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| Family Bibles Nathaniel Willis |
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Holy Bible in English; H. & E. Phinney, Cooperstown, N. Y., 1824.
The Bible is now in the possession of the C. G. Brisee Genealogy Library, Irwin, Iowa.
Previous owner is believed to have been Alexandra Robyn "Sister Ambrose" Schuttais.
The family Bible of Nathaniel and Catherine Willis. They were residents of Otsego Co., NY. A lot of the
Births were entered in twice.
Owner's Insciption
Nathaniel Willis
His Book Bot 1825
Births
Everline Willis Born 22 of April 1819
Died Feb 19-1901
Pliny Willis Born April 2 1820
Died Dec 31-1898
Pluma Willis Born the 17 of August 1821
Died Mar 16-1911
Melvina Willis Born the 15 of October 1824
Susan Willis Born March the 27 1828
Weltha Willis Born April the 15 1829
Dekalb Willis Born the 7 of June 1831
Everline Willis Born the 22 of April 1819
Died Feb 19-1901
Pliny Willis Born the 2 of April 1820
Pluma Willis Born the 17 of August 1821
Melvina Willis Born the 15 of October 1824
Susan Willis Born April the 15 1829
Wiltha Willis Born April the 15 1829
Dekalb Willis Born the 7 of June 1831
Decalb Willis Born the 9 of July 1832
Mary Willis Born March the 6 1836
Deaths
Decalb Willis Died the 2 day of October aged 3[? ink blob] Months and 21 days
Mary Willis died 28 March 1836 Aged three weeks and one day
Dekalb Willis died the 13 day of June 1851 aged 18 10 months
Catherine Willis Died June 27th 1884 Aged 94 years 3 months & 7 days
Lany S. Willis Died June 13th 1876 aged 58 years 2 mos & 23 days
DeKalb Willis died Thirteenth day of June 1854 aged 18 year and 10 month 13 day. His testament was in
Romans the 12 chapter 15 verse
Nathaniel Willis died the 11 of October 1851 aged 60 year one month 11 day. His text was in Ecclesia 12
chapter 5 verse
Melvina Willis Carver died August the 8th 1858 her text was in Isaih the 33d chapt & 17 Verse
Weltha Fraser died Nov 12. 1894 aged 65 yr 6 months & 29 days
Pliny Willis Did Dec 31-1898 aged 78 years 8 months 29 days
Marriages
Nathaniel Willis and Catherine Willis was Mared November the 2 1818
Pluma Willis Walrath Died Nov 16-1911 Aged 89 years 7 months
Susan Willis Miller Died Oct-1917 Aged 89 years
Pliny Willis and Lany Shimel were Married January 12th 1843
Waterman Willis and Esther Bronner were Married March 23d 1865
John Willis and Alice Edick were married July 10th 1867
Mervin C. Willis and Mary L Shaul were Married Dec 25th 1869
Pliny Willis and Elizabeth Wilson were married Sept 12th 1878
Births
Dekelb Willis died the 2 October 1831
Willis D. Frazier born February 24 1852
Died June 20-1872
Pliny Willis Born April 2nd 1820
Lany Shimel Willis Born March 20th 1818
Waterman Willis Born Dec 2nd 1843
John Willis Born July 2nd 1845
Mervin C. Willis Born April 3d 1851
Insertions
[obit]
Mrs. Pluma Walrath
Pluma, widow of the late Philip Walrath, died at her home on the Black Lake road, Thursday, Mar. 16th,
1911.
Mrs. Walrath was born Aug. 17, 1821 at Springfield in the Mohawk Valley, and was the daughter of Dr.
Nathaniel Willis and Catharine Lippitt.After her marriage she to Morristown where she resided the
remainder of her life.
She is survived by two daughters and a son, Mrs. A. S. Krake, Mrs. S. M. Krake and Willis Walrath, also
eight grandchildren, four great grand-children and one sister, Mrs. Susan Miller.
The funeral was held Sunday, March 19. Burial at Black Lake Cemetery, Rev. A. H. Weaver officiating.
[obit]
Mr. Pliny Willis, father of Mr. Waterman Willis of this village, died at his home in VanHornesville on
Saturday morning last in the 79th year of his age. He was a native of the town of Springfield, where he
spent all his years, with the exception of the past eighteen, which had been spent in VanHornesville. He
was a man well known in the northern part of this county, where had for years been a prosperous farmer,
and active, obliging citizen and a kind neighbor. He is survived by his second wife, and two grandchildren.
His funeral occurred from his late residence in VanHornesville on Tuesday morning last, with interment at
the Springfield Center Cemetery. [Dec. 31-1898 in pencil]
[obit]
Willis D. Frazer Drowned
About 10 p.m. last Thursday, Willis D. Frazer, a clerk in F. Stanton's store, Dow Sloan, a clerk in the same
store, and two other young men, went bathing in the pond at the foot of Main street, in this village. Frazer
and Sloan were first in the water, and while Frazer was swimming toward the shore he was noticed to be
beating the water with his hands, but for a moment or two he was supposed to be playing in the water.
But soon, the terrible fact flashed through their minds that Frazer was drowning. He had evidently been
taken with cramp. Sloan then made two desperate efforts to save his companion. He seized him ___ but
could not bring him to the shore. The drowning man clutched at him with the energy of despair, and he with
difficulty released himself. The other two boys on the bank disrobing, being unable to swim,
could afford no assistance.
The news of the dreadful calamity soon spread through the village and crowds of people assembled to aid
in finding the body, which was recovered at midnight, after being in the water one hour and a half. The
body when found, was only about two rods from shore.
Frazer was about twenty years old and resided in the town of Springfield, in this county. He leaves an aged
mother to mourn his untimely end, whose chief support and stay he was. He was a singularly quiet and
affable young man, always attending strictly to business, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. His
remains were taken to Springfield, on Friday, for interment.
[obit]
The Death of Col. Andrew Davidson
It is with feelings of peculiar sadness that we are called upon to record this event. It was not wholly
unexpected, yet it came as a sudden blow to his friends, and to the whole community where for so long a
time he had been a prominent, influential and useful citizen, justly popular with all classes, and for years
at the head of the Veterans f the late civil war in this locality. He was at one time President of the
Delaware-Otsego Veterans' Association. For one or two terms he served as Chief of the Village Fire
Department. He has been for several years a member of the Session of the Presbyterian church of
Cooperstown.
Andrew Davidson was a man of natural and acquired ability, of warm and generous impulses, of decided
opinions, of good executive ability. He was a man to be relied upon; he was bound by his word. As a
husband and father: devoted, affectionate, tender and true; as a public officer: conscientious and
right-minded; as a political leader: manly and straight-forward. No citizen of Cooperstown more fully
enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. His reputation brought its reward: He was
elected a State Senator, was appointed Deputy Secretary of State, Deputy State Treasurer, Deputy U. S.
Commissioner of Pensions and then acting Commissioner; and in 1900 he was appointed to the important
position of Commandant of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath, N. Y. That office he held at the time of
his death. It is simple justice to say, that he creditably and fully met all the requirements of these several
positions.
In the Home, surrounded by more than eighteen hundred of fellow-soldiers, he "slept his last sleep" on the
night of Sunday last, passing away at an early hour, Monday morning. At his bed-side were his son, his two
daughters, his son-in-law Judge Willis and his daughter-in-law Mrs. C. W. Davidson. His daughter Miss
Davidson made her home with her father; the others of these near relatives hastened to him when advised
of his more dangerous condition. Col. Davidson was last in Cooperstown in the month of May, having
recovered from a recent illness, and was in apparently better health than he had enjoyed for a long time.
He spent a week or two here, and soon after his return to Bath he suffered a relapse, and from that time
on he gradually failed in health. For several years he had suffered from a stomach trouble, at times
very painful and disabling, which physicians finally said indicated cancer of the stomach. An operation, if
successful, might save his life; and it was determined on, and skilfully performed on Sunday. From the
effects the weakened patient did not rally, but gradually sank till 2:30 the following morning, when death
came to his relief. His beloved and devoted wife died in February, 1900.
Andrew Davidson enlisted as a private in company E, 121st New York Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1862.
At the organization of his regiment he was made Second Sergeant of his company, and in 1863 was
promoted to be Sergeant-Major of the regiment.
He was subsequently commissioned by President Lincoln as a First Lieutenant in the Thirtieth United States
Colored Infantry, and was made Adjutant of the regiment when the Ninth corps at the Battle of the
Wilderness. His regiment subsequently was placed in the breastworks in front of Petersburg, and
remained there until sent under Generals Butler and Terry to operate against Fort Fisher, N. C.
Mr. Davidson was promoted to a Captaincy, was Aide de Camp and acting Assistant Adjutant General on
the staff of General Delevan Bates, and Subsequently was appointed by General Ruger, commanding the
Department of North Carolina, acting Inspector General and assigned to the staff of General Charles J.
Paine, commanding the Eastern District of North Carolina. He was mustered out of the service with his
regiment in Dec. 1865, with the rank of Brevet Colonel, after a service of three years and four months. He
was in nearly all the battles of the Army of the Potomac up to the time that his regiment was sent to Fort
Fisher, and was never absent from duty except while in the hospital for wounds received in battle.
While in the 121st N. Y. at the battle of Salem Church, May 3, 1863, he was shot through both legs above
the knees, and was sent to Douglas Hospital, Washington; the last of July that year he had so far
recovered as to join his regiment then at Warrenton, Va. He was slightly wounded in the hand at
hatcher's Run, and again in the face, slightly, at Petersburg, when the mine exploded. Col. Bates and he
led the colored troops into the Crater at the time of the explosion.
He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "distinquished bravery" at the "Battle of the Mine,"
Petersburg, VA., July 30, 1864. Col. Davidson was born in Scotland, Feb. 12, 1840, and came with his
parents to Otsego county in 1846. By teaching school in winters and attending Cooperstown Seminary
____he was ready to enter college when he enlisted in the Union Army. After the war he studied law and
was admitted to practice. Soon after, in 1874, the editor of the Journal called upon him in the office of
Judge Bowen, and said to him: "Mr. Davidson, you have occasionally written up some local matters for the
press, and have an evident talent in that direction. It generally takes a long time for a young man to build
up a law practice. If you desire, you can at once enter upon the career of an editor, all the better qualified
for it because of your knowledge of the law. The Republican is for sale; H. I. Russell is foreman of the
office, and an experienced printer; and I think you would do well should you join in the purchase of the
establishment." The suggestion was acted upon; the purchase made by them in 1874, and ten years later
he became sole proprietor; on his becoming of age his son Clarence W. Davidson became associated with
him in conducting the paper.
Little did the writer think at the time of this interview with Mr. Davidson, that he would survive him as a
journalist and have to perform the sad duty of penning his obituary. We had joined issue in many a
hard-fought political campaign, but had come out of them personal friends. Col. Davidson belonged to
several patriotic and other organizations, viz: the Loyal Legion, medal of Honor Legion, Grand Army of the
Republic, Mohican Club, he was also a member of Otsego lodge, No. 138, F. & A. M., of which he was a
Past master; he was also a member of Otsego Chapter, No. 26, R. A. M., and an Odd Fellow.
From the Republican
From 2:30 until 3:30 Monday afternoon the soldiers at the home came to his late residence, where they
were given the opportunity to view the remains. At 4 o'clock the same afternoon, a short service was held
at the house, which was largely attended by his friends in Bath. Rev. Mr. Frtost of the Presbyterian church
and Rev. Mr. Furbish, one of the chaplains of the Home, officiated.
The remains were brought to Cooperstown Tuesday.
In regard to his illness: Recovering from a severe illness over a year ago, he had in the interval been in
apparent good health until early in July last, when he had a hemorrhage of the stomach. From this he had
recovered slowly. About the first of the present month he was taken worse. A few days later his
physician became convinced that there was a stricture to the passage from the stomach. Dr. Chas.
Stockton, the eminent specialist, was called in consultation and agreed with his physician that an operation
to reopen it was imperative. Both were quite confident from the symptoms that the cause was an ulcer and
not cancer. An operation was decided upon and Dr. Roswell Park of Buffalo was summoned. It was
performed Sunday afternoon at the Home Hospital. It was found that the ulcer had developed into a cancer.
It was the opinion of Dr. Park that this change had taken place just before the hemorrhage in July. The
operation was successful but Mr. Davidson did not rally from it and passed away in a few hours at the
commandant's residence.
[obit]
With deep regret, and unfeigned sorrow, we have heard of the death of Flora Vedder, at her father's
residence in Springfield, Otsego county, Aug. 18th, 1883.
An amiable and estimable young lady, admired and beloved in life, and lamented in death by all that knew
her. Some weeks since we enjoyed a visit with her and her parents, with pleasure we shall long revert to it
with the liveliest recollections, among the transpiring events of the past. She was the picture of health, but
how soon alas, an only, and lovely daughter, in the morning of life gone. Parents, sympathizing neighbors,
friends and physicians did all that could have been done to prolong her life and restore her to health,
but all human efforts proved unavailing.
Blessed with fond and loving parents, and surrounded with an immense fortune, she enjoyed everything
she desired, and all the worldly preferment could bestow.
In this severe affliction and sad bereavement, we would condole and sympathize with her parents, and as
Flora, the flower of the family mansion, has been transplanted to a flower in the brighter realm of glory,
they have the assurance and a buoyant hope of a happy reunion and recognition beyond the
sorrows of this life, and the transitory toils of time. The Rev. Mr. Peck of that village, officiated at the
funeral last Saturday, he said he could not think of a more appropriate text, on that mournful occasion,
than that of a similar one, when bereaved parents, and sorrowing friends, lamented the loss of a lovely and
only daughter in the time of our Savior, when it was announced that she was dead, he replied, "Fear not,
she is not dead, but sleepeth."
The voice of death loudly speaks of the brevity of human duration, and life's frailities. The shadows of
bereavement and stillness of sorrow, are hovered around all our homes, and throughout our earthly
existence, they are continually interwoven and commingled together. Disease and death fade the
blooming cheeks of young and aged alike and none are exempt from its inexorable mandates.
Life is short and uncertain with us all, sooner or later the sad message will come to each and every one, let
us live and be prepared to meet it, with the hope of an heavenly and immortal existence hereafter.
The want of space prevents us from enlarging reports of Mr. Pecks' excellent sermon on that occasion.
In conclusion he said that, the presence of so many sympathizing friends, show the estimate friendship she
had with all of her acquaintances, and that she was endeared to us all by innumerable associations which
will forever be cherished in fond memory.
Well may it be said that, the actions of her life, and the qualifications of her heart, cultivated those
affections that all her friends and acquaintances could love and admire. She ever made society pleasant,
and her home desirable. Love and happiness were her constant guests, none knew her but to love her,
and none named her but to praise.
Her beautiful organ and piano, upon which she so frequently played "Sweet By And By," and "God is My
Refuge," were heavily draped, and ladened with the choicest flowers, as also was the head of the casket.
Some of the rarest and choicest kinds were sent from Saratoga.
The casket in which she lay was a red cedar shell, with a hinge-lid extending the entire length of it, and
was covered with cream colored silk plush, with satin drapes, silk cord and tassels, silver rod handles the
entire length of it, also covered with white silk. On the inside of the lid was an elegant tuffed satin
cushion, handsomely trimmed with satin festoons throughout. The robe was a beautiful cream colored
merino and satin. In going from Mr. Vedder's house to the cemetery, about a mile distant, there was a
constant line of carriages and wagons, which by actual count numbered 118. The hearse entered the
cemetery long before the last carriage left Mr. Vedder's door yard. There were six bearers and six
pall-bearers. The pall-bearers were handsomely dressed in white, emblematic of the pure that lay within
the casket. Each of the pall-bearers had a bouquet of flowers and choice evergreens. After the casket had
been deposited in the grave, and a few appropriate remarks were made by the pastor, the pall-bearers
strewed the flowers over the casket, then the bearers each carefully dropped a little dirt from their hands
thereon, the pastor repeating dust unto dust, after which the pall-bearers strewed the evergreens they had
amid the same.
It is creditable to state that Mr. Guardenier, the undertaker of that town, and all the officers in charge, had
everything as neatly arranged as could be expected, and the solemnities of the occasion required.
Richfield Springs Aug. 22, 1883.
[obit]
Mrs. M. Louise Young
Mrs. M. Louise Young passed quietly away at her home near East Springfield Saturday morning, December
16, after a painful and continuous sickness of more than five months duration.
Mrs. Young was born February 12, 1842, in the town of Springfield, where she always resided. On the 17th
day of October, 1866, she became the wife of Sheldon A. Young, who survives her, together with her aged
father and mother. Last August Mrs. Young was taken to Albany, where it was found necessary for her to
submit to an operation, which is one of the most dangerous and most difficult known in surgery. The
operation was performed, and after remaining in the hospital until the later part of October, she was
removed to her home. Although she rallied somewhat from the effects of the operation, still her trouble
had assumed such a form as to be beyond relief; and although she received every attention that loving
hearts and kind hands could give, still she gradually declined until the last. At no time, however,
during her sickness did she give up hope, and even a short time before her death she expressed herself as
confident of her recovery. During her sickness she manifested that same patience, that same loving spirit,
and those same traits of pure, noble womanhood, which were so characteristic of her before
she was stricken with disease.
Mrs. Young was a member of the Episcopal Church and was one of its most active and earnest workers. She
was leader of her church choir and secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Paul's church.
A true and untiring friend of the poor, always ready and anxious to lend a helping hand to those in trouble,
always displaying that same happy, cheerful disposition, coupled with the purity and nobility of a true
Christian character, she commanded the respect and admiration of all who knew her. Next to her home, her
loss will be felt most keenly in the church, where she never left a duty unperformed, and whose calls she
always answered with a cheerfulness, a willingness and a wholeheartedness which was so inspiring to all
who were associated with her. From her aged father and mother there has been taken a kind and
affectionate daughter, from her husband, a pure, noble and loving wife; the community in which she lived
has been deprived of that influence and those elevating qualities which are never better exemplified than
in the life of a pure and truly Christian woman; the church, which she loved so well, has been deprived of
an earnest worker and a noble Christian servant. But associated with this sorrow and this grief, there is the
thought that she, who was so pure, so noble and so good, she, who loved God so dearly while here, is
happier there in the presence of her Master, whom she always served so faithfully, that she is now in his
household, the ambition and aim of every earnest Christian, and that she has stood before God, with Christ
as her sponsor, and received that blessed reward, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
From this earth there has been taken a beautiful life, a noble Christian woman; to God's heavenly host
there has been added a brave, courageous and perfect soldier, and to that spiritual choir there has been
joined another beautiful voice, which will be untiring and unceasing in its praises to God. A noble child has
been removed from this world of sorrow and disappointment, and taken home to her father; a just spirit
has been made perfect with Christ, and God's promise of a complete salvation through Him, and an eternal
home with Him hereafter, has been again fulfilled.
[obit]
EARLIER DAYS IN DANUBE
Interesting Events Recalled by the Death of Abram Wagner - Civil War Times
St. Johnsbury, Feb. 29. - Abram Wagner, whose lamentable death on the highway in the town of Stark,
Saturday night, has caused a great regret in that section, was a son of Abram I. Wagner (formerly spelled
Waggoner), (1798-September 1880), in his day one of the most prominent citizens of Danube. Abram I.
Wagner was the great grandson of George Wagner of Weisbach, Baden. John Engelhardt Wagner, son of
George Wagner, was the first of the family to come to the new world. His son, Jacob Wagner (died in
1833, aged 71 years), served in the Revolution at Oriskany, and elsewhere. He was one of the party
pursuing the Tories and Indians, when Walter Butler was killed in 1780. At the close of the war he located
in the Elm Grove neighborhood, Danube, his wife being Solome Bronner of Stark, a relative of the family of
Attorney Myron G. Bronner and Alderman F. F. Bronner of Little Falls, and Chief of Police Walter I. Bronner
of Mohawk. Of his children his oldest son Jacob Wagner settled in Pamelia, Jefferson County; Felix (died
1885) located on an adjoining farm in Danube, and John, the youngest, after residing many years in
Danube, died at the home of a daughter in Schoharie County, aged 84 years. Abram I., the second son,
remained on the homestead until his death, on which it became the property of the deceased Abram
Wagner. He married Catherine Walrath, who died in 1877. Abram I. Wagner was one of the early members
of the Lutheran Church of Minden, organized from the old Minden church at Hallsville in 1834, on a basis of
pietistic, anteslavery, total abstinence, and anti-secret society convictions. This congregation became one
of the principal components of the Franckean Lutheran synod, organized at that church in May, 1837, from
the Hartwick synod the two merging with the New York and new Jersey synod in the New York synod in
1908. On his decease in 1880, a former pastor, Rev. J. H. Weber, came from Pennsylvania to officiate at his
funeral. Of the large family of Abram I. and Catherine Wagner, Abram Wagner was the last survivor.
Stephen, the oldest, after residing in the town of Palatine a few years, returned to Elm Grove, where he
died October 1894. John J. died at Little Falls a few years ago. Of the daughters, Catherine, Mrs.
Walgamath of Palatine, died recently, while on a visit to the deceased at his home in Starkville. Mrs.
Alonzo Sanders of Indian Castle rather more than 20 years ago, at Indian Castle. Eliza died at home in
1888, Almira, wife of Jacob Miller, died at Starkville. Mrs. Moses Shaut died a few years ago, at her home at
Ward's Hollaw, Stark. Rosina died young. About six years ago Mr. Wagner removed to Starkville, retaining
the oversight of his farm. Both deceased and his father and brothers were active members of the
Republican party, Abram I. Wagner having been one of the original political anti-slavery men. His last vote
was cast in 1876 for Hayes and Wheeler, his physical disabilities making it impossible for him to get to the
polls after that.
A Political Conflict
He was a factor in one of the most closely contested town meetings ever held in Danube. In 1853 there
were three tickets in that town. At the election the previous November Franklin Pierce received a plurality
of four for President, Zenas Green, Whig, of Indian Castle, receiving a plurality of over 90 for county clerk,
and the Free Soil Party, coming in third with a fair vote. At the town meeting in March, 1853, the
Democrats renominated Hon. Daniel Bellinger, for supervisor. The Whigs nominated Philip Jones, the Free
Soil party also having a full ticket. Of this third ticket the Whigs endorsed Daniel I. Overocker for town
clerk and Abram I. Wagner for highway commissioner. The writer remembers hearing some ladies
denouncing this action of the Whigs as unfair, a view in which he did not coincide. The contest was sharp
in those days, Mr. Jones being elected supervisor, and Mr. Wagner winning the office of Highway
Commissioner easily, but Mr. Overocker was defeated for clerk by the Democratic nominee, Calvin Harden,
by one vote. It was said that Mr. Bellinger, who was one of the old school Democrats, was so sure of his
election that he had the hotel table set for the oyster supper with which successful candidates were
accustomed to regale their friends, and wanted the plates filled before the result of the canvass was
announced, but the landlord, although a supporter of Mr. Bellinger, had his bump of caution too largely
developed to take any risks. It was 10 years, February 1863 before John Smith of East Creek Landing the
next Democratic supervisor, was elected, at a time during the Civil War when the National cause seemed to
be at an extremely low ebb, and its supporters were greatly demoralized. In fact it seemed that the war
was only prosecuted because there was no alternative between the perfunctory continuance of the conflict
and a complete collapse. Abram Wagner never was a candidate for any political position, but his
interest in politics may be inferred from the fact that the fatal trip to Little Falls was undertaken for the
purpose of attending the anti Strobel Republican conference at the Richmond in that city.
Mrs. Wagner, who survives her husband, was a daughter of the late Henry Flagg of Minden. One daughter
also survives, Maud, wife of Elmer Smith, Proprietor of the Starkville Hotel, son of Abram H. Smith of
Starkville, a veteran of the Civil War and a descendant of Johannus Smith, who erected the first residence
at Starkville. Among nephews and nieces are Fayette Wagner of Elm Grove; Ida, wife of Sanford Chronkhite
of Minden; Hilda, wife of Rush F. Lewis of Little Falls; Howard Sanders and Cora of Indian Castle; Julius
Sanders of the South Side, St. Johnsville. Other relatives who are well known are John F. Wagner of
Omaha, Neb., Mrs. T. Clark Swift and Miss Lucinda Wagner of Jordanville, Mrs. Oliver Barker of Elm Grove,
Grant Shull of Indian Castle, Mrs. Norman Countryman of Northern Illinois, Mrs. Will Wagner of Iowa, Mrs.
Peter Bauder and Elmer Bauder and Alvaro Bauder of Stark, and Daniel Wagner of Jefferson County. We
omitted to mention in the proper place that Mrs. Peter Monk, Sr., of Elm Grove, and Mrs. Abram G. Walrath
of Brookman's, Minden, were sisters of Abram I. Wagner.
Holy Bible in English; H. & E. Phinney, Cooperstown, N. Y., 1824.
The Bible is now in the possession of the C. G. Brisee Genealogy Library, Irwin, Iowa.
Previous owner is believed to have been Alexandra Robyn "Sister Ambrose" Schuttais.
The family Bible of Nathaniel and Catherine Willis. They were residents of Otsego Co., NY. A lot of the
Births were entered in twice.
Owner's Insciption
Nathaniel Willis
His Book Bot 1825
Births
Everline Willis Born 22 of April 1819
Died Feb 19-1901
Pliny Willis Born April 2 1820
Died Dec 31-1898
Pluma Willis Born the 17 of August 1821
Died Mar 16-1911
Melvina Willis Born the 15 of October 1824
Susan Willis Born March the 27 1828
Weltha Willis Born April the 15 1829
Dekalb Willis Born the 7 of June 1831
Everline Willis Born the 22 of April 1819
Died Feb 19-1901
Pliny Willis Born the 2 of April 1820
Pluma Willis Born the 17 of August 1821
Melvina Willis Born the 15 of October 1824
Susan Willis Born April the 15 1829
Wiltha Willis Born April the 15 1829
Dekalb Willis Born the 7 of June 1831
Decalb Willis Born the 9 of July 1832
Mary Willis Born March the 6 1836
Deaths
Decalb Willis Died the 2 day of October aged 3[? ink blob] Months and 21 days
Mary Willis died 28 March 1836 Aged three weeks and one day
Dekalb Willis died the 13 day of June 1851 aged 18 10 months
Catherine Willis Died June 27th 1884 Aged 94 years 3 months & 7 days
Lany S. Willis Died June 13th 1876 aged 58 years 2 mos & 23 days
DeKalb Willis died Thirteenth day of June 1854 aged 18 year and 10 month 13 day. His testament was in
Romans the 12 chapter 15 verse
Nathaniel Willis died the 11 of October 1851 aged 60 year one month 11 day. His text was in Ecclesia 12
chapter 5 verse
Melvina Willis Carver died August the 8th 1858 her text was in Isaih the 33d chapt & 17 Verse
Weltha Fraser died Nov 12. 1894 aged 65 yr 6 months & 29 days
Pliny Willis Did Dec 31-1898 aged 78 years 8 months 29 days
Marriages
Nathaniel Willis and Catherine Willis was Mared November the 2 1818
Pluma Willis Walrath Died Nov 16-1911 Aged 89 years 7 months
Susan Willis Miller Died Oct-1917 Aged 89 years
Pliny Willis and Lany Shimel were Married January 12th 1843
Waterman Willis and Esther Bronner were Married March 23d 1865
John Willis and Alice Edick were married July 10th 1867
Mervin C. Willis and Mary L Shaul were Married Dec 25th 1869
Pliny Willis and Elizabeth Wilson were married Sept 12th 1878
Births
Dekelb Willis died the 2 October 1831
Willis D. Frazier born February 24 1852
Died June 20-1872
Pliny Willis Born April 2nd 1820
Lany Shimel Willis Born March 20th 1818
Waterman Willis Born Dec 2nd 1843
John Willis Born July 2nd 1845
Mervin C. Willis Born April 3d 1851
Insertions
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Mrs. Pluma Walrath
Pluma, widow of the late Philip Walrath, died at her home on the Black Lake road, Thursday, Mar. 16th,
1911.
Mrs. Walrath was born Aug. 17, 1821 at Springfield in the Mohawk Valley, and was the daughter of Dr.
Nathaniel Willis and Catharine Lippitt.After her marriage she to Morristown where she resided the
remainder of her life.
She is survived by two daughters and a son, Mrs. A. S. Krake, Mrs. S. M. Krake and Willis Walrath, also
eight grandchildren, four great grand-children and one sister, Mrs. Susan Miller.
The funeral was held Sunday, March 19. Burial at Black Lake Cemetery, Rev. A. H. Weaver officiating.
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Mr. Pliny Willis, father of Mr. Waterman Willis of this village, died at his home in VanHornesville on
Saturday morning last in the 79th year of his age. He was a native of the town of Springfield, where he
spent all his years, with the exception of the past eighteen, which had been spent in VanHornesville. He
was a man well known in the northern part of this county, where had for years been a prosperous farmer,
and active, obliging citizen and a kind neighbor. He is survived by his second wife, and two grandchildren.
His funeral occurred from his late residence in VanHornesville on Tuesday morning last, with interment at
the Springfield Center Cemetery. [Dec. 31-1898 in pencil]
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Willis D. Frazer Drowned
About 10 p.m. last Thursday, Willis D. Frazer, a clerk in F. Stanton's store, Dow Sloan, a clerk in the same
store, and two other young men, went bathing in the pond at the foot of Main street, in this village. Frazer
and Sloan were first in the water, and while Frazer was swimming toward the shore he was noticed to be
beating the water with his hands, but for a moment or two he was supposed to be playing in the water.
But soon, the terrible fact flashed through their minds that Frazer was drowning. He had evidently been
taken with cramp. Sloan then made two desperate efforts to save his companion. He seized him ___ but
could not bring him to the shore. The drowning man clutched at him with the energy of despair, and he with
difficulty released himself. The other two boys on the bank disrobing, being unable to swim,
could afford no assistance.
The news of the dreadful calamity soon spread through the village and crowds of people assembled to aid
in finding the body, which was recovered at midnight, after being in the water one hour and a half. The
body when found, was only about two rods from shore.
Frazer was about twenty years old and resided in the town of Springfield, in this county. He leaves an aged
mother to mourn his untimely end, whose chief support and stay he was. He was a singularly quiet and
affable young man, always attending strictly to business, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. His
remains were taken to Springfield, on Friday, for interment.
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The Death of Col. Andrew Davidson
It is with feelings of peculiar sadness that we are called upon to record this event. It was not wholly
unexpected, yet it came as a sudden blow to his friends, and to the whole community where for so long a
time he had been a prominent, influential and useful citizen, justly popular with all classes, and for years
at the head of the Veterans f the late civil war in this locality. He was at one time President of the
Delaware-Otsego Veterans' Association. For one or two terms he served as Chief of the Village Fire
Department. He has been for several years a member of the Session of the Presbyterian church of
Cooperstown.
Andrew Davidson was a man of natural and acquired ability, of warm and generous impulses, of decided
opinions, of good executive ability. He was a man to be relied upon; he was bound by his word. As a
husband and father: devoted, affectionate, tender and true; as a public officer: conscientious and
right-minded; as a political leader: manly and straight-forward. No citizen of Cooperstown more fully
enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. His reputation brought its reward: He was
elected a State Senator, was appointed Deputy Secretary of State, Deputy State Treasurer, Deputy U. S.
Commissioner of Pensions and then acting Commissioner; and in 1900 he was appointed to the important
position of Commandant of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath, N. Y. That office he held at the time of
his death. It is simple justice to say, that he creditably and fully met all the requirements of these several
positions.
In the Home, surrounded by more than eighteen hundred of fellow-soldiers, he "slept his last sleep" on the
night of Sunday last, passing away at an early hour, Monday morning. At his bed-side were his son, his two
daughters, his son-in-law Judge Willis and his daughter-in-law Mrs. C. W. Davidson. His daughter Miss
Davidson made her home with her father; the others of these near relatives hastened to him when advised
of his more dangerous condition. Col. Davidson was last in Cooperstown in the month of May, having
recovered from a recent illness, and was in apparently better health than he had enjoyed for a long time.
He spent a week or two here, and soon after his return to Bath he suffered a relapse, and from that time
on he gradually failed in health. For several years he had suffered from a stomach trouble, at times
very painful and disabling, which physicians finally said indicated cancer of the stomach. An operation, if
successful, might save his life; and it was determined on, and skilfully performed on Sunday. From the
effects the weakened patient did not rally, but gradually sank till 2:30 the following morning, when death
came to his relief. His beloved and devoted wife died in February, 1900.
Andrew Davidson enlisted as a private in company E, 121st New York Volunteer Infantry, in August, 1862.
At the organization of his regiment he was made Second Sergeant of his company, and in 1863 was
promoted to be Sergeant-Major of the regiment.
He was subsequently commissioned by President Lincoln as a First Lieutenant in the Thirtieth United States
Colored Infantry, and was made Adjutant of the regiment when the Ninth corps at the Battle of the
Wilderness. His regiment subsequently was placed in the breastworks in front of Petersburg, and
remained there until sent under Generals Butler and Terry to operate against Fort Fisher, N. C.
Mr. Davidson was promoted to a Captaincy, was Aide de Camp and acting Assistant Adjutant General on
the staff of General Delevan Bates, and Subsequently was appointed by General Ruger, commanding the
Department of North Carolina, acting Inspector General and assigned to the staff of General Charles J.
Paine, commanding the Eastern District of North Carolina. He was mustered out of the service with his
regiment in Dec. 1865, with the rank of Brevet Colonel, after a service of three years and four months. He
was in nearly all the battles of the Army of the Potomac up to the time that his regiment was sent to Fort
Fisher, and was never absent from duty except while in the hospital for wounds received in battle.
While in the 121st N. Y. at the battle of Salem Church, May 3, 1863, he was shot through both legs above
the knees, and was sent to Douglas Hospital, Washington; the last of July that year he had so far
recovered as to join his regiment then at Warrenton, Va. He was slightly wounded in the hand at
hatcher's Run, and again in the face, slightly, at Petersburg, when the mine exploded. Col. Bates and he
led the colored troops into the Crater at the time of the explosion.
He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for "distinquished bravery" at the "Battle of the Mine,"
Petersburg, VA., July 30, 1864. Col. Davidson was born in Scotland, Feb. 12, 1840, and came with his
parents to Otsego county in 1846. By teaching school in winters and attending Cooperstown Seminary
____he was ready to enter college when he enlisted in the Union Army. After the war he studied law and
was admitted to practice. Soon after, in 1874, the editor of the Journal called upon him in the office of
Judge Bowen, and said to him: "Mr. Davidson, you have occasionally written up some local matters for the
press, and have an evident talent in that direction. It generally takes a long time for a young man to build
up a law practice. If you desire, you can at once enter upon the career of an editor, all the better qualified
for it because of your knowledge of the law. The Republican is for sale; H. I. Russell is foreman of the
office, and an experienced printer; and I think you would do well should you join in the purchase of the
establishment." The suggestion was acted upon; the purchase made by them in 1874, and ten years later
he became sole proprietor; on his becoming of age his son Clarence W. Davidson became associated with
him in conducting the paper.
Little did the writer think at the time of this interview with Mr. Davidson, that he would survive him as a
journalist and have to perform the sad duty of penning his obituary. We had joined issue in many a
hard-fought political campaign, but had come out of them personal friends. Col. Davidson belonged to
several patriotic and other organizations, viz: the Loyal Legion, medal of Honor Legion, Grand Army of the
Republic, Mohican Club, he was also a member of Otsego lodge, No. 138, F. & A. M., of which he was a
Past master; he was also a member of Otsego Chapter, No. 26, R. A. M., and an Odd Fellow.
From the Republican
From 2:30 until 3:30 Monday afternoon the soldiers at the home came to his late residence, where they
were given the opportunity to view the remains. At 4 o'clock the same afternoon, a short service was held
at the house, which was largely attended by his friends in Bath. Rev. Mr. Frtost of the Presbyterian church
and Rev. Mr. Furbish, one of the chaplains of the Home, officiated.
The remains were brought to Cooperstown Tuesday.
In regard to his illness: Recovering from a severe illness over a year ago, he had in the interval been in
apparent good health until early in July last, when he had a hemorrhage of the stomach. From this he had
recovered slowly. About the first of the present month he was taken worse. A few days later his
physician became convinced that there was a stricture to the passage from the stomach. Dr. Chas.
Stockton, the eminent specialist, was called in consultation and agreed with his physician that an operation
to reopen it was imperative. Both were quite confident from the symptoms that the cause was an ulcer and
not cancer. An operation was decided upon and Dr. Roswell Park of Buffalo was summoned. It was
performed Sunday afternoon at the Home Hospital. It was found that the ulcer had developed into a cancer.
It was the opinion of Dr. Park that this change had taken place just before the hemorrhage in July. The
operation was successful but Mr. Davidson did not rally from it and passed away in a few hours at the
commandant's residence.
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With deep regret, and unfeigned sorrow, we have heard of the death of Flora Vedder, at her father's
residence in Springfield, Otsego county, Aug. 18th, 1883.
An amiable and estimable young lady, admired and beloved in life, and lamented in death by all that knew
her. Some weeks since we enjoyed a visit with her and her parents, with pleasure we shall long revert to it
with the liveliest recollections, among the transpiring events of the past. She was the picture of health, but
how soon alas, an only, and lovely daughter, in the morning of life gone. Parents, sympathizing neighbors,
friends and physicians did all that could have been done to prolong her life and restore her to health,
but all human efforts proved unavailing.
Blessed with fond and loving parents, and surrounded with an immense fortune, she enjoyed everything
she desired, and all the worldly preferment could bestow.
In this severe affliction and sad bereavement, we would condole and sympathize with her parents, and as
Flora, the flower of the family mansion, has been transplanted to a flower in the brighter realm of glory,
they have the assurance and a buoyant hope of a happy reunion and recognition beyond the
sorrows of this life, and the transitory toils of time. The Rev. Mr. Peck of that village, officiated at the
funeral last Saturday, he said he could not think of a more appropriate text, on that mournful occasion,
than that of a similar one, when bereaved parents, and sorrowing friends, lamented the loss of a lovely and
only daughter in the time of our Savior, when it was announced that she was dead, he replied, "Fear not,
she is not dead, but sleepeth."
The voice of death loudly speaks of the brevity of human duration, and life's frailities. The shadows of
bereavement and stillness of sorrow, are hovered around all our homes, and throughout our earthly
existence, they are continually interwoven and commingled together. Disease and death fade the
blooming cheeks of young and aged alike and none are exempt from its inexorable mandates.
Life is short and uncertain with us all, sooner or later the sad message will come to each and every one, let
us live and be prepared to meet it, with the hope of an heavenly and immortal existence hereafter.
The want of space prevents us from enlarging reports of Mr. Pecks' excellent sermon on that occasion.
In conclusion he said that, the presence of so many sympathizing friends, show the estimate friendship she
had with all of her acquaintances, and that she was endeared to us all by innumerable associations which
will forever be cherished in fond memory.
Well may it be said that, the actions of her life, and the qualifications of her heart, cultivated those
affections that all her friends and acquaintances could love and admire. She ever made society pleasant,
and her home desirable. Love and happiness were her constant guests, none knew her but to love her,
and none named her but to praise.
Her beautiful organ and piano, upon which she so frequently played "Sweet By And By," and "God is My
Refuge," were heavily draped, and ladened with the choicest flowers, as also was the head of the casket.
Some of the rarest and choicest kinds were sent from Saratoga.
The casket in which she lay was a red cedar shell, with a hinge-lid extending the entire length of it, and
was covered with cream colored silk plush, with satin drapes, silk cord and tassels, silver rod handles the
entire length of it, also covered with white silk. On the inside of the lid was an elegant tuffed satin
cushion, handsomely trimmed with satin festoons throughout. The robe was a beautiful cream colored
merino and satin. In going from Mr. Vedder's house to the cemetery, about a mile distant, there was a
constant line of carriages and wagons, which by actual count numbered 118. The hearse entered the
cemetery long before the last carriage left Mr. Vedder's door yard. There were six bearers and six
pall-bearers. The pall-bearers were handsomely dressed in white, emblematic of the pure that lay within
the casket. Each of the pall-bearers had a bouquet of flowers and choice evergreens. After the casket had
been deposited in the grave, and a few appropriate remarks were made by the pastor, the pall-bearers
strewed the flowers over the casket, then the bearers each carefully dropped a little dirt from their hands
thereon, the pastor repeating dust unto dust, after which the pall-bearers strewed the evergreens they had
amid the same.
It is creditable to state that Mr. Guardenier, the undertaker of that town, and all the officers in charge, had
everything as neatly arranged as could be expected, and the solemnities of the occasion required.
Richfield Springs Aug. 22, 1883.
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Mrs. M. Louise Young
Mrs. M. Louise Young passed quietly away at her home near East Springfield Saturday morning, December
16, after a painful and continuous sickness of more than five months duration.
Mrs. Young was born February 12, 1842, in the town of Springfield, where she always resided. On the 17th
day of October, 1866, she became the wife of Sheldon A. Young, who survives her, together with her aged
father and mother. Last August Mrs. Young was taken to Albany, where it was found necessary for her to
submit to an operation, which is one of the most dangerous and most difficult known in surgery. The
operation was performed, and after remaining in the hospital until the later part of October, she was
removed to her home. Although she rallied somewhat from the effects of the operation, still her trouble
had assumed such a form as to be beyond relief; and although she received every attention that loving
hearts and kind hands could give, still she gradually declined until the last. At no time, however,
during her sickness did she give up hope, and even a short time before her death she expressed herself as
confident of her recovery. During her sickness she manifested that same patience, that same loving spirit,
and those same traits of pure, noble womanhood, which were so characteristic of her before
she was stricken with disease.
Mrs. Young was a member of the Episcopal Church and was one of its most active and earnest workers. She
was leader of her church choir and secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary of St. Paul's church.
A true and untiring friend of the poor, always ready and anxious to lend a helping hand to those in trouble,
always displaying that same happy, cheerful disposition, coupled with the purity and nobility of a true
Christian character, she commanded the respect and admiration of all who knew her. Next to her home, her
loss will be felt most keenly in the church, where she never left a duty unperformed, and whose calls she
always answered with a cheerfulness, a willingness and a wholeheartedness which was so inspiring to all
who were associated with her. From her aged father and mother there has been taken a kind and
affectionate daughter, from her husband, a pure, noble and loving wife; the community in which she lived
has been deprived of that influence and those elevating qualities which are never better exemplified than
in the life of a pure and truly Christian woman; the church, which she loved so well, has been deprived of
an earnest worker and a noble Christian servant. But associated with this sorrow and this grief, there is the
thought that she, who was so pure, so noble and so good, she, who loved God so dearly while here, is
happier there in the presence of her Master, whom she always served so faithfully, that she is now in his
household, the ambition and aim of every earnest Christian, and that she has stood before God, with Christ
as her sponsor, and received that blessed reward, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
From this earth there has been taken a beautiful life, a noble Christian woman; to God's heavenly host
there has been added a brave, courageous and perfect soldier, and to that spiritual choir there has been
joined another beautiful voice, which will be untiring and unceasing in its praises to God. A noble child has
been removed from this world of sorrow and disappointment, and taken home to her father; a just spirit
has been made perfect with Christ, and God's promise of a complete salvation through Him, and an eternal
home with Him hereafter, has been again fulfilled.
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EARLIER DAYS IN DANUBE
Interesting Events Recalled by the Death of Abram Wagner - Civil War Times
St. Johnsbury, Feb. 29. - Abram Wagner, whose lamentable death on the highway in the town of Stark,
Saturday night, has caused a great regret in that section, was a son of Abram I. Wagner (formerly spelled
Waggoner), (1798-September 1880), in his day one of the most prominent citizens of Danube. Abram I.
Wagner was the great grandson of George Wagner of Weisbach, Baden. John Engelhardt Wagner, son of
George Wagner, was the first of the family to come to the new world. His son, Jacob Wagner (died in
1833, aged 71 years), served in the Revolution at Oriskany, and elsewhere. He was one of the party
pursuing the Tories and Indians, when Walter Butler was killed in 1780. At the close of the war he located
in the Elm Grove neighborhood, Danube, his wife being Solome Bronner of Stark, a relative of the family of
Attorney Myron G. Bronner and Alderman F. F. Bronner of Little Falls, and Chief of Police Walter I. Bronner
of Mohawk. Of his children his oldest son Jacob Wagner settled in Pamelia, Jefferson County; Felix (died
1885) located on an adjoining farm in Danube, and John, the youngest, after residing many years in
Danube, died at the home of a daughter in Schoharie County, aged 84 years. Abram I., the second son,
remained on the homestead until his death, on which it became the property of the deceased Abram
Wagner. He married Catherine Walrath, who died in 1877. Abram I. Wagner was one of the early members
of the Lutheran Church of Minden, organized from the old Minden church at Hallsville in 1834, on a basis of
pietistic, anteslavery, total abstinence, and anti-secret society convictions. This congregation became one
of the principal components of the Franckean Lutheran synod, organized at that church in May, 1837, from
the Hartwick synod the two merging with the New York and new Jersey synod in the New York synod in
1908. On his decease in 1880, a former pastor, Rev. J. H. Weber, came from Pennsylvania to officiate at his
funeral. Of the large family of Abram I. and Catherine Wagner, Abram Wagner was the last survivor.
Stephen, the oldest, after residing in the town of Palatine a few years, returned to Elm Grove, where he
died October 1894. John J. died at Little Falls a few years ago. Of the daughters, Catherine, Mrs.
Walgamath of Palatine, died recently, while on a visit to the deceased at his home in Starkville. Mrs.
Alonzo Sanders of Indian Castle rather more than 20 years ago, at Indian Castle. Eliza died at home in
1888, Almira, wife of Jacob Miller, died at Starkville. Mrs. Moses Shaut died a few years ago, at her home at
Ward's Hollaw, Stark. Rosina died young. About six years ago Mr. Wagner removed to Starkville, retaining
the oversight of his farm. Both deceased and his father and brothers were active members of the
Republican party, Abram I. Wagner having been one of the original political anti-slavery men. His last vote
was cast in 1876 for Hayes and Wheeler, his physical disabilities making it impossible for him to get to the
polls after that.
A Political Conflict
He was a factor in one of the most closely contested town meetings ever held in Danube. In 1853 there
were three tickets in that town. At the election the previous November Franklin Pierce received a plurality
of four for President, Zenas Green, Whig, of Indian Castle, receiving a plurality of over 90 for county clerk,
and the Free Soil Party, coming in third with a fair vote. At the town meeting in March, 1853, the
Democrats renominated Hon. Daniel Bellinger, for supervisor. The Whigs nominated Philip Jones, the Free
Soil party also having a full ticket. Of this third ticket the Whigs endorsed Daniel I. Overocker for town
clerk and Abram I. Wagner for highway commissioner. The writer remembers hearing some ladies
denouncing this action of the Whigs as unfair, a view in which he did not coincide. The contest was sharp
in those days, Mr. Jones being elected supervisor, and Mr. Wagner winning the office of Highway
Commissioner easily, but Mr. Overocker was defeated for clerk by the Democratic nominee, Calvin Harden,
by one vote. It was said that Mr. Bellinger, who was one of the old school Democrats, was so sure of his
election that he had the hotel table set for the oyster supper with which successful candidates were
accustomed to regale their friends, and wanted the plates filled before the result of the canvass was
announced, but the landlord, although a supporter of Mr. Bellinger, had his bump of caution too largely
developed to take any risks. It was 10 years, February 1863 before John Smith of East Creek Landing the
next Democratic supervisor, was elected, at a time during the Civil War when the National cause seemed to
be at an extremely low ebb, and its supporters were greatly demoralized. In fact it seemed that the war
was only prosecuted because there was no alternative between the perfunctory continuance of the conflict
and a complete collapse. Abram Wagner never was a candidate for any political position, but his
interest in politics may be inferred from the fact that the fatal trip to Little Falls was undertaken for the
purpose of attending the anti Strobel Republican conference at the Richmond in that city.
Mrs. Wagner, who survives her husband, was a daughter of the late Henry Flagg of Minden. One daughter
also survives, Maud, wife of Elmer Smith, Proprietor of the Starkville Hotel, son of Abram H. Smith of
Starkville, a veteran of the Civil War and a descendant of Johannus Smith, who erected the first residence
at Starkville. Among nephews and nieces are Fayette Wagner of Elm Grove; Ida, wife of Sanford Chronkhite
of Minden; Hilda, wife of Rush F. Lewis of Little Falls; Howard Sanders and Cora of Indian Castle; Julius
Sanders of the South Side, St. Johnsville. Other relatives who are well known are John F. Wagner of
Omaha, Neb., Mrs. T. Clark Swift and Miss Lucinda Wagner of Jordanville, Mrs. Oliver Barker of Elm Grove,
Grant Shull of Indian Castle, Mrs. Norman Countryman of Northern Illinois, Mrs. Will Wagner of Iowa, Mrs.
Peter Bauder and Elmer Bauder and Alvaro Bauder of Stark, and Daniel Wagner of Jefferson County. We
omitted to mention in the proper place that Mrs. Peter Monk, Sr., of Elm Grove, and Mrs. Abram G. Walrath
of Brookman's, Minden, were sisters of Abram I. Wagner.
