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THE CHURCHES OF ORWELL, PENNSYLVANIA (Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Federated) 1803-1951 By
Copyright, 1955
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Chapter I
Warren and
Orwell Congregational Church
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ANSON
COLLINS joined at the same time. (One Anson R. Collins, probably a son,
was a subscriber to the building of the first Rome Presbyterian Church
in 1845. He died at the home of his son in law M.R. Heath, Athens, Pa.,
about 1891 at the age of 82.) Anson was later elected an elder of the Orwell
Presbyterian Church.
DOTIA,
wife of Comfort Bliss CHAFFEE was admitted April 15, 1821.
HANNAH,
wie of Asahel GRAVES joined May 19.
At
this time a revival of religion in Warren led to a large increase in membership.
On Sunday May 20th, the following were enrolled: Joseph Ellsbree
and Mary, his wife; George Manning and Charlotte, his wife; Nathan Young
and Lucy, his wife; Aaron Corbin and Rhoda Lloyd, his wife; Robert Sutton,
John Eddy, Mary King, catherine King, Henry Leonard Merrill, Roswell Lee
Coburn, Caroline Harriet Coburn, Harriet Dewing, John Coburn, Mercy Bowen,
wife of Noah Bowen; Jacob Drugen Burbanks and Sophia, his wife, a sister
of Oliver Corbin.
JOSEPH
ELLSBREE and MARY (MACKEY) ELLSBREE, were natives of Albany County, New
York. He was born July 15, 1790 and came to what is Warren Township about
1819 and engaged in farming. He died in Windham Township February 18, 1856.
Mary was born January 20, 1793 and died July 4, 1877. They had six children
of whom A.C. Ellsbree of Athens was third, He married February 12, 1846
miss Nancy, daughter of Platt and Laura (Pease) Rogers of Windham Township.
A. C. and Nancy Ellsbree had one daughter Jesel B., who married Eugene
Allen. (died 1940)
GEORGE
MANNING and his wife, CHARLOTTE (MACKEY) MANNIN, second couple to be enrolled
from the rivival, had three children of record: (1) Elizabeth, called Eliza,
who married Eben Griswold, had four children: Charlotte, George, Abigail,
Charles; (2) William M.; and (3) John Case Manning.
(1)The
Griswolds moved to Newark Valley and their son George's family moved to
Owego, N.Y., where some of the family now live, including Mrs. Charles
Shiner, West Front Street, and Horace Griswold, Main Street.
(2)William
M. Manning, son of George and Charlotte, married Sarah R. Whitney, had
one son George H. Manning, who with his wife Mary, had two children: William
(deceased), and Charlotte Elizabeth (calld Lottie) who married William
Clune. Mr. and Mrs. Clune have two children, a daughter, Marian, and a
son, William. William Clune is married and has two girls. They all lived
at 256 Loring Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y. till recently.
(3)John
Case Manning married Ruth Maria Coburn, daughter of Daniel Hendrick and
Harriet (Coburn) Coburn, and had 5 children; Alexander Dewing manning,
Harriet Coburn Manning (died when 15), Charlotte Elizabeth Manning, Clara
Maria Manning, and George Gurden Manning.
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Alexander
Dewing Manning married Flora Dewey of Berkshire, N.Y., and had two
children: Dewey (in Binghamton Hospital since War I, not married) and Ruth,
who married Dr. Lawrence J. Kellam having four children: Lawrence, Jr.,
Timothy, Marily and David Kellam and living at 28 Crestmont Road, Binghamton,
N.Y.
Chrlotte
Elizabeth Manning married Schuyler Slawson, had one daughter, Clara,
who married Frederick W. Medlong and lives at 39 Kneeland Ave., Binghamton,
N.Y.
Clara
Maria Manning married Edward Payson of LeRaysville, Pa., and had two
sons, Manning Edward and Hartwell Moore Payson, who is married and has
two children, a boy and a girl , living at 5304 Circle Drive, Van Nuys,
Calif. Clara M. Payson is the only child of John Case Manning living at
the present time (March, 1946). Hartwell Moore Payson's wife is deceased
and he and his mother Mrs. Clara M. Payson, live at Bloomsburg (Box 177),
Pa.
George
Gurden Manning married Lena Mae Russell, eldest daughter of Samuel
D. and Lucy (Gould) Russell of Windham, Bradford County, Pa., and had one
daughter Dorothy Russell Manning, who married in 1927 Lewis W. Pritchard,
son of Grant Pritchard of Lawrenceville, Tioga County, Pa. Dorothy Pritchard
died February 28, 1940. Lewis Pritchard lives at Elmira, N.Y. employed
by the D. L. & W. R. R. co. Grant Pritchard had a small farm to the
west of Lawrneceville, and his wife and most of his children, including
his daughter, Edith, were members of the Presbyterian Church there. George
G. Manning died in 1940. Mrs. George G. Manning lived at 214 Grant St.,
Owego, New York.
NATHAN
and LUCY YOUNG emigrated from New England to Warren Twonship in 1814. (Three
places are named as to where they came from Plainfield, N.H., New Grantham
,andAlburg, Vermont.) Lucy Young
was a Burton before her marriage. Their farm was about five miles north
of Warren Center, and a short distance from Alexander Dewing's. Nathan
died at the age of 82. A picture of the Young homestead as it appeared
in 1878 is shown facing page 429, Craft's History of Bradford County. Nathan
and Lucy (Burton) Young had the following six children: Thomas, Oscar,
Nathan, Sabra, Lucy and Elizabeth.
(1)Thomas
had a son Burton T. Young, living in 1939 in Montana; also two daughters
Harriet and Emeline and a granddaughter, Mrs. Bert Heltzel, live at Boulder,
Montana.
(2)Oscar
lived in Rome, Pa., and a sketch of his family is in the author's History
of the Presbyterian Church of Rome, Pa. 1844-1942
(3)Nathan,
born June 15, 1820 in Warren Township, lived at the homestead, and married
first, November 8, 1843, Miss Phoebe Coburn, daughter of Moses and she
died a short time after her marriage. Nathan married second, September
9, 1846, Nancy Bowen, daughter of George and Sarah Bowen, who came from
Providence, R.I. Their son, Irvin Merrill Young, married August 30, 1871,
Anna Dewing, daughter of Andrew and Nancy (Dobson) Dewing. Irvin and Anna
Young had four children, (a) Nathan E., born December 31, 1874; (b) Andrew
Dewing, born October 20, 1877; (c) George Burton, born February 8, 1885
and (d) Coburn, bornSeptember 28,
1892. Nathan Attended the annual meeting of the Warrenham Presbyterian
Church in august, 1939,but died
before the next annual service.
(a)Nathan
E. Young married Nancy Dewing, daughter of George F. and Abagail G. (Lent)
Dewing) of Wysox, Pa. He died in 1940. He and his family lived at Union,
N.Y., and attended regularly the annual church services of the Warrenham
Presbyterian Church, and the P.P. Bliss centennial service at Rome in 1938,
being a second cousin of Mrs. Lucy Young Bliss. A ddaughter, Elizabeth,
married Paul Hendrickson, and lives at Union, N.Y.
(b)Andrew
Dewing Young also lives at Union, N.Y.
(c)George
Burton Young lives at 503 Exchange Ave., Endicott, N.Y., has a daughter,
Louella, born November 24, 1915, who married Melvin Brown, and lives next
door to her parents, at 503 1/2 Exchange Ave., Endicott.
(d)Coburn
Young married Viola, daughter of George and Katie (Coleman) Currier of
Warren Center, a realative of the man of the picture firm, "Currier &
Ives" . and has children, Nathan Burton, Donald, Hilda and Ruth, who married
Dane McGregor, and lives at Maine, N.Y.
(4)Sabra
S. Young married Warren Bowen and has two sons, Zachary Taylor Bowen and
Nathan Bowen. Zachary had a son Walter living in Endicott in 1939. Nathan
Bowen had a daughter Sabra who married Miles Allyn, and lived at Hemet,
California. Nathan Bowen also had a daughter, Nancy, who married Bert Jayne,
and lives at LeRaysville, Pa.
(5)Lucy,
fifth child of Nathan and Lucy (Burton) Young, married Asa Dunham, brother
of Dr. Sydey A. Dunham, and they had a son Willard, who married Miss Lula
E., daughter of Warren Frisbie, of Orwell, a member of the Presbyterian
Church there, recently deceased. They also had a son, Nathan Dunham, unmarried;
also another son and another daughter.
(6)Elizabeth
Young, sixth child of Nathan and Lucy (Burton) Young, married Daniel Monroe
Pitcher, and they were the parents of Miss Mary Pitcher who lived at Union,
N.Y., and died in the spring of 1940. They were the parents also of a son
Charles, who died fifty years ago, and a daughter Lucy, who married first
Clarence Van Kirk, had a son Pierson; second, Ferdinand Fowler. All are
deceased.
MARY
KING, who became a member May 20, 1821, with her sister Catherine, was
the daughter of Rev. Salmon King and his first wife, Mary Adams Isham (usuallycalled
Polly) of Marlborough, Conn. Mary Adams Isham was born February 19, 1776,
and married Mr. King, February 18, 1801. She was a " woman of thoughtful
mind and earnest Christian life" who died " most happily" January 1, 1807.
Her grave is in East Cemetery in Manchestor, Conn., a few feet from the
entrance. Mary, daughter of Rev. Salmon and Mary Isham King, was born at
Manchester, April 13, 1805, and married November 10, 1829, Hiram Stevens
who was born February 8, 1799. She died in Orwell, Pa., April 29, 1892.
They had three children : (1) Mary A. I. Stevens , (2) Harriet King Stevens,
and (3) Salmon Regis Stevens. The Stevens family resided at Stevensville,
Pa.
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(1)Mary
A. I. Stevens, daughter of Hiram and Mary (King) Stevens, was born June
24, 1831, married March 17, 1853, Edward C. Bull,and
they had eight children: (a) Hiram Edward, (b)Cynthia
Mary, (c) Kent Melancthon, (d) Leslie Rosseal, (e) Ira Webster, (f) Helen
Arletta, (g) Harriet Maria, and (h) Isaac Miles (died 1871). Mary A. I.
Stevens Bull died April 4, 1904.
(a)Hiram
Edward bull, born at Orwell, Pa., April 16, 1854, married December 29,
1882, Miss Ann Elizabeth Frisbie, daughter of Gaylard and Sarah Ordelia
(Darling) Frisbie. He died March 9, 1933. He had served many years as a
county surveyor. His widow died at East Towanda in 1943. Their children
are : Mary Ordelia, Isabella, and Frances Elizabeth.
Mary
Ordelia was
born February 26, 1886, married Perry Wilbur Parks and lives at East Towanda,
where she was United States wearther observer. Their five children are
Mildren F., born July 26, 1908, married first Kenneth m. Aldrich, had four
children; Marian, Edward, Frances and Nellie Aldrich; married , second,
William Green, Owego, N.Y.; a son, Mahlon Edward, born in 1911, married
September 8, 1936 Marie Van Ness, daughter of Fay and Florence (Trumbull)
Van Ness of Standing Stone, Pa., and they have one daughter, Sylvia Edwina,
born February 28, 1938; a daughter Esther Philenia, born April 7, 1916;
another daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, born January 3, 1918, married Dr. Nicholas
Prusack, has three children: Anna Marie, born October 30, 1943; Nicholas
II born March 1, 1945; and Susan Elizabeth born March 1, 1945. A son Perry
Wilbur, Jr. born December 5, 1926, served in U.S. Army in World War II.
Isabella
Bull,
daughter of Hiram Edward and A. Elizabeth (Frisbie) Bull, was born September
24, 1888, taught at Beaver college, Jenkintown, Pa., spending vacations
at the homestead in East Towanda.
Frances
Elizabeth Bull,
daughter of Hiram Edward and A. Elizabeth (Frisbie ) Bull, was born April
17, 1894, married Norman C. somers, and lives Carney's Point, N.J. They
have two children, Elizabeth and Robert who was born in April of 1916.
(b)Cynthia
Mary Bull, daughter of Edward C. and Mary (Stevens) Bull, born November
10, 1857, married January 23, 1889, W. Eaton Frisbie of Orwell, son of
Gaylord and Ordelia (Darling) Frisbie. Cynthia died December 20, 1895,
with no children. Mr. Frisbie married, second, Flora Russell, and they
had one son, Russell E. Frisbie, who married Gladys Smith. They have four
children: Flora May, born January 13, 1937; Sarah Jane born March 4, 1939,
Mary Ellen, born April 13, 1942, and Levi Eaton Frisbie, born December
15, 1944.
(c)Rev.
Lent Melancthon Bull, son of Edward C. and Mary (Stevens) Bull, was born
April 19, 1861, graduated from Lafayette College in 1887 and from Princeton
Theological Seminary in 1890, married December 21, 1891 Mary A. Pollock,daughter
of Mr. Levi M. Pollock and his wife Annie Jane Pollock.
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Mary
A. Pollock was born August 28, 1862 at Nottingham, Pa., and died April
21, 1936 at Kennett Square, Pa. Rev. K. M. Bull died April 24, 1936, three
days after the death of his wife. He had served as pastor of Nottingham,
Chester Co., Pa., and Toughkenamon and Unionville, Chester Co., Pa. They
had the following six children:
Helen,
born January 19, 1893, married July 16, 1938 William C. MacFarland, and
lives at 509 W. Miner St., West Chester, Pa. Her husband died March 25,
1939.
Anna,
born April 18, 1894, married August 24, 1935, C. Ronald Groff, and they
live at 214, Barrington Road, Upper Darby, Pa. (1947)
Harriet,
born March 6, 1897, married July 5, 1929, James W. MacFarland and they
have one son William C. MacFarland. They live at Downington, R.2, Pa.
Mary,
born January 21, 1900, married December 28, 1937 Francis D. W. Groff, and
they have one son, Francis David W. Groff, Jr., born April 10, 1939. They
live at R.d. , Lincoln University, Pa.
Edward
Carrington, born November 8, 1901, lives at R.D. Kennett Square, Pa.,
married Miriam E. Ross, March 5, 1939.
A
son, Kent Melancthon, Jr.,
died in infancy.
(d)Leslie
Rosseel Bull, son of Edward C. and Mary (Stevens) Bull, was born November
20, 1862, died August 9, 1939; married Virginia A. Huggins, resided in
1896 in Spartenburg, South Carolina, where she died March 5, 1947.
(e)Ira
Webster Bull, son of Edward C. and Mary (Stevens) Bull, was born October
31, 1864, graduated from State College in forestry, married Ella T. Miles,
October 9, 1895, lived in Kennett Square, Pa. In 1896, died March 31, 1911.
A son William Ira lives at East Lansing, Mich, and is connected with the
Michigan State College - Forestry Department. A daughter , Mrs. Helen Marie
Corley, lives at W. LaFayette, Indiana, has a daughter, Marita, who graduated
from high school in June, 1947, and planned on a college education.
(f)Helen
Arletta Bull, daughter of Edward C. and Mary (Stevens) Bull, was born November
9, 1866, married March 28, 1895 William Sherman Jones (deceased September
21, 1941), and lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., 1896, lives now in Akron Ohio,
has 3 sons: Edward, Raymond, and Ira Jones.
(g)Harriet
Maria Bull, daughter of Edward C. and Mary (Stevens) Bull, was born November
9, 1868, married September 20, 1893 Frank H. Ott, photographer, and they
lived at Towanda, Pa., where Mr. Ott died January 19, 1946, having been
for over twenty years superintendent of the Sunday School, and many years
clerk of the session of the First Presbyterian Church, which church received
an award from Presbytery for the best kept record of sessional minutes.
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(2)Harriet
King Stevens, second daughter of Hiram and Mary (King) Stevens, was born
August 2, 1834, married November 1, 1855 Hampton Champlin, son of Hampton,
Sr., and Lucretia (Pitcher) Champlin. (Hampton, Sr. died February 29, 1880).
They had four children: (a) Dr. Henry William, of Towanda; (b) Alida Winona,
(c) Frank Ingersoll, of Orwell, and (b) Mary Lucretia (Mrs. Frank Shoemaker)
of Orwell. Mrs. Harriet K. Champlin died at Orwell, September 4, 1926,
aged 92.
(a)Henry
W. Champlin, M.D., son of Hampton and Harriet King (Stevens) Champlin,
was born March 31, 1857, graduated as doctor of medicine from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 30, 1881, married July 12, 1882 Delia
A. Sherwood, born at Syracuse May 10, 1857. They had three children: Harry
W. (August 18, 1883 - December 4, 1892); Paul M., born at Chelsea, Michigan,
June 23, 1885, died in 1951; Carroll Dunham, born October 22, 1886. Mrs.
Delia Champlin died in Towanda, Pa., June 10, 1933. Dr. H.W. Champlin married
second, Mrs. Irene MacNeal Webb, October 16, 1934. Dr. H. W. Champlin died
December 8, 1943. Dr. Paul M. Champlin reseded at 12 Lenox Ave., East Orange,
N.J., Dr. Carroll D. Champlin, son of Dr. H. W. Champlin, was born in Michigan,
graduated from Haverford College, from which he received A. B. and M. A.
degrees. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University
of Pittsburgh in 1925. He has been professor of education at the Pennsylvania
State College since 1926, has attended educational conferences in Europe
and is the author of many articles in educational journals. He resides
at 627 West Fairmount Ave., State College, Pa.
(b)Alida
Winona Champlin, daughter of Hampton and Harriet King (Stevens) Champlin,
was born May 4, 1860, began playing the church organ at 13, and continued
until she married on August 2, 1882, George H. Howe, M.A., son of Henry,
and died in Orwell, May 11, 1891. They lived at Warrenburg, Missouri, where
he taught several years and became president of a college. Before going
to Missouri, they lived at Talladaga, Alabama, for five years, where Mr.
Howe taught mathematics at Talladaga College, and where his wife taught
a Sunday School primary class, having as many as 80 children enrolled.
(c)Frank
Ingersoll Champlin, son of Hampton and Harriet King (Stevens) Champlin,
was born July 4, 1862, married October 12, 1893 Alice Adelia Kennedy, daughter
of Rev. Edward L. and Mary (Lewis) Kennedy, who was born at Elkland, Tioga
County, Pa., January 9, 1865, died at Orwell, February 1, 1934. They had
one daughter, adopted, Mrs. Byron Jacobs of Windham, Pa. Mr. Frank I. Champlin
married, second, April 13, 1935, Miss Charlotte Brown, at Los Angeles,
Calif., daughter of Joseph Miles and Eliza (Lewis ) Brown of Marryall,
Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Champlin lived at Orwell. Mrs. Charlotte Champlin died
December 30, 1945 at 75 years of age; burial was at Merryall Cemetery.
She was survived by her husband and a foster daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Shult,
Peoria, Ill.
(d)Mary
Lucretia Champlin, daughter of Hampton and Harriet King (Stevens) Champlin,
was born October 6, 1870, at Orwell and married December 27, 1902, Frank
Shoemaker, born August 19, 1875 in Windham township, Pa. She died Monday,
January 30, 1950, at Orwell, Pa. They had one son, Donald Champlin Shoemaker,
born November 28, 1909. He married first December 14, 1931, Alma Gorham,
born in New York City June 16, 1912, the daughet of Frederick H. &
Ellen Gorham. To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shoemaker were born three children:
Sylva Ellen, born April 25, 1933; Markyn Alma, born June 7, 1934; and Marjorie
May, born December 24, 1936. They lived at Warren Center, Pa. Donaldmarried,
second, July 20, 1947, Miss Ella Mae Parish, daughter of Earnest andCora
Parish, in the First Baptist Church, Endicott, N.Y., and a daughter, Donna
Christine was born to them October 25, 1949, at Johnson City, N.Y.
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(3)Salmon
Regis Stevens, third child of Hiram and Mary (King) Stevens, born January
1, 1844, married March, 1865, Rosa Nye. They had four children: (a) Mary
Angie, born December 22, 1865 at Stevensville, Pa., who married September
22, 1886, James C. Simmons (children James Stevens, born June 7, 1890 and
twins Hansford Randolph and Helen Kathleen, born May 23, 1894). (b) Hattie
Winona (1874-1876); (c) Nellie L. (1877-1878); and (d) Irvin N., born May
8, 1880.
CATHERINEKING,
second daughter of Rev. Salmon and Mary Adams (Isham) King, joined the
church May 20, 1821, was born in Bolton, Conn., December 18, 1806 and died
January 4, 1850 at Stevensville, Pa.
HENRY
LEONARD MERRILL, born January 11, 1791, married Polly Dewing, daughter
of Jared and Ruth (Coburn) Dewing. Henry and his brother, Abel, drove four
oxen with a sled load of provisions from Irasburg Court House; Vermont,
traveling 31 days, and arrived at Warren on March 8, 1814, at or near which
time they were joined by the other members of the family. Henry and his
wife moved to Illinous, according to George U. Eastman. Henry was a captain
in the Mexican War. He died May 24, 1875. He and his wife had nine children:Lyman,
Charles, Amos, Andrew D., Harriet Elizabeth, Martha Stanley, Susan Maria,
Henry Clay, and Lieut. Alexander Dewing Merrill, who was killed in 1863
at Liberty Gap, Tenn., in the 34th Regiment, Co. F, Illinois
Volunteers.
HARRIETDEWING,
sister of the grandfather of Anna Dewing Williams (Mrs. P. B. ) of Potterville,
Pa., was born December 9, 1799, married November 10, 1830 Daniel Hendrick
Coburn, son of Moses and Maria (Houghton) Coburn, and died March 24, 1872.
Her husband was born June 26, 1802 in woostock, Conn., and died November
3, 1876. He was a farmer and lived in Warren township near the location
of the old Warrenham Postoffice, on the farm owned by the late G. Albert
Dewing, son of George T. Dewing, who was the son of Andrew and Nancy (Dobson)
Dewing. G. Albert Dewing died November 13, 1950 at his home , aged 66,
survived by four sons: Paul, robert, Max and Russell, and two daughters,
Mrs. Paul Darling of Oakland Calif., and Mrs. Norman Darling of Warren
Center; two sisters, Mrs. P. B. Williams and Mrs. Paul D. Dewing of Vestal,
N.Y. and his wife.
Harriet
(Dewing) and Daniel Hendrick Coburn had the following six children:
(1)Franklin,
born July 8, 1832, married November 6, 1856, Kate M. Manley, of Warrenham,
died March 19, 1894. A son, Fred, attends the annual meetings of the Warrenham
Presbyterian Church.
(2)Ruth
Maria, born June 30, 1833, married May 19, 1853, John Case Manning, who
was born September 29, 1825 in Warren township, and died November 18, 1893
in Aurora, N.Y. They had five children: all surnamed Manning: Allexander
Dewing, Charlotte Elizabeth, Harriet Coburn (died at 15 years, ) Clara
Maria (living in 1946) and George Gordan Manning.
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(3)Mary
S., born March 2, 1836, married Noah Newman Bowen, who was born February
26, 1830 and died October 22, 1884. She died May 19, 1859. They had six
children including Edson, Eva, Carrie and Mary. Edson had three sons: Harry,
Aubrey and Robert. Carrie had three children: Eva, Ethel and Newman. Mary
had three children: Kenneth, Helen and Edson.
(4)Ellen,
born March 1, 1838, married February 5, 1862, Lewis Bosworth, died April
23, 1864.
(5)Julia
A., born March 3, 1841, married December 28, 1865, George M. Griswold,
of Owego, N.Y. They had three children.
(6)Daniel
Frederick, born May 4, 1844, died January 16, 1865, killed in the Civil
War.
(The
above is taken from page 46, B.F. Dewing, Descendants of Andrew Dewing,
1904)
John Coburn
and Mercy Bowen, wife of Noah Bowen, joined the church May 20, 1821.
Under
the date of July 1, 1821, a woman joined the church whose first name only
is entered on the roll --Sylva.
On
July 10, the following became members; Nathan Payson(whose wife
had joined October 6, 1816). Samuel Wells, who died March 20, 1837,
aged 55 years 7 months and 20 days, with burial in the old Presbyterian
Church cemetery on Orwell ridge road. Catherine Eastabrooks,
(wife of Abel Eastabrooks, daughter of Levi and Phebe (Gaylord) Frisbie),
who died August 27, 1822, leaving four children. Theron Darling
and his wife, Sally (Russell) Darling. Theron was elected elder
August 28, 1829 with Jason Potter. Dr. Dudley Humphrey, (1784 -
1826, son of Deacon Theophilus Humphrey and his wife Hepzibah Cornish of
Sinsburg, Conn.), and his wife, Elizabeth. (Eliza on church roll)
Humphreys; after
the death of Dr. Dudley Humphrey in 1826, she married February 14, 1827,Chauncey
Frisbie of Orwell, whose first wife, Cloe had died. Milton Humphrey,Alvin
Humphrey and his wife,Elizabeth. Chancey
Frisbie and his wife, Chloe.Josiah
Woodruff Grant (diedAugust
3, 1842, aged 54 years). Polly Alice Browning.Laura
Ellis, (noted as dismissed March 20, 1851). Laura Allis married Abel
Patterson Darling, January 12, 1826, had nine children, was great grandmother
of Russell Eaton Frisbie of Orwell. Huldah Johnson, wife of Truman
Johnson. She was Huldah Cook (sister of Joel), and was born December 29,
1777, died August 9, 1853 (Darling
Cemetery).
Theron
Darling and wife had children baptized August 19th , Abel, William
Nelson, Dennison Russell, Polly Ann, Adaline, MajorBackus,
Ellizabeth, Lyman Merril. Theron died February 24, 1849, aged 70 years;
Sarah , his wife, died February 16, 1870.
Milton
Humphrey had a son, Zenas Dunbar, baptized October 6, 1823.
Alvin
Humphrey was the third child of Deacon Theophilus Humphrey and his wife,
Hepzibah Cornish of Simsburg, Conn., who were married in 1761. Alvin was
born December 2, 1769, married first, Almira Sase; second Mary Hayes. The
following children of Alvin were baptized at Orwell, August 19, 1821: Diana
Evert (named for her grandmother); Lucius Fuller, Norris Cornish, (the
second wife of Alvin's brother, Theophilus was of the Cornish family);
Hector James (James was the name of Alvin's oldest brother); and Jeremiah
Theophilus. (Warren and Orwell church Record; Humphrey Genealogy.)
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Dr.
Dudley Humphrey and wife had children baptized July 22, 1821: James Dudley,
Ann Eliza, Emily Almira. Dr. Dudley Humphrey died April 26, 1826, aged
42 years old. James Dudley born January 20, 1813, married Laura Eastabrook,
daughter of Abel and Catherine (Frisbie) Eastabrook; was grandfather of
Walter Humphrey of Towanda. Ann Eliza born August 28, 1815 married Alonzo
K. Potter. Emily Almira, born September 14, 1819, married 1839 Eliab M.Farrar,
died August 14, 1868, aged 48 years. Dr. Dudley Humphrey's widow married
Chauncey Frisbie.
Anson
Collins and wife had children baptized July 29: Anson russell, Edwin Kingsbury,
Sanford Allen ( Anson is buried in Orwell Hill Cemetery).
On
August 19, 1821, Polly Browning had three children baptized: Mary Wikeson,
Bally Adams, Herman Wilkes.
Catherine
Eastabrooks had children baptized on September8,
1821: Charles, Laura, Aaron Gaylord and Eliza Ann Tripp.
CICERODIMOCK
joined by letter, August 19, 1821. He came from Tolland, Conn. Mary Dimock
was enrolled September 8. Before marriage in July, 1808, her name was Mary
Charter, and she was born April 15, 1791 and died September 28, 1865. Cicero
was born, May 23, 1781 and died February 29, 1868. He was a cousin of Amasa
Dimmick. He was the second son of John and Hanna Smith Dimock and grandsonof
Timothy and Ann (Bradford) Dimock. Timothy married Ann Bradford August
15, 1723. She was the daughter of Joseph Bradford who was the son of Major
William Bradford, who was the son of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth.
The Dimock family lineage is traced back to Sir John Dymock, Champion of
England, who lived in the fourteenth century, in Lincolnshire, possessing
the Manor of Scrivel's baye. (An Imperfect History and Record of the Dimmick
Family, by John Dimmick Torrey, a copy in possession of family of Charles
L. Dimmick, 1940, Orwell, Pa.)
Children
of Cicero Dimmick
1.Horace
C. Dimmick, born January 24, 1809, died 1832.
2.Mary
Dimmick born January 6, 1811, died June 1872. Married Peter Bennett, and
lived at Clifford, Susquehanna County, Pa., had a son Frank who had a son
and a daughter
3.John
H. Dimmick, born September 28, 1812, married Nancy Thatcher, daughter of
Thomas, lives in the house now owned by Mrs. Robert Kennedy, formerly Mrs.
Ray C. Hammond, Orwell, died March 14, 1850
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4.Sarah
Dimmick, born April 16, 1814, married James Jones, had son Lewis, who lived
near Nichols, N.Y.
5.Eunice
Dimmick, born July 3, 1816, married James Cleveland, died August 14, 1869,
had two children, John Cicero and Nathan.
6.Franklin
Dimmick, born March 12, 1818, married Nancy Dimmick, daughter of Simeon,
had no children. They lived at Waverly, N.Y.
7.Daniel
Dimmick, born July 12, 1820, married Ann Alderson, born December, 1831,
and they were the parents of Charles Lincoln Dimmick of Orwell, Pa. The
genealogical record of the Alderson family has been compiled by Mr. F.
Earl Alderson, 6734 S. Arlington Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. (1943). Daniel
and Ann Dimmick had the following children: George
went west about 1877. Josephine, born June 15, 1868, married December
24, 1892, Rev. Frederick Vanduzer Frisbie, had four children, died december
10, 1898 at Bellport, Long Island. The first child, Francis Virginia Frisbie,
born 1884 married Edward O'Donnell, had three children, Horace Paul, John
Curlon, and Miriam Harriett O'Donnell, lives at 2520 14th St.,
N.W. Washington, D.C. Mary Adelaide (Addie), daughter of Daniel,
was born in 1859, died in 1936 having married John C. Stoll, had an adopted
daughter, Beatrice, who married Harold Russell or Orwell, had children:
(a) H. Caryle, born 1919, married Ruth Harbst, has four children : Leatrice,
Claudia, Carl and Diane. (b) Georgy Anna Russell, married Paul Overpeck,
lives in Pasadena, Calif. (c) L. Malcolm who married Verna Cragle, has
three Children: Loretta, Linda, and John. The two sons live at Orwell and
are active in the Grange. Annette (Nettie),daughter
of Daniel Dimmick married AmbroseTiffany
of Carbondale, Pa., had three sons, Arthur of Anaheim, Calif., Raymond
of Carbondale, Pa., and Harold of Pittsburgh, Pa. Charles Lincoln,son
of Daniel Dimmick, was born June 4, 1863 at Orwell, died June 26, 1946,
married March 23, 1881, Mrs. Lena Elaine Owens Bailey, had children: Josephine
Elaine, Charles Lincoln, Jr., Fenton Mayne, and Irma Dimmick. Josephine
born, 1909, married Raymond H. Sick of Monroeton, has a child Charles Raymond,
born 1940. Charles Lincoln, Jr., born in 1910 was in the U. S. Army, 174th
Infantry, as was also Fenton (Army serial No. 6976752). Irma Marie Dimmick
born 1923, married 1942 at Montrose, Pa., Loren C. Stephens. Horace,
the youngest of Danieel's children, lived in Los Angeles, Calif. Till his
death February 17, 1946, unmarried, as was his brother George the
oldest of Daniel's children.
8.Elias
Dimmick, born June 23, 1822, married April 10, 1858, Jane Darrow, lived
on a farm near Danby, had two children, Elmer and Effie. Elmer lives at
spencer, N.Y.
9.Lyvia
Dimmick, born July 3, 1824, married May 6, 1850 Arad Platt of Orwell, a
justice of the peace, lived where Curtis Pettes lived.
10.Susan
Dimmick, born June 15, died August 11, 1826.
11.Lois
Dimmick, born December 14, 1827, married Houston Platt, had one daughter
, lived at Smithboro, N.Y.
12.Chloe
Dimmick, born July 3, 1831, married June 14, 1859, Simeon G. Rockwell,
had a son Judson P., and Vernon who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, when last
heard of.
Judson
P. Rockwell married Mittie Wilbur and had three sons, Leon a brilliant
teacher, became school superintendent in Salem, Mass., being one. Another
was Gilbert Rockwell, and a third was Ivan. One also died young. Judson
was living near Tyrrell Hill at the time of his death in 1939.
WILLISBROWNSON
became a member November 18, 1821 was dismissed by letter June 16, 1841.
( the name also spelled Wyllys.)
At
the next Sunday's service POLLY COBURN and ALBERTBRAINARD
joined the church.
This
made a total of 88 members admitted into the church of Warren and Orwell
in a little over six years from organization, 1815 to November 25, 1821.
In that period only one case of discipline is recorded and that issued
in a confession which was accepted by the church.
In
the year 1822 two other cases came up which were disposed of in the same
way, by acknowledgment of the sins of profanity. Falsehood and sabbath
breaking and of Sunday travel. Five new members came in during the year.
They were (January 6) DOLLYSTEINBURG
and MRS.GRAVES(by
letter); (June 2) EDWARDCOBURNDEWING;
(November 26) EXPERIENCEBUFFINGTON,
wife of B.Buffington; and ( December
1, ) EUNICEKING, wife of Rev. S.
King, by letter.
Oliver
Cooper of Warren township married a Steinburg. Mrs. Graves may have been
a daughter in law of the Mrs. Graves admitted as a member in 1821. Experience
Buffington was administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper on the first
Sabbath in February, 1823, at her own house on accountof
her being sick, after which the members present individually "took her
by the hand and bid her an affectionate farwell, not expecting to meet
her in this world again, but hoping to meet her in another to serve God
without alloy." She was evidently the wife of Benjamin Buffington.
Eunice
King was the third wife of Rev. Salmon King, widow of Isaac Talmadge of
Albany, the daughter of John Hinman of Wysox, where her body was buried.
On
June 29, 1823, MRS. MARTHA ALGER was admitted a member by letter.
In
October of the next year, EBENW.WHIPPLE
and NANCY, his wife, were admitted into the church.