The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 131 through 140

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JUDSON, Benjamin - was the youngest son of Deacon Benjamin Judson, of Woodbury, Conn., and a brother of Isaac, of Wakeman. He was born Oct. 27, 1819. In 1840 he went to Ruggles township, Ashland Co., Ohio. He married Jane K. McCullough, at Ruggles, June 7, 1843. In 1851, he removed to Oberlin, and in 1852 to Wakeman. He purchased 60 acres of Lot 18, the Virgil Peck farm. In 1860, he removed to Wisconsin, town of Henrietta, where he died March 5, 1916, in his 97^th year. His children were:

Mary Esther,	born in Ruggles, March 21, 1845,
Eunice Jane,	born in Ruggles, Oct. 16, 1847,
Milton Curtiss,	born in Ruggles, Aug. 27, 1849, died Apr. 16, 1866,
Paxton Smith,	born in Wakeman, Jan. 17, 1852,
Lorena A.,	born in Wakeman March 23, 1855,
Martha Aminta,	born in Wakeman, March 30, 1858,
Alvan W.,	born in Henrietta, Wisc., May 29, 1863.

KING, Charles - born in Ireland, April 17, 1796, married Nancy Wilson (sister of James Wilson, of Wakeman), of Woodbury, Conn., Aug. 23, 1821. They came to Wakeman in 1841. Mrs. King died Feb. 12, 1853, having been born Nov. 16, 1804. Mr. King lived to old age but we do not have the date of his death. They had children:

Mary E.,	born Aug. 24, 1822, married George Bybee and lived at Fayetteville, O., but died at Bloomingsburgh, O., Oct. 19 1891.
Henry C.,	born Dec. 7, 1826, died Feb. 7, 1915. His first wife eloped with Joseph Coon and in his old age, on Oct. 18, 1905, he married Bessie Buck, aged nineteen.
Augusta M.	born Nov. 17, 1830, married Lemuel Root, March 17, 1848, the year in which she came to Wakeman, and died Sept. 1, 1908.
John T.,	born April 4, 1833 (or 1834), married Ella Twaddle, of Clarksfield, Oct. 18, 1865, and died in Clarksfield, Dec. 18, 1901.
Haborn R.,	born Jan. 21, 1840, enlisted in the civil war - nothing further known.

KINGSBURY, Lemuel, a son of Phineas and Hannah (Hutchinson) Kingsbury, was born in Otis, Mass., Nov. 20, 1759. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Revolutionary army and served four and a half years. He was with Gen. Washington at White Plains and Valley Forge. In August 1806, he married Mrs. Lovica Smith, daughter of Co. Benjamin Hutchins. They had children: Lemuel Hutchings, Caroline, Charles B., Henry L., Joseph and Jabez. In 1838 Lemuel, Sr., came to Wakeman with Lemuel, Jr., and family, and died Dec. 20, 1844.

KINGSBURY, Lemuel Hutchins, was born in Berkshire, Mass., Sept. 24, 1807. He was married to Jerusha Miller Durbon, at Bethany, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1834. She was born in Ledyard, N.Y., Aug. 28, 1813. In 1838 they came to Wakeman and lived in different places – on the west bank of the river near the site of the present bridge, across the road from the Hyde cidermill, on the Alvan Hall farm, across the road from the William McKim’s and then in Camden, and Lastly in Clarksfield, across the road from the Shepard farm, on the south town line of Wakeman. Here he died June 27, 1879, and wife on April 28, 1881.

They had children:

Mary Ann,	born at Alexander, N.Y., June 8, 1835, married, as second wife, John McDonald, of Clarksfield, and died in Wakeman Village, Oct. 31, 1915.
James Monroe,	born in Darien, N.Y., May 31, 1837, was killed in battle before Petersburgh, Va. , June 17, 1864.
Romain James,	born in Wakeman, Feb. 25, 1839, was killed at Port Republic, Virginia, June 9, 1862.
Daniel Durbon,	born in Wakeman, Feb. 14, 1841, died at Wayne, Mich., July 22, 1914.
Martha Augusta,	born in Wakeman, March 24, 1843, married J. Rice and died at Sterling, Mich., Dec. 17, 1909.
Sarah Almira,	born in Wakeman, Sept. 18, 1845, married Theodore Ronk, of Clarksfield, and died at Belding, Mich., May 7, 1916.
Ruth Elizabeth,	born in Wakeman, March 18, 1848, married "Cort" Armstrong, of Wakeman and died July 7, 1916.
Lemuel Manning,	born in Camden, Jan. 6, 1851, lived in Wakeman, but removed to California.
John Alvin,	born in Camden, Dec. 30, 1853, lived in Camden, but died in Wakeman, Oct. 4, 1930.
Jane Alvira,	twin of John, died April 23, 1875.

Charles B. and Henry L. Kingsbury, brothers of Lemuel H., lived in Camden.

KNICKERBOCKER, David and Stephen, were brothers of the wife of Hiram Abbott and lived in Wakeman, Stephen dying in 1854, of consumption.

LAWRENCE, John, a native of England, came to America at the age of 24. He married Sarah Evans, of Lockport, N.Y., and they came to Wakeman in 1847, having lived previously in Camden. Mr. Lawrence died in Nebraska in 1879. The wife died in Colorado, Feb. 26, 1892. Their children were:

John,	died in 1904.
Mortimer J.,	died in Washington, Nov. 30, 1922. He went to Cleveland in 1866, and was in different kinds of business until 1872, when he purchased the paper known as the "Ohio Farmer", at the price of $10,000, going in debt for the whole amount. He soon paid the debt and the paper is one of the best and most widely read farm papers in Ohio. He later purchased the Michigan Farmer and Pennsylvania Farmer and made a success of these.
Warner,	lived at No. Beach, California.
William,	died in Denver, in 1898.
Sarah,	married William Terry, and lived in Greenville, Mo.
Blanche,	who married John Gregory and lived in Greenville, too.
Mary,	who married C. H. Lee and lived in Hilliards, Fla.
Frances,	who married C. H. Brown, and lived in Outing, Washington.

The Lawrence family left Wakeman about 1875.

Among the real estate transfers of Lot 31 is that of Erastus French to Sarah Lawrence, 1½ acres, in 1855. J. H. Lawrence to Erastus French, same tract on same day. Sarah Lawrence to Mary A. Sharp, same tract in 1857.

LEWIS, Rev. Charles Ferris, was born in Norwalk township, June 12, 1818, one of the first white children born in that township. His father was Samuel Lewis, who emigrated from South Salem, Westchester county, N.Y., in 1814, and was the third settler in the township.

Charles F. Lewis Married Maria Edwards Kilch, of Cincinnati, O., Nov. 6, 1849. She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Aug. 2, 1828, and came to America in 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis went to Monroe, Michigan, in 1849, where he had charge of a church. In 1850, they went to Cincinnati; in 1851, to Yellow Springs, Ohio; in 1852 to Springfield, O.; 1855 to Germantown, Ohio; 1858 to Worthington, O.; in 1862 to Wakeman, where he was the Rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church. In 1871 he had charge of a church near New Haven, Conn., and in the last year of his life preached in the diocese of Pittsburgh, but returned to Wakeman and died here Sept. 14, 1874. Mrs. Lewis removed to Amherst, Ohio, in 1875, and to Cleveland in 1878, where she died Dec. 20, 1910. Her parents were John and Maria (Edwards) Kiloh. Mrs. and Mr. Lewis were the parents of nine sons: John Kiloh, b. Oct. 5, 1850, d. Feb. 28, 1918; Charles Henry, b. Dec. 14, 1852, lived in Cleveland; Francis Neville, b. Nov. 30, 1854, lived in Cleveland; Clarence Herbert, b. Nov. 23, 1857, lived in Cleveland; Gilbert De Lancy, b. Jan. 22, 1860, lived in Toledo, O.; Walter Swinnerton, b. June 4, 1862, lived in Philadelphia; Norman Stanley, b. Nov. 12, 1864, lived in Cleveland; Spencer Hobart, b. May 10, 1867, died Sept. 2, 1869; Archibald Heber, b. Sept. 14, 1870, lived in Lagrange, IL.

LEWIS, Orrin - married Electa, daughter of Aaron Parsons, Sept. 27, 1833. In 1836 he bought part of Lot 5, on the west line of the township north of the center road. Here he lived for many years but later lived a little north of the village, on the west river road. Here he died Aug. 15, 1890, at the age of 82 years. The wife had died Jan. 13, 1890. They had four sons, Henry, George, Francis and Andrew. Henry died Oct. 18, 1877. His wife, Betsy Ann Jeffrey, died in 1868. George died Jan. 14, 1890.

LEWIS, Ichabod - with wife and two sons and two daughters, lived in a log house which stood on the site of the Douglass French house on the west town line.

LIPSCOMB, William, a native of England, a brickmaker and well digger, used to live on the road south and west of the T. B. Haskins farm. In 1859, he purchased an acre of land at the southwest corner of Benjamin Judson’s farm and there was his home. George W. Barnes bought the place and lived there while building his house.

LOUTHER, Alexander - came from England and settled in Wakeman in 1834. He bought of Samuel Bristol forty acres of the northeast corner of Lot 31 in 1834, where Henry L. Curtiss and later Halsey Terry and his mother lived. In 1839 he sold ten acres of this and on June 27, 1843 deeded the remainder of it to J. M. Root, (a lawyer in Norwalk) "to pay expense of defense." (We quote from Charles A. Green’s pamphlet history of Wakeman.) "The only murder which ever occurred in Wakeman, was that of Betsy Lowther by her husband, Alexander Lowther. They were English and lived on a farm of forty or fifty acres on the west river road near the line between Florence and Wakeman. "The wages of sin is death," and no more striking commentary could be given on this text than the tragic end of this family. It is generally supposed that came from England in a clandestine manner, and that one, of not both of them, left families there which they deserted. At all events, they lived here sixteen years and reared a family of three children before they were married. Just four weeks before the ending of this connection they were married by Chester Manvel, who was Justice of the Peace. On May 29, 1836, Lowther, assisted by John Simpson, who was working for C. C. Canfield, strangled Mrs. Lowther in the morning before she had risen, and threw her body in the well. The horrid deed accomplished, their wits all left them.

The well was furnished with the old fashioned sweep. They wished to make it appear that she fell into the well while drawing water for breakfast, accordingly the bucket was passed down the well first and she was tumbled in on top of it. Mr. Lowther then started for Florence on the pretense that he needed some tea for his breakfast. But, alas, for their plan, when the neighbors found her and took her out of the water, it was plain that no one but a man, and a bungler at that, ever made such a toilet as met their eyes. The dress was put on with the back side in front, and the pins which fastened it pointed in every direction but the right one. The shoes which were rights and lefts were exchanged and the stockings were of different color. There were bruises on her head, and after being out of the water a short time, the mark of a thumb was plainly visible on one side of the neck and the prints of four fingers on the other side, told but too plainly the manner of her death.

They were arrested, taken to jail, tried and convicted. Simpson was sent to the state prison for ten years, and Lowther for life. The latter, while lying in jail after the trial, in some way obtained a razor and cut his throat, having first made a confession of his guilt.

Simpson was an Irishman and was accustomed to frequently come home the worse for liquor. It was no unusual thing at such a time for his wife to give him a severe drubbing. He served out his full term, but long before his time had expired, his wife had married another man and gone to parts unknown. It came out during the trial that ten sheep was to the price paid to Simpson for his assistance in the crime, but the little farm, with all its stock was swallowed up by lawyer’s fees.

What became of the children? A record in the Firelands Pioneer tells the story. "March 17, 1836, a son of Alexander Lowther died. March 23, a daughter died. April 2, the other daughter died. May 29, Betsy Lowther was murdered by her husband." Did they die from natural causes, or did Lowther desire to get rid of them as well as their mother, as he wished to marry another woman with whom he had become infatuated. It is a gruesome story, all the way through.

LUCE, Lewis - born in Steuben county, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1811, came to Wakeman in 1834 or 1835. He was married to Phebe McFall, May 25, 1835, and died in Wakeman, July 30, 1897. He was known as "Major" Luce. The wife was born in Dryden, N. Y., in 1812 and died May 7, 1893. They had children:

Minerva,	died in infancy.
John,	born Aug. 17, 1837, died Feb. 4, 1839, from scalding.
Minerva,	2nd, born March 8, 1840, married Justin McDonald, and lived in Maumee, Ohio.
Margaret A.,	born July 25, 1841, married William Perkins, and died Nov. 26, 1909.
Helen,	born Oct. 21, 1843, married Charles Manning, of Camden.
Sarah Jane,	born April 2, 1846, married John Luce, and died at Maumee, Dec. 26, 1874.
Caroline M.,	born July 13, 1848, married DeWitt Wilson, of Wakeman, and lived at Sparta, Wis.
Lavina,	born Nov. 18, 1851, married Robert Bliss, of Wakeman, and since his death has been married twice and lived in Norwalk.

MAGLONE, John - a son of Patrick Magloon, who emigrated from Ireland to Steuben county, N.Y., was born in New York in 1822. In 1833, he came to Seneca county, Ohio, with his parents. Two years later he left home and went to work on a canal near Toledo. After he became of age he lived in Norwich, Huron county, then in Medina, O., then in Berlin Heights, where he married Catherine Stryker, Oct. 12, 1848. He then moved to Clarksfield, but in 1849 bought of Alexander Parker forty acres of Lot 71 in Wakeman and lived there until 1854, when he sold out to W. Sanger. After moving around some he bought 60 acres of Lot 28 from James B. Haskins and lived there until 1884, when he bought the Cyrus Strong farm and lived there until a few years before his death, when he removed to the village, and died Oct. 31, 1907.

Catherine Stryker was born in Yates county, N.Y., Oct. 17, 1822, and came to Ohio with her parents in 1846. She died Feb. 24, 1902.

Children:

Isadorah,	born Oct. 12, 1849, married Giles F. Jackson, and lived in Norwalk.
Mary E.,	born Nov. 17, 1854, married William B. Hall, of Wakeman, and lives in Wakeman.
John L.,	born April 19, 1856, is deceased.
Florence,	born May 3, 1858, died April 21, 1880.

McGloon, Patrick, once lived in Wakeman but moved to Michigan.

The wives of Baxter Washburn and John Rippon, were his daughters.

MALONEY, Edward, married May 8, 1832, the widow of Aaron Parsons, of Wakeman. They lived west of Wakeman and had three sons:

Weston,	married Elizabeth Buster, of Vermillion, and they had children, Mary, Fred, Jennie and Jay. He died in Norwalk about 1908.
Wesley,	married Pauline Stone, of Townsend, and had children, Ella and Alfred.
Alonzo,	who died in 1863.

Mr. Maloney died about 1860. His wife died Dec. 27, 1883.

MANVEL FAMILY.

Nicholas Manvel was a native of Picardy, France. His parents were Huguenots and died on the passage to America. The son was too young to know the correct spelling of the name, which was probably Manderville, so spelled it Manvel. He went to New Haven, Conn., to live, but moved to Woodbury. Conn. He was born about 1681, came to America about 1685, and died 1738. His son, Nicholas, Jr., born about 1715, died 1751, leaving a wife and seven small children. John, the eldest son, was born in 1736 and was a soldier in the Revolution. He married Elizabeth Weed in 1759 and had eight children. His son, John, Jr., was born in 1774, and died at Woodbury Oct. 9, 1847. He married Ruth Wooster Dec. 25, 1794. She was born July 8, 1778 and died Jan. 19, 1868. Their children were Chester, Sabra, Lorena, Cyrus, Ruth Ann, Sylvanus, Maria, David and Albert. Of these children, Chester, Ruth Ann and David became residents of Wakeman.

MANVEL, Chester - born in Woodbury, Conn., April 27, 1796, came to Wakeman from Woodbury on foot, reaching here June 2, 1822. He was accompanied by Peter Sherman (whose history will appear later,) but neither came with the idea of locating here. Mr. Sherman came on account of the death of a brother who had lost his life on the Ohio River. Mr. Manvel had an attraction in the person of Miss Dotha Minor who had come from Woodbury with her parents the previous year. He protracted his visit until winter when he returned to Woodbury with Mr. Sherman, again on foot. The following spring Mr. Manvel again came to Wakeman, this time to make his home. He came with a one horse wagon, accompanied by his sister, Ruth Ann, and brought a few household articles and some furniture. The sister rode in the wagon and he walked, making the third time he had made the journey between Connecticut and Wakeman on foot, within a year. On these journeys he carried a fine flint lock rifle which had a stock of curly maple extending nearly the entire length of the barrel. The lock had a cap of deer skin taken from the hock, so as to keep the power dry during a rain. This rife in now kept in the museum of B. B. Thomas, in Townsend.

On March 31, 1824, Mr. Manvel was married to Miss Dotha Minor. She was a daughter of Justus Minor and was born Aug. 30, 1797, and died Feb. 8, 1842. Mr. Manvel married 2^nd, June 7, 1843, Nancy Downs, a sister of the wives of Dr. Clark and Justus Wheeler. She was born Nov. 29, 1801, and died May 27, 1855. Mr. Manvel married 3^rd, Mrs. Achsah Strong, Sept. 2, 1857. She was born Oct. 23, 1802, and died March 27,1877. Her maiden name was Strong, and she was the daughter of Dea. Noah Strong, of Westhampton, Mass. He was a son of Job, son of Dea. Jonathan, son of John, son of John, Jr., son of Elder John Strong. (See history of Cyrus Strong, page 173.) Achsa Strong’s first husband was Dea. Waitstill Strong, who died in Brighton, Ohio, in 1855. He was a son of Waitstill, son of Waitstill, son of Waitstill, son of Thomas, son of Elder John Strong. Achsa’s daughter became the wife of James Henry Manvel, so this Strong ancestry concerns the late John C. Manvel.

Chester Manvel bought 80 acres of Lot 12, where he built his house, in the fall of 1822. He later bought 83 acres more. On this home place he died June 4, 1880. He had children:

Olive,	born Nov. 5, 1824, married Asa Pellet, Oct. 16, 1850, and died June 20, 1887. Her home was on the old Pellet homestead in Norwich, N.Y. She left daughters, Ella and Abbie.
John,	was kicked by a horse and died two days later, on June 12, 1847, at the age of 19.
James Henry,	born July 5, 1832, married Frances Strong, his step sister, Feb. 14, 1865, and died Nov. 28, 1903. She died Feb. 10, 1902. They had only one child, John C. Manvel, born June 2, 1870, married Minnie M. Thomas, and lived on his grandfather’s old homestead.
Elsie,	born Oct. 23, 1845, married Cornelius Ellis, who died at Clyde, O., in 1883. She continued to live in Clyde.

Chester Manvel brought up some of the children of Augustus Porter, a former resident of Clarksfield, who died in the penitentiary.

(Elsie Manvel was daughter of the second wife.)

(Charles R. Green gives a sketch of the character of Chester Manville, as he spells the name.)

"Mr. Manville settled a few rods to the south of Mr. Pierce on the opposite side of the road. The two men were life long friends and were fond of making friendly calls, for a friendly chat and interchange of bits of news. Mr. Manville was a cooper and his barrels were of the best. Often after working on his farm through the day he would go into his shop in the evening and work till late at night on his barrel making.

He was a man of more than ordinary judgment and ability. He was several times chosen for justice of the peace, and his decisions were regarded as models of good sense and firmness. He prided himself on doing exactly what he said he would do.

If he made a promise, nothing but death could prevent him in keeping it. He was a mighty hunter, and in those early pinching days, it was no light thing that he could, by taking a stroll of an hour or so in the forest, come back with game enough to supply his table for days. In the sunset of life it was his delight to live over again the years of his early manhood, and his dark eye would kindle again with fire of youth and his form would straighten, as he would tell of the big deer and turkeys that fell before his trusty rifle.

MANVEL, David H., brother of Chester, was born in Woodbury, May 24, 1812. He was married to Clarinda Smedley, Sept. 6, 1832. They came to Wakeman in 1833. He bought ten acres of John Brooks and Sena Barnes in 1833. The next year he bought of Justin Sherman nine acres of Lot 23 and 40 acres of Lot 24.

In 1838 he sold 13 acres to Chauncey Thompson, and in 1841, the remainder to Garwood Camp. He removed to Townsend township, but spent the last eight years of his life in Wakeman village, and died April 21, 1892. He married as his second wife, Mrs. Maria Polly (Fairchild) Beecher, Sept. 9, 1866. She was born at Newtown, Conn., Sept. 16, 1814, and died Sept. 26, 1891.

Mr. Manvel had one daughter, Lorena, born Feb. 14, 1838, married Richard Teed. He died in 1879 and she married Joel D. Whitcomb, Dec. 19, 1881, and they lived in Wakeman, where she died, without issue.

MARKS, Edward - born in Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 13, 1810, came to Wakeman in 1837 or 1838. He lived on the Butler Road south of Todd’s corners. He bought 30 acres of the north part of Lot 88, where H. D. Peabody now lives. He was married to Jane Smith, April 18, 1891, and she died in Henrietta March 1, 1902. They had children:

Mary Jane,	born April 4, 1840, married Avery Norman, a nephew of Mrs. Sala Todd, who came to Ohio in 1849, but went to Kansas and went into the army. After his marriage he and his wife went to Kansas in 1864, and lived until 1873, when they removed to Marshall, Texas, where he died in 1890. After a year or so she went to Vanburen, Ark., where she died in June 1918, leaving sons, Charles and Frank.
Celia,	born Aug. 3, 1846, became a school teacher in Kansas, but returned to Wakeman and died May 3, 1886.
Edward Lester,	born July 22, 1842, was wounded at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, and died of disease at his father’s home March 5, 1866.
James,	born July 13,1844, married and lived in Wakeman, and was a soldier. He disappeared from Wakeman during the war and was never heard from again.
Harriet Ann,	born Jan. 16, 1850, married Theodore Shafer, and lived in Iowa, and later in Washington state.
Emma Almeda,	born Oct. 5, 1856, married John Elmer Hand, son of John Hand, and died in Henrietta, Ohio.
Lula Sarah,	born March 20, 1856, married Adam Salzman, and lived in Fitchville, Ohio.
Charles Hazen,	born Aug. 29, 1861, married Katherine Salzman and died in Collinwood, Ohio, April 1920.
Fred ,	born Feb. 17, 1864, married Alta Burdue and lived in Elyria, O.

MARTIN, Jonas, - came to Clarksfield about 1838. In 1844 he removed to Wakeman, where he bought a part of Lot 59, a portion of the Wilkins farm and settled there. He soon sold it and bought the Mort Brown farm in Lot 70 and lived there until about 1852, when he sold out and removed to Iowa. There he was killed by being thrown from a wagon. A daughter, Sally Ann., died in Wakeman July 5, 1859, at the age of 17. In 1844 he had children enumerated in Clarksfield, Sally Ann, Angeline, Olivia and Cynthia.

MARTIN, Jonah H. – a twin brother of Jonas, born April 23, 1802, near Chatauqua, N.Y., was married, Nov. 19, 1832, to Phebe W., daughter of Israel and Esther Irish (born Jan. 15, 1814). He bought a farm in Plattsmouth, New York, on a contract and when he went with the money and some cattle to make the final payment, a few days after the expiration of the contract, the creditor would not accept it, but took possession of the farm and Mr. Martin lost all that he had paid on the farm. Then, in 1839, he moved to Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, and started a blacksmith shop and tannery and was doing well, when he signed a note as security for a friend, and finally had to pay the note, and he was stripped again. Among his assets was a small promissory note which his creditors considered worthless and did not take. Mr. Martin traded this for a pony, saddle and bridle and started for Wakeman, where his brother was living. At Mansfield, he made the acquaintance of a man who owned a forty acre farm near Lima, Ohio. Mr. Martin wanted land, so the pony and outfit were exchanged for a deed of the land. Mr. Martin then made his way on foot to Wakeman. At that time Jonas lived on the river east of the Brad Hayes farm, on what is now a part of the Gardiner farm. Across the river lived a man known as Eppa Owen - page 147, who owned 56 acres of the south end of Lot 60. Owen’s wife’s parents lived near Lima and she was anxious to move out there. Martin and Owen made a trade. Owen had but one ox and did not see how he could move. Martin was so anxious to get possession of his land that he bought an ox and gave it to Owen. (Incidentally, the Lima land proved to be mostly marsh and worthless, and poor Eppa was a loser.) This trade was made in 1846. At this time the east river road had not been laid out, but when it was laid out and cut through, Mr. Martin bought of Judge Baker an additional tract so as to bring him out to the road. He built a house here and died July 2, 1875. The wife died Feb. 21, 1894. They had children:

Mary Ann,	born Sept. 17, 1833, married David Young Sept. 6, 1853, and lived in Norwalk until her death May 17, 1917.
Infant,	born Dec. 27, 1834, died Jan. 6, 1835.
Esther Jane,	born March 21, 1836, died March 6, 1839.
Harmon Hurlburt,	born Feb. 20, 1838, married Amy Grout, of Camden, Feb. 19, 1868, and died in Wakeman March 17, 1913.
Amanda Elizabeth,	born Dec. 12, 1839, married William Hoyt May 31, 1860, died Aug. 26, 1915.
Olive Celinda,	born Aug. 25, 1841, married Julius Squire, March 21, 1860, and lived in Wakeman.
Elwood,	born July 25, 1843, died in the army Jan. 23, 1863.
Lydia Emmarancy,	born May 17, 1846, married Charles Hoyt, Dec. 26, 1866, and died in Warsaw, Ind., about 1882.
William Arnold,	born Feb. 10, 1848, married Anna Bell Watt, Nov. 16, 1876,and died Feb. 6, 1923.
Esther Elvina,	born Feb. 28, 1850, married Edward Corbin, Oct. 25, 1875, and died in Wakeman.

MAXWELL, Joseph R., born in Pennsylvania in 1820, came to Wakeman in 1842. He married Mary Haskins, daughter of Isaac, of Wakeman, Nov. 4, 1852. In 1851 he bought of Alexander Crawford, 41 ½ acres of Lot 51 and 61, and in 1857, bought of Timothy Baker, 49 acres of Lot 49 and 46 acres of Lot 48. In 1860 they moved to Lowell, Indiana, where he died in 1889.

MCKIM, William - born at Redstown, Penn., Feb. 11, 1805, came with his parents to Columbiana county, Ohio, when six weeks old. He became a mason and bricklayer by trade. On April 7, 1836, he was married to Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Naomi Webb. Soon after his marriage he purchased a farm in Berlin, Trumbull county, Ohio, and lived there until the spring of 1849 when they came to Wakeman. He bought a small farm in Lot 19 on the road southwest from the T. B. Haskins corner, between what is now the Murray and Peck farms. He died here Feb. 22, 1882. His wife died at the home of her daughter in Clarksfield, March 18, 1896, at the age of 86 years. They had a family of nine children:

George,	married Georgianna Signor, of Clarksfield.
Thomas,	married Ortency Bills, of Clarksfield.
Lucretia,	married, 1st, Sylvester Welch, 2nd, Henry Reynolds. She died in Clarksfield, Feb. 12, 1917.
Edith,	married Dan Church.
Ann Eliza	married James Fay, and died soon after.
Elma,	died in 1855.
Sylvester, Sarah and Belle.

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