This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOVEY, METCALF, SPAULDING, SNOW, CASE, HALL, HARMON, LARKIN, Horth Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RRB.2ACE/264.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Have you found this yet? My Charlotte Horth married Ziba M. who was b. 1816. Bio from: Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. New York, ed by William Adams, pub 1893 History of the Town of Cold Spring - Chapter XXI (21) Page 499 Surnames: HOVEY, METCALF, SPAULDING, SNOW, CASE, HALL, HARMON, LARKIN Connewango Pioneers Ziba Hovey, a native of Grafton, NH, came from Genesee County in 1829, settling on lot 4. Hovey is still living in this vicinity with his children, ninety one years of age and enjoying good health. Ziba HOVEY, born in 1788, came from Genesee county (now Wyoming) to Conewango in 1829, where he pursued farming. Shortly afterward he removed to Randolph and engaged in hotel keeping, following this business in both villages during a considerable portion of the remainder of his life. In 1836 he started west with his family, intending to go down the, Allegheny and Ohio rivers on a raft. He embarked his effects at the confluence of Cold Spring creek with the Allegheny river, but navigation gave out and he landed there and built and started a hotel, which he kept two years, being succeeded by Howard FULLER, Sr. The building burned a few years ago. Mr. HOVEY returned to Randolph, where he kept hotel, and eventually removed to Cold Spring, where he died at the residence of his son, La Fayette, Feb. 17, 1879, aged nearly ninety-one. His wife, born in 1789, was Sophia METCALF, whom he married Dec. 25, 1810. Their children were Chauncey A. (deceased); Sophronia S. (deceased);! Andrew J. (deceased); Ziba M., born July 1, 1816, of East Randolph; Emily A. (Mrs. D. B. SPAULDING), born April 5, 1818, of Cold Spring; Alta M. (deceased), born Nov. 29, 1819; Laura P. (Mrs. C. A. SNOW), born Oct. 20, 1821, of East Randolph ; Franklin C., born Oct. 21, 1823 ; Clarissa H., of Iowa; Amelia A., born July 23, 1827; and La Fayette, born March 15, 1831. Mrs. HOVEY died Feb. 17, 1873. LaFayette HOVEY came to Cold Spring in 1863 and to his present farm in 1866. He married, Oct. 13, 1858, Louisa T. CASE, of Bergen, Genesee county, and their children are Fernando G., born Sept. 11, 1859; Carrie E., born June 20, 1862; and Nettie M., born July 14, 1865, Mr. HOVEY is a carpenter and joiner by trade, and with his father and two brothers has assisted in the erection of almost every building in East Randolph village. Franklin C. HOVEY is also a carpenter and joiner by trade. From 1858 until 1865 he followed lumbering, and since then has been both a farmer and lumberman. He now lives in East Randolph. While residing in Cold Spring he served as assessor six years and justice of the peace one term. May 8, 1848, Mr. HOVEY married Harriet H., daughter of Horace HALL, one of the pioneers of Randolph. Their children are De Ette (deceased); Edgar W. (deceased); Adelle (Mrs. W. G. HARMON), of Old Orchard Beach, Me.; Nellie F.; and Kittie M. (Mrs. F. LARKIN, Jr.), of Randolph. ********* The Hovey Book, Page 256 Sample text:Main Page Page 256 1174-III. ANDREW J.7, died in (?). 1175-IV. ZIBA M.7, born July 1, 1816; and lived in E. Randloph, N. Y. 1176-V. EMILY7, born April 5, 1818; married ...