History of Wakeman Township, pages 121 through 130

The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 121 through 130

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Jesse E. Hanford was the Paymaster of the 3^rd Company, 3^rd Regt., 2^nd Brigade, 11^th Division of Ohio Militia, in 1839. He brought suit against a number of Clarksfield men (probably in other townships also) to recover fines for delinquency in performing their duties on "Training Day." As a side light on the military history of those times it is interesting to note the result of some of the suits. Some set up the defense that they were sick on that day, and others that they were ignorant of the fact that they had been enrolled. Jonas Martin stood trial and proved that he had done his duty according to law. In these cases the Justice assessed the costs, amounting to from 74 cents to $3.30, against Mr. Hanford. Some others failed to appear or were beaten in a trial. These were fined from one dollar to two dollars and a half, besides the costs of suit.

HARRIS, Andrew – born in Springfield township, Summit county, Ohio, Aug. 11, 1825, married Rebecca Harrison, Feb. 14, 1850, and came to Wakeman in 1860. He was engaged in Mercantile business here with Wm. H. Pierce and H. J. Baldwin, the firm being known as Harris, Pierce & Baldwin. In 1879, he removed to Missouri, and the wife died at Cassville, Jan. 10, 1899. He returned to Wakeman and died Feb. 26, 1914. They had children: Ella Jane, born March 31, 1857, who married John J. McMann, of Wakeman, and George Ernst, of Missouri, born Sept. 21, 1862. Two sons died young.

Andrew Harris was a son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Dreher) Harris, and the line is through James-William-James, who was born at Bristol, England, about 1700, and emigrated to U.S. about 1725, settling at Sussex, N. J.

Harris, John, son of David, a brother of Andrew, Sr., was born at Springfield, Ohio, July 29, 1826, and came to Wakeman in 1860. In 1864 he married Mrs. Mary Loughry, of Norwalk. He moved to Norwalk and died there.

HASKINS, Isaac – the youngest son of Capt. George Haskins, was born near Dartmouth, Mass., in 1785 (Probably, but one correspondent says 1773, and another, 1783). He as married to Polly Burney in 1807. She was the daughter of Thomas Burney and Janet Seeken, and was born near Charleston, S. C., in February, 1785. Her father was a sea captain and sailed from Newbern, N.C. He moved to New Bedford, Mass., and married there, but returned to Newbern. He was lost at sea with his ship and crew and the widow and child returned to New Bedford.

Isaac Haskins and family (except Julia, who had married Philip Peckham and came here in 1829) came to Wakeman in 1832, arriving Nov. 4^th. Mr. Haskins bought out Samuel Russell Barnes, in 1833, 80 acres of Lots 16 and 26. He also bought of Marcus French 7 ½ acres of Lot 26, and of Ira Peck, in 1834, the whole of Lot 28. In 1838, he bought of Isaac Bunce, 40 acres of Lot 16, and in 1839, 40 acres more in the same lot of Silas French. Mr. Peckham had contracted for the Barnes farm, but Mr. Haskins bought him out and the deed was from Barnes. This farm was the one afterward owned by T. B. Haskins, and later by Noble Weeks. Here the Haskins family made their home, and here the father died Oct. 18, 1843. He had deeded 50 acres of Lot 28 to his son, Joseph, in 1835, and to Thomas the west part of the same lot in 1842, and to son, James, the northeast part of the same lot. In 1846, the administrator deeded to Polly Haskins, 52 acres of Lot 16, and to T. B. Haskins, 73, acres of Lot 26. The widow, with sons, James and Henry, went to live on the farm of James (Henry Flew farm). In 1858, they removed to Lowell, Ind., where Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell (Mary Haskins) were living, and the widow died in Feb. 1869. They had children: born in New Bedford:

Julia Ann,

born Jan. 9, 1809, married Philip Peckham, and died in Shelby county, Ohio, in 1872.

Joseph B.,

born April 23, 1812, married Henriette, daughter of Gershom Shelton, of Wakeman, in 1838. They made their home on the farm where their grandson, Henry Haskins, lived. He died July 28, 1894, and she died June 16, 1899. They had children: Isaac P., born July 10, 1839, married Julia N. , daughter of Amos Clark, in 1868, and died at his winter home of Daytona, Florida, March 11, 1918; Smith, died young; Hepsy, born June 9, 1841 married Horace Squire in 1865 and died in Townsend, Aug. 7, 1913;

Charles M., born Nov. 8, 1848, married Margaret Trumbull, of Florence, in 1869, and died in Hartland, O., Dec. 10, 1899; Ida M., born June 5, 1856, married Oscar Welch in 1878, and lived at Sebring, Ohio; Joseph L., born May 5, 1859, married Ida McKellogg in 1885, and died at Grafton, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1915.

Abigail H.,

born March 24, 1814.

James B.,

born in 1820 and died in a Confederate prison during the Civil war, not married.

Thomas Burney,

born April 26, 1822, married Ruth Parketon, of Hartland, O., Aug. 10, 1848. She was a daughter of Sidney R. and Ellen (O’ Dell) Parketon, and was born at Haverstraw, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1825. Mr. And Mrs. Haskins made their home on the old homestead where Noble Weeks lived later. He died May 13, 1891 and she on March 9, 1899. Their children were: Albert D., deceased; Erford, born Oct. 13, 1850, married Adah A. Coon, Dec. 14, 1870, and died in Hesperia, Mich., Dec. 28, 1911; Franklin R., born Nov. 20, 1852, married Julia Barnes, and lived in Wakeman.

Mary,

born March 10, 1825.

Henry H.

born in April 1827.

HAYES, Bradley – one of the ten children of Sturgess and Anna (Wakeman) Hayes, was born at New Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 24, 1828. The family came to Clarksfield in 1830, when Bradley was two years old. In 1857 he married Mary, daughter of Justus Wheeler, and widow of Daniel Hanford. They made their home on the Wheeler homestead. He died Oct. 20, 1910. She died Nov. 16, 1907. They had children:

Hinda J.,

born May 9, 1858, married Canarius P. Clawson, of Clarksfield, and died on the old homestead, Oct. 31, 1926.

Jesse J.,

born Aug. 9, 1864, married Roxy, daughter of Columbus Ross, (and is deceased), and lives on the Herrick Bentley farm south of Wakeman.

Hattie A.,

died young.

HEALD, David - came from Belleville, Jefferson county, N.Y., to Wakeman, thence to Birmingham and then to Iowa, where he died. He voted in 1837. His wife was Betsy Adams, and their children were George, Clark, Alonzo, Charles, Amos and Frank. George married Maria Shafer and lived on a farm west of Birmingham until his death.

Amos Heald who died in Wakeman, Dec. 3, 1839, at the age of 75 may have been the father of David.

HENDRYZ, Barzilla S. – (the name sometimes spelled "Hendricks") came to Wakeman with his wife and an adopted son in June 1819. He bought the whole of Lot 14 from Burton Canfield in 1824, at least the deed was dated Jan. 27, 1824, and was made out to S. B. Hendryx. In 1827, he received a deed to 115 ½ acres of Lot 57 (east part of the Cahoon farm) in the name of Squire B. Hendryx. It is likely that his name was Barzilla Squire Hendryx, and that he was called Squire at his old home, hence the error in the deed. He sold part of Lot 14 to Woodward Todd and Sheldon Smith, but lived where Sumner Todd now lives. His wife was Sally Hill and she died Jan. 1, 1828, at the age of 46. Horace, the adopted son died in 1827, at the age of sixteen. Mr. Hendryx married 2^nd, Maria Phillips on Aug. 2, 1828. On the 4^th of February 1830, Mr. Hendryx was thrown from a sleigh near Merritt Hyde’s and received injuries which caused his death the next day. The widow married 2^nd, Daniel Shelton, of Vermillion in 1835 and they moved to Flint, Michigan, in 1849, and she died at the home of her son in her 77^th year. Mrs. Jedidah Hendryx, the mother of Barzilla and of the wife of Abraham Bronson, came here with the family and died June 14, 1820, being the first one of the settlers to die.

HILL, Isaac - born in South Britain, Conn., Nov. 16, 1772, married Elizabeth Ann Bunnell about 1794. They moved from Woodbury, Conn., to Rootstown, Portage Co., Ohio, in 1816, and to Wakeman in 1824. They first lived in a log house which their son, Leverett, had built on the northeast corner of Lot 16. In 1828 they moved to the opposite corner, on Lot 25, where a house had been built for them. This house stood at the northeast corner of what is known as the Westfall Corners. Mr. Hill bought 20 acres here in 1825. In 1830 he obtained from the heirs of Richard Bracy, of Conn., 90 acres of Lot 26, across the road from his house. In 1837 he sold 15 acres of this to Joel Cary. The wife died Aug. 22, 1828, having been born April 12, 1771. Not very long after the death of his wife, Mr. Hill began a courtship of Miss Betsy Curtiss, an old acquaintance of his in South Britain, Conn.; she was a daughter of Dr. Isaac Curtiss, whose history is on page 104. She was born Feb. 26, 1785, and died Sept. 6, 1848. Mr. Hill married, 3^rd, a widow, Deborah Woodman, of Oberlin. He died Sept. 3, 1860. He was the first blacksmith in the settlement, and was a fine man. In a letter written by Merritt Hyde to his brother, in 1824, he said: "We was so plagued for a Blacksmith that I let Isaac Hill have an article of my land off of the west end of my land and took his notes and went to Rootstown and moved him out." Mr. Hill had children, all by the first wife:

Maria,

born in 1795, married Bela Coe in Rootstown, came to Wakeman, and died Oct. 25, 1866.

Benjamin,

born Nov. 7, 1796, married Mary Shanks in Portage county, in 1820. They came to Clarksfield in 1825, where he operated a blacksmith shop, burning charcoal for the fuel in his forge. He received eight cents per shoe for shoeing horses. In 1828 he married Julia Stevens, of Fitchville. In 1862, they removed to Fairfield township, in Huron county, where the wife died in 1875, and he in 1876. He had children, Jonathan, Hoyt, Alvin and Fred.

Leverett,

born in 1797, married, March 25, 1830, Esther Strong, a sister of Cyrus Strong, of Wakeman. He died Oct. 2, 1851. In 1834 he bought 75 acres of Lot 16. His children: Leverett

Benedict, married Hannah Whitney and moved to Tabor, Iowa, and died there Jan. 29, 1892; Edgar S. lived in Nebraska; Elizabeth, married Lemuel Webb, of Wakeman, and died at Tabor about 1913; Edwin S., lived at National City, Cal., was pastor of a church at Atlantic, Iowa, forty years. Julius M. died at Tabor about 1902; Isaac Curtiss, born Dec. 2, 1837 lived in California,

Elizabeth,

died unmarried July 20, 1838, at the age of 37.

Charles,

born April 6, 1803, married Melinda Lyon, July 24, 1831. He bought 25 acres of Lot 16 in 1826, and sold it to Leverett in 1834. They moved from Wakeman to Oberlin and then to Tabor, Iowa, where he died Jan. 7, 1867. The wife was a daughter of Charles and Deborah (Palmer) Lyon and was born in Cayuga county, N.Y., April 10, 1813, and died Aug. 12, 1892. Their children were: Charles Willis, John Watson, Martha Cornelia.

Sophia,

born March 10, 1804, married, as his second wife, Asa Wheeler of Clarksfield and Wakeman, Nov. 19, 1837, and died Jan. 10, 1875. She had a daughter, Betsy, who lived at Pawnee City, Neb., unmarried.

Justin,

born Dec. 25, 1808, married Sept. 27, 1832, Cornelia Rowland, daughter of Levi Rowland, of Clarksfield and Wakeman. Justin and his wife’s brother, Eber Rowland, bought the stone grismill and sawmill about three miles north of Wakeman. The dam was swept away in 1848, and they had no means for rebuilding. (the dam was never rebuilt.) Mr. Hill removed to Norwalk, thence to Milan in 1850, to Wakeman again in 1853, and in 1868 to St. Louis, Michigan, where he died in 1873. His wife, born July 25, 1814, died June 13, 1903. They had children: Phoebe, Albert R., Jane A., and Charles E.

Sylvester,

married Clarissa Appleby, of Camden, in 1835. In 1834, he bought 16 acres of Amos Clark. In 1856 he moved to Kansas and died there Nov. 17, 1878.

Sarah,

born March 11, 1814, married Zenas Bradish, son of Luke Bradish, a native of Wales. They lived in Clarksfield and Wakeman, then moved to Dundas, Ill. They had children, Elizabeth Ann, Emily Marie, Ellen Josephine.

Ruth Emily,

married as his second wife, John Hough, of Clarksfield. They removed to Oberlin, where they both died in 1872. They had children: Ann, Cordelia (wife of William Denman, of Wakeman), Ellen, William, Jonathan, Frances and two who died in infancy.

Charlotte,

married William H. Nickerson, which see.

Ann,

who died unmarried.

HILL, Hazen H., not of the family of Isaac, bought 32 acres of Lot 66 in 1837, and sold the same to Sala Todd the next year. He voted here in 1837.

HINMAN, George H. – was born in Connecticut in 1813 or 14, and came to Wakeman with the Hanford family. He was married to Harriet Hanford, Aug. 17, 1834. In 1835, he bought of Justin Sherman ten acres, east of the Sherman corners, but he sold it to Wm. H. Nickerson the next year. He lived on the George Sherman farm in a log house, but moved to Milan and his wife died there Jan. 28, 1858. In 1883 he went to Florida and died in July of that year. His daughter, Catherine, born in Wakeman, Aug. 24, 1836, married William C. Allon, March 30, 1863, and died in Elyria, Aug. 1, 1908.

HOSFORD, Hiram, - born in Connecticut, Oct. 6, 1813, was a cabinet maker by trade. He learned the trade of making fanning mills and in June 1836 went to Ontario, Canada, and opened a shop. He soon sold his business and returned to his former home at Lyons, New York. Again he went to Canada, to the town of Belleville. There were two political parties in Canada at that time, the Tories and Reformers. He was told that he would have to take the oath of Allegiance if he remained there. He got across the river by stealth and returned to Lyons. His sympathies were with the Reformers, and he set about forming a company to fight on the side of the Reformers, in what was called the "Patriot War", which was a rebellion against the government. In 1838, he and his company started for Canada by the way of Cleveland, Sandusky and Point Pelee Island, and joined other companies. On March 9, 1838, they fought a battle with the government troops and were defeated. The companies were disbanded and Mr. Hosford managed to reach Vermillion. From there he went to John Daley’s, south of Birmingham, and went to work building fanning mills. The whole country seemed to be in sympathy with the Reformers and secret meetings were held. Mr. Hosford gathered up a company of eight men around Birmingham and went to Detroit, where other companies had gathered. They crossed over to Windsor and were defeated in the battle with the regulars. One Birmingham man, Stephen Miller, was wounded, captured and executed. After many narrow escapes, Hosford again returned to Birmingham. His services in this rebellion gave him the name of "Captain Hosford".

In 1842, he married Loretta Higgins, born in Birmingham, Jan. 4, 1825. About 1850, he removed to Wakeman and engaged in mercantile business. He built the brick house, now occupied by Charles F. Thomas. This he sold in 1891 but continued to live in Wakeman and Florence, until 1903, when he went to Muscatine, Iowa, where his daughter was living and died there April 12, 1906. The wife died at the home of her daughter in Chicago, May 25, 1923. They had two children: Luther, born June 2, 1843, lived in Sandusky, and Mary, born Aug. 12, 1854, married Cyrenus Peck, of Woodhull, Ill., June 7, 1893, and lived at Hyde Park, Ill.

HOWE, Ebenezer – a son of Ben and Patty, of Florence, lived on the 65 acres owned by Warren Peck at his death, in lot 20. He sold out and moved to Florence to care for his parents and died there. His widow, Eliza Jane, married John Tuckes, and died at Grelton, Ohio. Albert Howe, the son, married Arvilla, daughter of Riley Peck, of Wakeman, and died in Henry county, Ohio, Aug. 31, 1880, at the age of 37 years.

HYDE GENEALOGY

Copied from Hyde Bible

Oct. 29, 1724, Daniel Hyde married Deborah Perry.

Their son, Abijah, married Mary Holbrook.

April 5, 1789, Abijah’s son, Daniel, married Eunice Bard.

Jan. 25, 1815, Daniel’s son Merritt married Sally Boyd.

June 28, 1855, Maria Hyde married Wm. Humphrey.

July 18, 1859, Monroe Hyde married E. M. Church.

Nov. 27, 1867, Susan M. Hyde married L. B. Pierce.

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Children of Daniel and Deborah.

Oct. 29, 1725, Nehemiah	Nov. 9, 1733, John
May 13, 1727, Eliakim	Apr. 26, 1735, Elihu, died Feb. 10, 1737.
Dec. 11, 1728, Daniel	June 1, 1737, Martha
Aug. 16, 1730, Deborah	Dec. 27, 1739, Eunice
Feb. 16, 1732, Abijah	Dec. 27, 1742, Elihu

Wife died Feb. 17, 1754

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Abijah Hyde and Mary Holbrook children

Polly, 1759	Nathan, 1767,
Abijah, 1761, died 1783	Sally, 1769
David, 1763	Elizabeth, 1771
Daniel, June 24, 1765 died Nov. 13, 1807	John, 1773
	Aurelious, 1775.

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Children of Daniel and Eunice (Bard) Hyde

Daughter, born April 7, 1790, died April 19, 1790,

Merritt, born May 12, 1791, died June 8, 1793,

Merritt, born June 2, 1794,

Garry B., born May 1795.

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Children of Merritt and Sally (Boyd) Hyde.

Sally Maria, born May 2, 1817,

Merritt Monroe I., born Oct. 19, 1818, died Sept. 28, 1834,

Susan Mariette, born Dec. 11, 1824,
Merritt Monroe II, born July 12, 1835, died Apr. 4, 1836,

Merritt Monroe III, born Jan. 16, 1837

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Francis Boyd, father of Sally Boyd, born Dec. 25, 1754, died 1844.

Sarah Boyd, born June 10, 1757, died 1844.

Francis Boyd had sisters, Mrs. Merritt Hyde and Mrs. William

Beers, and had daughters Mrs. Morris Canfield and Mrs. David S. Clark.

MERRITT HYDE - born in Oxford, Conn., Jan. 2, 1794, was a son of Daniel and Eunice (Bard) Hyde. Daniel was a son of Abijah and Mary (Holbrook) Hyde. Abijah was a son of Daniel and Deborah (Perry) Hyde. Daniel, the elder, was a descendant, perhaps grandson of Humphrey Hyde, who came from England and settled at Fairfield, Conn., 1639? (1669).

Merritt Hyde married Sally Boyd, Jan. 25, 1815. Their children are given above. The son, Merritt I. was killed by being thrown from a horse.

Mr. Hyde came to Wakeman with his brother-in-law, William Beers, in May 1823, when, according to report, there were only thirteen people in the township. He either sold, or traded his Connecticut property for land in Wakeman, getting deeds for 113 acres of Lot 35 and 67 acres of Lot 25. He made a start toward a clearing and returned to Connecticut. He came again, with his family after the birth of Mariette. About 1834, he built a frame house on his farm, on the center road, west of the village, which is yet standing in 1938.

He was an enterprising man and operated an ashery and store and distillery. Hyde and Bottsford operated a distillery near the grist mill, and Hyde had another north of his house. Hanford & Pierce sold Hyde & Bottsford a quarter of an acre of land, in 1833, for a still house. Mr. Hyde’s mother was very much opposed to his making liquor, and lost her mind over it and set the distillery on fire.

William Bissell told of his experience, when a boy, with Mr. Hyde. His father sent him on horse back from their home in Clarksfield to Mr. Hyde’s for a gallon of whiskey, for use in harvesting. The boy got the whiskey all right, but when he went to ford Brandy Creek, his horse put his head down to drink, and the boy slid over the horse’s head into the creek, and the jug was broken. He knew that if he went home without the whiskey, he would have to go back, and perhaps get a licking in the bargain; so he returned and Mr. Hyde, very generously, gave him another jug filled with the liquor, and he finally got home in good shape, with a warm place in his heart for Mr. Hyde.

The post office was kept in his house for a number of years. When the Vermillion and Ashland railroad was projected and construction commence, Mr. Hyde kept a store. He also bought ashes and made potash. A man would go around with a team and wagon with a high box to the farm houses and buy ashes at six cents a bushel, paying for the same from his peddler’s chest of merchandise which he carried with him, or the farmer could go to the store and receive store pay.

Mr. Hyde was the Indian agent for the government also.

He died May 1, 1874. The wife died Feb. 2, 1889, at the age of 94.

Sally Maria Hyde, daughter of Merritt, married William Humphrey, of Townsend, June 28, 1855, and lived in Townsend until her death Oct. 22, 1888.

Susan Mariette Hyde, daughter of Merritt, married Lemuel B. Pierce, of Wakeman, Nov. 27, 1867, and died March 19, 1907.

Merritt Monroe Hyde, called "Monree", Hyde, married Elizabeth Church, daughter of Elisha Church, of Wakeman, July 18, 1859, and began housekeeping in a house across the road from his father’s, the Mott house. After the death of his father, he moved to the homestead. In 1883 he moved to Texas and later to Elkmont, Alabama, where he died Nov. 13, 1920. His wife died Sept. 7, 1892. His children were Merritt Humphrey Hyde, of Wakeman; William Daniel, of Memphis, Tenn., and Sarah Frances, of Alabama.

GARRY B. HYDE, brother of Merritt, was born in Oxford, Conn., May 1, 1795. He came to Wakeman in 1827, but returned to Connecticut after a couple of years. He was married to Caroline Wooster, July 17, 1831. In the spring of 1833, they, with their infant son, Henry Wooster Hyde, came to Huron, on their way to Chicago, and stopped to visit at the home of Merritt Hyde. On their way to Wakeman two highwaymen attempted to hold them up. This so terrified Mrs. Hyde that he was persuaded to give up the Chicago trip, and he purchased a farm in Vermillion, on the lake shore. Subsequently they removed to Athens, Alabama, where he died Aug. 9, 1879. Mrs. Hyde died in Texas Aug. 14, 1902. They had two sons and four daughters. Mr. Hyde’s father died in 1807 and the mother followed her sons and died in Ohio in 1862 at the age of 97. She was an aunt of Sheldon and Hepsy Smith, of Wakeman. She had ten brothers who fought in the Revolutionary war. She came to Ohio in 1834.

JOHNSON, Marshall - came to Wakeman in 1817 as a hired man for Capt. Pierce, while his brother, Seymour, came the same way with Mr. Canfield.

In 1820, he married Marinda Bradley, this marriage was the first one in the township, and was celebrated at the house of Abraham Bronson, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Nathan Smith, a Methodist preacher. Marinda was a relative of the Bronsons, and made her home with them.

In 1824, Marshall bought of Woodward Todd, 50 acres of the northeast part of Lot 25, north of Merritt Hyde’s. This was reached by a lane along the east side of Mr. Hyde’s. See Page 66. In 1837, he bought 20 acres of Lot 24 adjoining the north. He and his wife had a family of thirteen children, of whom the most of them died of consumption. Mr. Johnson died in June 1855 at the age of 57 of consumption. The wife died March 13, 1873. She was born at Southbury, Conn., in 1802. They had children:

Charles,

went to Wisconsin,

Seymour,

born Jan. 16, 1825, married Augusta Jefferson, and died in Wakeman, Aug. 4, 1893,

Merritt,

died May 8, 1847, aged 25, of consumption,

Antoinette,

born April 2, 1831, married Wm. W. Farmer in 1851. He enlisted in the civil war and was instantly killed Sept. 16, 1862, by the explosion of a bomb, while at the mess table. She died at LaGrange, O., Feb 9, 1905.

Evalina,

married John Gilman.

Lois,

died at the age of nine.

Flora,

died Aug. 20, 1854, at the age of 18.

Lodisky,

died Nov. 3, 1854, at the age of 15.

Victoria,

is deceased.

Ella,

married John W. Campbell in 1866 and died Feb. 19, 1869.

Sarah Ann,

died unmarried, May, 12, 1903, at the age of 76.

Mortimer,

married Amanda Wilson, of Wakeman, and died March 2, 1877.

Unnamed infant died in 1836.

Seymour Johnson, a brother of Marshall, died in 1823.

Daniel Johnson lived in Wakeman but his history is missing, except the fact that he had daughters, Sally A., Julia A., Mary A., Fanny A., and Martha A.

JUDSON, Isaac, a son of Deacon Benjamin Judson, of Woodbury, Conn., was born June 14, 1796. His line of descent is, Deacon Benjamin, Isaac, Joseph, William. William, the first of the name in America, came from England in 1634, and lived in Concord, Mass., then in Stratford, then New Haven.

Isaac Judson married 1^st, April 10, 1827, at Watertown, Conn., Susan Cowles. She was born April 4, 1808, and died in Cleveland O., Sept. 21, 1851. He married 2^nd, Mary Judson, a second cousin.

He came to Wakeman, and bought, 1833, 81 acres of Lot 14, and 128 acres of Lot 5. He lived between Sheldon Smith’s and Amos Clark’s owning the Dr. Young and Antoinette Denton farms. In 1841 he sold out and removed to Oberlin. He died at Warrensville, Ohio, Aug. 21, 1892. He had children:

Anson Merwin,

born Jan. 28, 1828,died Cleveland,

Franklin Albert,

born March 21, 1830, died in Warrensville, May 1, 1912,

Harriet Anna,

born March 21, 1832, married Rev. Sylvanus Judson and died at Sylvania, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1874.

Sarah Cowles,

born Oct. 20, 1840, married J. E. Day and died Apr. 22, 1887.

Mr. Judson’s mother, Esther Minor, was a distant cousin of Justus Minor, of Wakeman.

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Julia Ann,	born Jan. 9, 1809, married Philip Peckham, and died in Shelby county, Ohio, in 1872.
Joseph B.,	born April 23, 1812, married Henriette, daughter of Gershom Shelton, of Wakeman, in 1838. They made their home on the farm where their grandson, Henry Haskins, lived. He died July 28, 1894, and she died June 16, 1899. They had children: Isaac P., born July 10, 1839, married Julia N. , daughter of Amos Clark, in 1868, and died at his winter home of Daytona, Florida, March 11, 1918; Smith, died young; Hepsy, born June 9, 1841 married Horace Squire in 1865 and died in Townsend, Aug. 7, 1913; Charles M., born Nov. 8, 1848, married Margaret Trumbull, of Florence, in 1869, and died in Hartland, O., Dec. 10, 1899; Ida M., born June 5, 1856, married Oscar Welch in 1878, and lived at Sebring, Ohio; Joseph L., born May 5, 1859, married Ida McKellogg in 1885, and died at Grafton, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1915.
Abigail H.,	born March 24, 1814.
James B.,	born in 1820 and died in a Confederate prison during the Civil war, not married.
Thomas Burney,	born April 26, 1822, married Ruth Parketon, of Hartland, O., Aug. 10, 1848. She was a daughter of Sidney R. and Ellen (O’ Dell) Parketon, and was born at Haverstraw, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1825. Mr. And Mrs. Haskins made their home on the old homestead where Noble Weeks lived later. He died May 13, 1891 and she on March 9, 1899. Their children were: Albert D., deceased; Erford, born Oct. 13, 1850, married Adah A. Coon, Dec. 14, 1870, and died in Hesperia, Mich., Dec. 28, 1911; Franklin R., born Nov. 20, 1852, married Julia Barnes, and lived in Wakeman.
Mary,	born March 10, 1825.
Henry H.	born in April 1827.

Hinda J.,	born May 9, 1858, married Canarius P. Clawson, of Clarksfield, and died on the old homestead, Oct. 31, 1926.
Jesse J.,	born Aug. 9, 1864, married Roxy, daughter of Columbus Ross, (and is deceased), and lives on the Herrick Bentley farm south of Wakeman.
Hattie A.,	died young.

Maria,	born in 1795, married Bela Coe in Rootstown, came to Wakeman, and died Oct. 25, 1866.
Benjamin,	born Nov. 7, 1796, married Mary Shanks in Portage county, in 1820. They came to Clarksfield in 1825, where he operated a blacksmith shop, burning charcoal for the fuel in his forge. He received eight cents per shoe for shoeing horses. In 1828 he married Julia Stevens, of Fitchville. In 1862, they removed to Fairfield township, in Huron county, where the wife died in 1875, and he in 1876. He had children, Jonathan, Hoyt, Alvin and Fred.
Leverett,	born in 1797, married, March 25, 1830, Esther Strong, a sister of Cyrus Strong, of Wakeman. He died Oct. 2, 1851. In 1834 he bought 75 acres of Lot 16. His children: Leverett Benedict, married Hannah Whitney and moved to Tabor, Iowa, and died there Jan. 29, 1892; Edgar S. lived in Nebraska; Elizabeth, married Lemuel Webb, of Wakeman, and died at Tabor about 1913; Edwin S., lived at National City, Cal., was pastor of a church at Atlantic, Iowa, forty years. Julius M. died at Tabor about 1902; Isaac Curtiss, born Dec. 2, 1837 lived in California,
Elizabeth,	died unmarried July 20, 1838, at the age of 37.
Charles,	born April 6, 1803, married Melinda Lyon, July 24, 1831. He bought 25 acres of Lot 16 in 1826, and sold it to Leverett in 1834. They moved from Wakeman to Oberlin and then to Tabor, Iowa, where he died Jan. 7, 1867. The wife was a daughter of Charles and Deborah (Palmer) Lyon and was born in Cayuga county, N.Y., April 10, 1813, and died Aug. 12, 1892. Their children were: Charles Willis, John Watson, Martha Cornelia.
Sophia,	born March 10, 1804, married, as his second wife, Asa Wheeler of Clarksfield and Wakeman, Nov. 19, 1837, and died Jan. 10, 1875. She had a daughter, Betsy, who lived at Pawnee City, Neb., unmarried.
Justin,	born Dec. 25, 1808, married Sept. 27, 1832, Cornelia Rowland, daughter of Levi Rowland, of Clarksfield and Wakeman. Justin and his wife’s brother, Eber Rowland, bought the stone grismill and sawmill about three miles north of Wakeman. The dam was swept away in 1848, and they had no means for rebuilding. (the dam was never rebuilt.) Mr. Hill removed to Norwalk, thence to Milan in 1850, to Wakeman again in 1853, and in 1868 to St. Louis, Michigan, where he died in 1873. His wife, born July 25, 1814, died June 13, 1903. They had children: Phoebe, Albert R., Jane A., and Charles E.
Sylvester,	married Clarissa Appleby, of Camden, in 1835. In 1834, he bought 16 acres of Amos Clark. In 1856 he moved to Kansas and died there Nov. 17, 1878.
Sarah,	born March 11, 1814, married Zenas Bradish, son of Luke Bradish, a native of Wales. They lived in Clarksfield and Wakeman, then moved to Dundas, Ill. They had children, Elizabeth Ann, Emily Marie, Ellen Josephine.
Ruth Emily,	married as his second wife, John Hough, of Clarksfield. They removed to Oberlin, where they both died in 1872. They had children: Ann, Cordelia (wife of William Denman, of Wakeman), Ellen, William, Jonathan, Frances and two who died in infancy.
Charlotte,	married William H. Nickerson, which see.
Ann,	who died unmarried.

Charles,	went to Wisconsin,
Seymour,	born Jan. 16, 1825, married Augusta Jefferson, and died in Wakeman, Aug. 4, 1893,
Merritt,	died May 8, 1847, aged 25, of consumption,
Antoinette,	born April 2, 1831, married Wm. W. Farmer in 1851. He enlisted in the civil war and was instantly killed Sept. 16, 1862, by the explosion of a bomb, while at the mess table. She died at LaGrange, O., Feb 9, 1905.
Evalina,	married John Gilman.
Lois,	died at the age of nine.
Flora,	died Aug. 20, 1854, at the age of 18.
Lodisky,	died Nov. 3, 1854, at the age of 15.
Victoria,	is deceased.
Ella,	married John W. Campbell in 1866 and died Feb. 19, 1869.
Sarah Ann,	died unmarried, May, 12, 1903, at the age of 76.
Mortimer,	married Amanda Wilson, of Wakeman, and died March 2, 1877.

Anson Merwin,	born Jan. 28, 1828,died Cleveland,
Franklin Albert,	born March 21, 1830, died in Warrensville, May 1, 1912,
Harriet Anna,	born March 21, 1832, married Rev. Sylvanus Judson and died at Sylvania, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1874.
Sarah Cowles,	born Oct. 20, 1840, married J. E. Day and died Apr. 22, 1887.