Posted on: Grays Harbor Co. Wa Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wa/GraysHarbor/10112 Surname: Messenger, Goddard, Hayes, Barnes, Cole, Harmia, Rattie, Smith, Brownell, Gaylord, Gossard, Gozzard, Beckley, Mark, Thompson, Miller ------------------------- This is our line to George Hayes and the 19th President of the United States Roseane Hayes Roseanna is the daughter of William Hayes that is the Son of George and Brother to Daniel that is the line to President Hayes. Is line is From Roseanna Hayes and Nathan Goddard Rufus Milo MESSENGER looking for Rufus Messenger parents! + Roannah GODDARD 2 Rufus Milo MESSENGER d: 1836 + Elizabeth Ann BARNES b: 3 FEB 1810 d: AUG 1884 3 Edwin Milo MESSENGER b: DEC 1827 d: ABT 1880 + Sarah Ann BRAY 3 Chauncey Monroe MESSENGER b: 26 JUN 1833 d: 4 NOV 1908 + "Kitty" (UNKNOWN) 4 Samuel Chauncey MESSENGER + Amelia A. WORT + Hester Lena PALMER d: 20 DEC 1895 5 Erastus Clark MESSENGER b: 26 SEP 1875 5 Edwin Milo MESSENGER b: 4 JUL 1879 d: 19 JUN 1939 + Elise JOKANDER b: 15 OCT 1877 d: 28 OCT 1947 6 Russell Franklin MESSENGER + Stella Bessie HORACEK 7 Living MESSENGER + Vincent Charles HARMIA b: 11 SEP 1920 d: 12 FEB 1989 8 Living HARMIA 8 Living HARMIA 8 Living HARMIA 8 Living HARMIA + Living MITCHAM + Living BROWNELL 8 Living BROWNELL 8 Living BROWNELL 8 Living BROWNELL 5 Lewis M. MESSENGER b: 10 NOV 1881 5 Frank Z. MESSENGER b: 29 JUN 1883 d: 18 JUN 1946 5 Eliza I MESSENGER b: 8 OCT 1885 5 Mary J. MESSENGER b: 21 JUN 1887 5 Alice MESSENGER b: 10 MAY 1889 5 John H. MESSENGER b: 11 JUL 1893 5 Chloe MESSENGER 2 Warren MESSENGER + Jane NOBLE 3 Albert Warren MESSENGER b: 31 AUG 1837 d: 23 OCT 1917 + Amelia Marintha WARD b: 11 AUG 1847 d: 2 DEC 1915 4 Lena MESSENGER b: 3 JUL 1866 d: 2 FEB 1867 4 Carrie Erminie MESSENGER b: 25 MAR 1868 d: AFT 1925 + Fred Lavvall MERRELL b: 20 SEP 1862 d: AFT 1925 5 Alger Warren MERRELL 4 Sarah Bernice MESSENGER b: 16 MAR 1873 d: AFT 1925 + Will Newton MCCORMICK b: 16 MAY 1859 d: 30 SEP 1917 5 Crawford Newton MCCORMICK 5 John Raymond MCCORMICK 4 Jessie Alberta MESSENGER b: 2 MAR 1880 d: AFT 1925 + Percy CARSON b: 6 JUL 1881 d: AFT 1925 5 Marian Alberta CARSON 5 Persis Loreen CARSON 5 Romaine Monroe CARSON 5 Glenn Messenger CARSON 2 Anna MESSENGER + Jacob SHAFFER 2 Fanny MESSENGER + Lucius JUDSON 2 Nancy MESSENGER 2 Harriet MESSENGER + Silas DARROW 2 Philinda MESSENGER + John NEALE Information from the book, "Northfield on the Genesee", by Margaret McNab, Katherine Thompson, and Shirley Husted, tells us the following about Rufus Messenger. "A young Connecticut Yankee from Granby invested in 101 acres of Pittsford land in 1791. Six years later, he added to his holdings in Pittsford. Meanwhile, he and his wife had started raising a family, and it was not until after 1803 that Rufus and Rosannah Messinger came west to Northfield. They lived in Pittsford first. In 1811, they "swapped" their Pittsford land for Brighton land owned by Steven Lusk. They lived on the south side of Elmwood Avenue west of Clover Street, where they reared eight children - six girls and two boys. When Smallwood was divided and the Town of Brighton came into being in 1814, Messenger became Brighton's first welfare officer, as well as a pathmaster of the town. Mr. Messenger died in Brighton January 20, 1835, leaving a will with the interesting provision that if Rosannah remarried, she should receive only the mandated one-third of this estate. But, 27 acres of the farm were to be given to his son, Rufus, then living in Parma, and the remainder of the land to his son, Warren. The girls were to receive $100. Lavina (died of 'conjunction' at the age of 46 in 1850) married Jonathan Gale and remained in Brighton along with Warren and Nancy. Three of the girls were living in Rochester: Anna, wife of Jacob Shaffer; Harriet, wife of Silas Darrow; and Philinda, wife of John Neale. Fanny had married Lucius Judson and gone to Michigan to live. As soon as Warren received a clear title from his mother, brothers, and sisters, he and his wife, Jane A., sold the Brighton farm to Isaac Moore. Young Rufus and his wife, Eliza, moved into Rochester, where he was employed as a carpenter." The town names are a bit confusing in this excerpt. This whole area was named Northfield until 1808, when the name was changes to Boyle. Then, in 1810, the Town of Penfield separated from Boyle. In 1813 Boyle was again renamed. This time to Smallwood, which divided into Brighton and Pittsford in 1814.