Mary Breese (1774 - 1851)

MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, DANIEL CLARK (1775-1855), CAME FROM MIDDLETOWN CONNECTICUT, TO LUDLOWVILLE IN 1801 AND ESTABLISHED A BUSINESS WITH A FULLING MILL, DYE HOUSE AND CLOTHING WORKS, LEAVING HIS BROTHER, CYRUS, IN CHARGE, HE RETURNED TO HARPERSVILLE, DELAWARE COUNTY, AND BROUGHT BACK HIS WIFE, ABIGAIL (THE DAUGHTER OF COL, JOHN HARPER), AND TWO CHILDREN (HARRIET AUGUSTA AND JULIUS AUGUSTA) IN 1803, HE CAME THROUGH WITH HORSE AND WAGON FOLLOWING BRIDLE PATHS AND INDIAN TRAILS AND MOVED INTO A LOG HOUSE AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL (LUDLOW'S) WHERE BENJAMIN'S HOUSE NOW STANDS. THE FAMILY LIVED THERE ABOUT FIVE YEARS. HE BOUGHT LAND AND BEFORE 1810 BUILT A HOUSE ACROSS FROM THE STORES NOW STANDING AND CALLED BARR COTTAGE. HE USED TO GO TO ALBANY CARRYING POTASH AND BRINGING BACK DYE STUFFS AND ARTICLES FOR HIS FAMILY. 

WHEN HE DIED IN 1855, HE OWNED MORE THAN 700 ACRES OF LAND IN THIS VICINITY. HE LEFT NO WILL, SO HIS SON, ALONZO CLARK, AND SON-IN-LAW, AARON SPENCER, WERE APPOINTED ADMINISTRATORS. SIX OF HIS TWELVE CHILDREN WERE STILL ALIVE: ALONZO, HARRIET CAIN, EMELINE STUART, MARY ANN SPENCER, WILLIAM, AND ISABELLA WOOD, ALSO THE SIX CHILDREN OF HIS OLDEST SON JULUIS, TWO OF ADELINE SAFFORD, THREE OF ADELAIDE CLARK, AND FIVE OF SARAH DAVIS. HARRIET WAS GIVEN THIS FARM OF 60 ACRES WHERE I NOW LIVE AS HER SHARE; ISABELLA, THE 50 ACRES ACROSS THE HIGHWAY WITH ITS TANNERY, WOOLEN MILL, SORGHUM MILL AND WOODS; ALONZO, THE FARM ON THE LAKE ROAD KNOWN AS THE BRISTOL PLACE; WILLIAM, THE FARM WHICH MRS, LAWRENCE PALMER NOW OWNS; EMILINE, THE FARM WHERE LEROY INMAN NOW LIVES, AMASA WOOD BOUGHT HARRIET'S FARM IN 1863 AND MOVED HERE IN 1865 AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE. HE HAD LIVED IN THE HOUSE BEHIND THE BRICK STORE FROM HIS MARRIAGE DECEMBER 1838,

 MY OTHER GREAT GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM WOOD (1772-1848), WAS BORN NEAR MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY, THE SON OF GERSHOM WOOD AND ---WHITNOCK, HE WAS BROUGHT UP ON THE ESTATE OF LORD STERLING, HE MARRIED MARY BREESE (1774-1851), HE CAME WITH JOSEPH BENJAMIN IN 1794 TO EXPLORE THIS CENTRAL NEW YORK, IN 1804, HE RETURNED WITH HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN, COMING WITH AN OXCART WITH A COW TIED BEHIND, BEING A MONTH ON THE WAY,    THEY SETTLED ON LOT 64 ON THE HORATIO BROWN FARM TWO MILES NORTH AND EAST OF LUDLOWVILLE,    SHE IS SAID TO HAVE CARRIED IN HER LAP A TREASURED TEAPOT FILLED WITH CHERRY PITS FROM THE AVENUE OF TREES ON THEIR LAND IN NEW JERSEY, AND FROM THESE GREW THE MANY CHERRY TREES ON THE BROWN FARM,

 ABRAHAM WOOD AND SON, DAVID, LOST ALL THEIR PROPERTY THROUGH SIGNING A NOTE FOR A FRIEND ABOUT 1844,     ABRAHAM WENT TO LIVE IN HIS OLD AGE WITH HIS OLDEST DAUGHTER, PATTY LINDERMAN, NEAR PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, HE IS BURIED AT SASHABAW PLAINS., MICHIGAN, HIS WIFE WENT TO LIVE WITH HER RELATIVES IN ELMIRA AND IS BURIED AT BREESPORT, NEW YORK, DAVID WORKED FOR VARIOUS FARMERS NEAR GENOA AND LANSING AFTER THE LOSS OF HIS FARM NEAR THE GULF, HE DIED IN 1877 OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE HANGING UP CLOTHES WHEN LIVING IN "PINK HOUSE" ON THE LOWER STREET,

 ABRAHAM WOOD AND MARY BREESE HAD FIVE CHILDREN, ELIZABETH CALLED PATTY (1798-1881), BETSY (1802-1890), DAVID (1804-1877), JOEL (1807-1882), AND AMASA (1809-1895) WHO LIVED TO MATURITY AND FIVE WHO DIED AS LITTE CHILDREN AND ARE BURIED IN BOWER CEMETERY NOT FAR FROM THEIR HOME,

 I. PATTY MARRIED JOHN LINDERMAN AND THEY MOVED TO PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.

II. BETSY MARRIED MARK H. BROOKS AND LIVED IN LOCKE, NEW YORK.

 III, DAVID LIVED ON A FARM NEAR HIS FATHER, MARRIED THREE TIMES, BETSY JANE COLEMAN, LUCRETIA BALDWIN AND MARY JANE BURGER,

 IV, JOEL WENT TO SETTLE AT MILTON, WISCONSIN, HAD TEN CHILDREN,

 V, AMASA MARRIED ISABELLA CLARK (1816-1863), ON DECEMBER 5, 1838 AND THEY LIVED IN THE HOUSE WEST OF THE BRICK STORES. THEY HAD SIX CHILDREN BETWEEN 1840 AND 1857; WILLIAM HENRY, HARRIET AUGUSTA, DANIEL CLARK, CHARLES EDWIN, ALBERT AMASA, AND MARY ISABELLA HARPER.     AMASA WAS A TEACHER, CABINET MAKER, UNDERTAKER, AND FOR THREE YEARS (1849-1852) POSTMASTER OF LUDLOW VILLE.

 FURTHER NOTES ON THE CHILDREN OF AMASA AND ISABELLA

 I. WILLIAM H. (1840-1914), MARRIED LOUISA BEARD AUGUST 22, 1862 AND BECAME AN EXPERT CABINET MAKER AND INSTRUCTOR IN WOOD WORKING AT CORNELL NINETEEN YEARS. THEIR ONLY SON, EDGAR HARPER, WAS BORN IN 1872 IN TOPEKA, KANSAS, LIVES NOW IN ITHACA IN HIS FATHER'S HOME.     HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF M,E, AT CORNELL MANY YEARS. HE MARRIED BERTHA LUCAS WHO DIED MAY 11, 1961, AGED 88.

 II. AUGUSTA (1842-1890), MARRIED JOSEPH SHAW (1838-1900) AND THEY MOVED TO FRIENDSHIP WISCONSIN, THEN TO HOPE, NORTH DAKOTA. ONE SON, BERTRAND (1872-1921) LIVED IN SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.

 III. CLARK WOOD (1846-1914) MARRIED SALLY JANE WOOD, DAUGHTER OF DAVID, LIVED IN FORMER WOOLEN MILL, WORKED THE FARM, HAD ONE SON CHARLES ADRIAN WOOD (1871-1957)· AGED 85.

 IV. CHARLES EDWIN (NED-1851-1921) WENT WEST TO WISCONSIN, WAS FARMER NEAR FRIENDSHIP, MARRIED ANNA COOK. THEY HAD TWO SONS, GLEN (1881-    ) AND JOHN, DIED 1944. GLEN HAS EIGHT CHILDREN, JOHN HAD THREE.

 V. ALBERT WOOD (1853-1906) MARRIED NELLIE E., DAUGHTER OF DAVID,    HE WAS A TEACHER AT NEARBY SCHOOLS, CLERK IN A STORE, AND IN 1887, MOVED TO ITHACA, BEING A BOOK-KEEPER FOR BARR BROS. AND GEO. SMALL'S LUMBER YARD. AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH IN 1895, HE CAME BACK TO THE FARM WHERE HE THOUGHT HIS HEALTH WOULD BE BETTER. ONE DAUGHTER, ISABELLE HARPER (1879-    ) WAS A TEACHER 35 YEARS, 26 AND 1/2 OF THEM IN LUDLOWVILLE, MARRIED JAMES PARISH IN 1923, RETIRED IN 1936 AND LIVES ON AN OLD FARM.

 VI. ISABELLA (1857-1946) WAS A CHILD OF 7 WHEN HER MOTHER DIED.    HER OLDER SISTER, AUGUSTA, TOOK HER WEST WITH THEM TO LIVE. SHE MARRIED GuY CARLETON AND HAD THREE CHILDREN, KATHERINE (1888- ) WHO MARRIED L.J. BOWEN, HOPE, ND· AND HAS TWO SONS, CARLETON AND CLARK; HARRY (1889- ) WHO MARRIED OLIVIA .... · AND HAS TWO CHILDREN, BETTY AND HARRY JR., LIVES IN SIOUX FALLS, DENTIST; ISABEL, (1891- ) MARRIED ARTHUR GARBUTT, LIVES ON LAKE CHETAC NEAR BIRCHWOOD, WISCONSIN.

 AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH IN JANUARY 1865, AMASA MOVED TO THE FARM ON CREEK ROAD WHICH HE HAD BOUGHT FROM HARRIET CAIN, HIS SISTER-IN-LAW. HE MARRIED AMELIA PARSONS SPENCER WALKER(1833-1876) AND THEY HAD ONE SON, GLEN ERNEST (1867-1903). GLEN LIVED IN ITHACA WITH LIBBIE RUSSELL AFTER HIS FATHER'S DEATH.

 AMASA MARRIED FOR HIS THIRD WIFE, JULIET STEELE Ross (1822-1895) ON MARCH 15, 1877, MARRIAGE WAS PERFORMED BY REV, PLATT, SHE LIVED IN A SMALL HOUSE NEXT TO DICK HOWELL'S AND WOVE RAG CARPETS, SHE HAD BY HER FIRST HUSBAND, SQUIRE ROSS, FIVE CHILDREN: ALFRED IN WISCONSIN, LOTTIE WHO MARRIED THERON BOYLES, ________MARRIED RACE, _______ MARRIED WOOLEVER, AND LIBBIE M, RUSSEL IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, JULIET DIED JANUARY 19, 1895, JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER GRANDFATHER'S DEATH.

 BATES WHITE BOUGHT EMALINE STUART'S FARM (LEROY INMAN) AND BUILT THE BIG HOUSE BEFORE OR DURING THE CIVIL WAR, MY UNCLE, LYMAN WOOD, WHO WAS A SOLDIER IN THE WAR, WAS A CARPENTER AND ADMIRED THE SUPPORTS OF THE WIDE CORNICE AND OBTAINED AN EXTRA ONE, HE MADE A PATTERN WHICH HE TOOK WITH HIM WHEN HE RETURNED TO WEST VIRGINIA WHERE HE MARRIED ANNA JACKSON WHOM HE HAD MET DURING THE FIGHTING THERE,

 BATES WHITE WAS A GENTLEMAN FARMER, RODE TO CHURCH AND STORE IN A "SURREY WITH A FRINGE ON TOP" WITH A FINE TEAM OF HORSES, ONE FALL WHEN ADRIAN WAS A BOY HIS FATHER AND HE WENT UP ALONG THE CREEK TO FIND THEIR HEN TURKEY AND HER FLOCK, FOUND THEY WERE LOCKED IN WHITE'S CORN CRIB, WHITE CLAIMED HE HAD RAISED THEM AND WOULD NOT UNLOCK THE DOOR, So ADRIAN'S FATHER SEIZED AN AX AND BROKE THE LOCK, LET THE TURKEYS OUT, AND THEY FOLLOWED THEM HOME, ADRIAN SAID THAT WAS THE ONLY TIME HE EVER SAW HIS FATHER REALLY ANGRY,

 BATES WHITE'S DAUGHTER, ANNA, WAS VERY PRETTY AND HAD NEARLY EVERY YOUNG MAN IN THE VICINITY IN LOVE WITH HER, MANY HEARTS WERE BROKEN WHEN SHE MARRIED OSCAR DEAN, THINKING HE HAD CONSIDERABLE MONEY,    HE WAS A GREAT SHOW-OFF, DOING SUCH ANTICS AS LIGHTING HIS CIGAR AND A FIVE DOLLAR BILL, AFTER HER…….