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THE CHURCHES OF ORWELL, PENNSYLVANIA (Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Federated) 1803-1951 By
Copyright, 1955
Retyped & Submitted by Carol Jacobs
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Chapter I
Warren and Orwell
Congregational Church
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3.Alma,
married a Mr. Rich of Steuben County, New York, and had son Alford.
4.Elim,
married and had a daughter Sally.
5.Almon,
married Betsy P. Townsend and moved to Clark County Indiana. They had six
daughters and one son, Charles, who died in the Civil War.
6.Sally,
married John Sellon of Steuben County, N. Y., and had four children, Miranda,
Philemon, Rosetta and Melissa.
7.Belinda,
married Charles W. Sellon of Steuben County, N.Y., and had a family of several
children. (Heverly, Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Vol. II, P.
82).
Jemima Wells,
fourth of those joining August 3, 1816 was the wife of Samuel Wells who came in
1797 to Orwell from Burlington, Vermont. Samuel joined the church July 10, 1821.
The wife of Samuel Wells was a sister of Asahel Johnson.The
Wells farm was in Wells Hollow on Johnson Creek, occupied by Theron in 1878, and
is now the property of Fred Hunt. Their children: Theron, Shubuel, Correll,
George W., Relzeman, Hiram, Pantha, and Cynthia D.
On October 6,
1816, there were enrolled as members Mr. Comfort B. Chaffee, Rilla Humphrey,
Polly Ranny, Betsy Payson, and Peggy Grant.
Comfort B.
Chaffee, grandfather of M. B. Chaffee of East Towanda, was born November 10,
1796, the son of Nathanial Bliss Chaffee and his wife Tabatha Chubbuck, and came
from South Wilbraham, Mass. To Warren. (Chaffee Genealogy prepared by Charles
Chaffee, whose great grandparents were Comfort and Docia (Sexton) Chaffee.) He
married November 22, 1818, Docia, daughter of William Sexton, and died March 28,
1878 in Orwell (Heverly). His ancestral line goes back through his great
grandfather Joseph (1701 - 1760) to John (1673 - 1757) to Joseph (d. 1694) to
Thomas of Hingham, Mass., born 1635. Docia chaffee, wife of Comfort B. Chaffee,
became a member of the church April 15, 1820. Their daughter, Sally Jane, the
first of ten children, was baptized April 15, 1820. She married Reuben
Easterbrook, Elmira, N.Y. Comfort B. Chaffee bought a farm of 400 acres, now
owned by his great grandson, Levi Chaffee of Orwell.
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Date: 03/09/2001 1:49:53 AM Eastern Standard Time From: MoggiesTen To: JoyceTice Joyce:
Children of Comfort B. and Docia chaffee (From Outline of Genealogy prepared by Charles Chaffee) 1.Jarvis Sexton, married Ann M. Frost, and had six children: (1.)Celestia Rosalie, married Elephabet M. Clark and had three children, Loren, Reese and John. (2.)Dora Pamelia, married Harvey E. Dimmock, John Ackley; five children, Minnie, Herman, Mabel, Arthur and William. (3.)Mary Mornilva, married Edgar Loren Chaffee, son of Danforth; had four
sons: Burton, Arestus, Ray, Birney.
(5.)Sarah Jane, married James Dudley Chaffee son of Daniel. (6.)Emma Maria, married Wallace Gore, joined Methodist church in 1885. |
Children of Comfort B. and Docia chaffee
(From Outline of Genealogy prepared by Charles
Chaffee)
1.Jarvis
Sexton, married Ann M. Frost, and had six children:
(1.)Celestia
Rosalie, married Elephabet M. Clark and had three children, Loren, Reese and
John.
(2.)Dora
Pamelia, married Harvey E. Dimmock, John Ackley; five children, Minnie, Herman,
Mabel, Arthur and William.
(3.)Mary
Mornilva, married Edgar Loren Chaffee, son of Danforth; had four sons: Burton,
Arestus, Ray, Birney.
(4.)Eveline
Amelia, married Henry Parks.
(5.)Sarah
Jane, married James Dudley Chaffee son of Daniel.
(6.)Emma
Maria, married Wallace Gore, joined Methodist church in 1885.
2.Sarah
Jane, married Reuben Easterbrook, Elmira, N. Y.
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3.Nathaniel
Bliss, married Tamar Warner, had five children:
(1)Olive
Rosetta, who married Robert Arnold, died August 1937 and had three children:
Edward, (father of Raymond Arnold of Milan, Pa.), Tamar Annette (Mrs. Nette
Pettes) and Clara Arnold, (Mrs. W. K. Frisbie).
(2)Myron
William who married Carrie Northrup.
(3)George
Mervin, who married Lucretia Titus.
(4)Phoebe
Gertrude, who married James R. Titus.
(5)Lincoln
Elliot, who married Sarah Titus, and had children: Grace, married Henry Sherer,
Campton, Pa., Rev.Ralph, Appalachin,
N.Y., Ethel (Mrs. J. Clifton Cowles of Orwell), and Jean, married Herbert Ross,
of Kingsley Pa. Mr. and Mrs. J. Clifton Cowles have children, Jean Marie and
John Clifton, Jr., live at Orwell.
4.William
Douglas, born 1828, died 1829
5.Ruth
Sophia, married Oliver Warner.
6.William
Douglas, married Henrietta Chaffee, daughter of Orvilla Chaffee who was a
brother of Albert Chaffee of Potterville; had one son, Morton Douglas, who
married Ida M. Nobles. Morton and Ida had children: Leroy and Clifford.
7.Docia
Ann, married Marcus Warner.
8.Solomon
Arithiton, married Savanna Dunlap, had four children:
(1)Norman
A., married Josephine Beckwith: children: Lewis, Theodore.
(2)Ellis
D., married Estella Towner, daughter of Levi Towner, had one son Levi E., of
Orwell ridge.
(3)Solomon
Oly, married Ada Buttles; children: Marjorie, Hugh, Olin, Oly died at his home
on Orwell Ridge, his widow and sons live at LeRaysville.
(4)Manuel
Bliss (Hess), married Jennie Overpeck, lives at East Towanda; children: Charles,
(school superintendent), Otto, Quentin, (auctioneer), and Soreno.
All four sons
of Solomon A. Chaffee recited, debated, declaimed throughout their lives.
9.Comfort
Jerome, married Elily McCreary, had children: Zolla, Marvin and Myrtle.
10.Tamson
Merian, married Alvin Rodgers.
Rilla Humphreyhad a child, Emma Minerva, baptized January 20,
1820
Polly Ranny, was the wife of
John Ranny. She died March 3, 1825, aged 46 years (Darling Cem.) His tax
valuation in 1812 was $44 and the amount of his tax .22, the rate being one half
cent tax per dollar assessed valuation.
Betsy Payson, fourth names of
those joining October 6, 1816, was the wife of Nathan Payson. She was the
daughter of Caleb and Alice (Sanger) Sharpe, and was born September 22, 1784, at
Pomfret, Conn. She married February 1, 1810, Nathan Payson, born December 20,
1780 in Windham County, Conn.; the eldest of a family of nine children of Asa
and Lucy (Bishop) Payson. "On his mother's side the family is traced back to the
first settlers in America, who sailed in
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The mayflower and landed at
Plymouth Rock in 1620, supposed to be of Dutch descent." (Craft, P. 332) Mrs.
Betsy Payson had two children baptized August 11, 1816; Noah, John Ricks
(Wilkes); one Lovina Frances, on May 14, 1819. John wilkes Payson, a son,
occupied the farm on the Orwell ridge. Craft listed the children as follows:
Children of Nathan and Betsy
Payson:
1.Lucy
Ann, born November 3, 1810, married Eliphalet Warfield, had four children, moved
to Michigan.
2.Alice
Lucetta, born september 3, 1812, married Horace Lounsbury of Nichols, N.Y., died
April 19, 1876
3.Sabra
Emeline, born June 30, 1814, married Horace Lounsbury of Nichols, N.Y.,
4.John
Wilkes, born April 19, 1816, married Perintha Bronson of Orwell township for his
first wife, had two children. He married second, April 14, 1850, Miss Elizabeth,
daughter of Elijah and Martha (Kennedy) Alger of Ellington, Conn., and had three
children: (a) Perintha Elizabeth, (married William Upson); (b.) Martha Rodella,
married Warren Ford, were grandparents of (1) Elizabeth (Bessie) Matilda, (2)
Arthur of Van Etten, N.Y., (3) John Howard (died March 6, 1949), and (4) Claude
W. Ford. John W. and Elizabeth (Alger) Payson had another son (c) William
Gillespie who died young.
5.Asa
Bishop, born April 13, 1821, married Fanny Beardsley of LeRaysville, had five
children, one of whom was Welton Bostwick Payson, born May 9, 1852.
6.William
Pitt, born April 7, 1825, baptized May 29, 1825, married Achsa webster of
Windham township, lived on what is now the John Ford farm and had thirteen
children, including Victor, Clayton, Horace, Garbriella, Dell (Mrs. John
Gorham), Mrs. Parley Finch of Nichols, New York, Frisbie, Frances, Cort, Jay,
McClelland, Vara (Mrs. Robert Page). Ailene, and Penn.
Peggy Grant,
fifth named of the members joining October 6, 1816, was the daughter of Captain
Ralph Martin of Wysox, married Josiah W. Grant, (he died August 7, 1842, aged 54
years) son of Captain Josiah Grant. Mrs. Grant had two children baptized January
26, 1816; Lycena Ann and Ellin. The Grants lived west of the Orwell Presbyterian
Church. She died July 4, 1859, aged 71 years and 3 months (Darling Cem.).
On May 13,
1817, Mary Buffington was enrolled. One Mary Ann was the daughter of
William Buffington, son of Preserved Buffington, in whose house the church was
organized.
LEVIFRISBIEjoined by letter June 1, 1817. He had been a member, with his
wife, of the church organized in 1803 in the house of Lebbeus Roberts on Orwell
ridge. On July 8, 1818, having been previously chosen, he expressed his
willingness to accept the office of a Deacon. Levi was descended from Edward
Frisbie who built a home. Called "Hearthstone" in Branford, Conn.,
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ABIGAILRUSSELLbecame a member March 28, 1818. Michael
Russell, son of Hezekiah, had a daughter Abigail who married William Strope.
(Heverly)
EBENEZERCOBURN
joined May 3, 1818. Parley Coburn had a brother named Ebenezer, born September
4, 1778, who married Jane McIntire, and died in 1860. (Records compiled by
George U. Eastman.).
LYDIARUSSELL was enrolled July 8,
1818. The third daughter of Dan Russell, one of the first settlers, was named
Lydia. She was born in Orwell February 4, 1798, married William Alger. (Lydia,
wife of Capt. Hezekiah Russell, died October 11, 1819, aged 73 years).
WILLIAMSEXTON
and his wife joined the church November 7, 1818. He was great-great grandfather
of Raymond L. Sexton, Nichols, New York. The wife becoming a member was his
second. By his first, he had two children: Jabez and Theodocia. Jabez was deeded
62 acres in 1824 by William and Tamsion Sexton. Jabez married first, Jennett
Jilson, a native of Connecticut, and had by her the following children who grew
to maturity: Clark, George, Willis, Melissa and Lydia. Jennett Jilson Sexton
died January 1, 1845, and Jabez married second, Pheobe White and by her had
daughters, Sarah and Jenett Sexton. Theodocia, second child by the first wife of
William Sexton, and recorded in church record as Dotia, sister of Jabez, married
Comfort B. Chaffee, and they were the grand-parents of M. B. ("Hess") Chaffee of
East Towanda, Pa. Jabez Sexton lived 72 years on the 62-acre farm deeded to him,
till his death September 13, 1878.
The wife who
joined the church in 1818 was Tamsion (Mumford) Cooley Sexton, a widow of a
Revolutionary War Soldier, by whom she had had two children: Levi Cooley and
Mary Cooley.
According to
family records furnished by their great great granddaughter, Miss Maude Messing
of Silver City, New Mexico, William Sexton and his wife, Tamsoin Sexton, had
three children: Melissa, born about 1811, who married Orson Carpenter, lived in
Windham Township, adjoining Orwell, had children: Hiram, Amanda, Morgan, Emma,
and Wayne Carpenter, the last named being the father of the late Guy Carpenter,
M. D. of Waverly, N.Y.; William R. (whose children's names are given below, born
October 22, 1813, the same year his parents settled in Orwell, who married
Matilda Ellis Dimmick, born December 25, 1813, daughter of Amasa, Jr., and
Sophie (Price) Dimmick of Orwell, and a direct descendant of William Bradford,
Governor of Plymouth Colony after the death of Governor Brewster; and Ruth, who
married Anson Russell Collins (baptized July 29, 1820, died about 1891, Athens),
had a daughter, Laura, who married Melvin Heath of Athens, Pa. One of the Heath
girls, Cora, married a McLean and the younger one, Belva, graduated from Athens
High School about 1903.
William
Sexton, born and raised in Connecticut, died August 5, 1849, aged 78, and burial
was in Ransom Corners (Orwell
Valley) Cemetery, his farm
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Home being not far north on Wysox Creek from the
cemetery. His wife, Tamsion, survived her husband many years, and lived to be
almost 100 years old, making her home with her step-son Jabez and was a great
care at the last as her mind was affected by her extreme age. When younger she
acted as midwife and use to ride through the wilderness on horseback where ever
she was needed, carrying supplies and herbs in saddle bags. Her son, William R.
Sexton, and his wife Matilda Ellis (Dimmick) Sexton, (sister of Rev. Francis
Asbury Dimmick1818-1892), made their home
on land on the hill back of Jabez Sexton's. They had five children (1) Julius
Phelps Sexton , born April 30, 1833, (2) Francis, born 1835, (3) Tamsion, born
1837, (4) Amasa Philander, born 1839, and (5) William A. Sexton. William R.
Sexton died October 31, 1864, and his wife, Matilda, died July 17, 1873. Their
farm was taken over by their son, William A. Sexton, who was the third William
Sexton in Orwell.
(1)Julius
Phelps Sexton, son of William R. and Matilda Dimmick Sexton, married Sarah
Louisa Wilmot, born April 23, 1836, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Crum) Wilmot of
Rome, Pa. They had four Children: (a) Ella Jane, (b) William Henry, (c) Sarah
Elizabeth, and (d) Mary Adell Sexton, born July 19, 1862. Sarah L. Wilmot Sexton
died in April, 1866, with burial at Rome Cemetery.
Children of Julius Phelps and Sarah (Wilmot) Sexton:
(a)Ella
Jane, born July 16, 1856, married December, 1875, to Edwin Nichols, son of David
and Cordelia (Hill) Nichols, and younger brother of Bianca Isabel. They had
three children:
1.)Mellie
Nichols, born in Pennsylvania 1877, joined North Orwell, M.E. Church with her
mother in 1892, married John Russell and had seven children. They lived in
Sullivan County, near Forksville.
2.)Hugh
Nichols, born in Kansas (where Edwin and Ella Jane lied for a few years.) He
married first wife , Nancy and had two daughters now living near Forksville. He
and Nancy separated in early 1930's and he married a widow and they live at
Shunk, Sullivan Co. Both daughters are alive and have several children.
3.)Eva
Nichols, born December 25, 1886, married Bert Wheeler and lived at Wheelerville,
Sullivan Co. for some time and later moved in northwestern part of New York
State. They have two boys and a girl. Eva died some years ago. Children are
living of whom a girl, Sylvia is the oldest.
b.)William
Henry Sexton, born June 12, 1858, moved west when a young man and settled in
Salida, Colorado where he married Edith Steward, in 1888. She was born October
27, 1868 at De Sota, Kansas, daughter of James German and Mary Ella (Chance)
Steward. They had:
1.)Mary
Ella Sexton, born Salida, Colo., March 15, 1889, married November, 1911 James J.
Potter and lives at 420 Orange Ave., Long Beach, Calif., had three children, two
of whom are still living. Phyllis is now married to Carl Geschneider and lives
at 822 Cherry Ave., Long Beach, 4, Calif.; and Jimmy, Jr. married also and is in
Long Beach.
2.)Edith
Isabel Sexton, born April 2, 1892 at Salida, Colo.; married April 15,
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1917, to Brooks Gibson, Both were killed in an accident at Long
Beach, June 10, 1930, leaving three girls: Berniece, Helen and Annette. All live
near Long Beach.
3.)Helen
Sexton, born April 5, 1896, married November 1, 1920 to Pete A. Cufis, lives at
Midland, Utah, had two daughters: Rebecca now married to Alton Dover and living
in Murray, a suburb of Salt Lake; and Harriett at home.
4.)William
Stewart Sexton, born at Salida, Colo., November 4, 1900; married LeVeda Bement.
Lives at 1116 H Street, Salida, Colo., had three children: (1) William Stewart,
born August 7, 1923 (who is the 6th William Sexton since 1813) was in
Battle of Pearl Harbor where he was wounded; served almost four years and
discharged, married Irene Helen Bell and had two daughters; (2) Wilmot Henry,
born November 27, 1926; married Peggy Tarlip, has one son, born April 18, 1951;
served 3 years in the Seabees; and (3) Shirley Marie, born August 30, 1931.
5.)James
Wilmot Sexton, born July 20, 1903, at Willow Spring, M., married in 1934 to
Alice Ruth Shriner. Lives in Long Beach, has two small daughters.
(c.) Sarah Elizabeth, born 1860, joined M.E.
Church, North Orwell, Pa. , in 1878,
married first
James Couch and had a boy; after death of husband she married
Mr. Lent and
had children, Bertha and Nellie. When last known they lived in
Walla Walla,
Washington.
(d.) Mary
Adell, mother of Miss Maude Messing, compiler of family records,
born July 19,
1862, married Andrew Messing at East Smithfield, Pa., April
3, 1885. Had twins, Medie and Maude born April 21, 1886.
Mrs. Mary Adell
Estell, after the death of her first husband, Andrew Messing, in 1886, was left
with twin girls not yet three months old. After a year she sold her last
husband's meat business and when the twins were four years old she left them
with an aunt and uncle and went to Waverly, N.Y., and learned the dressmaking
trade. She supported herself and the two children till 1894 when she married,
second, Frank Osgood Estell at Wellsburg, N.Y., by whom she had a daughter,
Louise Irene, born September 20, 1895, now married to M.B. Kolbor and living at
Silver City, N.M. Mr. and Mrs. Kolbor have also a daughter Shirley Lee, who
married Paul D. Pelton May 8, 1941 and has a son Gary, born June 7, 1942 and
lives in Silver City.
One of the twim
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Messing, Medie, died September 26, 1909, at the
age of 23 after being an invalid for 14 years. She was buried at East
Smithfield, where her father's body also lies.
In 1895, after
her second marriage, Mrs. Mary Adell Estell moved with her family to Athens,
Pa., to be near school and church privileges. She kept her children interested
in music, school work and church attendance. Her second husband, Frank Estell,
died in 1906. Her daughter, Miss Maude L. Messing, helped with the family
support when she began teaching in 1905 in Litchfield, and later in Athens
Township schools. Maude went in 1910 to Kansas to visit relatives, and from
there on to Colorado to visit her uncle, William Henry Sexton. Her mother and
half-sister joined her in 1912. They made their home in the west since then, at
Salida, Denver, Kansas City, in Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Maude took nurse's training at Salida, Denver, and
Woman's Hospital, New York. Her mother lived with her since 1924, and was an
unassuming, home loving woman, and interested in helping neighbors and relatives
in their troubles. She loved children and was loved by most children as soon as
they met her. She was ill much during the last six years of her life but kept
interested in her Bible, current magazines and good books. She loved flowers and
was interested especially in the changes of the skies, stars and planets. She
died January 7, 1945, at age of 82, with burial at Silver City, N.M., Masonic
Cemetery. She and her daughter Maude were members of the Jacob Bennett Chapter,
D. A. R., Siver City, N.M., tracing their ancestry through Amasa Dimmick,
Ellington, Conn.
After the death
of his first wife, Sarah (Wilmot) Sexton, in April, 1866, Julius Phelps Sexton,
then married, second, Hannah Couch, Sheshequin Township, Bradford County and had
two boys born dead and a daughter, Hattie Belle, born April 25, 1870 at Pine
Valley, New York. She is still alive now aged 76 and lives at 730 N.E. 90th
St., Miami, Florida. She married Guy White of Waverly and had one daughter, Eva,
who married and had two children, one living in Ithaca, New York and the boy,
Walter Prynne, in Uleta, Florida. Her husband died early in 1920's and she
married a Jess Leonard some years ago. Lives at same address as her mother.
(2)Francis
Sexton, born in 1835, second son of William R. and Matilda Dimmick Sexton,
served in the Civil War in Federal forces and later married Clarissa Drake,
widow of a Civil War soldier. She had a son Hovey by first husband, and by
Francis Sexton, had two daughters: Della and Cora. (a) Della was born about 1868
and (b) Cora about 1871. Della married a Clarene Coty and lived in Sayre. Cora
married Forbes and also lived at Sayre or Waverly, or in one of the nearby
townships.
(3)Tamsion
Sexton, born in 1837, married, first Richard Mumford, cousin of her father's
from Hartford, Conn. And went there to live. She had by him, (a) Matilda Ellis,
born 1860 (b) Mary, born about 1862. She left him and came back to her father's
home. Mary died in infancy. Matilda Ellis married J.J. Kingsbury of Parsons,
Kansas, and raised five children: Victor, Mayo, Gladys, Roscoe and Kermitt.
Roscoe lives in Kansas City, Mo., where he is in business and has one son about
20 years old. Mayo died some years ago in Chicago.
Tamsion then married Morgan
Decker and moved to Kansas and had by him: (a) Myrtle and (b) Lulu. Miss Maude
Messing does not know their where abouts or descendants.
(4)Amasa
Philander Sexton, born 1839, also served in northern forces in War
Between the states and later
married Louise Congdon of Orwell township. They lived most of their married life
in Sheshequin Township on hills back of Athens and later in East Athens. Both
died at South Waverly at the home of her nephew, Birney Howe. He died 1917 and
she had died a few years before. They had one child Minnie, born April 2, 1860,
and died 1880.
(5)Willam
Andrew Sexton, born 1842, married October 11, 1868, Bianca Isabel
Nichols, daughter of David
and Cordelia (Hill) Nichols. They lived in Orwell Township and had twins (a)
Welle and (b) Nellie born May 1871. Died 1876. (c) Lewis, born January, 1875 and
(d) Pearl, born 1883.
(a)Welle
married (1) Maggie Waites of Windham Township and by her had one child a boy,
who died in infancy. After the death of Maggie, he married again and his widow
still lives in Windham Township. Address: Mrs. Welle Sexton, Rt. 1, Nichols,
N.Y. No issue by that marriage.
(b)Nellie
died in 1876 at 5 years of age.
(c)Lewis
married Grace Mildred Terrill (also spelled Tyrrel), of Orwell Township. They
were members of the Orwell M.E. Church, and had one son, Raymond L. Sexton, born
April 15, 1898. Lewis was killed by a train at Nichols. Mrs. Grace Sexton, died
February 21, 1948. Raymond married Jessie Jayne Severn, lives at Nichols, N.Y.
Mr. Raymond L. Sexton joined the M.E. Church, Orwell charge, April 1, 1913.
(d)Pearl
Sexton married March 30, 1902, Guy Richards of Windham. They have lived all
their married life in Johnson City, N.Y. Both were employed by Endicott Shoe Co.
She has just resigned. They had no children. Have one adopted son who is just
back from the service.
William Andrew Sexton died May 23, 1911 and his wife, Bianca Isabel
died December 4, 1925. They are buried in Orwell Valley Burying Ground near
Rome, Pa. In 1879 Mrs. William Sexton was received as a member of the Orwell
charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church at North Orwell, Pa.
Julius Phelps Sexton died at Denver, Colorado in 1903 and is buried
there.
MARY CORBIN
became a member January 24, 1819, the wife of Capt. Clement Corbin, mother of 12
children, great great grandmother of Mrs. Louie Corbin.
On March 28,
1819, SUSANNA MATTESON joined the Orwell and Warren Church. Her gravestone in
the Orwell cemetery reads, " SUSANNAS., wife of GEO. MATTISON, born in Warwick, Ct.
July 3, 1774. Died March 1864". She is said by Sarah Robeina (Mrs. Earl) Farrar
of Orwell to have been very strong, able to lift a barrel of cider from the
ground on to a wagon. She died at the age of 90 from the effects of breathing
the hot fumes of a fire which burnt her dress. Her son, Thomas Jefferson
Matteson, married Sally Maria Alger, a daughter of Elijah and Martha (Kennedy)
Alger of Ellington, Conn. Sally Maria's sister, Elizabeth, married John Wilkes
Payson as his second wife. The Mattesons occupied the farm just below the Orwell
hill northward, and the hill became known as "Old Tommy". Mrs. Earl Farrar and
her sister, Mrs. George Manchester of Orwell are great granddaughters of Susanna
Matteson, the line of descent being through George, Thomas, Jefferson, and
Elijah Matteson. Mrs. Lulu Manchester, wife of George, lives on the old
farmstead. The Manchesters had three children: (1) Clarence Matteson of
Monroeton, who is married and has two children, Jamesand Ruth Louise Manchester; (2) Gazelle, an
employee of the Farmer's National Bank, Rome, Pa.; and (3) Harriet Mavis, who
died at the age of 12. The Farrars have two daughters, Evadne Grace, born
December 29, 1901; and Constance Elise, born January 19, 1918, in Orwell and
married July 16, 1942 at Chicago to Corporal Staurt A. Weiner, son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Weiner of Northport, Long Island, N.Y. The children of Stuart and
Constance Farrar Weiner are: Michael Peter, born February 1, 1945, and Jane
Patricia, born April 18, 1947.
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Other
Mattesons of local record are: Emily and Eliza, pupils enrolled in the Orwell
Center Sunday School in 1837 and 1838; and Lydia A. Matteson, sister of Elijah
and wife of H.L. Case. She died at the age of 33 years, the date on the stone in
Orwell Cemetery being April 6, 1880. She left three sons who survive in Des
Moines, Ia., George Case, Howard who has one son, and Thomas who has five
children. Emily A. Matteson of Orwell married November 27, 1841 Daniel Cole of
Wysox (Heverly, Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County). A Matteson
book of genealogy is being prepared by Mr. Porter Matteson of 77 West Maynard
Ave., Columbus , Ohio.
MARY COOK,
enrolled as a member January 9, 1820, may have been the wife of Joel Cook, Jr.,
who want by the name of Polly. Polly Cook was Polly Russell, born January 20,
1794, died August 15, 1861 (Darling Cem.) Mary Cook had two children baptized
August 7, 1820; Darwin and Mary. Darwin born April 1, 1815, became a
Presbyterian minister, and was pastor at Rome in 1850. Mary born October 18,
1816, was a school teacher and died October 21, 1884. (Darling Cem.)
MAY SUTTON may
have been the wife of Robert Sutton who with his brother Charles was in Warren
as early as 1807; Robert remained until 1830 when he sold to Parley Coburn
(Heverly, P. & PF. ofB. Co., Vol. II, p.
233) She joined by letter January 22, 1820. Robert Sutton became a member May
20, 1821. A gravestone in the north Warren Cemetery
is inscribed to the "Memory of Mary, wife of Robert Sutton who departed this
life June 24, 1826, aged 36 years".
LIBERTY SHARP
united with the church March 20, 1820. Probably he was a brother of Mrs. Betsey
(Sharpe) Payson, wife of Nathan, near whom he located on Orwell Ridge. He leased
land in 1826 for a Presbyterian Church.
WILLIAM RANNEY
and his wife became members March 4, 1820. He was assesssed for 45 dollars (tax
22 1/2 cents) in 1812. (Orwell Road Book, 1799-1873)
URI COOK and
his wife, Phoebe Barber were enrolled March 25, 1821; Uri was a brother of Joel
Cook. Uri died June 24, 1860 aged 80 years 6 months. Phoebe died June 7, 1839
aged 54 years. Graves are in East or
Darling Cemetery, Orwell Township. Children: Laura (1827-1888), Fannie,
(Mrs. Isaiah Potter), Elizabeth (Mrs. John Black), Sally (Mrs. Aaron Griswold
Matthews), and Zeri (1823-1893) married Elizabeth Newcomb.
ALMIRA OLDS
became a member March 25, 1821. She was the first wife of David Olds who lived
on the Wysox Creek Road near Streator. His tax valueation was $166 at 1812.
Heverly says he and his wife both died at advanced ages (p. 181, Vol. II, P &
PF), but he may have referred to a second wife. Their gravestones are inscribed:
" In Memory of Almira Olds wife of David Olds who died May 7th, 1823
aged 32 years". (East Cemetery)