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ISAAC E.
TOWN
A Biographical Sketch of his Life.
pg. 105
Isaac E. Town was
76 years of age Jan. 16th, 1888. He came to Huron county in
the fall of 1836 from the village of Pompey, Onondaga county, New
York. He traveled via the Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence vial
Lake Erie to Huron and from there by way of horse team to Huron
county were he settled on a farm, six miles south-east of Norwalk,
on the Wooster road, one mile north-west of Olena village. He
commenced housekeeping Dec. 9th, 1836, with himself, wife and
one child, and his wife’s father, Wm. Furace; they
began in a one-story log house, with a bark roof, with one room and
one board for a floor; thus they lived until the following spring
when they added a shingle roof and a board floor; they afterwards
made improvements as they felt able. Here Mr. and Mrs. Town
raised a family of ten children to maturity, burying two young
children in the meantime. Here they
celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with about two hundred
relatives and friends, on the 3d day of September, 1885, and here
Mrs. Town died Nov. 30th, 1886, aged 75 years.
Mr. Town is still a resident of Huron county, in good
health and strength, with promise of many years before him.
COL. JOHN NELSON SLOANE
From the Sandusky Journal.
pps. 105-108
The appended
obituary notice and sketch of the late Colonel Sloane (father
of ex-Mayor Rush R. Sloane), who was buried a few days since
in Oakland cemetery in this city, will interest the readers of the
Journal, very many of whom knew the deceased, who was a
resident of Sandusky for nearly forty years. They are taken
from the Waterloo (Ind.) Press, and are as follows:
DIED - Sept. 24, 1881, at Waterloo, DeKalb county
Indiana, at the residence of his son-in-law, and daughter, Dr. J.
U. and Mrs. Sarah S. Winslow, Col. John Nelson Sloane, aged 85
years, 9 months and 18 days. And so has joined that
innumerable throng, another of the patriarchs of the west, and one
of those who have so largely contributed to its development.
Col. Sloane was born at Bridgewater,
Oneida county, New York, Dec. 6, 1795. At the age of
twenty, inspired by that feeling of enterprise, for which he was
always conspicuous, he left his native county in June, 1815, on
horseback, for the far-off wilds of Ohio. After a tedious and
not unadventurous journey, he arrived at Abbott’s Corners, at that
time the county seat of the old county of Huron, in the state of
Ohio, and in August, when the first session of court was being held.
Remaining there several weeks he visited, among other points, Bloomingville, at that time the most flourishing town in that
section of the state. He also visited Ogontz, the site of the
present city of Sandusky, then only an Indian village.
The winter of 1816 he taught school in the village of
New Haven, and in the same year was induced to engage with Col.
Hector Kilbourne, in the building up of a town near Columbus,
Ohio. In 1818 he was married at Lyme, then Strong’s Ridge,
Huron county, Ohio, to Cynthia Strong, who died at Waterloo,
in February, 1873.
In 1821 he located at Sandusky, Ohio, where he resided
until 1857. During his entire residence in Sandusky, with
characteristic energy, he always took a leading part in public
improvements. Liberal with his time and money, he entered
actively into every movement tending to the advancement of the town,
and much of its present prosperity is due to his efforts at this
time. In the establishment and opening of the Columbus
turnpike, which helped to make Sandusky at an early day an important
point of shipment, he was an efficient factor. In private
enterprises he was untiring, and made many extensive, lasting, and
for the time valuable improvements. He was largely interested
in real estate, and in company with Messrs. Eleutherus
Cooke and Mason Converse, built the first brick
business block in the city, and himself completed and occupied the
first stone residence. He was extensively engaged in
mercantile pursuits, at which he accumulated for those days a
fortune, and in this connection became interested in the lake
commerce, being one of the few who foresaw the great importance this
means of communication was to become, and foretold its great
development. In 1834 he built and launched at Sandusky the, at that
date, large two masted vessel, “Platina,” commanded and in part
owned by Capt. T. C. McGee, who is still living, a prominent
citizen of Sandusky. Col. Sloane contributed
liberally to the building of the old Mad River railroad, an
enterprise considered of great moment and national interest.
At the ceremonies attending the commencement of said road, at
Sandusky, Col. Sloane was marshal of the day.
Before leaving New York State he had commenced the study of law; but
his change of location caused a change in his plans, but in 1840 he
completed his course, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio, of which
he proved to be a valuable member, and acquired considerable
prominence.
In 1839 he was elected Mayor of Sandusky, and held the
office three successive terms. He was also justice of the
peace during at least part of that time. He was among those
who labored efficiently for the setting off of Erie county from
Huron, and the location of the county seat at Sandusky.
He was one of the few members who organized Grace
Church parish at Sandusky, and was always a vestryman and warden of
the same while a resident there, and for years had been a member of
the church of Christ. On coming to Waterloo and not finding
his church home, he united with the M. E. church of Waterloo, of
which he was a devoted member. Three years since it was his
constant practice for many months, to read the entire New Testament
each week, also the book of Psalms, which was bound with his copy.
He discontinued this gradually on account of failing eyesight and
growing infirmities. He was an honored member of the
fraternity of Free Masons. He was a Royal Arch Mason. He
was Grand Lecturer for the State of Ohio, and at one time was of
fered a large salary, for those days, to travel and lecture.
After leaving Sandusky he accepted a position under the
Government, which he held for four years, residing at Washington, D.
C. Failing health, and cataract forming on each eye, compelled
him to resign. Soon after, himself and wife removed to
Waterloo, where they resided until their death.
CYNTHIA STRONG SLOANE
pp. 107-108
Mrs.
Cynthia Strong Sloane, wife of Col. John N. Sloane, died
at Waterloo, Indiana, February 2, 1873, and is buried in Oakland
Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio. She was born in Homer, Courtland
county, New York, Oct. 10, 1802. Her maiden name was
Cynthia Strong. She was the eldest daughter of Abner
and Sally Strong with whom in the spring of 1815 she removed to
Lyme, Huron county, Ohio, where on the 13th day of August, 1818, she
was united in marriage with John N. Sloane.
Settling in Sandusky in 1821 she was well-known by its
early residents. One of the first to unite with all good
works, she was a fond, devoted mother, a true, faithful friend, to
know was to love her. In 1835 she was one of the first to
engage in the building of Grace Church, Sandusky, and one of the
first to unite with it. Her quiet acts of kindness, her
unostentatious charities, her sweet, pleasant smile, her pure,
christian life, will long be remembered and we all do know that she
has found a home in her Father’s house, eternal in the heavens.
CHILDREN:
Edward
VV. Sloane, born Mar. 9, 1821.
Sarah C. Sloane, born July 25, 1824.
William H. Sloane, born Dec. 8, 1826; died Aug. 6, 1 827.
Rush R. Sloane, born September 18, 1828.
Louisa M. Sloane, born September 20, 1830; died
Sept. 11, 1887.
Helen Mary Sloane, born February 24, 1841.
MRS. LOUISA SLOANE KILBOURNE
From the Cheyenne County Democrat, Bird City, Kansas
DIED -
Mrs. Louisa Sloane Kilbourne. Born Sept. 20th, 1830.
Died Sept. 11th, 1887, aged 56 years 11 months and 11 days, at the
residence of Joseph H. Crow, Bird City, Kansas.
Mrs. Louisa Sloane Kilbourne was born in
Sandusky, Erie county, Ohio, September 20th, 1830, and died of heart
disease following dropsy at the residence of Joseph H. Crow,
three miles east of Bird City, Sunday, September 11th, 1887.
The deceased was the daughter of the late Col. John
Nelson Sloane, one of the founders of Sandusky. Mrs.
Kilbourne was an intelligent and cultured woman, whose
writings had appeared in prominent eastern journals. She was a
member of the Minerva Literary Club at the time of her death.
Her health had been very poor for several years. She came to
this county about six months
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ago and was living with her only son, Edward W.
Kilbourne, and wife in 7-5-38. While her son was away from
home in Colorado, his wife seeing Mrs. Kilbourne was
failing had her removed to her father’s house where she was kindly
cared for and everything possible done for her comfort. Dr.
Payne attended her through her last illness. Mrs.
Kilbourne was a member of the Episcopal Church, was a
kind-hearted christian woman, a most devoted and beloved mother, an
honored relative and respected friend. The funeral services
were held on the evening of Sept. 12th, conducted by Rev. Geo.
Nulton, pastor of the M. E. Church, whose earnest prayer was
deeply affecting to the many friends present. Although her
death was so sudden and unexpected, the funeral cortege was fully as
large as any yet seen in this county, and her remains were interred
in her son’s lot, number forty-nine in the Bird City Cemetery.
FRANCIS D. PARISH
The subject
of this sketch, Francis D. Parish, was born in Naples,
Ontario county, state of New York, Dec. 20th, 1796. Afterwards
his parents removed to Bristol, a town located on the Phelps
and Gotham purchase. It was a rough region with valleys
and mountain sides, and, at that time, a new and unsettled country,
and it was in assisting to clear and cultivate a tract of land in
Bristol township that the boyhood of young Parish was passed.
Such education as he had was obtained at the country
district schools, taught for a few months in the winter time, for in
the summer he was kept at work upon the farm. After he was
about eighteen years of age he was sent to the Academy at Canandagua
and afterwards spent two years at Hamilton College, but business
reverses compelled his father to discontinue his college course.
The decision was then made that young Francis should emigrate
to Columbus, Ohio, and study law, but the winter of 1819-20 he was
engaged in East Bloomfield, New York state, teaching school.
In April, 1820, young Parish then in his 24th
year went by the way of the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to Marietta,
Ohio, thence by keel boat up the Muskingham river to Zanesville and
thence by stage to Columbus,the capital of the State.
After two years of study in the office of his cousin,
Orris Parish, commonly called in those days “black Parish,”
he was on
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the 22d day of May, 1822, admitted to practice law
by the Supreme Court then in session at Delaware, Ohio.
By advice of his cousin it was decided that he should
locate at Sandusky, then in the county .of Huron. The whole of
this section of Ohio was new and there were no public means of
travel and he rode on horseback a part of the way from Columbus to
Sandusky and walked the balance. The only lawyers then at
Sandusky were E. Cooke and H. J. Harmon. Mr.
Parish in a few years acquired considerable reputation in the
collection of debts and, in this branch of the business, he soon
equalled that of any lawyer in this section of the state.
In 1836 he formed a law partnership with E. B.
Sadler, Esq., and for many years the firm of Parish &
Sadler was well and favorably known.
In the winter of 1837-8 he‘ came within one vote of
being nominated by the Whig members of the Legislature of Ohio,
President Judge of this Circuit, but was defeated by Ozias
Brown. I believe that had it not been for the strong
anti-slavery views since called “Abolition” which Mr.
Parish had the year or two before expressed, he would have been
elected.
In 1847-8-9 Horatio Wildman, Esq.,
of Sandusky, and the writer were students at law in his office, and
we can bear witness to the care and circumspection with which he
examined every question, to the accuracy of his judgment, and his
faithfulness to principle; and I could call attention to several
instances where he relinquished liberal fees in preference to
remaining away from Oberlin at a regular meeting of the college
trustees of which he was then one. Mr. Parish
retired from the bar in 1850.
In 1830 he united with the Congregational church and
continued a devout and earnest member of that denomination to the
end of his life.
In 1831 in connection with the other citizens of
Sandusky he organized a temperance society upon the pledge of total
abstinence, the first society of the kind upon the Firelands.
He was until the fall of 1836 a zealous member of the
Colonization Society, then in successful operation, and which was
supported by the best men of the nation as the true way to secure
theuniversal emancipation of the slaves. The discussions and
riots of the years 1834-5-6 and especially the mobbing and
destruction of Mr. Birney’s newspaper, “The
Philanthropist,” at Cincinnati in
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1836, was more than he could stand and he became a
most active, earnest and pronounced “Abolitionist.” The murder
of Rev. Lovejoy provoked him beyond endurance and he
determined to fight it out on that line to the end, which he did.
He was so out spoken and bitter that he was at times threatened with
the destruction of his property and with personal violence.
Indeed, I well remember when it was talked openly upon the streets
of Sandusky that “Parish should be ridden upon a rail,” and he was
put upon his guard. But he was not afraid, at least he showed
no fear. His house became the home for the fugitive and was called
for years “the depot of the Underground Road.” While he has
aided many a hungry and poor fugitive to escape and sent them on
their way rejoicing, he was never mulcted in damages or sued except
in one case, the particulars of which I will not here give, as they
are related in full in an address delivered before the Firelands
Pioneer Society by the writer of this article and published in the
same volume of the “Pioneer” in which this appears.
At the election in the year 1844 Mr. Parish
was the candidate on the the so-called “Liberty” ticket for the
vacancy then existing in the 28th Congress, but was defeated; the
Whig candidate, Hon. E. S. Hamlin being elected.
He was always known as being hostile to Odd Fellowship,
Free Masonary, or any other secret society.
In 1854 he was defeated for probate judge in Erie
county by A. H. Stryker, the candidate of the Know Nothing
party.
In 1859 he was nominated by the Republicans of the Erie
Huron district and elected and served one term as State Senator.
In March, 1861, he was appointed by Governor
Dennison to fill the unexpired term of the writer as probate
judge, who had resigned to take a position under the United States
government.
Judge Parish was defeated for
renomination in 1863 by Judge George Morton who was
nominated and elected.
Two years after, 1863, he continued to reside at his
old home in Sandusky, then for several years resided on his farm in
Perkins township, near Sandusky, and finally removed to Oberlin, for
which place he always had a great fondness, and where he lived at
the time of his death.
He was one of the organizers of the Erie County
Agricultural Society and one of its most active members, and for
several years was the president of the society. Mr.
Parish regularly visited
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Sandusky at the time of the Erie County Fair until
his death and his interest in it was unabated.
On the 23d of March, 1886, he quietly passed away.
His remains were taken to his old home at Sandusky,
where funeral services were held in the Congregational church, of
which he had so early been a member and to build which he had
liberally contributed. The members of the Sandusky bar
arranged for the services and his remains were buried in Oakland
cemetery.
Mr. Parish left to mourn his death his faithful and
devoted wife, and son, Frank E. Parish, a successful business
man of Chicago, and two daughters, Sarah and Mary.
No words of eulogium that I could write would more
clearly present Mr. Parish as he lived and died than
those of Cowper’s:
“He is a freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside.”
ABNER STRONG
By Hon. Rush R. Sloane.
Mr. Strong was
born in Lee, Mass., Apr. 7, 1780; he married Sally Bassett in
Homer, New York, Oct. 15, 1801, where he conducted a farm until
1815, when he removed to the township of Lyme, Huron county, Ohio.
He resided upon what was afterwards called Strong's
Ridge until his years made it necessary to quit work on his farm,
which he then sold; he died at Bellevue, Feb. 3, 1859, and was
buried on Strong's Ridge; he was a man of remarkably genial an sweet
disposition, an a most devoted christian.
He was a man of earnest principle and the only question
with him, was, is it right? Policy never influenced him.
A firm temperance man, he closed the bar which he had in the hotel
which he kept on the Ridge at a time when, as the stage house, he
was making money rapidly, and changed the name of "Temperance
House." He was a strong abolitionist, a friend of the slave
and never failed to aid them. Mr. Strong was a
candidate for the Legislature on the first ticket ever presented by
the Abolition party then called the Liberty party, in Huron county
and that at a time when he was offered the nomination of the Whig
party for the same office and when the nomination of that party was
equivalent to an election.
He was during all his life a faithful and devoted
member of
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Christ's church and he is now, enjoying his reward
in heaven.
SALLY BASSETT STRONG
Sally
Bassett Strong, wife of Abner Strong, was born in
Mansfield, Conn., Apr. 7. 1784; maiden name, Sally Bassett,
died at Bellevue, Jan. 20, 1865, and buried on Strong's Ridge.
CHILDREN.
Cynthia Strong,
born Oct. 10, 1802; deceased;
Eunice Strong, born Mar. 14, 1804; deceased;
Pelatiah Strong, born Dec. 22, 1806; deceased.
Alonzo Strong, born Sept. 29, 1809.
Benjamin F. Strong, born July 14, 1822. |
DR. JOSHUA U. WINSLOW
From the Auburn (Indiana) Courier.
Dr. Joshua U. Winslow,
the well known druggist of Waterloo, dropped dead of heart disease
Saturday, Sept. 3, 1887, while engaged about his residence in some
outside repairs. Dr. Winslow was nearly 69 years of age
at the time of his death, having been born in Pittsford, N. Y., Oct.
2, 1818. He studied medicine and surgery with Prof. Frank
H. Hamilton, of Rochester, N. Y., graduating at Hobart College,
in Geneva, N. Y., in the class of 1844. He commenced the
practice of medicine in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1845, and in February,
1847, was united in marriage to Miss Sarah C. Sloane,
daughter of John N. and Cynthia Sloane of that city. In
1849 Dr. Winslow, removed to Monroe, Michigan, and in 1854 to
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he opened a drug store. In 1859 he
opened a store in Waterloo and has been in business there as a
druggist ever since. In 1864, Clarence, his son, died, and
Elizabeth, the remaining child, in 1867. From this double
affliction he never fully recovered.
In the winter of 1880, and again in the following
winter, he was prostrated with a complication of diseases. His
sufferings were intense, and he arose from his bed a physical wreck,
deaf and nearly blind, but he was never known to murmur.
Unable afterwards to read to any great extent, and debarred by
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deafness from enjoying the conversation of
friends, he was compelled to draw from a well stored brain for
reminiscences of bygone investigations in the realms of science and
art for companionship and consolation. Always a reticent man,
in later years the habit became stronger, and he was known as a man
of few words. It is conceded of him that he was one of the
most learned men of northern Indiana, and the most thorough in his
specialties, yet with it all, like all great men, he was extremely
modest and unpretentious, never seeking in any form to display his
powers, or to court attraction by his talents. To the medical
fraternity he was known as the ablest chemist in all the surrounding
country, and to the local profession his loss is irreparable.
The funeral took place from his late residence, Monday, September 5,
at 3 p. m., Rev. W. D. Parr, of the M. E. church,
officiating, and was largely attended by old-time friends, the
Ladies’ Society (in whose success he took a deep interest) and by
the citizens generally. The floral offerings were many and
beautiful. Among those present were the following relatives of
Dr. and Mrs. Winslow from abroad: Mrs. Nellie Sloane,
wife of Hon. Rush R. Sloane, of Sandusky, who is now in
Europe; his son Mr. Morrison Sloane of the same city; Mr.
Edward W. Sloane, superintendent of the American Express Co. at
Indianapolis; and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly, also of the latter
city.
WM. W. PARKER
Wm. W. Parker was
born Feb. 17, 1802, in Livingston county, New York. He came to
Florence township, Erie county, Ohio, in March, 1817. He
married Sarah Parker Mar. 18, 1820. He died Mar.
19, 1880, aged 78 years, 1 month and 1 day.
MRS. SARAH PARKER
Mrs. Sarah Parker
was born in Orange county, Vermont, Feb. 18th, 1802. She came
to New York and was there about one year, and from there she came to
Florence township, Erie county, Ohio, in March, 1818. She
married Wm. Parker Mar. 18, 1820. She died June 17, 1888, aged
86 years, 3 months and 29 days.
BENNETT WILLIAMS
The death of this
venerable and worthy gentleman, so long a
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citizen of Milan, occurred on the 17th of
December, 1886, in the 89th year of his age.
Deceased was a son of Col. Phineas Williams, of
Vermont, and served with distinction in the war of 1812. He
was born at Bridgewater, Windsor county, Vermont, May 10th, 1798,
and was the second son of a family of eight children, four sons and
four daughters, of whom he was the last surviving member. He
took part in the war of 1812, enlisting in the Thirty-first Regiment
of the regular army in March, 1813, and serving till the close of
the war.
He came to Milan in 1815 and has since resided in Erie
county most of the time.
He was married on Nov. 19th, 1823, to Mrs. Amanda
Guthrie, formerly Miss Perry, whose family was one of the
first to locate in. this part of the country. His wife was
called to her reward June 23d, 1867, leaving him to finish the
pilgrimage of life alone.
His lifetime has covered the whole of Milan’s history,
from the time when it was but an Indian village of a few rude huts
to the present time; and he was known to nearly all of the residents
of this section of country, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of
all. He was a genial, warm-hearted citizen, ever true to his
convictions, and his friendships, having a large circle of trusted
friends and acquaintances, and was highly respected by all who knew
him. His illness was borne without a murmur and he entered the
“valley and shadow of death,” with a firm trust in the precious
promise, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” So the
old soldier, the citizen full of years, and the trustful christian,
has passed away, and entered into the rest that remains for God’s
people.
LEVI PLATT
Deacon Levi Platt,
of Greenfield, died Sept. 8th, 1886, at the ripe old age of 90
years. Like a shock of corn fully ripe he was gathered home.
FREDERICK UPSON
Deacon Frederick Upson
died at his home on Woodlawn ave-
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nue in Norwalk, Sept. 13th, 1886, aged 77 years.
After a useful and excellent christian life he passed to his reward.
PRENTICE K. LOOMIS
Prentice K. Loomis,
of Berlin Heights, died Nov. 3d, 1886, aged 77 years; and his
wife, Sarah Royce Loomis, died Nov. 7th, 1886, aged 71 years.
They both have lived in Berlin Heights since, 134; for more than
fifty years; they were highly respected, honored citizens of that
village.
MRS. ABIGAIL WRIGHT
Mrs. Abigail Wright,
of Steuben, died Dec. 5th, 1886, aged 86 years.
GERSHOM S. JENNINGS
Gershom S. Jennings died in North Fairfield Jan. 3, 1887, aged
73 years and 7 months. Mr. Jennings was born in
Fairfield county, Connecticut, May 29, 1813. He came to the
then new state of Ohio when about 21 years old, in 1834, commenced
to hew out his fortune in the woods. He live in Fairfield for
about 43 years, a highly respected, upright and honorable citizen.
MRS. SYLVIA EATON
Mrs. Sylvia Eaton
died at her home in Fitchville Mar. 8th, 1887, aged 84 years.
She was a resident of that township for about 60 years, a faithful
and worthy member of the Baptist church during a good part of her
life.
MARINDA DENMAN
Marinda Denman,
one of the oldest pioneer residents of Huron county, died at her
home four miles north of Wakeman, Thursday night, Mar. 24th, 1887.
She was the wife of the late John Denman, Sr., of that place.
They settled on the farm where she died in 1823, make 64 consecutive
years of residence in this county, Mrs. Denman had been a
great sufferer for many months with
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cancer of the throat, which slowly sapped her
life. She left a family of ten children - nine sons and one
daughter, all of whom are now living. Eight of them live
within a radius of fifteen miles of the old homestead; two live in
the West.
JOHN BEARDSLEY
John Beardsley, of
Norwalk, died Apr. 1st, 1887, after a protracted illness. He
was in his 80th year and had long been a resident of this city.
MRS. ELDRIDGE
Mrs. Eldridge, of
Olena, aged 79 years, died Apr. 18th, 1887.
FRANCIS PILGRAM
Francis Pilgrim,
of Olena, aged 83 years, died Apr. 20, 1887. His wife died
about nine months previously; both exemplary christian people.
Within ten
days in April 1887 there were five deaths near Olena, whose
aggregated ages reached 429 years, or an average of 86 years each.
MRS. ABIGAIL ELY CURTIS
Mrs. Abigail Ely
Curtiss was born in Conneaut,
Ashtabula county, May 27, 1816; moved to Norwalk in 1877; died May
2, 1887. She was an elder sister of George C. Wright of
Woodlawn avenue. She was an own niece of the Rev. Joseph
Badger, an early missionary in these parts. He was
chaplain at Fort Avery and was stationed in 1806 at Fremont
Missionary Station.
JONATHAN ATHERTON
Jonathan Atherton,
of Greenfield, aged 70 years, died July 23a, 1886.
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MRS. SALLY WASHBURN
One more of Huron
county’s pioneers has gone the way of the earth. Mrs. Sally
Washburn died July 10th, 1886, in the ninety first year of her
age. Her husband, Joseph Washburn, died some 33
years ago, since which time she has remained his widow. She
was a native of Ulster county, New York; was born the 2d day of May,
1795; moved to Huron county in 1820, living for a short time with
the family of Rundel Palmer until her husband, with
the assistance of a few neighbors, could construct their log house.
This done they moved to the farm which she had always lived upon
until the day of her death. She was the mother of seven
children, but three of whom survive her. She was a worthy member of
the church with which she united in her youthful days, and was a
worthy mother in Israel, highly respected by all in the community
and was always assisting in the way of charity, whenever she had an
opportunity to do so. Her funeral was held in the
Congregational church on July 12th, conducted by the Rev. A. H.
Leonard, of Greenwich. His text was from Psalms, as
follows: “Thou shalt guide me through life and at last receive
me to life eternal.”
REV. THOMAS DIMM
The Rev. Tomas
Dimin, of New Haven, died July 9th, 1886, aged 76 years.
DORCAS KNAPP
Dorcas Knapp,
widow of Jonathan Knapp, of Hartland, died July 24th,
1886. Aged 94 years.
MRS. JANE PHILLIPS
Mrs. Jane Phillips,
widow of Abram Phillips, died in Clarks field July 24,
1886, aged 84 years.
MRS. LYDIA R. BECKWITH
Mrs. Lydia R. Beckwith,
aged 69 years, died Aug. 27, 1886, at her home in Fitchville.
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ANGELINE L. CURTISS
Angeline L. Curtiss
was the eldest daughter of the late Samuel B. Lewis, one of
the three earliest settlers in Norwalk township, Huron County, Ohio,
and she fully realized the hardships of a pioneer life. The
deceased was born in Norwalk, Aug. 5, 1819, and died in Toledo,
Ohio, Nov. 28, 1887. She grew to young womanhood with her
parents on the old S. B. Lewis farm, two miles south-east of
this city, where she received that early christian training which
always shone in her purity of character, in her every day life.
She was married Sept. 28, 1841, to Orlando F.
Curtiss, who preceded her to the grave by more than seventeen
years, he having died on Aug. 19, 1870.
They were a happy and devoted husband and wife, and for
nearly thirty years lived happily on the old homestead a little
south of this town. They were blessed with a family of two
daughters and four sons. Out of this family of eight persons,
three have gone to their last resting place, viz: Orlando F.
Curtiss who died in August, 1870; Juliet M. the eldest
daughter who died Feb. 24, 1879; and lastly Angeline L. Curtiss
the subject of this brief notice who died as above stated.
The deceased lady always admonished her children to
seek the Saviour. She ever had a cheerful word for young
children.
An incident happened during her chidhood that
may be of interest to some at this time. When a little girl of
some three years of age she was stolen from her home by a squaw and
carried off about three miles before being overtaken and rescued by
her father. The squaw was on horseback and galloped off at a
great rate with the child.
The deceased was conscious of the near approach of
death, and when the summons came, raised herself upon her bed and
announced that she was dying. In a very few minutes she became
unconscious, in which condition she remained for about twenty-four
hours before breathing her last. Among requests made by her on
her death bed, was, that her four sons should be her pall bearers,
which request was carried out. Her remains were brought from
Toledo and funeral services were held in St. Paul’s Episcopal
Chapel, this city, on Dec. 2, 1887,
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the interment being in the family burial lot in
our beautiful Woodlawn cemetery.
Of the surviving members of this family, one son
resides in Toledo, Ohio, two in Conn., one in Washington, D. C., and
the daughter in Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Curtiss was a
loving and tender mother, always ready to sacrifice herself, if
necessary, for her children and those with whom she was brought in
daily contact, and a most estimable christian lady.
She is gone but will not be forgotten; though dead she
still lives in memory for what she was, and what she did in life,
and those who, were her intimate and life long associates will ever
realize and feel that it was for good that this life was spent in
their time and generation. “Peace to her ashes.”
HENRY BUCKINGHAM
By his grandson Henry Buckingham, of Lawrence,
Kansas.
I herewith
send you an imperfect sketch of the life of Henry Buckingham
as per your request. I have labored under many difficulties to
get the dates, but am confident that they are nearly correct.
I would have preferred that some other person should have performed
the task for various reasons: in the first place I do not feel
competent to do him justice; secondly, what I say might seem like
too much praise; and thirdly, I was so young when my grandfather was
living I do not remember much that ought to be written. Much
that I write I learned from others, who knew him when he was in the
prime of life. But the reader, I trust, will cheerfully pardon
my shortcomings.
The subject of this sketch was born in Coventry,
Connecticut, Jan. 13, 1779. He was descended from Thomas
Buckingham, the Puritan settler, and ancestor of all the
Buckinghams in America, so far as is known. Thomas
Buckingham arrived in Boston June 26, 1637, coming over in
the ship Hector from London. He went to New Haven,
Connecticut, March 30th of the following year and made his home
there. He was thoroughly a Puritan, and left the old country
for the same reason, no doubt, that actuated those that came over in
the Mayflower, which preceded them seventeen years. It does
not appear that he was an ordained minister of the gospel, but he
took a leading part in the religious affairs of the new country.
He left four children.
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