was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1832, and came to Painesville, Ohio, in 1852. She died March 8, 1903. They had children: Delia (Birmingham), Katherine (O’Leary), of Berea, O., John, who died in 1913, James Patrick and Thomas, of Belle Center, O., Edward, of Kenton, O., and Mary (Parker) of Mermill, Ohio.

HALL, Reuben - born in Brimfield, Mass., July 25, 1782, married Betsy Coe, daughter of Israel and Artemesia (Wright) Coe, of Rootstown, Ohio, March 7, 1810. She was a sister of Bela Coe, of Wakeman. She was born in Granville, Mass., May 14, 1787, and died June 13, 1868. Mr. Hall died Nov. 10, 1861. They came to Wakeman from Brimfield in 1836. He purchased the whole of Lot 27, and settled where his son, Alvan, afterwards lived. They had children:

Virgilius Homer,

born July 11, 1814, died July 9, 1838.

Alvan Coe,

born Feb. 18, 1818, married Oct. 6, 1842, Cordelia Bostwick, a sister of the wife of Almon B. Coe. They lived on the homestead in Wakeman. He died Oct. 31, 1887. The wife died Aug. 5, 1876, having been born at Edinburgh, Portage Co., O.; they had children: Helen, born Oct. 16, 1848, married Charles Barnes in 1872, and they lived on the Hall homestead. She was accidentally killed by a gunshot wound Nov. 24, 1907. Her children are: Virgil H., Aminta E., Cordelia N. and Alvan H. Laura, born May 12, 1857, married Edgar Henry, of Birmingham in 1879, and died Oct. 5, 1907. She had children: Alida, Estella and Bessie.

Lucius Swift,

born March 25, 1821, died July 24, 1897, married Mary Jane Bunce, of Wakeman, Oct. 4, 1842. They lived on the Hall homestead until 1845, when they moved to the village where both died, she on Feb. 18, 1896, and he on July 24, 1897. They had children: Adelia M., born Feb. 11, 1845, married, March 16, 1866, Charles E. Minor, and died March 31, 1904; and William Bradbury, who lived on the old Bunce homestead at the center of the township and died May 15, 1929.

0livia Jane,

born Jan. 19, 1828, died March 5, 1877, married Edward Bunce.

Ermina Augusta,

born Nov. 21, 1829, died July 11, 1848.

Four others died in infancy.

(Charles Green, in his pamphlet history of Wakeman, gives some intimate history of the Hall family, some of which we quote.)

"Alvan was a born reformer. He had a good common school education and was more than ordinarily intelligent. For many years before and after his marriage, he taught in the schools winters and was as painstaking and thorough in that as in everything else. Coming home from a winter’s teaching in Portage county one spring, the stage which ran from Cleveland through Florence and beyond was overturned near Birmingham, and Mr. Hall was laid up for the next three months with a broken leg. Nothing so endeared a cause to him as to know that it was unpopular. I suspect that he must have been a lineal descendant of those old round- head warriors who fought under Cromwell.

He was a good singer and years ago, while his brother with his violin led the choir, he played the bass viol. There were two rows of seats back of the choir in those days which were a favorite resort for the young people. But woe to the irreverent youth who so far forgot himself as to the time and place, as to disturb the singers in front of them with unseemly whispering and laughing. He was a strong Anti-slavery man, an ardent prohibitionist and set his face like flint against all forms of secret societies.

All of the Hall children were singers and the grand-children and most of the great-grandchildren have more than ordinary musical ability. But Lucius was a musical enthusiast. His first musical instrument was a flute that his mother bought for him from the sale of butter. How much planning this must have cost in those days of pinching economy, with butter, at the highest price, probably not more than eight or ten cents a pound, only those who lived in those times can guess.

For more than forty years he was chorister in the Congregational church. At one time he owned a piano of his own make. Like all musicians he had an extremely nervous organization. A discord to him was exquisite torture, while a well drilled choir, with voices all in harmony, was a foretaste of the joys of heaven. Wakeman has always had good music in its churches and how much of this is due to the unremitting labors of this brother whose voice is now mingling with the choirs above, only God knows.

His only son was named William Bradbury, after his favorite musical composer." (This son married Mary Maglone, and they had no children.)

HAND, John G. – a son of James Harvey and Margaret Hand, was born at Galen, Wayne county, N.Y., Feb. 28, 1824, and came to Clarksfield with his parents in 1837. He was married to Clarissa Fletcher, daughter of Robert Fletcher, of Clarksfield, Nov. 30, 1844. They settled in Wakeman in 1858 on the east side of the Butler Road on Lot 89, where Frank Arnold is living (in 1938). He died here July 8, 1902. The wife was born in Cortland county, N.Y., Aug. 9, 1821 and died Oct. 30, 1898. They had children:

Henry F.,

born Nov. 16, 1845, married Ruth, daughter of Daniel Welch, of Wakeman, July 9, 1868, and died at his home near Kipton, Dec. 4, 1920.

Cyrus W.,

born July 24, 1847, married Eunice, daughter of Nelson Hendryx, and they lived in Wakeman.

John Elmer,

born Dec. 19, 1853, married Emma, daughter of Edward Marks, of Wakeman, and died at his home in Henrietta.

Mary C.,

born Oct. 29, 1858, married Frank M. Arnold, and they live on the old Hand homestead. Mary lived to be 101 years old and died in Wooster, Ohio at the home of her daughter, Ethel Arnold Jordan Hardy.

HANFORD GENEALOGY.

John Hanford – A. D. 1066 - a Knight, the first of the family to bear a surname, supposed to have had its origin in the hurried handing of the children and possessions over a ford - Handeing over the Forde - and later abbreviated to the present name. Wollas Hall, the seat of the family since 1536, is on the Avon River in England, near the home of Shakespeare. This dwelling is still in the Hanford family and has been described as a fine piece of architecture.

The first of the family to emigrate to America was the widow Hanford and two daughters, in 1635. Her son, Thomas, remained behind until he had finished his studies at Oxford, and came in 1642. Here he continued his studies with Rev. Charles Chauncey, of Scituate, Mass., and became the first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, at Norwalk, Conn., in 1652.

HANFORD, Jabez, son of Phinehas II, son of Phineas I, son of Eleazer, son of Thomas, son of Theophilus, was of the nineteenth generation from John, the Knight, above. He was born May 12, 1782, and married Abbie Richards, Sept. 1, 1803. They lived in Bridgewater, Conn., where Mr. Hanford owned a farm of 160 acres. In 1831 he sold out and came to Wakeman where land was cheep and bought 453 acres at one time and 50 acres more later in the year, making more than five hundred acres which he owned at one time. He also bought a two thirds interest in the river mills. He built a house near the mill, known as the Terry house.

Soon after the marriage of their daughter, Frances, in 1858, Mr. and Mrs. Hanford went to live with her. He died Sept. 22, 1865. The wife, Abbie, was born in New Cannan, Conn., May 22, 1786, and died at Janesville, Wisconsin, June 29, 1879, aged 93 years. They had children:

Lydia,

born Jan. 4, 1804, married Marquis D. Randall, of Wakeman, died in Elyria, O., Nov. 2, 1886.

Jesse Edwin,

born Dec. 2, 1805, married Frances Shephard, March 11, 1827, and had a daughter, Maria Antoinette, born Aug. 18, 1828. The wife died Feb. 15, 1829, and he married Julia Sturdevant, April 10, 1831, and came to Wakeman in May 1831. They had a daughter born May 8, 1834, died Aug. 20 of the same year. The wife died July 7, 1834. He married,3^rd, Emeline Augusta Hervey, Oct. 29, 1834, and had children, Julia, born Sept. 28, 1837, (married Edgar M. Todd, son of George, March 3, 1870, and died in New London, Sept. 29, 1921,without issue.), Edwin D., born May 15, 1839, (married Mary E, Hutchison, of Florence, May 11, 1862, died in California, Feb. 16, 1913.) Amelia A., born May 21, 1846, (married Theodore C. Bryant, April 19,1868 and died at Minneapolis, March 15, 1896.) The third wife died July 12, 1860, and he married, 4^th, Miss Charlotte D. Todd, of Wakeman, a sister of Isaac, on Dec. 6, 1860. She was born Nov. 9, 1806 and died Sept. 12, 1889. "Squire" Hanford, as he was known, died April 9, 1875, from the kick of a horse. He used to live east of Wakeman, on the Whiton farm. (It is reported that Amelia, daughter of Jesse D. Hanford, married William Horton, March 22, 1855.)

Mary E.,

born May 14, 1808, married Carlon C. Canfield, of Wakeman. She was born in Wilton, Conn., and died May 14, 1882.

Harriet,

born in 1810, married George Hinman, Aug. 17, 1834, and died in Milan, Jan. 28, 1858.

Elizabeth,

born in 1812, married Lester Farrand, and died in Norwalk in October 1883.

Clarissa,

born in 1820.

Daniel,

born in 1825, married Mary, daughter of Justus Wheeler, of Wakeman, Jan. 14, 1847, and died Sept. 25, 1850. They had children, Agnes, Alice and Ida.

Frances,

born July 27, 1826, married Lester Kinney, Dec. 9, 1858. They lived in Oberlin for twenty five years, then removed to Chemung, Ill., where she died May 28, 1907.

Calvert,

born in 1829, /These three, with Clarissa died young.

Francis,

born in 1831, /

Alexander,

born in 1832, /

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Laura,	died in 1849,unmarried,
Emily,	married Alvan Davis, and died about 1898,
Electa,	married Cyrus Moon and died about 1861,
Annie,	married Horace Bristol and died about 1860,
Mary,	married Collins Hendrickson, and died about 1860
Fanny,	died in 1860,unmarried,
Adelia,	married Oshea Coon, and died in 1903.

Martha Augusta,	born Feb. 18, 1821, married Laris Robinson, and died in Wakeman, Sept. 25, 1848.
Mary Etta,	born Sept. 9, 1822, married Henry Ransom, of Florence and died at Ludington, Mich., March 6, 1894.
Burton H.,	born April 5, 1824, married in 1851, Hannah Celestia Bills, of Clarksfield, and died in Wakeman Sept. 2, 1898.
Berkley Dayton,	born Oct. 12, 1826, married Esther Stone, of Florence, moved to Kansas in 1856, and later to Colorado and died at the age of 75 - had children: Martha, Birney and George.
Bernice Tuttle,	born April 13, 1832, married Caroline, daughter of Joseph Coon, of Wakeman. He was killed by lightning in Wakeman, April 6, 1873. Their daughter Verna married William Wonser, of Wakeman.
Francis Clark,	("Frank"), born Jan. 13, 1835, married Hanna Adeline Haskins, of Clarksfield, moved to Perkins, Oklahoma in 1889,and died April 3, 1916.
Benjamin Curtis,	born July 1, 1841.

Sennah,	married Truman Nelson, who kept a hotel in the house where Harrison Fletcher used to live, but removed to Crown Point, Ind., where Nelson died, and she married a Jones.
Ann,	married a Potter, and went to Indiana.
Jane,	married a Follette and went to Iowa.

Mary,	born Aug. 27, 1830, married Henry Wilson in 1852, and died in Wakeman, Feb. 1, 1899. Had daughters, Emma and Viola.
Birdsey Curtiss,	born Feb.7, 1832, married Phebe Arnet, of Fitchville, and died at his home in Brownhelm, Ohio, April 15, 1914.
Silas C.,	born March 14, 1835, married Minerva, daughter of Gideon Waugh, of Camden and Wakeman, in 1857. For many years he lived in a brick house on the center road east of Wakeman center. He died at Berlin Heights, Jan. 9, 1919. He had children: Alvah Joseph, died in 1912, Etta Minerva (Benham), of Berlin Heights, Elsie Janet, of Berlin Heights, Silas Henry, died in Oberlin, Elbert, Claire, who married Ethel Beecher, and died in 1905, and Lillian Mabel (Read), of Chicago.
Douglass Squire,	born March 25, 1837, married 1^st, Mary Elizabeth Ferris, of Pittsfield, Lorain Co., Ohio, in 1858. She died in 1876, and he married, 2^nd, Mary Jane (Farley) Bergen in 1876. She died in Oct. 17, 1904. His children were: Charles Wallace, Frederick Murphy, Chapin Douglas, Jennette Estella, and Mary and Luella, twins. He lived on the town line road south of his father’s home, but removed to Colton, California.
Lewellyn W.,	born March 26, 1841, married Lydia Ferris, March 26, 1866, and died May 12, 1914. The wife was born Aug. 23, 1847, and died April 5, 1909. Their children were: Alfred, of North Carolina, Howard and Percy, both dead.
Annetta Josephine,	born June 13, 1844.

Charles R.,	born Nov. 8, 1845, married Flavia Barbour, of Wakeman, and went to Olathe, Kansas. The wife died and he married again. He died May 13, 1915.
Hellena A.,	born March 30, 1848, died in 1850.
Alda J.,	born Sept. 5, 1850, died in 1879 in Akron.
Hepsie E.,	born April 21, 1852, married William Morris, and lived in Clarksfield, but removed to Berlin and died Sept. 3, 1925.
David S.,	born Nov. 24, 1853, died Nov. 8, 1907.
Gershom S.,	born Nov. 27, 1859, married Emma Hanford, of Wakeman, and lives in California.
Ezra L.,	born Nov. 30, 1861, married Jennie Delemater.
Mary A.,	born July 15, 1862, married Emmerson Fletcher, and lives in Cleveland.
Bessie H.,	born Dec. 12, 1865, married Mat Delamater, and lives in Havanna, Ohio.
Carlos H.,	born May 18, 1868, died Nov. 19, 1924, married Lelah Hand.

John R.,	born July 24, 1844, at Penn Yan, married Lavina Rippon, daughter of Henry Rippon, of Wakeman, Sept. 13, 1866, and lived in Wakeman village until his death, Feb. 12, 1910, without issue.
Abbie,	born Sept. 12, 1846, married -- Curwood, and lived at Owosso, Michigan.
Jane,	born Feb. 23, 1848, married -- Cushman and lived at Otsego, Michigan.
Frances,	born in 1850 in Townsend, married -- Van Austin, and lived at Chesaning, Mich.
Helen,	born Dec. 6, 1854, died in 1889.
Delbert,	born Feb. 22, 1856, lived in Saginaw, Mich.
Charles,	born July 7, 1858, lived in Chesaning .
Amy,	born May 27, 1861, died in 1864.
Sidney,	born Oct. 2, 1863, lived in New Philadelphia, Ohio.
Lila,	born June 23, 1866, died in 1885.

Virgilius Homer,	born July 11, 1814, died July 9, 1838.
Alvan Coe,	born Feb. 18, 1818, married Oct. 6, 1842, Cordelia Bostwick, a sister of the wife of Almon B. Coe. They lived on the homestead in Wakeman. He died Oct. 31, 1887. The wife died Aug. 5, 1876, having been born at Edinburgh, Portage Co., O.; they had children: Helen, born Oct. 16, 1848, married Charles Barnes in 1872, and they lived on the Hall homestead. She was accidentally killed by a gunshot wound Nov. 24, 1907. Her children are: Virgil H., Aminta E., Cordelia N. and Alvan H. Laura, born May 12, 1857, married Edgar Henry, of Birmingham in 1879, and died Oct. 5, 1907. She had children: Alida, Estella and Bessie.
Lucius Swift,	born March 25, 1821, died July 24, 1897, married Mary Jane Bunce, of Wakeman, Oct. 4, 1842. They lived on the Hall homestead until 1845, when they moved to the village where both died, she on Feb. 18, 1896, and he on July 24, 1897. They had children: Adelia M., born Feb. 11, 1845, married, March 16, 1866, Charles E. Minor, and died March 31, 1904; and William Bradbury, who lived on the old Bunce homestead at the center of the township and died May 15, 1929.
0livia Jane,	born Jan. 19, 1828, died March 5, 1877, married Edward Bunce.
Ermina Augusta,	born Nov. 21, 1829, died July 11, 1848.

Henry F.,	born Nov. 16, 1845, married Ruth, daughter of Daniel Welch, of Wakeman, July 9, 1868, and died at his home near Kipton, Dec. 4, 1920.
Cyrus W.,	born July 24, 1847, married Eunice, daughter of Nelson Hendryx, and they lived in Wakeman.
John Elmer,	born Dec. 19, 1853, married Emma, daughter of Edward Marks, of Wakeman, and died at his home in Henrietta.
Mary C.,	born Oct. 29, 1858, married Frank M. Arnold, and they live on the old Hand homestead. Mary lived to be 101 years old and died in Wooster, Ohio at the home of her daughter, Ethel Arnold Jordan Hardy.

Lydia,	born Jan. 4, 1804, married Marquis D. Randall, of Wakeman, died in Elyria, O., Nov. 2, 1886.
Jesse Edwin,	born Dec. 2, 1805, married Frances Shephard, March 11, 1827, and had a daughter, Maria Antoinette, born Aug. 18, 1828. The wife died Feb. 15, 1829, and he married Julia Sturdevant, April 10, 1831, and came to Wakeman in May 1831. They had a daughter born May 8, 1834, died Aug. 20 of the same year. The wife died July 7, 1834. He married,3^rd, Emeline Augusta Hervey, Oct. 29, 1834, and had children, Julia, born Sept. 28, 1837, (married Edgar M. Todd, son of George, March 3, 1870, and died in New London, Sept. 29, 1921,without issue.), Edwin D., born May 15, 1839, (married Mary E, Hutchison, of Florence, May 11, 1862, died in California, Feb. 16, 1913.) Amelia A., born May 21, 1846, (married Theodore C. Bryant, April 19,1868 and died at Minneapolis, March 15, 1896.) The third wife died July 12, 1860, and he married, 4^th, Miss Charlotte D. Todd, of Wakeman, a sister of Isaac, on Dec. 6, 1860. She was born Nov. 9, 1806 and died Sept. 12, 1889. "Squire" Hanford, as he was known, died April 9, 1875, from the kick of a horse. He used to live east of Wakeman, on the Whiton farm. (It is reported that Amelia, daughter of Jesse D. Hanford, married William Horton, March 22, 1855.)
Mary E.,	born May 14, 1808, married Carlon C. Canfield, of Wakeman. She was born in Wilton, Conn., and died May 14, 1882.
Harriet,	born in 1810, married George Hinman, Aug. 17, 1834, and died in Milan, Jan. 28, 1858.
Elizabeth,	born in 1812, married Lester Farrand, and died in Norwalk in October 1883.
Clarissa,	born in 1820.
Daniel,	born in 1825, married Mary, daughter of Justus Wheeler, of Wakeman, Jan. 14, 1847, and died Sept. 25, 1850. They had children, Agnes, Alice and Ida.
Frances,	born July 27, 1826, married Lester Kinney, Dec. 9, 1858. They lived in Oberlin for twenty five years, then removed to Chemung, Ill., where she died May 28, 1907.
Calvert,	born in 1829, /These three, with Clarissa died young.
Francis,	born in 1831, /
Alexander,	born in 1832, /