This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.cattaraugus/10458.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The letter above refers to Squire H. Horton's second marriage to Juda (Judy) Minerva Yeoumans; his first marriage date, 1829, was included in his father's War of 1812 records (no name for his first wife). This is an expansion of the relevant sentences: "(Juda?) was married last Thursday evening to (Squire?) Horton. He is about 30, is a carpenter, he worked with Loudon on Horton's house, they had a quarrel. He has framed Austin a shed. Since he (Squire Horton) asked Horton's (Sylvester Horton's; Sylvester Horton was Squire Horton's cousin and Juda Yeoumans' uncle, brother of Hannah Horton Yeoumans) consent he (Sylvester Horton) gave it but did not go to the wedding. He (Squire Horton) has had a wife before, she left him (Squire Horton)." In the first of the two letters below, also from Ron Whort, the birth of Hannah Melissa Horton is mentioned (13 Jan 1841) "Burton, Jan. 18th, 1841 Dear Friends, Your .letter of the 2nd instant came to hand the 15th bringing the melancholy news of sister Thlrsas death, although we have long expected it, still was heart rending to hear that she is gone, and that we shall see her no more on earth, but we feel assured our loss is her infinite gain. We feel deeply to mourn and sympathize with you our dear brother and friends, in the loss we all sustain. But it is not possible for us to realize exactly how you feel because we have never experienced the same. We feel happy to know you are enjoying as good health as you are and that you have been supported through the trying sum of sister's sickness and death, it would have been a great satisfaction to us if we could have seen her. We have all enjoyed very good health since I wrote except mother had a very bad cold in November. She took some pills and soon recovered. Since she got well she thinks she feels better than she did for sometime before. ! My health has been much better the past year than I even expected it would be. We hope dear brother that you will not be discouraged or feel low spirited on account of your afflictions. Do not call yourself a poor man, how many have gone away and have sickness and death in their families who have not the house and property to return to that you have and you have the satisfaction of thinking that you tried to do your duty to your dear departed companion which is better than to possess great riches. We want to see (you) very much and should be glad to have you return although we do not wish to hurry you but we think it would be much better for your farm if you were to come in the spring as early as you conveniently can in consequence of the fences getting poor. Jabez and the Boyington think it would be altogether the best way for you to come in a steamboat by Warren as they come up as far as there in time of high water. As the ice does not generally get out of the lake until ! the first of May and sometimes not so soon, and the distance from here to Warren is but a few miles more than to Buffalo and a good road by Jamestown. We all think it not advisable for you to bring pork or any kind of provision so far account of the expense, which would probably be as much as you would have to pay here for what you would want. Boyington says you had better sell your pork for $2.00 per cwt than bring it. All kinds of produce are plenty and much cheaper than when you left. Some have sold pork here for $3.00 per cwt, butter is 12 ½ c/ lb., potatoes 25 c, cheese 6 c/lb, oats 25 cents. We would advise you not to bring any of your plain (chairs) or heavy furniture for probably the money you would pay to get them here would buy enough here for the present or if you should not bring anything but your clothing and some bed and bedding, you can use our things as long as you stay in your house which will probably be as long as you want it. Perhaps if you leave some things that can be sold when the times are better. You probably re! collect you have some furniture here and after all of our advice depending which way you come and what you bring, perhaps you can judge or ascertain what would be best yourself. Boyington has been down the river several time s and we think him as good a judge as any here. He says Indiana money is much better here or anywhere else than Ohio. He has lately lost $30.00 of Ohio money on account of the banks failing. He says there is 6% discount on Indiana here. When I went to Buffalo I had some of it and I found no difficulty in passing it for goods without any discount. Dr. Almy was at Cincinnati last fall. He says money is not so scarce here as it is down the river. We have a plenty of provisions this year, have never been so well provided for since we have been out here. We have one cow that gives milk and expect another the first of March. Jabez killed the cow he has of Hubbard, sold the most of her so we have plenty of tallow. He killed 3 hogs and 2 pigs, has raised ! about 400 bushel of potatoes, he carried 75 to Oleun (Olean), sold the m for 25 cents there. He raised about 20 bushels of wheat and some oats, I don't know how many--they're not all threshed. Father's folks killed 2 hogs and their speckled cow, she was so ugly to milk they dried her last summer. The butcher at Olean offered them 15 dollars for her, they thought it not enough so killed her, they sold half of her for $9.00 before they killed her--some of the other half they kept and sold some by the piece. Horatio says he will let you have 50 or 75 lbs. of pork if you want and we think you will not starve if you come home. Flour is $4.00 a barrel at Olean. Jabez pared ned's hoofs last summer and put on Oil of Shike which has helped him very much and we think he may yet make a valuable horse. He was tall as Nob last fall. Jabez bought Horatio's steers and sold one of them to the butcher at 0lean. The other one he put with your big broad horned red Charley steer, they made a very good yoke , looked well together. He worked them some and in ! Nov. he sold them to Case for $70.00. He received $30 of it the first of Jan. and is to have the rest the first of June. He said he did not know if you would like it but he thought there would not be hay enough to winter all the cattle and you know he always feels bad to see a steer unmatched. He works the white face steers occasionally, they are very gentle and good-natured. Case said he had rather had them than those he took. I think Jabez might send you some money if you requested it. Your heifer is expected to come in 6th of April. Mary milked her the first week in Jan. She dried a bushel of apples and intends half of them for you. She has made a barrel of soap and you can have what you will want. You left beans here and J. used them but he has raised some so you can have. There has been very many changes here since you left and I presume there will be more. Mrs. Andrews father has been very anxious to go back to Mass. and live with him but Mr. Austin has been ! there this winter and says the old gentleman intends to come here next spring and if he likes to move here. Austin left his horses at an uncle's in Ontario Co. and took a seat in a railroad car and in 12 hours arrived at his father's in Richman, Mass. It has been very sickly in Mass. the last season. Mr. Fish writes that Mrs. Fish died last summer and it has been very sickly there, they would all return if they could. Charlotte is married to a Mr. Buck who went from Ontario Co.. Elizabeth Clock is married. The scarlet fever prevailed at Elicotville and Randolph last fall. There was one case of it here. Mr. Allen's little boy had it but recovered. Cornelia came up the first week of Dec. to visit, she came here and stayed all night. She said she should have gone with Aunt Wood but the buggy was so small they could not carry her, but her father was going to carry her to _eneva the first of sleighing to go to school a year or more but he has not gone yet and probably won't. She said her mother had all the sewing she could do and made a pa! ir of pantaloons in two evenings and sewed on coats in the daytime. She asked me if I sewed to buy flour, she said her ma did, she said she meant to write to her Aunt Di___ when she learned to write and when she could keep school she would pay her pa's debts, poor child, she would have a hard task even if she began now. Boyington says Myron does not do as much business at the mill as he did last year. Robison works for him and does just as he pleases. We have not seen Wm. Farmer since I wrote you last but James called here a few days after he had been to Mr. F. to get in to work but they did not want him. I don't wish to say it to injure your feelings but you would know it if you were here that James is considered a very unfaithful boy and where he lives this winter I don't know. Last winter Myron sent him up to Dires to do his chores, he said he had turned out his cattle when he had not. Myron says he did not earn his board when he lived with him but he gave him some ! clothes. He ought to live with a smart man that will make him work bu t I presume they will all be provided for. We have had a very mild winter so far and but few very cold days. Christmas was the coldest, very good sleighing most of the time. We had a general thaw first week in January, the snow is very thin now. Whitney's folks moved from 0. to Hinsdale, from there to be near F ? Whitney. Is collector here. Juda (Yeoumans Horton) had a fine daughter 13th -- talk some of moving to Penn. (Hannah Melissa Horton, born Dec 1840/Jan 1841). Mr. Ame has carried Jane H. down to ____ non. It is generally thought they will be married before long. Phebe lives at home. Hannah lives at Dires when the school kept. Mr. Lewis is teaching the upper district, will teach here again in the spring. I have made him a coat and one for Woodruff. Old Silas wants his things sent to Buffalo this winter, he writes L's health is better and she is teaching for $2 a week, he is very anxious to get to housekeeping. As it respects the good causes of the day, the people here are doing just nothing at all. It seems to be the only object of the people in general to see which can make the greatest bargain and get rich the fastest. Yours in love, F. Chapin (Fearitte)" Burton, Jan. 29, 1878 Dear Friends, I am very glad you got my "interesting" letter after so long a time. I know you wish I had better paper and ink and pen which I intend to have or stop writing you such dreadful looking letters. We received yours one week ago and happy to hear from you again but very sorry you are not in better health. We do wish you would get some of the Balsum it would be good for both of you. I think you might afford to use the money which we got for apples to buy it with as it cannot possible do as much good laid out for anything else. The agent's name at Cincinnati is G.F. Thomas, 177 Main Street. We have all enjoyed tolerable health since I wrote except bad cold which began to prevail in consequence of the open weather. We had a tremendous hard frost here about the 20th of Oct. which damaged some of the winter apples so that they turned spoiled all through but we had gathered the greatest part of the best fruit. You have 76 trees about 70 of th! em bore and every tree in the nursery hung very full some of which were not bigger than a walnut. There was one apple on a grafted tree that weighed 12 ounces. It was a beautiful great red apple and every time we looked at it we wished bub could have it. We kept it till about three weeks ago when we had to eat it because it began to rot. I presume we have dried enough for two years, but......ad to have Lucy to....because you know that the loom.....go day and night in the fall and how the public will make a fuss. Our folk had a plenty of apples and fried a good supply. ...had 10 bushels in his orchard. We don't expect to have any again in 7 years if the town was (purified? ) which we expect it will be before long. The report is that (Piny?) expects to marry a brother of Sophia's husband. If she does, there won't be any of them here a great while longer. ...apples are very scarce here now. They have not been brought in because there has been.....sleighing of late. We! sold 2 bushels....last week for $1.12 of the best grafts. ...I'll se ll more if we can. We did not have any snow in Dec. till the 18th ..... came very deep but went off by the first of Jan., then bare ground 2 weeks....another snow that lasted about as long and for 2 weeks past we had very fine weather and the roads as dry and smooth as Oct. day it began to snow again and it looks a little more like winter. James Faunce was married a year ago last August to Ruth Scott on the (Hascall?) week, she was about 16 years old, they have a son, of late they went on to a farm at Portville which the owner told he might have if he would go to work and pay for it but they say he don't do much. Charlie Bud has bought half of Boyington's sawmill and lives in the house next above father's. Horace Clark is married to Almire Johnson of......dale and live with his mother--his father wills him half the house. Thomas Price is married and lives in Rochester, IA, about 50 miles south of where he first lived, he trades under the firm of Blair and Price. Mrs. P! rice has lately heard of the death of her son Arthur in England. Mrs. McClure died last Thursday of an old complaint--the gravel. Mrs. Patterson is sick. She has not spoke above a whisper but once for 18 months but she has attend business and ~one through wet and dry at all times and seasons till 3 weeks ago she took severe cold her lungs seem in a worse state than even a doctor from Erie Co. who came to see S. Strong last June told her that one lobe of her lungs was fallen and the doctor here says she can't never get well but all they say makes no difference with her, she will (weather?) and be out late just as if she was made f of iron. ...... and Maria are at thme to rebuild the sawmill- -Johnson..... , a first rate mill at the Rinyscat last summer. Mr. Horton did the work. Judge Martin has gone senator and Johnson assemblyman to Albany this winter whigs.......and Marcus Johnson democratic assemblyman likewise. Great men fill great stations. Lathrop had to deed hi! s land out of the money Mr. Clark paid for........which took $270.00 a nd left him $230.00. I was mistaken about the price Boyington ask, Mr. Wordon, it is not $600.00 since......, the pine timber off the side hill. Boyington is in a fret to buy. ...Austin farm. Mr. Chase has the price down to his wishes. I don't know when I can mail this letter. I shall send you the $10.00 bill in this. Our folks are not suffering for anything at present and they may need your help some future time more there were tolerable crops last year. ... You did not say as got $20 bill. ...last letter but I suppose you did. Do you have to discount .......to get it changed or how does that money go with you. We did.not have any chance to inform A. Clark that you got the cloth after we heard from. We could not send cloth to the clothiers now and get home again to send you (by?) spring. If we have the care of your wool next summer I intend......., done in season if you will inform in the spring what you ......... (End of paper--Letter in handwriting of Fearitte Ch! apin but not signed. ) (Believe part of the letter is missing.) from Ron Whort