The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 181 through 190

The History of Wakeman Township, Pages 181 through 190

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Mrs. Todd was born at Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 26, 1805 and died Sept. 28, 1887. Mr. Todd died July 17, 1890. They had children:

Sarah D.,

born April 16, 1831, died March 29, 1900, unm.

Seth Henry,

born Nov. 23, 1833, married Martha Elizabeth, daughter of Cyrus Strong, of Wakeman, March 18, 1860, and died May 2, 1914. He bought a farm on the Butler road, just south of Todd’s corners, where his son, Abner, lived until recently. He became one of the most successful farmers in the country, and delivered many lectures to Farmers’ Institutes. He took up the breeding of an improved strain of Chester White hogs and that strain became very widely bred through the country. In his old age he left the farm and took up his residence in the village. He had children: Elva Lorena , born Feb. 21, 1861, married James M. Burhans, of Wakeman. Jennie Delight (Laird) born July 18, 1864, died July 15, 1895. Charles Henry, born April 15, 1866, married Mary E. Shelton, of Wakeman, and lived on the Isaac Todd homestead, but now live in the village. Albert Strong, born April 11, 1868, lived on the Seth Todd farm, until recently, but now lives in the village. Sarah Harriet (Bartholamew), born Dec. 8, 1870, died Dec. 20, 1920. Mabel Elizabeth, born Jan. 23, 1875. Mary Grace, born Dec. 23, 1876, married -- Spiers.

Mary Todd,

born Jan. 19, 1836, married Harrison Haynes, March 18, 1860, and lived at Grass Lake, Mich., where she died in Feb. 1910.

Charles M.,

died April 8, 1862, while serving this country. See page 69 as to the identification of the body of one of the Todd soldiers.

Millard I.,

born Nov. 29, 1847, married Anna Washburn, of Vermillion, in 1876, and died March 7, 1928. He lived on a farm south of the Todd corners. He had sons, Sumner E., born Feb. 7, 1879, lives south of the Sherman corners. Louis U., born July 8, 1883.

Kneeland Todd, twin brother of Isaac, came to Wakeman in 1833 and lived with Isaac for three years, then returned to Connecticut and married Julia Booth, a sister of Isaac’s wife, April 24, 1836. They lived in Wakeman until 1845, when they moved to Florence township, settling on the North Ridge road, a little west of his father’s farm. Mr. Todd died here April 24, 1883. They had three sons, Albert, died in the army in 1862; Woodward H., who lived on the father’s farm until his death, and Louis U., who lives in Vermillion.

Woodward was born May 28, 1837, married Sophia Kline, of Birmingham, May 17, 1877, and died Jan. 18, 1900. He was one of the greatest poultry fanciers in this section of the country, in his day.

Sala Todd, a son of Bethuel and Esther (Ives) Todd, came to Wakeman about 1838, and settled across the river from Cyrus Strong’s, a little off the road, but a road now runs past his old home, the Haley farm, where John Birmingham lived recently.

His wife, Salome Upson, died Aug. 23, 1839, at the age of 35 years. In 1846, he married Harriet Norman, of Fredonia, N.Y. She was born in 1803 at Paris, Oneida county, N.Y., and died April 17, 1875. He married 2^nd, Mrs. Laura Funston, daughter of Joel Wheeler, of Wakeman, in December 1876, or January 1877.

He died Nov. 19, 1877, at the age 78. He had no children.

George Todd was a son of Joel and Mabel (Mansfield) Todd and was born at North Haven, Conn., Sept. 15, 1810. He was married to Betsy, daughter of Phillamin and Mehitabel (Sacket) Pierpont, August 28, 1834. She was born in North Haven, March 31, 1813. They left Connecticut, Oct. 26, 1837, landed at Huron, Ohio, Nov. 11, and spent the winter at the home of Moses Todd, in Vermillion. In April 1838, Mr. Todd bought 30 acres of land in Wakeman, of Joseph Dodd, in Lot 77, and moved there. In November of the same year he bought of Martin Bell 30 acres of Lot 87, across the road, north of the school house. He built his house on the first piece, later building a comfortable frame house (the Stryker farm), and lived there until his death April 6, 1853, being only 43 years of age. His wife died Jan. 2, 1894.

They had children:

Merit Edwin,	born May 17, 1836, died April 24, 1837.
Edgar M.,	born Dec. 14, 1838, married Julia, daughter of Jesse E. Hanford, of Wakeman, March 3, 1870, and lived on the home farm until his death July 27, 1907, without issue.
Edwin D.,	born Dec. 20, 1841, married 1^st , Amelia Bates, who died in 1903, 2^nd, Mrs. Rose Carter, of Birmingham, and died in Wakeman Village.
Ellen G.,	married, Dec. 15, 1875, Rev. Edward Irvine, who died in 1906. She made her home with her brother, Edwin, in Wakeman.

Caleb Todd, brother of George, was born in North Haven, Conn., June 15, 1815. After the death of George Todd, he made his home with the widow and her children, but died in Norwalk, Ohio, unmarried.

TOMLINSON, Lucius - born in Huntington, Conn., April 18, 1793. He and his wife, Charlotte, came from Stratford, Conn., to Wakeman in 1828. He bought parts of three lots but settled on Lot 33, north of Wakeman, where Orrin Lewis lived in his last days. He died Jan. 19, 1867. His wife died at Broughton, Ohio, in 1881, at the age of 87, without issue.

TRAVIS, Joshua, came to Wakeman in 1831 and lived on the center road west of Wakeman, next to the Battisons. They moved from here to Montpelier, Ohio; his wife was Juliette McFall, of Groveland, N.Y., and they were married in 1827. She was a sister of the wife of Lewis Luce, of Wakeman. She died in Williams county, Ohio, July 21, 1879. They had daughters, Susan, who married James Murray and lived at Green Springs, Ohio, and Delia, who married James Wilcox and lived in Fulton county, Ohio.

TROWBRIDGE, Stephen - was born in Preble Cortlandt county, N.Y., in 1802. He was married to Almeda Comstock in 1825. They lived in Preble until 1831, when they removed to Livingston county, N.Y., and in 1848 to Ohio. They lived in Wakeman on the east town line on Lot 92. His wife, who was born in Preble in 1805, died in 1864. Mr. Trowbridge then sold his farm to Martin Burt and lived with his children until his death in Elgin, Ill., in 1893.

His children were:

Helen,

born in 1828, died in infancy.

Barlow,

born in 1829, married Ada Harkey, in Texas in 1858, and died in Texas in 1896.

Asenath,

born in 1831, married G. H. Sherwood, of Texas, and died in Elgin, Ill., in 1871.

Gardner Clark,

born in 1835, married Mary Barhyte, of Henrietta, O., 1867, and died at Prairie Plains, Texas, in 1896.

Stephen,

born in 1839, married Margaret Ann Barhyte, of Henrietta, in 1864, and lived in St. Louis, Mo.

Leverett Hull,

born in 1841, married Sarah Ann Smith, of Camden, in 1860, served in the army, 1861-65, and lived at Lees Summit, Mo.

Charles Finney,

born in 1844, was killed at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing.

Philuro Comstock,

born in 1846, married D. B. Sherwood, in Texas, in 1871, and died in Elgin, ILL., in 1906.

Quincey Adams,

born in 1851, died an infant.

VAN WAGNER, Rev. James M. – a son of Jacob and Margaret (Bord) Van Wagner, of Pleasant Valley, N.Y., was born July 8, 1817. He was married at Peru, Huron county, Ohio, to Harriet Newel Johnson, in May 1845. She was a daughter of Deacon Allen and Betsy (Post) Johnson. The widow of Deacon Johnson became the third wife of Justin Sherman, of Wakeman.

Mr. Van Wagner spent eight years in Oberlin as a student and graduated from the Seminary in 1846. His first pastorate was at Litchfield, Mich. He came to Wakeman in 1851 and remained until 1857. In 1856, he purchased Dr. Clark’s farm. After he left Wakeman he had a number of pastorates, and died at Sedalia, Mo. Feb. 27, 1906. The wife died at Chattanooga, Tenn., in September 1914. They had children: Rev. Allen J., of Carthage, Mo.; Mary L. (Loomis), of Osborn, Kas.; W. H. of Sedalia, Mo.; C. C., of Rockwell City, Iowa; Harriet N. ( Chatfield) of Washington, D. C.; Carrie L., (Everett), of Chicago; Elizabeth (Grant), of Chattanooga; Fannie D. ( Warren), of Baltimore, Md.

It is possible that Mr. Van Wagner was descended from the Dutch immigrant, Aert Jacobsen, who came to Albany in 1652. His name was Aert Jacobsen Van Wageninge, the latter being his native town in Holland. The Dutch had no surnames, so the grandsons adopted the name van Wageninge as their surname, which has been changed, through the years, to Van Wagenen, Van Wagner, Wagner, &c.

WARD, John born in Ireland about 1838, was left an orphan when young and never knew the exact date of his birth. In 1858, he came to America, on a sailing vessel, spending over five weeks on the water. He came to Wakeman and went to work on the railroad as a section hand for ten years. His wages were 87 ½ cents a day, with no pay for stormy days. One March his wages came to only six cents more than the ten dollars he paid for board. Nevertheless, he saved some money and bought wild land the south part of Lot 84, where Charles Delamater lives. He later bought another piece. By working nights, after his day’s work on the railroad was finished, at cutting wood for the railroad, ditching his land and caring for some cattle he was feeding, he succeeded in paying for his land and retired from the railroad work. He sold the Wakeman land and bought a farm in Camden and became comfortably well off. He married Margaret Raftery in 1868. He died at his Camden home June 25, 1914. His children are Annie (Ambrose), born March 14, 1869, living in Elyria, and Thomas, born Feb. 16, 1871, living on the home farm in Camden.

WARD, Michael, a brother of John, came to Wakeman in 1860. He lived on the east town line (Green street). The wife, Ellen, died here in 1893; born in 1843. He was born in 1835, and died in 1912. Their children were:

Michael,	born in 1868, died in 1902.
Mamie,	born in 1869, drowned in the creek near her home, in 1873.
John,	born 1870, died in 1899.
Peter,	born in 1875, died in 1906. (Strange to say, these three sons were all killed by the cars.)
Patrick,	who died in 1917.
Thomas,	living in Lorain, O.

WARD, Jesse, bought land in Wakeman in Lots 32, 53, 42, and 43 in 1851, and sold to Christopher Shafer in 1852. A son of his died here Dec. 18, 1852.

WARNER, Ebenezer, a son of Mrs. Bronson-Buck of Wakeman. From records it appears that he was fatherless when a minor and inherited considerable property. He was undoubtedly a descendant of one of the Warner families of Woodbury, Conn., there having been four men of the name of Ebenezer Warner in one line, all physicians. In 1819, Philo Murray, of Woodbury, Conn., deeded to Ebenezer Warner, of Roxbury, 300 acres of land in the Western Reserve, Ohio, which he could choose from any of Murray’s land "Except mill seats". His Guardian, Abram Bronson, chose land for him in Lorain county. (See page 79.)

In 1823, Ebenezer Warner bought 71 acres of land in Wakeman, in Lot 21, where the George Canfield buildings stand, and a portion of Lot 31. He was a minor at this time. In 1832, he sold the land and went to Vermillion, O., and was a merchant in company with Nathan G. Sherman and helped to lay out the town - page 167. A little later he moved to Florence and was a merchant, postmaster, county school examiner. (The compiler has a teacher’s certificate which he signed in 1838. F.E.W.), State Representative, Sheriff, &c., a man of many activities. He had a contract for building the Vermillion & Ashland railroad, or a portion of it, in 1841-2. He, like Nathan G. Sherman, probably lost what money he had invested. He finally went to Sault Ste Marie ("The Soo") before the first canal was dug and established a trading post. He married an Indian half breed and disappears from our history.

WATKINS, Rowland, came from Peru, O., to Wakeman and lived on the Silas French farm. His children were: Lorain (second wife of Reuben Bristol, of Wakeman); Maria, Mary Ann, Augustus, and Cyrus, who was killed by a threshing machine. The family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

WAUGH GENALOGY

(From Record written by Mrs. Minerva (Waugh) French, 1897.)

"Within the past few months, I have corresponded with many people bearing our name, and am astonished to find Waughs everywhere, in nearly every state in the Union, most of whom agree upon one point, i.e., that the family originated in Germany, and that two brothers at an early day went over from Germany. One settled in England, the other in Ireland."**********and it seems probable that most, if not all of those that I have mentioned *******were descendants of John Waugh*****the father ofAlexander Waugh.

A portion of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, was called South

Farms. Here our first ancestor, whose relationship we can prove, settled, and here many of his children and grandchildren lived and died. In an old cemetery in that place lie buried John and Margaret Waugh, the first of our line that we can trace. An old family record states that he came from the north of Ireland. Our ancestor was born in 1687, and died in 1781. The record states that he had four sons, Robert, Joseph, Thomas and Alexander, the latter born in 1729. It is possible that these sons were born in the north of England.

At the time of the Revolutionary war, Alexander Waugh was appointed Lieutenant, and later became a Captain.

John Waugh was one of the first settlers in Litchfield, in 1718. The Waugh Homestead in a part of Litchfield has been in the family since 1718 until quite recently. The township record shows that Alexander Waugh was married to Elizabeth Throop, Feb. 12, 1766.

In 1767, Dan Waugh, the first child of Alexander, was born in Litchfield, also Norman, Freeman, Irene, Rhoda, Elizabeth, and no further mention is made of Alexander, but from record of Dan Waugh, I find that Alexander moved from Litchfield to Camden, Oneida County, N.Y., about 1800, traveling with horses and wagon. Whether Alexander and all his children came to New York at the same time, I do not know. He and his wife are buried at Hamilton, N. Y. Dan Waugh married Irene Smedley in 1794. She was the daughter of Gideon Smedley, who fought in the Revolutionary war, side by side with Alexander Waugh. Dan and Irene had children, Betsey, Gideon, Cynthia, Dan, Clarissy, Alexander, Lansing and Archibald Burnett. (Of these, Gideon, Dan, Lansing and Archibald lived for some time in Camden township, Ohio, while Gideon and Lansing, as we shall note, lived in Wakeman.)

About 1811, Dan Waugh with his family removed from Camden to Lewiston, N. Y., where he died Jan. 30, 1812, his wife surviving him only twelve days. The eight children, the oldest only sixteen years old, were left in a new country where wandering tribes of Indians were a constant source of alarm, even to stout-hearted men; where the safety of the whites depended on their fleeing to Fort Lewiston for protection at the approach of the Indians. The home was abandoned, and the family of eight children were taken back to Camden by their kind uncle, Norman Waugh, and they found homes among their relatives.

GIDEON WAUGH, was born at Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 2, 1797. He served in the army at Sackett’s Harbor during the war of 1812. He married Minerva Miner, at Scriba, N.Y., in 1818. From his farm at Scriba, he went to Oswego where he labored as Superintendent of Work upon the Long Pier and also upon the Erie Canal. In April 1833, he came with his family to Ohio. The boat was driven by contrary winds over upon the Canada shore, where they lay for several days. At last they made the port of Huron, and from there he took his family to Berlin, where he left them while he located his farm. He cut a wagon path in a southeasterly direction from Birmingham, Chapman, only eleven years old, driving the team, and selected his farm in the northwest part of Camden, being the third man to settle in the township.

In the dense forest they slept at night under the shelter of the wagon box. Before the little 12 by 12 foot cabin was completed, they were joined by two of their old neighbors from Scriba, Thomas Lee and Robert Douglas, (the wives of Lee and Douglas were cousins of Mr. Waugh.) The family were brought from Berlin by August 1^st and on the 24^th of the same month, a son was born, James being the pioneer baby of Camden. The mother soon yielded to the insidious advances of consumption, and died Oct. 2, the first death of a white inhabitant in Camden, the first birth and first death taking place in the same log cabin.

My mother, Mindwell Shepard, arrived the following winter from Massachusetts, on a visit to her relatives in Henrietta, and soon assumed the name of Waugh.

Father was a man endowed with native generosity, was zealous for the educational development of the town, and with two or three neighbors he built the first schoolhouse. Previous to this he had hired a school teacher who had "taught the ‘young idea’ to shoot" from the loft of his log cabin. He sold his farm in Camden and removed to Wakeman in 1852, and though he suffered pecuniary loss, he was cheerful with the allotment of Providence. He bequeathed not wealth to his family, but what is far better, the legacy of tender memories and a life untarnished by selfish pursuits. He died at Wakeman, May 16, 1869."

After this interesting introduction by Mrs. French, we take up the history of Gideon Waugh in Wakeman, with the history of the name of Camden township. Before there were any settlers in the township, the south half was attached to Brighton, for judicial purposes, and the north half to Henrietta. When quite a number of settlers had come in, they wished to have the township properly organized. In 1835, a petition was presented to the county commissioners at Elyria, to have the township organized. The petition was granted. At this time the township was known by number only, Range No. 19, Township No. 4. The question of a name came up and the commissioners asked for a suggestion. Gideon Waugh suggested the name of his native town in New York state, Camden, and this was adopted.

Mr. Waugh was buried in Camden by the side of his first wife, and his tombstone says that he "named Camden."

In 1850, he sold his Camden farm and in 1852 removed to Wakeman, west of the center, where Silas C. French afterward lived. Six years later he moved to Carlisle, Lorain County, but died in Wakeman. His second wife, Mindwell Shepherd, of Sturbridge, Mass., was a sister of Deacon Shepherd, of Brownhelm, and they were married Jan. 30, 1834. His children were:

Gideon, Jr.,	born in 1821, married Harriet L., daughter of Justin Sherman, of Wakeman, and died at his home in Gardner, Kansas, in 1884.
Ezra Chapman M.	(called Chapman), born in 1823,married 1^st, Roxy Ann Cook, of Camden, and she died Jan. 19, 1855, at the age of 32. He married 2^nd, Mrs. Polly Cable. He had children, Newell, who married Christina Barhyte, of Henrietta; Judson and Nancy, all deceased. He used to live in Wakeman on the farm next east of his father’s, but in 1858 he removed to Henrietta, and died there in 1898.
James,	born Aug. 24^th, 1833, married Laura Parish and lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and died there. He had children, Andrew, Willis and Eve. He used to live on the Ray Barnes farm.
Lansing,	born in 1833, so stated, but not so, as that was the date of birth of James. He married Eliza Deneen and died in Kansas in 1858, leaving a son, James.
Minerva,	daughter of the second wife, born Oct. 17, 1837, married Silas C. French, of Wakeman in 1857, and died April 27, 1900.

Lansing Waugh, another son of Dan (the name never appears except as "Dan") was born in Camden, N.Y., March 9, 1809. He was married, Jan. 1, 1831, to Dotia Minor, of Scriba, N.Y. - a sister of Gideon’s wife. In 1833 he began preaching and became known as "Elder Waugh", while Gideon was "Squire Waugh." He lived at Scriba, Oswego Co., Concord, Erie Co., N.Y. and Stockton, Chatauqua Co. In 1845 he removed to Camden township, Lorain Co. O., and the next year to Wakeman, settling on a farm on the center road east of Wakeman on Lot 97, where S. W. Rowland afterward lived. He died July 8, 1889. His wife was born July 10, 1806, and died Feb. 4, 1892. Their children were:

Justin,

born April 29, 1832, married Harriet Wood, Nov. 12, 1857, and died May 14, 1904.

Nancy M.,

born May 20, 1834, married Frank A. Gilbert, Dec. 22, 1863, and died Feb. 4, 1915, in Washington State.

Mary F.,

born June 24, 1836, married Wallace W. Nay, of Wakeman, Feb. 29, 1860, and died Feb. 20, 1873.

Betsy E.

born March 5, 1841, married Samuel W. Rowland, of Clarksfield and Wakeman, and died in Wakeman.

Dotia A.,

born April 16, 1843, married William H. Pierce, of Wakeman, April 18, 1864, and died Jan. 14, 1909.

Cynthia P.

born Oct. 13, 1845 married Edward M. Day, of Clarksfield, March 29, 1868, and died in Lorain, Ohio, in 1920.

WEBB, Samuel - born in 1805 in Perry township, Stark county, Ohio, married Jane Stevenson, of Salem, O. (born in 1804). They lived at Salem, Columbiana Co., O., until 1846, when they came to Wakeman. They lived on the farm owned later by Warren M. Peck, on Lot 20. In 1859, he bought Benjamin Judson’s farm in Lot 18, but later owned and lived on, the Peter Loretz farm in Lot 24. In 1882, he went to Alliance, Ohio, to live with a son and died there April 23, 1890. The wife had died in 1883. His children were:

Jason and Jesse,

who never lived in Wakeman.

Lemuel,

born in 1833, married Elizabeth, daughter of Leverett Hill, of Wakeman, went to Tabor, Iowa, in 1855, and died there Feb. 17, 1914.

Mary Jane,

died June 9, 1858, at the age of 17.

Thomas,

born in 1835, married 1^st, Helen Farrand, of Wakeman, 2^nd Ada Farrand, and died in Norwalk.

Clark,

born in 1838, died in Hudson, Mich., in 1900.

Gideon,

born in 1844, was a soldier and died of consumption Oct. 15, 1871.

Naomi,

born in 1848, married, Jan. 17, 1871, Martin O. Vanfleet, of Birmingham and Wakeman, and died in Cleveland in June 1918.

WELCH, Samuel, born Aug. 27, 1797, married Elizabeth Billings, who was born Sept. 21, 1797. They came from Aurora, Erie county, N. Y., to Camden, Ohio, and in 1845, to Wakeman. He bought 20 acres of the southeast part of Lot 77, on the Butler road, where Albert Todd lived until recently. He died Sept. 26, 1869, and the wife died Oct. 2, 1874. Their children were:

Russell,	born July 7, 1818, married Louisa Pike and died in Michigan Jan. 25, 1866.
Ruth,	born March 27, 1820, married Lawrence Darling and never lived in Ohio.
Daniel,	born July 17, 1824, married Lucy A. Bates, of New York and Camden, Dec. 25, 1845. He lived on the Wyburn farm, moved to Iowa, returned to Wakeman and lived on the Butler road south of Todd’s corners, removed to Michigan, then to Iowa, but returned to Iowa and died July 16, 1910.
Daniel,	His children were: Irvin, born 1846, lived in Seattle, Washington. Ruth, born in 1849, married Henry F. Hand, son of John G. Hand, of Wakeman, lived in Iowa, and in Camden, where she died. Eliza C., born 1851, died young. James L., born 1853, lived in Seattle. Julia E., born in 1855, died in Massilon, O. Lucevia, born in 1859, lives in Michigan. Alice A., born 1860, lives in Michigan. Alvarado, born 1862, died young. Dilla A., born in 1866, lives in Michigan. Herbert, born in 1869, lives in Michigan.
Oscar F. Welch,	born Jan. 15, 1826, married July 4, 1853, Marian Morgan, of Camden, lived east of Wakeman, and died in the field, June 23, 1899. He had daughters, Ada (Wood) and Florence (Burdue).
Dighton,	born July 17, 1828, married Annie Bates, a sister of Daniel’s wife, and died in Iowa.
Betsy,	born Oct. 26, 1830, died Feb. 1, 1874, unmarried.
Eunice,	born April 29, 1832, married Harvey Billings and died in Iowa, March 27, 1901.
Nehemiah,	born July 28, 1834, married Betsy L. Cook, July 31, 1858, lived in Wakeman village in the latter years of his life, and died April 16, 1914. Had daughters, Laura, Edithe, and Lettie.
Alpheus,	born Sept. 1, 1839, married Lucy Martin and died at his home on the Butler road in September 1872.
Mary A.,	born Aug. 31, 1836, married Enoch Bell and lived in South Dakota.

WESTFALL, John Nicholas, son of Henry Christian and Tamor (Milliman) Westfall, was born in Townsend township, Huron Co., Ohio, Feb. 5, 1817. For his parent’s history see Thayer, page 176. After the death of his father he was taken by Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Tomlinson, who were childless and he lived with them as a son until manhood. He learned the trade of Carpenter. In 1842 he bought 29 acres of land in Lots 32 and 33, south of Tomlinson’s (north of the Orrin Lewis farm). On January 1, 1845, he was married to the daughter of Cyrus Strong, Mary Ann, by name, and they made their home on the land he had bought. The house was burnt after he had sold the farm. In 1853, he sold the farm and bought of John Deck a house and six acres of land west of Wakeman center, where Morris Canfield lived for many years. In 1857 he sold this and bought the Isaac Hill farm, further west, at what became known as Westfall corners. Here he lived until his death May 26, 1878. The wife died Nov. 28, 1912. His children were:

Emily Maria,

born July 25, 1847, married William Barnes, of Wakeman (who died Oct. 16, 1917), and she died in Oberlin, Dec. 19, 1929.

George Wallace,

born Aug. 22, 1850, died March 19, 1879.

Cora Ann,

born Aug. 13, 1856, married Capt. J. M. Hadley, and lived in Toledo.

Frank Lincoln,

born Nov. 1, 1860, left Wakeman in 1880, spent a few years in Toledo, then left for the west and disappeared from the knowledge of his relatives.

WHEELER, John, son of John, was of Stratford, Conn., and was one of the signers of the Fundamental Articles for the settlement of Woodbury, Conn., and early removed to that place, and died in 1704. His son, John, married Ruth Stiles in 1704.

She was a daughter of Benjamin Stiles, Francis, was from Bedfordshire, England, and lived at Windsor and Stratford, Conn. (1639). (Benjamin Stiles, of Clarksfield, was a distant cousin of the Benjamin above.)

John and Ruth Wheeler had a son, Samuel, who had son Johnson, who had children, Justus, of Wakeman, Johnson, of Townsend, Clarksfield and Crown Point, Ind., Oliver G., Polly, wife of Sheldon Barnes, of Wakeman, and Sally, wife of Cyrus Dunning, of Clarksfield.

JUSTUS WHEELER, was born at South Britain, Conn., Jan. 18, 1802, and married Caroline, daughter of Philo and Hannah (Mallory) Downs, Oct. 2, 1827. She was a sister of Dr. H. M. Clark’s wife, and of the second wife of Chester Manvel, and was born June 15, 1804. In 1829, they moved to Florence, and the next year to Wakeman. In 1852, he bought of Marcellus Booth the south part of Lot 50 (The Brad Hayes farm) and lived there until his death, Aug. 9, 1889. The wife died Aug. 16, 1841 (40?). They had children:

Mary Agnes,

born Oct. 17, 1828, and married Daniel Hanford, of Wakeman, Jan. 17, 1847, and had daughters Agnes and Alice, twins, born Jan. 7, 1848. Mr. Hanford died, and in September, 1857 she was married to Bradley Hayes, of Clarksfield, but who lived on the Wheeler farm. They had children, Hinda, born May 9, 1858; Jesse J. born Aug. 9, 1864, and Hattie died young. Mary A. died at the Wheeler homestead Nov. 16, 1907.

Nancy Maria,

born April 19, 1830, had her name changed to Ann. She married Joshua B. Bissell, of Clarksfield, and they lived on what is known as the John Gardiner farm, in Clarksfield, until her death July 21, 1875. They had two daughters, Cora Ann, who died March 18, 1859, at the age of two years, and Ella C., who was drowned in the river, Jan. 30, 1859 at the age of seven years.

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Sarah D.,	born April 16, 1831, died March 29, 1900, unm.
Seth Henry,	born Nov. 23, 1833, married Martha Elizabeth, daughter of Cyrus Strong, of Wakeman, March 18, 1860, and died May 2, 1914. He bought a farm on the Butler road, just south of Todd’s corners, where his son, Abner, lived until recently. He became one of the most successful farmers in the country, and delivered many lectures to Farmers’ Institutes. He took up the breeding of an improved strain of Chester White hogs and that strain became very widely bred through the country. In his old age he left the farm and took up his residence in the village. He had children: Elva Lorena , born Feb. 21, 1861, married James M. Burhans, of Wakeman. Jennie Delight (Laird) born July 18, 1864, died July 15, 1895. Charles Henry, born April 15, 1866, married Mary E. Shelton, of Wakeman, and lived on the Isaac Todd homestead, but now live in the village. Albert Strong, born April 11, 1868, lived on the Seth Todd farm, until recently, but now lives in the village. Sarah Harriet (Bartholamew), born Dec. 8, 1870, died Dec. 20, 1920. Mabel Elizabeth, born Jan. 23, 1875. Mary Grace, born Dec. 23, 1876, married -- Spiers.
Mary Todd,	born Jan. 19, 1836, married Harrison Haynes, March 18, 1860, and lived at Grass Lake, Mich., where she died in Feb. 1910.
Charles M.,	died April 8, 1862, while serving this country. See page 69 as to the identification of the body of one of the Todd soldiers.
Millard I.,	born Nov. 29, 1847, married Anna Washburn, of Vermillion, in 1876, and died March 7, 1928. He lived on a farm south of the Todd corners. He had sons, Sumner E., born Feb. 7, 1879, lives south of the Sherman corners. Louis U., born July 8, 1883.

Helen,	born in 1828, died in infancy.
Barlow,	born in 1829, married Ada Harkey, in Texas in 1858, and died in Texas in 1896.
Asenath,	born in 1831, married G. H. Sherwood, of Texas, and died in Elgin, Ill., in 1871.
Gardner Clark,	born in 1835, married Mary Barhyte, of Henrietta, O., 1867, and died at Prairie Plains, Texas, in 1896.
Stephen,	born in 1839, married Margaret Ann Barhyte, of Henrietta, in 1864, and lived in St. Louis, Mo.
Leverett Hull,	born in 1841, married Sarah Ann Smith, of Camden, in 1860, served in the army, 1861-65, and lived at Lees Summit, Mo.
Charles Finney,	born in 1844, was killed at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing.
Philuro Comstock,	born in 1846, married D. B. Sherwood, in Texas, in 1871, and died in Elgin, ILL., in 1906.
Quincey Adams,	born in 1851, died an infant.

Justin,	born April 29, 1832, married Harriet Wood, Nov. 12, 1857, and died May 14, 1904.
Nancy M.,	born May 20, 1834, married Frank A. Gilbert, Dec. 22, 1863, and died Feb. 4, 1915, in Washington State.
Mary F.,	born June 24, 1836, married Wallace W. Nay, of Wakeman, Feb. 29, 1860, and died Feb. 20, 1873.
Betsy E.	born March 5, 1841, married Samuel W. Rowland, of Clarksfield and Wakeman, and died in Wakeman.
Dotia A.,	born April 16, 1843, married William H. Pierce, of Wakeman, April 18, 1864, and died Jan. 14, 1909.
Cynthia P.	born Oct. 13, 1845 married Edward M. Day, of Clarksfield, March 29, 1868, and died in Lorain, Ohio, in 1920.

Jason and Jesse,	who never lived in Wakeman.
Lemuel,	born in 1833, married Elizabeth, daughter of Leverett Hill, of Wakeman, went to Tabor, Iowa, in 1855, and died there Feb. 17, 1914.
Mary Jane,	died June 9, 1858, at the age of 17.
Thomas,	born in 1835, married 1^st, Helen Farrand, of Wakeman, 2^nd Ada Farrand, and died in Norwalk.
Clark,	born in 1838, died in Hudson, Mich., in 1900.
Gideon,	born in 1844, was a soldier and died of consumption Oct. 15, 1871.
Naomi,	born in 1848, married, Jan. 17, 1871, Martin O. Vanfleet, of Birmingham and Wakeman, and died in Cleveland in June 1918.

Emily Maria,	born July 25, 1847, married William Barnes, of Wakeman (who died Oct. 16, 1917), and she died in Oberlin, Dec. 19, 1929.
George Wallace,	born Aug. 22, 1850, died March 19, 1879.
Cora Ann,	born Aug. 13, 1856, married Capt. J. M. Hadley, and lived in Toledo.
Frank Lincoln,	born Nov. 1, 1860, left Wakeman in 1880, spent a few years in Toledo, then left for the west and disappeared from the knowledge of his relatives.