The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 151 through 160

The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 151 through 160

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PETTYS, Ari, lived on the Silas French farm until it was sold in 1848, with his wife and two children. In 1851, he bought a village lot in Wakeman, and sold it in 1854. According to records, Ari Pettys married Ruth Parmenter in 1876.

PHILLIPS, Abraham - was born near Buffalo, N.Y., July 20, 1831, and came to Hartland township with his parents in 1835. He was married to Rebecca, daughter of Sheldon Barnes, of Wakeman, in 1852. They made their home on the Barnes farm until the death of the wife in 1898. He then went to live with his son in Hartland, on his father’s old farm, and died there May 11, 1908. His children were:

Emmet Edmund,

(Ned), died July 28, 1886, at the age of 25 years.

Elver,

living on the Sheldon Barnes farm in Wakeman,

Hugh,

living at Clay Center, Ohio.

Dora (Raynor),

died March 1917.

PIERCE GENALOGY

Being the

Record of the posterity of John Pers, & c. 1880,

By Frederick Clifton Pierce.

Pierce Proclivities.

"A prominent and distinguishing trait of character in the Pierce Family is casually exposed to view by the Historian Babson, in his description of the tumultuous proceedings occasioned by the violent party spirit that prevailed in the country after the embargo of President Jefferson in 1806. "At a town meeting held in Gloucester, the two political parties struggled for mastery through the day and amid darkness until half past ten at night, the floor of the church wherein the meeting was held, he described as presenting a scene of wild confusion and discord worthy of Pandemonium itself. The leaders of each party entertained their friends with unbounded hospitality, and each had its own place of refreshment for general resort." But he adds, "The Democrats not unreasonably expected success as they had the influence of the Pierce family."

"Young ducks do not take to the water more naturally than the Pierce family throughout the country to democratic principles. Indomitable perseverance is also a trait that marks their character in every department of life, and has generally crowned their efforts with ultimate success, though attained after repeated and sometimes very mortifying failures.’’

Gen. E. W. Pierce.

Origin of the name

(English surnames, their sources, significations &c.)

Peter claims our attention next X X X X It is hence we get the shorter Parr, Piers, Pierce, Pears, Pearse and Peers. (The name was sometimes pronounced "Pairse.")

John1 Pers of Norwich, Norfo1k county, England, weaver, emigrated to this country in the year 1637, bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth, and four children. He came to New England in either the "John and Dorothy" of Norwich, or the "Rose" of Yarmouth. Extract from a register of certain emigrants to New England preserved in the English Exchequer: "April 8^th, 1637. The examination of John Pers of Mowch in Noff (Norwich in Norfolk), weaver ageed 49 years and Elizabeth, his wife, aged 36 yeares, with 4 children, John, Barbre, Elizabeth and Judith, and one servant, John Gedney, aged 19 yeares, are desirous to passe to Boston in New England to inhabitt."

I agree with Bond and Savage in identifying this John Pers, of Watertown, who was a weaver, and appears to have come over about 1637, and who had a wife, Elizabeth and children, John, Elizabeth and Judith. If this identification is correct, some of his children must have come to New England before him and the four named were probably the youngest of the family.

Elizabeth was doubtless ten years or more older than she is here represented. She is said in the county records to have been "aged about 79"at the time of her death in 1667.

John Pers was granted of one lot in Watertown and purchaser of three lots before 1644, one of which was his homestead of 12acres. x x x x He was born 1588 (?) and died August 1661. His wife was born 1601 (1591?) and died 12 March 1666/7. He was admitted freeman March 1638/9. Children: Anthony, born 1609, Esther, Mary, Robert, John, Barbre, Elizabeth, and Judith.

Will of John Pers.

In the name of God amen the fourth day of the 1 mo Anno Dom 1657/8. I John Pers of Watertowne in the county of Middlesex, weaver, being through do make and ordaine this my lats will and testamt. My poore immortall soule I do desire freely and humbly to leave it in the everlasting Armes of the mercies (?) of God the father in Jesus Christ, my body I comitt to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executrix--. And as for my outward estate wch the Lord hath been pleased of his goodness to blesse me with all, and for a short time to make me Steward of, my will is that (my funerall expenses and all other my just debts being first payd and fully satisfied) my loving wife Elizabeth Perse shall freely have and enjoy the same, i. e., my dwelling house, outhouses, and all my lands, cattle, corne and all other my goods and chattels, debts, and dues of whatevr kind soever, out of wch, my will is that shee the said Elizabeth with in one yeare next coming after my decease shall pay or cause to be payd unto my eldest sonne Anthony Perse Twenty shillings, and to the rest of my children ten shillings a peece, to be payd in country pay.

Also I do hereby nominate & appoynt the above said Elizabeth sole executrix of this my last will and Testamt. In witness whereof I the said John Perse have here unto

put my and hand and seale the day and yeare first above written.

John Pers. (L.S.)

Will proved October 1661. Inventory of estate, about -271.

(Wills were generally written by some other person than the testator, hence the different spelling of the name from the signature. "Country pay" meant farm produce, as there was not much currency or coin in circulation in those days.

(We have copied the above genealogy and will as an example of what kind of customs were prevalent among the progenitors of many of the Wakeman pioneers. F. E. W.)

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John2 Pierce (John1), born in England and married in this country, Elizabeth --, came to America with his father. He was taxed in Woburn (Mass.) in 1645. The last mention of him in Woburn is in 1649. He resided in Wethersfield, Conn., also.

Children: John, and Elizabeth, twins, both died young. John 2^nd, Joseph and Thomas.

John3 Pierce (John1, John 2,) born Nov. 23, 1644, removed with his father to Wethersfield, Conn.; married here Ann Huthwitt and removed to Southbury, Conn., and died Nov. 19, 1731.

Children, John and Elizabeth.

Sergt. John4 (John1, John2, John3), born Sept. 10, 1683, married March 21, 1716, Comfort Jenner (b. April 11, 1698, d. Aug. 23, 1757). They resided in South Britain, Conn. He died Dec. 1, 1757.

Children: John, Elizabeth, Joseph, Samuel, David, Abraham, Nathan, Justus, Ann and Elijah. (All Bible names for the sons.) Dea. John5, (John1, John2, John3, John4,) born April 4, 1718, married April 13, 1749, Hannah Twitchell, who died in 1770.

Married 2^nd, Mary Edmonds. He was deacon of the church of South Britain, Conn., for a number of years, and died July 26. 1788.

Children: John, died unmarried (which broke the line of John Pierce for the following generations,) Samuel, Titus, Hannah, Amos.

Titus6, (John1, John2, John3, John4, John5), born March 21, 1755, married June 21, 1770, Mary Norton (who d. Aug. 4, 1777), married 2^nd, Abiah Platt (b. 1752 and d. Feb. 25, 1816). He died in South Britain, Conn., Nov. 29, 1826. Children: Hannah, Amial P., Abigail, Phebe, Titus, Amos (who died in Wakeman in 1875, twice married, but without issue.)

The book from which the above genealogy was copied gives the Pierce history as far as William H. Pierce, and the posterity of Bennet, Minot and David, as well as Amial P.)

PIERCE, Amial Platt, (or Amiel), was born at Southbury, Conn., April 19, 1783, and was married at South Britain, Conn., May 15, 1806, to Electa Blackman, who was born 1783.

He was one of the company of Connecticut men who bought the large tract of land in Wakeman in 1817, but he did not receive his deed until July 20, 1822. His first purchase was Lots 22, 42, and 44 - 500 acres at two dollars per acre. He bought other tracts afterwards.

He came with his family to Wakeman, arriving June 11, 1817, and settled on Lot 22, where his son, David, afterward lived. He was a man of large stature and great strength. He had served as Captain in the Connecticut Militia and bore his military title until after he was elected Justice of the Peace in Wakeman, when he was afterward known as "Squire Pierce."

He and his wife exerted much good influence in the new community, the wife being the only professing Christian in the first three families. Her home in the east was near church and school, with relatives and neighbors near, and the new home in the dense forest, with no schools or churches near, and only a very few neighbors near enough to visit, was a change to which she could hardly become reconciled, but she lived long enough to see great improvements in the country and to enjoy many of the comforts which she missed at first.

In 1827, Mr. Pierce bought a one third interest in the saw and grist mill on the Vermillion River and in 1835 bought the remaining interest. In 1840 he deeded the property to his sons Bennet and Minot. He also built a sawmill on Chapelle Creek.

His wife died Jan. 10, 1847, and he died Oct. 24, 1863. They had children:

Lemuel B.,

born Sept. 17, 1807, married Eunice, daughter of John Burr, of Florence. Sept. 14, 1831. She died Nov. 3, 1866, and he married, 2^nd, Mariette, daughter of Merritt Hyde, of Wakeman. He lived on a farm just across the river east of the village (where William H. Pierce afterward lived), and died Aug. 17, 1874. He had children, all by the first wife:

Amelia, born 1832, died 1839.

Elbert B., b. June 19, 1834, m. Hattie Beecher and died in

Wakeman Nov. 2, 1868.

William H., b. Aug. 19, 1840, m. Docia, dau. of Lansing Waugh,

and d. Feb. 21, 1926.

Julia, b. April 25, 1843, m. Dr. Theodore Bunce, of Clarksfield,

and d. in Cleveland.

Frances, b. March 3,1851, m. Joseph Denman, son of Edward,

and d. Feb. 13, 1904.

Bennet,

born May 9, 1819, married Nancy Clary, of Monroeville, Ohio. He and his brother, Minot, owned some farms and the mills on the river. At some time before 1840, he moved to Florence Corners and went into mercantile business with Nathan G. Sherman. He sold his interest in the mills to his brother in 1845 and sold his Wakeman land in 1856. In 1848 he moved to Birmingham and became a partner of Ahira Cobb and Virgil Squire in business.

In 1857 he removed to Defiance, Ohio, and was drowned in the Maumee River, Oct. 3, 1861. His widow lived in Oberlin for ten years after this, and died in Cleveland in 1882. They had children:

Alida, who was killed by the cars at Wakeman, Dec. 1, 1857, at

the age of 17.

Amial Platt, born Dec. 14, 1844, lived in Cleveland, and died

there June 8, 1913.

Stephen Lawrance, born Nov. 4, 1852, lived in Cleveland until

his death in 1920.

Minot,

born June 2, 1814, married Susan L. Curtiss, a grand-daughter of Justus Minor, Sept. 12, 1837. He owned and lived on a farm on the east river road, north of Wakeman, on Lot 43. He was one of the three men who built and operated the Wakeman Exchange Hotel. He was killed by the cars while crossing the railroad near Norwalk, Dec. 31, 1896. His wife was born July 25, 1819, and died Jan. 13, 1883. Children: Mary, born in 1844, married Daniel

Breckenridge, of Camden, and lived in California. She married a Mr. Griffith, 2^nd.

Sarah, born Nov. 16, 1847, married Henry J. Baldwin, Dec. 31,

1869, and in later years lived in Syracuse, N.Y., but died in

Cleveland, Aug. 11, 1921.

Stanley, born in 1850, married Addie, daughter of Edward

Denman, lived on a farm north of Wakeman, but removed to

Elyria.

Elmer, born May 20, 1861,married Belle, daughter of Edward

Denman, Oct. 15, 1884, and died Feb. 20, 1904.

Anna A.,

born July 6, 1816, married Dr. Homer Johnson in 1836, and they lived in Birmingham until 1846 when they moved to Oberlin where she died June 17, 1896.

They had children:

Homer B. Johnson, of Norwalk, O.

Amelia, wife of Gen. P. C. Hayes, of Illinois.

Thirza, married Mr. Hershey.

Dr. Frank P., of St. Louis, Mo.

Mary E., of Oberlin.

David A.,

born April 20, 1819, died 1822.

David S.,

born May 11, 1824, married Julia Ann, daughter of Rufus Bunce, of Wakeman, Nov. 24, 1849, and who died Jan. 11, 1916. They lived on the Amial P. Pierce homestead, where he died Oct. 2,1870. They had children:

Fred D., born April 22, 1859, married 1^st, Ida, daughter of George

Barnes, 2^nd, Maude, daughter of Sheldon Munger, and lives in

Cleveland.

Jennie, born Oct. 11, 1868, married 1^st, Nelson Draper, 2^nd, E. P.

Canfield, Nov. 12, 1903, and lives in Wakeman

Fannie Mitchell,

born June 18, 1826, married Horace Beecher, of Florence, Jan. 1, 1851, and they lived on a farm northeast of Wakeman on Lot 60, where she died May 29,1874. Her children are given in his life.

Amial P.,

an infant who died in 1821.

Perry,

who died in 1831.

PIERCE, Amos - a brother of Amial P., was born July 6, 1796, the youngest son in the family of seven. He came to Wakeman in September 1841. He married Minerva, daughter of Elias Bell, of Wakeman. Her first husband was Simeon Brown. In 1858, he bought of Albert Carley, the Joel Wheeler farm north of Wakeman and lived there until death of wife in 1864, then with Minot Pierce and died May 10, (childless,) 1875.

POST, Eunice M., a widow, lived west of Wakeman, near the town line. In 1846 she bought 18 acres of Lot 6 and sold a part of it to Ira M. Wallace in 1856. She must have had something of a temper, as she was called "Widow Fury."

RANDALL, Marquis D. - was born in Bridgewater, Conn., Aug. 14, 1798. His parents were Charles and Polly (Bradley) Randall. His grandfather, Jeremiah Randall, came from England to New England prior to 1750. M. D. Randall married Lydia, daughter of Jabez Hanford. In 1840 he and his family came to Wakeman and lived first, in the basement of Mr. Hanford’s new house. On the 7^th of August 1840, he received from Hanford and Farrand, a deed to 45 acres of Lot 47, a part of the Cahoon farm. In 1849 he sold this to Jane Barbour and moved to Clarksfield, near Whitefox. In 1864 he bought the old Silas French farm in Wakeman and moved there in 1865, but in his old age removed to the village, and died there Aug. 23, 1881. The wife died five years later at her son’s in Oberlin.

Charles R. Green says: "Mr. Randall was the sweetest tempered and most conscientious man that ever lived. Never in rugged health he yet lived to an old man with hair like the almond blossom for whiteness."

They had children:

Mary Catherine,

born Aug. 26, 1827, died Jan. 16, 1830.

Julia Maria,

born Oct. 22, 1829, married Samuel J. Peck, of Clarksfield, removed to Viola, Ill., and died May 22, 1890.

Charles Hanford,

born May 2, 1832, married Nellie -- and lived in Cleveland.

William Henry,

born April 10, 1834, married Amanda Jester, of Viola, Ill., died Sept. 20, 1865, of disease contracted in the civil war. "Was the exact image of his father."

Daniel Bradley,

born July 11, 1835, married Annetta French, and died at Waverly, Kansas, Jan. 19, 1917.

Richard Nelson,

born Aug. 22, 1844, married Anna Stahl, and lived at Sweetwater, Tenn.

Courtney Lee,

born March 11, 1847, went to New Mexico, married and settled down there.

Clarence Alton,

born June 7, 1849, lived at Knoxville, Tenn.

The Randall sons, Charles, William, Bradley and Courtney, served in the civil war and Clarence in the Cuban war.

Charles Randall, the father, was soldier in the Revolution and died in Wakeman, Feb. 1, 1846, at the age of 82.

REDING, Loyal – a son of John and Betsy (Barnum) Reding, was born at Vergennes, Vermont, May 21, 1810. (His mother became the second wife of Justin Sherman, of Wakeman, which see.) He came to Wakeman in 1833, probably from Ridgefield, O.; he was married to Mrs. Permelia (Keeler) Johnson, July 2, 1840. He was a tailor by trade and lived west of Bacon’s Corners. In 1848 he sold his little place to G. H. Camp and moved to Norwalk, where he died March 26, 1886. The wife died Jan. 21, 1901.

His children were Charles Royal, who died Oct. 17, 1891, and Alice, who died in Norwalk, Ohio, May 22, 1921.

REED, Acrel, born in Franklin county, North Carolina, Feb. 25, 1824, a free-born colored man, married Eliza Pettiford in Nash county, N. C., Nov. 25, 1852. They heard a rumor that all free colored people in the south were to be enslaved, so they determined to emigrate to Wakeman, where Mrs. Reed had a brother. They made their preparations in secret and were aided by two white men, Briant and Sam Wilder. They started March 24, 1860. They must have brought five children with them. Mr. Reed made his home in what had been the center school house, back of the Episcopal Church. He died April 11, 1896. The widow died May 24, 1919.

Their children were:

Calvin A.,

born Jan. 24, 1854, died May 2, 1918, at Indianapolis.

Lavina,

born April 19, 1855, married Lewis Hunter, July 1, 1873, and died Jan. 10, 1888.

Albert F.,

born Oct. 2, 1857, died in Nevada, March 9, 1910.

Jane,

born April 25, 1858, married George Fields, in Oberlin.

Briant,

born Nov. 1 1859, married May 2, 1897, Jennie Conway and died in Oberlin, May 25, 1906.

Rhoda,

born May 2, 1862, is the wife of Robert Pettiford, of Wakeman.

Eliza,

born April 4, 1865, married DeWitt Phillips, of Oberlin, and died Oct. 20, 1887.

Mary,

born June 20, 1869, married Edmund Hendershot, and lives in Sandusky.

RICE, Elizabeth - widow of William Rice. She and her husband came from Franklin county, Pa., to Sandusky county, Ohio, and lived until the husband died in 1855. She sold their farm there and came to Wakeman, having purchased 40 acres of Lot 91, near the northeast corner of the township, and lived there until her death in 1872. She was the mother of seven daughters and three sons. Of the children, Elizabeth, married 1^st, Alfred French, 2^nd, Charles Thompson, of Berlin and died April 29, 1908. Rebecca married Cyrus Cole, a one legged man, and they lived in an old log house, on what was later known as the Albert Close place, on the Green Street road, on the Henrietta side of the road. Volney Cole, lived in Ithaca, Mich. John and William died in 1858 at the ages of 21 and 15, respectively.

RILEY, James, bought of Erastus French 68 ½ acres of Lot 31, in 1833. He sold it back to him in 1835, and in 1836 bought of Elias Shafer 50 acres of the same lot. This farm is part of what is known as the Munger farm. His wife was a Miss Hervey. His son, James, died in 1844, at the age of 14.

RIPPON, Henry – born in Petersborough, Lincolnshire, England, June 28, 1823, married Mary Ann Hainsworth in 1844. In 1857, Oct. 3, he sailed for New York with his wife and nine children. They spent the first winter at Geneva, Ohio, then

moved to Kipton, and to Wakeman in 1860. He was a blacksmith by trade. The wife died May 5, 1898, and he died March 26, 1910.

Children:

Elizabeth,

born Sept. 2, 1843, married Francis Danzy in 1860, and they lived in Kipton where he was the section boss for many years, and she lived later in Elyria.

John H.,

born Jan. 25, 1845, married Margaret Maglone, and died Oct. 16, 1902. She was a daughter of Patrick Maglone, of Wakeman.

Martha,

born Aug. 7, 1846, married in Canada and died Nov. 24, 1884.

Lavina,

born Jan. 5, 1848, married John R. Griffin, of Wakeman, Sept. 13, 1866, and died in Wakeman.

Mary Ann,

born July 28, 1849, married Henry Ransom and lived in Ludington, Mich., until the death of her husband, then went to live in Elyria.

Amos,

born Feb. 18, 1851, married Frances Henry in 1873, and died Nov. 30, 1916.

William,

born Nov. 5, 1852, lived in Canada.

Robert,

born July 24, 1854, died in Toledo, Dec. 13, 1902.

Thomas,

born Aug. 30, 1856, married Oct. 3, 1881, Maria Eggleston, of Wakeman and lived at Hilsdale, Mich.

Sarah,

born June 23, 1866, in Wakeman, married and lives in Mansfield, Ohio.

ROGERS, Joel, came from Lyons, N. Y., to Hartland, O., in 1832, moved to Clarksfield in 1845, then to Berlin. In 1852, he bought of S. H. Gibson 70 acres of the northeast part of Lot 60, what is known as the "Rogers Lot", of the John Gardiner farm, and lived there until his death Oct. 8, 1854. (This place was south, across the river, from where James Shafer used to live.)

He was a son of Benjamin Rogers and was born in 1793. He was married in 1816 to Betsy Eels (born 1796) and who died in 1888. They had children: Myron, born 1818; Morris, 1820; Smith, 1821; Potter and Palmer, 1823; Mary, 1825; Daniel, 1828; Benjamin, 1830; Harriet, 1832; Jeremiah, 1834; Reuben, 1836; Elizabeth, 1838; Joel M., 1840.

Myron Rogers married Maria Phillips and lived in Clarksfield. Morris married Charlotte Livermore and died in Iowa in 1881. Smith married Harriet Harris and died in Michigan in 1872. Palmer married Matilda Day and they lived in Iowa. Potter died at the age of three. Mary married Lemuel Smith and lived in Clarksfield until his death in 1862. She then married Avery Edwards, of Wakeman, and lived in Wakeman until his death, then lived at Delta, Ohio. Daniel married Mrs. Victoria Fanning, for his second wife and died in Sandusky in 1899. Benjamin married Almira Buck, a grand-daughter of the second Mrs. Cyrus Dunning, and lived in Clyde. Harriet married Matthew Gregory, of Clarksfield and lived at Barrett’s Corners until her death in 1901. Jermiah lived in Cleveland. Reuben married Emily Clark and lived in New London. Elizabeth married John J. Dunning and they also lived near Barrett’s Corners in Clarksfield, but removed to New London. Joel M., married 1^st, Ariette Day, of Clarksfield, 2^nd, Lydia Daley, of Clarksfield, but died in Norwalk.

ROOT, Solomon - bought of John Burr 30 acres of the southeast corner of Lot 51 in 1833, and sold it to Linus Andrews in 1834. He lived in Camden for a few years. His daughter, Hannah, married Daniel Wood, of Wakeman.

ROOT, Lemuel – a son of Benjamin, of Camden, was born in New York State, Feb. 16, 1824, and came to Camden with his parents in 1840. He married Augusta, daughter of Charles King, of Wakeman, March 17, 1849. They lived on the Butler Road in the "Steamburgh" district. He died in Wakeman, Aug. 9, 1906. They had a daughter, Mary, born Dec. 28, 1849, married Martin Kellogg, and lived at Deerfield, Mich., until her death July 25, 1915.

ROSS, Joel – a son of Joel and Maria (Ordway) Ross, was born March 12, 1828, in Livingston county, N.Y., and came to Scioto county, Ohio, in 1846 and afterward to Brighton, O. He spent five years in California. Upon his return he bought 150 acres of wild land in Wakeman in 1857 from the heirs of Jesup Wakeman, (probably Lot 90.) He cleared up this land and that farm was the home of himself and wife until his death Oct. 6, 1918. He was married to Ann E. Hanes, of Clarksfield, Nov.25, 1858, and who died Feb. 12, 1919.

Their children were:

Anna,

born April 19, 1861, married William H. Hayes, and live in Pittsfield, O.

Dennis,

born Aug. 3, 1863, married Ida Vosburg, of Camden, and lives in Wakeman on the Butler Road.

Ida,

born Jan. 28, 1866, married George Fletcher and died April 10 1894.

Ella,

born Oct. 22, 1867, married Charles Whitney and died May 14, 1896.

ROSS, Columbus, a brother of Joel, was born in Camden, Lorain Co., O., Jan. 24, 1835. He was married to Isabella Sinclair, of Clarksfield, in 1861. In that year he settled in Wakeman, making his home on Lot 69, where he died Jan. 20, 1892.

His children were:

Roxy,

born Aug, 4, 1862, married Jesse J. Hayes, of Wakeman, and is deceased.

Emma,

born Oct. 23, 1865.

May,

born Oct. 20, 1869, married Will Gray, of Clarksfield, and died Feb. 21, 1904.

Clyde,

born May 24, 1882.

Rounds, William W., - came from Cataraugus county, N.Y., to Clarksfield, then moved to Wakeman and lived east of Jonah Martin’s before the Watt road was laid out. He bought 21 acres here, in Lot 70, in 1858. He afterward moved to Wisconsin.

His wife was Esther, daughter of Jonathan Higgins, of Clarksfield. Their children were: Mary Ann, who married 1^st , Edward Bartow, 2^nd , William Converse, of Clarksfield; Lewis, George, Milo, Lucinda, Jane, Albert, William. Milo had fits and fell into the river, during one, and was drowned.

ROWLAND, Levi, a son of Hezekiah and Grace (Wildman) Rowland, was born at Carmel, N.Y., Nov. 12, 1788. He served in the army in the war of 1812. He came to Clarksfield with his family from the town of Northeast, N.Y., in 1830. In 1840 he bought out Asa Wheeler, in Wakeman, and operated the mill there. His first wife, and the mother of his children, was Phoebe Townsend, to whom he was married March 2, 1810, and she died May 3, 1841, at the age of 46. In 1843 he sold out here and moved to Fitchville, where he died Dec. 13, 1874. His children were: Oran, Anna, Cornelia, Eber and Sophia. Cornelia married Justin Hill, of Wakeman. Eber married Jerusha Fowler and lived in Wakeman for a time, then removed to Michigan.

RUMSEY, Miram, married Salome Bunce, a niece of Isaac, and they lived in a house east of Edwin Hanford’s until the house was burnt. He afterward lived on the old Gamber farm in Townsend, where he operated a bowl factory (making wooden bowls). He later moved to Michigan and then to Iowa. He had children: Mary, married George Stilson; Parmelia, married a Montrose; Louisa, married Collins Bryant; Lucinda, married a Walworth; Orpha; Alpha, who married a Dean; Mary Ann, who married Sardis Bryant; Emma; Elbert and Hiram Perry.

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Emmet Edmund,	(Ned), died July 28, 1886, at the age of 25 years.
Elver,	living on the Sheldon Barnes farm in Wakeman,
Hugh,	living at Clay Center, Ohio.
Dora (Raynor),	died March 1917.

Lemuel B.,	born Sept. 17, 1807, married Eunice, daughter of John Burr, of Florence. Sept. 14, 1831. She died Nov. 3, 1866, and he married, 2^nd, Mariette, daughter of Merritt Hyde, of Wakeman. He lived on a farm just across the river east of the village (where William H. Pierce afterward lived), and died Aug. 17, 1874. He had children, all by the first wife: Amelia, born 1832, died 1839. Elbert B., b. June 19, 1834, m. Hattie Beecher and died in Wakeman Nov. 2, 1868. William H., b. Aug. 19, 1840, m. Docia, dau. of Lansing Waugh, and d. Feb. 21, 1926. Julia, b. April 25, 1843, m. Dr. Theodore Bunce, of Clarksfield, and d. in Cleveland. Frances, b. March 3,1851, m. Joseph Denman, son of Edward, and d. Feb. 13, 1904.
Bennet,	born May 9, 1819, married Nancy Clary, of Monroeville, Ohio. He and his brother, Minot, owned some farms and the mills on the river. At some time before 1840, he moved to Florence Corners and went into mercantile business with Nathan G. Sherman. He sold his interest in the mills to his brother in 1845 and sold his Wakeman land in 1856. In 1848 he moved to Birmingham and became a partner of Ahira Cobb and Virgil Squire in business. In 1857 he removed to Defiance, Ohio, and was drowned in the Maumee River, Oct. 3, 1861. His widow lived in Oberlin for ten years after this, and died in Cleveland in 1882. They had children: Alida, who was killed by the cars at Wakeman, Dec. 1, 1857, at the age of 17. Amial Platt, born Dec. 14, 1844, lived in Cleveland, and died there June 8, 1913. Stephen Lawrance, born Nov. 4, 1852, lived in Cleveland until his death in 1920.
Minot,	born June 2, 1814, married Susan L. Curtiss, a grand-daughter of Justus Minor, Sept. 12, 1837. He owned and lived on a farm on the east river road, north of Wakeman, on Lot 43. He was one of the three men who built and operated the Wakeman Exchange Hotel. He was killed by the cars while crossing the railroad near Norwalk, Dec. 31, 1896. His wife was born July 25, 1819, and died Jan. 13, 1883. Children: Mary, born in 1844, married Daniel Breckenridge, of Camden, and lived in California. She married a Mr. Griffith, 2^nd. Sarah, born Nov. 16, 1847, married Henry J. Baldwin, Dec. 31, 1869, and in later years lived in Syracuse, N.Y., but died in Cleveland, Aug. 11, 1921. Stanley, born in 1850, married Addie, daughter of Edward Denman, lived on a farm north of Wakeman, but removed to Elyria. Elmer, born May 20, 1861,married Belle, daughter of Edward Denman, Oct. 15, 1884, and died Feb. 20, 1904.
Anna A.,	born July 6, 1816, married Dr. Homer Johnson in 1836, and they lived in Birmingham until 1846 when they moved to Oberlin where she died June 17, 1896. They had children: Homer B. Johnson, of Norwalk, O. Amelia, wife of Gen. P. C. Hayes, of Illinois. Thirza, married Mr. Hershey. Dr. Frank P., of St. Louis, Mo. Mary E., of Oberlin.
David A.,	born April 20, 1819, died 1822.
David S.,	born May 11, 1824, married Julia Ann, daughter of Rufus Bunce, of Wakeman, Nov. 24, 1849, and who died Jan. 11, 1916. They lived on the Amial P. Pierce homestead, where he died Oct. 2,1870. They had children: Fred D., born April 22, 1859, married 1^st, Ida, daughter of George Barnes, 2^nd, Maude, daughter of Sheldon Munger, and lives in Cleveland. Jennie, born Oct. 11, 1868, married 1^st, Nelson Draper, 2^nd, E. P. Canfield, Nov. 12, 1903, and lives in Wakeman
Fannie Mitchell,	born June 18, 1826, married Horace Beecher, of Florence, Jan. 1, 1851, and they lived on a farm northeast of Wakeman on Lot 60, where she died May 29,1874. Her children are given in his life.
Amial P.,	an infant who died in 1821.
Perry,	who died in 1831.

Mary Catherine,	born Aug. 26, 1827, died Jan. 16, 1830.
Julia Maria,	born Oct. 22, 1829, married Samuel J. Peck, of Clarksfield, removed to Viola, Ill., and died May 22, 1890.
Charles Hanford,	born May 2, 1832, married Nellie -- and lived in Cleveland.
William Henry,	born April 10, 1834, married Amanda Jester, of Viola, Ill., died Sept. 20, 1865, of disease contracted in the civil war. "Was the exact image of his father."
Daniel Bradley,	born July 11, 1835, married Annetta French, and died at Waverly, Kansas, Jan. 19, 1917.
Richard Nelson,	born Aug. 22, 1844, married Anna Stahl, and lived at Sweetwater, Tenn.
Courtney Lee,	born March 11, 1847, went to New Mexico, married and settled down there.
Clarence Alton,	born June 7, 1849, lived at Knoxville, Tenn.

Calvin A.,	born Jan. 24, 1854, died May 2, 1918, at Indianapolis.
Lavina,	born April 19, 1855, married Lewis Hunter, July 1, 1873, and died Jan. 10, 1888.
Albert F.,	born Oct. 2, 1857, died in Nevada, March 9, 1910.
Jane,	born April 25, 1858, married George Fields, in Oberlin.
Briant,	born Nov. 1 1859, married May 2, 1897, Jennie Conway and died in Oberlin, May 25, 1906.
Rhoda,	born May 2, 1862, is the wife of Robert Pettiford, of Wakeman.
Eliza,	born April 4, 1865, married DeWitt Phillips, of Oberlin, and died Oct. 20, 1887.
Mary,	born June 20, 1869, married Edmund Hendershot, and lives in Sandusky.

Elizabeth,	born Sept. 2, 1843, married Francis Danzy in 1860, and they lived in Kipton where he was the section boss for many years, and she lived later in Elyria.
John H.,	born Jan. 25, 1845, married Margaret Maglone, and died Oct. 16, 1902. She was a daughter of Patrick Maglone, of Wakeman.
Martha,	born Aug. 7, 1846, married in Canada and died Nov. 24, 1884.
Lavina,	born Jan. 5, 1848, married John R. Griffin, of Wakeman, Sept. 13, 1866, and died in Wakeman.
Mary Ann,	born July 28, 1849, married Henry Ransom and lived in Ludington, Mich., until the death of her husband, then went to live in Elyria.
Amos,	born Feb. 18, 1851, married Frances Henry in 1873, and died Nov. 30, 1916.
William,	born Nov. 5, 1852, lived in Canada.
Robert,	born July 24, 1854, died in Toledo, Dec. 13, 1902.
Thomas,	born Aug. 30, 1856, married Oct. 3, 1881, Maria Eggleston, of Wakeman and lived at Hilsdale, Mich.
Sarah,	born June 23, 1866, in Wakeman, married and lives in Mansfield, Ohio.

Anna,	born April 19, 1861, married William H. Hayes, and live in Pittsfield, O.
Dennis,	born Aug. 3, 1863, married Ida Vosburg, of Camden, and lives in Wakeman on the Butler Road.
Ida,	born Jan. 28, 1866, married George Fletcher and died April 10 1894.
Ella,	born Oct. 22, 1867, married Charles Whitney and died May 14, 1896.

Roxy,	born Aug, 4, 1862, married Jesse J. Hayes, of Wakeman, and is deceased.
Emma,	born Oct. 23, 1865.
May,	born Oct. 20, 1869, married Will Gray, of Clarksfield, and died Feb. 21, 1904.
Clyde,	born May 24, 1882.