This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5034.1 Message Board Post: Could you see if you have another Nelson Rose in your line?? My greatgrandfather was a Nelson Rose who marries near Ligonier Valley in around 1876. He then moved to Johnstown, Pa. One of his sons daughter was named Emma like your Nelson Ros'e grandchildren. I can't seem to find how or where he comes in was hoping you have one that was missing, after New York is not that far away from Pa. Maybe it was an uncle or something I havn't heard of another Nelson. Thanks and God Bless Jenny

Andria: Right after I sent the note about the Allegany researcher, I received a post card from him offering to do research at the courthousefor $5 per hour. Carol

> > >I've attempt to call people in the offices and was told that I need >to come in and look for the info my self. I live in Colorado so >that is a bit tough. Does anyone know of some one that you can hire >to go get the information for you? Any help would be greatly >appericated. > >Thanks >Andria >andriab@adelphia.net Hello Andria: I live in Florida. I wrote to the Allegany County clerk and was told something similar. But the clerk did send me the name of a local researcher whom I wrote to on April 26, so far with no response. There is also a phone number that I may soon try. Here is the information I have, name, address, and phone of the researcher. Mr. William Greene 26 Willets Ave. Belmont, NY 14813 Phone: 716-268-7428 Be aware that there is another Belmont in Long Island, New York, but this Zip and Area Code look right for the Allegany County area. Good luck!!!! Carol McGann

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BUB.2ACI/6052 Message Board Post: I've attempt to call people in the offices and was told that I need to come in and look for the info my self. I live in Colorado so that is a bit tough. Does anyone know of some one that you can hire to go get the information for you? Any help would be greatly appericated. Thanks Andria andriab@adelphia.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5974.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I just need to know the area code for that area is it 607 for all areas? Thanks so much.. Penny

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6051 Message Board Post: ROBERT RORK Funeral services, largely attended, were held Tuesday (1942) for Robert RORK, 31, lineman for the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, whose sudden death by electrocution when his body came in contact with a 2400 volt power line late Friday afternoon, saddened this community. Loren LEET, a fellow workman who received slight burns on his hands and severe shock in the same accident, is recovering nicely at his home and expects to return to work soon. Popularly known as "Bob", through his basketball and baseball activities extending back to the time before his graduation from Fillmore High School in 1930, besides being a star at both sports, he was known to hundreds of fans for his refereeing activities in recent years. "Bob" had also been manager of the championship Fillmore baseball team for the past few years. Born and reared in this community his friends were legion. According to fellow linemen and H. G. YOUNG, district manager of the RG&E, the accident occurred while the men were engaged in cutting lines into the new sub-station in this village. The sub-station was being fed from the old Mills Mills plant and the process of phasing in the new lines necessitated switching certain wires, the linemen meanwhile observing a voltage regulator. Other members of the crew were H.J. STRAHAN, Ivar SWANSON, Leland LAFFERTY, Roger MILLS and Loren LEET. All ordinary precautions were being taken in changing the wires, the workmen having been warned of existing danger at a safety meeting the previous Wednesday. Despite these precautions, the fatality was apparently the result of one of those inexplicable causes in which no blame is attached to anyone. One test had been made and preparations were made for the second before the wires were permanently cut in. RORK and LEET ascended to the wooden platform on the sub-station and, apparently unaware of! the close presence of the high voltage current, came in contact with the wires. The body of RORK "froze" to the regulator case and Ivar SWANSON, crew foreman, climbed on the platform which was not grounded and pulled the body loose. Mr. RORK was rushed to the Fillmore Hospital in an ambulance where they resorted to adrenalin and artificial respiration for about two hours failed to revive him. Dr. F.C. BALLARD of Rushford held an inquest at the RG&E offices Saturday morning. "Bob" had been employed be the local utility about seven years, previous to which time he attended Houghton College three years. In August of 1934 he was married to Dolores YAGER of Fillmore, who survives him. He also leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy RORK of Perry and two sisters, Mr. Robert McGEE, Buffalo and Miss Helen RORK, Perry. Services were held from his late home, a short distance from the scene of the fatality with an overflow in the Methodist Church at two o'clock, the Rev. C.H. NASH of East Otto and the Rev. Harold WASS of Fillmore officiating. Interment was made in Pine Grove Cemetery, Fillmore.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6050 Message Board Post: MRS. BALFOUR D. MILLS WISCOY - Mrs. Lenora M. MILLS of this community died Friday (April 22, 1977) at Cuba Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Tuscarora on Aug. 15, 1897, a daughter of Charles and Abby SCHUKNECHT GREEN. On Dec. 6, 1921, she married Balfour D. MILLS, who died in 1973. Mrs. MILLS attended the Wiscoy-Rossburg United Methodist Church. She was a 50-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Aurora Chapter 248 of Fillmore; and a member of the Genesee Rebekah Lodge 491 of Hume. She taught school throughout northern Allegany County for many years prior to school centralization. Surviving are five sons, Bernard MILLS of Fillmore, Lowell MILLS of Wiscoy, Stewart MILLS of Angelica, Alan MILLS of Caneadea, and R. Craig MILLS of Canandaigua; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Jeanne) IRWIN of Wiscoy; 15 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Harold (Frieda) RORK of Rossburg. Friends are being received at the Kopler Funeral Home, 21 N. Genesee St., Fillmore, today from 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held there Monday (April 25, 1977) at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Irwin REIST, pastor of the Wiscoy-Rossburg United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at Alger Cemetery, town of Hume. Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Fillmore Rescue Squad or a charity of the donor's choice. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6049 Message Board Post: GEORGE VAN NAME, 91 Was Early Cheesemaker George VAN NAME, 91, died Monday, April 10 at Angelica after a long illness. He was born in Farmersville, May 13, 1869, a son of the late Eugene and Sarah MORRIS VAN NAME. He and the former Frances RADLEY were married in 1898. They had two children, Agnes and Robert. In 1933 he married Jennie DUNKER, who died in 1944. Mr. VAN NAME started making cheese for sale in Rushford many years ago. He was also a cheesemaker in other communities until he retired here in 1928. He had also worked for the Queen City Dairy in Buffalo for several years and had served for a time as a milk inspector. After the death of his sister, Eliza HOWARD in 1955, he returned to Rushford, and made his home with his ....." Can't read the last few words. >From obituary found in the Davies Room at the Rushford, NY Library. Dated 1961.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6048 Message Board Post: KENNETH SCHUKNECHT Kenneth SCHUKNECHT of West Main Street died Friday (Feb. 7, 1986) in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester. Born June 21, 1899, in New York State, he was a son of Albert and Florence BEARDSLEY SCHUKNECHT. He married the former Laura PIKE, who survives. Mr. SCHUKNECHT was a retired farmer and a 67-year member of the Hume United Methodist Church. Surviving besides his widow are two sons, Harry SCHUKNECHT of Portland and Gordon SCHUKNECHT of Blairsville, Ga.; a daughter, Mrs. Arthur (Lorna) BLISS of Fillmore; eight grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. In the Hume United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Joseph P. TURCER, Jr., pastor, officiating. Burial Alger Cemetery, town of Hume. Memorials may be made to the Hume United Methodist Church or the Fillmore Rescue Squad. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6047 Message Board Post: ELLEN MORRIS No date The death of Ellen MORRIS occurred Wednesday, Dec. 4. Ellen MORRIS was born in the town of Hume, June 15, 1865 to Ferdinand BISHOP and Mary BLISS BISHOP. She was married to Richard MORRIS of Centerville Dec. 28, 1887 and to them were born six children, Jennie ROBINSON, Irving MORRIS, Richard MORRIS, Arvena WEBSTER, Ruth VAN SLYKE , and Vivian CLEVELAND. Richard MORRIS, Sr. died 18 years ago, leaving his wife who lived alone on the farm most of the time. Two years ago she fell and broke her hip, and then made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Curtis WEBSTER, until the last 12 weeks which she spent at her daughter Mrs. Sherm ROBINSON's, where she died. She leaves to mourn her loss, six children, 25 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. She was a good mother and grandmother, and neighbor loved by all her many friends who showered flowers of such beauty. Services were held at the Higgins Church, Sunday Dec. 8, at 2 o'clock, Rev. SMITH and Mrs. SHAFFER officiating, with interment in Bates Cemetery. Friends called at the Kopler Funeral Home until Sunday. We want to thank Mr. and Mrs. Kopler and family for their kindness and thoughtfulness shown us.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6046 Message Board Post: SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. HARRY VAN NAME Mrs. Maude B. VAN NAME, 65, died very suddenly Monday evening. The funeral was held Thursday at 2:00 P.M. at the home. Rev. N.R. SHAFFER officiated. Burial was in Pine Grove Cemetery. She is survived by her husband Harry, two sons, Kenneth at home and Cpl. PERCY in India, a sister Mrs. Frank LEET, and a brother Herman SWETLAND, of Rochester. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6045 Message Board Post: SCHUKNECHT, 88, passes away Fred SCHUKNECHT, a well-known carpenter in Hume, died Oct. 5, 1955, 3 days after his 88th birthday. He was the last survivor of nine children of Fred. K. and Fredericka SCHUKNECHT. Six sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. Fred was born Oct. 2, 1867. On Dec. 27, 1894 he was married to Mary SCHUKNECHT, who passed away 12 June 1909. Three children were born, Ruth BENNETT of Hume, Frederick SCHUKNECHT of Clarence Center and Robert SCHUKNECHT of Rochester. On Feb. 28, 1919 he was married to Margaret McJURY of Pembroke, NY. In the town of Hume. There are many buildings in the vicinity, both here and in Genesee County, that show proof of his good workmanship. He was like and respected by all who knew him. Besides the three children mentioned above, he is survived by 5 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at Kopler's Funeral Home Saturday Oct. 8 at 2 o'clock. Burial at Pine Grove Cemetery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6044 Message Board Post: Obituary. Webster MILLS, oldest son of Wm. Webster MILLS, and grandson of Roger MILLS, a pioneer settler of Hume at Mills Mills; was born at that place on the 11th day of June, 1828, and died Oct. 23rd, 1901. He was educated in the common schools and at a private or ‘select' school at Castile, N.Y. He became a farmer and miller in his father's grist mill, where he worked for twenty years. He married, in 1849, Lucinda, daughter of Benjamin and Polly MEACHAM FULLER. His wife died Oct. 13, 1883. Her parents were kindly cared for at the MILLS home until their decease. About the year 1866, he assumed a trust which occupied many years in fulfillment, viz, the management and distribution of the Moses ROBINSON and Harvey ROBINSON estates. The guardianship and duties of the trust were executed with the utmost fidelity and integrity. He served the town of Hume in the capacity of collector for two terms and as supervisor for three successive terms. He was a man of vigorous mind, a reader who kept well up with the movements of the times in which he lived. He also had a sturdiness of personal character which was his thru life. It is related of him that when a boy a school at! Castile with his sister, Elisiff, they were taunted with coming from Allegany, the county of leeks. On their first appearance in school, one pert boy asked ‘Have you brought your leek hooks with you?' Web. promptly answered ‘yes' and instantly took the questioner by the nose and gave it a most strenuous tweak. Further impudence was not in order and Web. had established a good standing among the boys. On the 4th day of Sept., 1884, he was married to Lucinda ALGER (widow of Alonzo ALGER). She, with her then infant daughter, whom he loved as his own, survive him. The funeral services were conducted at his home on Oct. 25th, Rev. J.C. WARREN of Pike officiating. The attendance was very large, showing the great esteem in which he was held by the whole community. He was the friend and servant of all, yet he called no man master. His mortal remains, covered with flowers, were laid to rest in the beautiful Alger cemetery. Very affectionate memories of him will long remain in the breasts of those who knew him best. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6043 Message Board Post: ROBERTA VANNAME Mrs. Edith POWELL of Rushford has received word of the death of Mrs. Roberta VAN NAME of Garden City, Michigan, from which city she was buried on November 10, 1961. She will be remembered in this area as the daughter-in-law of the late George VAN NAME whose funeral she attended last April. Soon after returning home, she was stricken with cancer. She was born July 25, 1917 in Michigan and is survived by her husband; her parents; a son, Robert, in service; six children at home and several cousins in this area." >From an obituary found in the Davies Room of the Rushford, NY Library.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6042 Message Board Post: MRS. JENNIE VAN NAME Mrs. George VAN NAME of Centerville passed away Friday after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 P.M. from the home. The Rev. ELLIOTT of Higgins officiated. Interment was in Bates Cemetery. Relatives who attended the funeral from this area were Mrs. Edith POWELL and son Walter, Myron FRANCIS, Rushford; Mrs. Minnie RICH and Carlyle RICH, Farmersville; Edward VAN NAME, Arcade; and Benjamin VAN NAME, Delevan." From an obituary found in the Davies Room at the Rushford, NY Library. Dated 1944.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6039 Message Board Post: Sudden Death of Mrs. Ernest Gilman Wednesday No date Louise BREEZER [Brueser], age 55, wife of Ernest GILMAN, died at her home in Centerville, Wednesday, December 18th. She is survived by her husband, also two daughters, Mrs. John MARVIN, Fillmore, Miss Ruth GILMAN, Kenmore; four sisters, Mrs. Mary MURRAY, Arcade, Mrs. Wm. SCHEUEMAN, Perry, Mrs.Chas. MEYER, Buffalo, Mrs. Fred WALROD, Freedom, two brothers, Herman BREEZER, Centerville, John BREEZER, Arcade, a grand-daughter and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held from the home, Saturday, December 21st, at one o'clock, Rev. CLARK officiating. Burial in Freedom, N.Y. While Mrs. GILMAN had not been in the best of health, her death came very suddenly as the day before she was about as usual. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6038 Message Board Post: KENNETH LEROY VAN NAME FILLMORE - Kenneth L. VAN NAME died at his home on East River Road in the Town of Hume Tuesday (Jan. 5, 1965) after a short illness. He was the son of the late Harry and Maude SWETLAND VAN NAME. Surviving are his widow, Bernice VAN NAME, two sons, Bernard VAN NAME and Neal VAN NAME, both at home; a brother Percy VAN NAME of Newport, N.Y. Friends may call at the Kopler Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. where funeral and committal services will be held Friday (Jan. 8, 1965) at 2 p.m. The Rev. David SHANNON, pastor of the Fillmore Wesleyan Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery, Fillmore." >From obituary found in the Davies Room of the Rushford, NY library. Dated 1965.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6037 Message Board Post: MRS. JESSE VAN NAME CANASERAGA - Mrs. Kathryn E. VAN NAME of Mill Street, died Monday (April 26, 1971) at Wyoming County Community Hospital, Warsaw, after a long illness. Born in Wiscoy, Jan. 15, 1899, she was a daughter of Ernest and Elizabeth HICKEY GAYFORD. She was the widow of Jesse VAN NAME. Mrs. VAN NAME was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Grange, both of Canaseraga. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy GRIFFITH of Burns; two sons, Robert VAN NAME of Nunda and Harold VAN NAME of Dalton; eight grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Donald DINGER of Thompsonville, Mich.; two brothers, Richard GAYFORD and Edmund GAYFORD, both of Hume; and several nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at the Kopler Funeral Home, 21 N. Genesee St., Fillmore, today from 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held there Thursday (April 29, 1971) at 2 p.m. Interment will follow in Podonque Cemetery in the Town of Rushford. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6036 Message Board Post: His Life Spanned the Greater Part of the History of Our Town. In the death of Mr. SKIFF, which occurred on the morning of the 15th inst., the town of Hume loses one of her best citizens. He had been ill of late, but was understood to be improving, and when the announcement of his death was made, it was a painful surprise to our people. Joseph BATES, the second son of pioneer Joshua SKIFF, who was the first supervisor of Hume, was born on the old SKIFF homestead June 14, 1816, known to old people as the ‘cold season.' His birthplace was the humblest of domiciles, the primitive log cabin of his father. His mother was Lucina, a sister of the late well and favorably known Henry C. WRIGHT, who was a veritable apostle of peace and author of ‘A Kiss for a Blow,' and other works of kindred nature. She was a woman of sterling worth, who left the loving impress of her christian teachings and example upon her children and died in 1843. Milton W., the older brother, died some years ago at Hume village, while a sister Elizabeth Miriam, died over half a century ago, leaving Harvey J., now an old man living in Newton, Iowa, the only survivor of the Joshua SKIFF. Truly was Mr. SKIFF ‘native and to the manor born.' His whole life being passed in this town, he was with the exception of the venerable Mrs. Sally MEACHAM of Fillmore the longest resident citizen of Hume. The first scenes which greeted the gaze of his infant eyes were associated with pioneer events; the rude log cabin with its ample fire-place, the stick chimney, the bake kettle and bake oven, the spinning wheel, the loom, and ‘e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well.' The newly cleared fields, thickly filled with stumps, the burning log heaps, the slashings, the brush and rail fences, were sights familiar to his boyhood days, and of evenings, when the chorus of howling wolves made night almost a hideous pandemonium, the lad quite likely, clung closer to his mother's side. Graduating from the log school house, he attended for a while the pioneer academic institution of the Holland Purchase, the Middlebury Academy as it was then called. The place is now known as Wyoming. He afterward attended for a while a collegiate school at Meadville, Pa., working his way there by engaging to drive a team for a family who were moving from here into that section. After leaving the Meadville school he engaged in teaching, which however he soon relinquished and devoted himself from that time on entirely to agricultural pursuits. May 22, 1838, he with Lydia B. FITCH, daughter of the late Chester FITCH, began the married part of their lives together on the old Joshua Skiff homestead which continued until Jan. 29, 1889, when Mrs. SKIFF died. In 1848 he purchased and removed to the place where he has ever since resided. Of this union nine children were born eight of them arriving at maturity. John M., the eldest, enlisted in the union army from some western state wither he had gone and was killed at Shiloh April 6, 1862. Stephen M., also enlisted from here and was killed near Franklin, Va., June 24, 1863. And so Mr. SKIFF's recollections of the years of our country's peril were intensified with the loss of two bright and promising sons. But throughly anti-slavery in sentiment, the nation emerging from the struggle with the broken fetters of four million of enslaved human beings in its bloody, though victorious hands, his country was dearer still to him for the sacrifice. Joshua, another promising son, died of disease at home in March, 1865. Of the immediate family, Chester F., our well known townsman and active business man, Melvira who married Mr. J.B. MORROW, Lucina, now Mrs. H.H. COCHRAN, both the latter living in Morse, Custer Co., Idaho; Harvey J., and Addie, who married Mr. E.C. THOMAS and now lives on the home place, survive and have the sympathy of our entire community in this sad bereavement. Mr. SKIFF was a member of the Presbyterian church as long as one existed in Hume, but never has been connected with any other church organization. He was however a firm believer in the cardinal principles of christianity and was frequent in his attendance upon divine worship, contributing liberally to its support. He was a man of extensive and well chosen reading, and his mind was a well filled storehouse of valuable information. Positive in his opinions, loyal to his convictions, he dared to do what he considered right. Unassuming in his manners, unpretentious in deportment, he despised shams and detested hypocracy. Plain, honest, outspoken in defense of his opinions, he respected the opinions of others and conceded to them the same honesty be claimed for himself. He was a man of warm friendships, and though to outward appearance, especially to strangers seemingly, perhaps a little odd, brusque and almost eccentric sometimes, those who knew him best, prized him the hi! ghest. He had moreover a vein of humor, which was like the spring babbling from out the rough rock by the wayside, broke forth at times as if it could not be repressed and would brook no hindrance. The outside world knew but little of Joseph B. SKIFF, for he never sought notoriety, but he was esteemed by the townsmen for his many good qualities of head and heart, and the world is better for his having lived. No more will his familiar form be seen upon our streets; no more shall we hear his questioning salutation, ‘What's the best word today?' Not the worst nor indeed any other, but the best word was what he wanted. No more the cordial greeting and hearty handshake. Our good friend, our kind neighbor and worthy townsman has gone and we sorely miss him. Hail and farewell! The funeral which was held at his late residence on the 18th inst., was attended by a large concourse of neighbors, friends and townsmen, the services being conducted by the Rev. S.S. BALLOU, who spoke words of comfort and consolation, very appropriately using as the foundation of his remarks the words, ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.' Interment in the family plot in Pine Grove cemetery. [Northern Allegany Observer obit by John S. Minard, January 15, 1895, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]