Dr. Franklin "Frank" Benjamin Darby

April 8, 1930 Frank wrote a letter to Mary Ella Curtiss, Dau of Edwin Darby, his Father's brother. A copy of the notes which were kept on this letter by Virginia Dale Curtiss Thorpe was sent to me by Nancy Williams:

"Uncle Chauncey & Aunt Mary Ann are buried in the Greene Cemetery, same lot as my father & mother, Lucius & Sarah Darby. Dr. Edwin Darby joined my in erecting a monument & endowing the lot with money to insure perpetual care. I have always been very close to Uncle Chauncey's family, kept up a correspondence with Charlie as long as he lived. With Edwin the friendship was very close from childhood. We had much in common. Our correspondence was life long & visits frequent. It was only a month before his death that I spent the day with him, in his beautiful home at Lansdowne, a suburb of Philadelphia. He always said I was the only Darby he knew. He left quite a large estate & a glorious record. His four children are well situated financially, two of them, through marriage, are rated among millionaires.

Elmira Star Gazette, Wednesday, Dec 2, 1936:

Dr. Franklin B. Darby, dean of Elmira dentists, died Tuesday at 11 A.M. at his home, 304 West church Street; after an extended illness. He was 90.

Dr. Darby retired in 1914 after more than a half century of work in his profession. Among his patients during his many years as a dentist in Elmira was Mark Twain.

As an active practitioner, and even after his retirement, Doctor Darby was the recipient of many honors in the dental profession. He lectured at the dental school of the University of Buffalo on orthodontia. He served as president of the New York State Dental Society and was one of the founders of the Sixth District Dental Society of which he was twice elected president. Principles which Dr. Darby contributed to the organization in its infancy are reflected in the modern tenets of the society.

When he retired in 1914, Dr. Darby's work in the interests of the profession was acclaimed at a testimonial inner in Owego. Leading dentist from all parts of the Southern Tier and New York State paid him tribute.

Dr. Darby was known in Elmira for his charitable and kindly nature. He enjoyed an extensive practice and was respected and loved by his patients.

PRACTICED IN OWEGO:

Doctor Darby was the first graduate dentist in Elmira. He was born in 1846 in Greene, Chenango County. At 17 he entered a mercantile store in Owego as a clerk, but after two years decided to study dentistry, enrolling in the Pennsylvania Dental College.

Upon graduation in 1866, he returned to Owego and formed a partnership with Dr. Ransom Walker. He established his own office in Owego in 1869 and practiced there until 1876 when he moved to Elmira, opening an office at 126 East Church Street. He built an office at 306 West church Street a short time later and practiced there until he retired. Dr. Darby took an active interest in civic and community affairs. He served for many years on the Arnot-Ogden Hospital Board and was at one time president of the Elmira Country Club. He was a member of the Park Church.

"From Raft to Railroad" by Mildred English Cochrane. Pages 137 - 152 Reminiscences of the 1840's to 1895 by Frank B. Darby, dentist in Elmira, and son of Lucius T. Darby, a prominent resident of Greene 1836-1866. These are extracts taken from "Looking backward three-quarters of a century in Greene" written in 1923 by Dr. Frank B. Darby:

Never in history has a lifetime encompassed so many changes in scientific, social and economic conditions. Much that is familiar to us today would have seemed incredible magic in my childhood. I write of a time when the Beautiful Chenango River was my Amazon. The hills on either side of the valley were my Alps and the Pinnacle my Jungfrau; of the days when the Chenango Canal was a busy thoroughfare. Before the day of rapid transit the arrival of the stage coach was one of the important events of the day. Up the long street rumbled the old thorough-brace, with its four-in-hand, the horn blowing and the whip cracking, and as it rolled up in front of the Chenango House, the driver threw his reins to the hostler, dismounted, and was the first man into the house and up to the bar, where he took four fingers of whiskey straight without blinking an eye. In the meantime, Uri Whittenhall had opened the coach door and was escorting the some thirteen guests into the hotel, where they rested during change of horses and mail, and the numerous trunks strapped on behind the coach for ballast were checked for security.

The stage driver was a very important person and felt the responsibility of a sea captain. My greatest boyish ambition was to be one and handle a four-in-hand.

Uri Whittenhall was a typical, old time, courteous landlord, always appearing in a blue broadcloth swallow-tail coat, highly respected among his contemporaries. He was always called upon to direct funerals of prominent people, before the undertaker had assumed the role of funeral director.

The Chenango House was popular with travelling public and villagers alike. Its lounging room on the corner with its great open Franklin stove radiating a cheerful glow from its wood fire made it an attractive place for men to gather to discuss politics and civic matters, and partake of a hot toddy. The ballroom on the third floor was the only place in the village where public entertainments could be held, such as the Firemen's Ball, the great social function of the year.

Myron Cowles, the landlord of the old hotel which stood on the canal bank where the Greene High School is located (On North Canal Street), was a sturdy, quiet man, mild spoken, but with nerve and muscle sufficient to maintain order when native whiskey created a fighting spirit on Election days.

The village was incorporated in 1842 and was a thriving, prosperous place. The canal, completed in 1837, created a shipping point which attracted produce from both neighboring valleys and Greene became the warehouse for goods shipped from New York to merchants in Afton, Coventry, Bainbridge, Sidney, Harpursville, and other places on the east side and from the Tioghnioga valley on the west from Whitney Point to Cortland, including Willet, Cincinnatus, etc.

There was no ready made clothing sold in Green at that time and no tailor who carried goods in stock. Men bought their goods and trimmings for a suit at the general stores and had their clothes made by a tailor. Every man who could afford it had a black broadcloth suit which was kept for Sunday and special occasions and in which he expected to be buried. Francis Dinnin, a tailor on Chenango Street, had the first sewing machine. Men were quite particular about their dress. It was the day of swallow-tail coats, fine calf boots and watch fobs. Jeremiah Tillotson, a gentleman farmer, always came to town wearing a white beaver stove-pipe hat, a blue swallow-tail coat with brass buttons , and a large watch fob. The Civil War made changes in customers, habits and styles. After the war the long leg fine boot and the swallow-tail for every day wear were gone forever, just as the late war has banished the stiff bosom shirt. As leather went up in price, the boot leg came down, until finally there was no book left and soon shoes were being universally worn. Patent leather boots, boot jacks and women's cloth gaiters are things of the past.

At the beginning of the Civil War there was but one New York daily paper taken in Greene, and that was received by the Chenango American office. The eager demand for daily news was supplied by Frank Fisher (one of the proprietors of that paper) who read aloud to a crowd who gathered on the hotel porch. Later in the year I secured a supply of New York dailies, which were brought by the afternoon stage, and sold them on the street, thereby becoming Greene's first newsboy.

Then I first saw light whale oil lamps were being used, I remember the introduction of kerosene oil and with what uncertainty it was received. But it soon outshone the whale oil and stylish but dangerous camphine lamps, as they in turn had taken the place of the tallow dip and the oil soaked rag.

In the old Fire Department of my day there were two small non-suction machines - the Alert and the Hero - neither having extension hose, just a short section carrying the pipe and attached to the top of the machine top. the brakes would possibly accommodate ten to twelve men. The bucket brigade required many men when the water supply was remote from the fire. With the engine as near the fire as possible, the brigade formed a line and passed buckets from hand to hand to keep up the water supply as fast as it was pumped out. Fighting fires was strenuous work.

I usually had a cow to drive for a neighbor, and thereby earned six cents per week, walking a total of fourteen miles. This assured me admission to the circus, fireworks for July 4th, and a few delicacies. Parents in those days were not lavish with pocket money for boys. If they wanted money they must earn it.

One of the interesting people in Greene was old "Grandpa Gallup", a Revolutionary veteran. His funeral was of sufficient importance to dismiss the school so that the scholars might join in paying tribute to the grand old soldier.

I attended school in the old white schoolhouse on Chenango Street opposite the Baptist Church. There were three rooms, two on the upper floor for the youngest children, presided over by a lady teacher, and one large room on the first floor. Here the schoolmaster presided. It was a bare, cheerless room, its begrimed walls dingy with smoke. IT was heated in winter (but never warm) by two large open-front Franklin stoves. From the cellar, piled full of wood, a boy was detailed each day to carry armfuls and keep up a roaring fire. Each mid-morning and afternoon a boy was sent to a neighboring well for a pail of water and all the scholars drank from the same cup.

My first teacher was Miss Melvina Pendelton, in the infant room, who taught me my ABC's. When I graduated from the second floor down into the large room, Benjamin Shove was the teacher. He was expert in the use of the rod. Later he became a Methodist minister. Next came M. Spring and then S. Dewitt Beals, who lived on a farm on the east hill. When the new School on Monell Street was built in 1859 a more intelligent system of education was introduced, the rod was abolished and new interests added to relive school hours of irksomeness.

I remember the old Baptist Meeting House with its cold, solemn interior and the Sunday School room in the damp, musty basement. One of the early pastors of the Presbyterian Church was Reverend Orton whose two sons established the first Daguerrian Gallery in Greene. Both became prominent men.

In the early days Linsey-Woolsey sold for 31 cents per yard. this was a home woven cloth for women's dresses, made in plaids and stripes, coarse but substantial, made from home raised wool and flax. Tow cloth, another home woven product, 25 cents per yard, was made from flax raised on the farm, very strong and when new, coarse and rough. As one old timer has said "I recall wearing a pair of trowsers made from it which felt as if they were lined with curry combs.". The color was brownish gray, but after being worn by a generation it became white soft and comfortable. The original owner of the tow cloth suit never wore it out. Owing to shrinkage and durability it could be handed down from father to son. Another popular native product was sheep's gray, and all wool cloth for men's winter wear, made at Ephraim Wheeler's Carding Mill on Wheeler Brook, which sold for 70 cents per yard.

Black broadcloth with trimmings complete for a suit cost $13, and it cost $6 to get it made. A bombazine dress pattern with trimmings which consisted only of hooks and eyes, and skein of silk and bunch of braid cost $3.75. All thrifty housewives had something to use for linings. Dresses at that time carried no ornaments, severely plain was the style, and they were worn a long time without re-making. After a mother had worn a dress gray and shiny it was ripped up, dyed, turned and soon her eldest daughter appeared in a new frock.

I remember those squeaky ill fitting cowhide boots with wooden pegged soles which were made by shoemaker Clark who kept the first toll gate on the plank road to Smithville. They were one of the greatest trials of my young life.

I recall the longing desire for books in my boyhood days. Entertaining and instructive books were scarce. In my father's house the reading matter was confined to the New York Weekly Tribune, Pilgrim's Progress and Fox's Book of Martyrs. None of these appealed to me. There was a school library consisting of badly worn, mutilated books which was located in Dr. Willard's office among his drugs and smelled so strong of asafetida and Jalap that they not only impregnated my hands but the whole house, with their sickening odor. However, I did read all that were worth reading.

One cold winter day when 18 inches of snow covered the valley and there was no coasting on the hill, no skating on the river, no book to read, nothing for an active boy to do, I sauntered uptown on a Saturday afternoon looking for amusement. (There was only half a day holiday then from school). As I passed the vacant Rathbone and Thurber store, I saw a man inside opening some large boxes which aroused my boyish curiosity, that soon deepened into great interest when I discovered that they contained books. I stood there looking in the window, wiping my nose on a yarn mitten, and stamping my feet to keep off chill blains until the man came to the door and asked me to come in and get warm. But he also wanted help in placing the books upon the shelves, a task which pleased me. It was a joy to handle the beautiful books. He said that he was to run a book auction five evenings during the coming week and wanted a boy to ring a bell and announce it on the streets, the pay to be 25 cents and the best book in the store.

I did the job conscientiously and when the last sale was made he paid me and told me to choose my book. I knew little about titles but knew what kind of a book I wanted, one full of love, thunder, and action to read and re-read and exchange with the other boys. For a moment I was speechless then asked him to make the selection. He gave me the nearest book on the shelf and I rushed home to tear off the wrapper, and found "Advice to Young Men". My disappointment was so great that I threw the book across the room. IT is still in my possession and still unread.

Extract from a letter from Frank A. Root (Son of Abel B. Root) from Gunnison, Colorado, May 4, 1884, about his life in Coventry:

"Not one house in five had a stove in it. Everything was cooked over a fireplace. Kettles and pots were hung on a crane over the fire, and bread, Pies, and cakes, et. were baked in the utensils directly in front of the fireplace.

Up until 1843 I had never seen a match. Everyone banked his fire at night with ashes. IF it went out one went to a neighbor's to get a firebrand. I remember once carrying this on a run between 2 sticks. Matches were unknown in the country. A box of matches would last a thrifty family six months. On frequent occasions, before matches, it would be necessary to take a little tow and strike fire from a flint. Punk was also occasionally used. No well regulated family of that early day was without a flint to use in case of emergency. (The first matches are said to have appeared in 1832. Punk was obtained from beech trees.)

Envelopes were not invented until 1851. It took two weeks to get a letter from the interior of Connecticut. Postage was 10-12 Cents.

Everyone turned out when the militia, preceded by a band of martial music, would march in their handsome military suits of blue coats with brass buttons, hats and caps trimmed with red and white feathers.

Nearly every farmhouse had two spinning wheels, a large one for spinning wool rools into yarn, and a small one for spinning flax into thread. (May 15, 1884).

Reminiscences of 1845:

During the winters when we attended school in the old schoolhouse opposite the Baptist Church there were many more farmers who had business at the Chenango Valley Mills than now. There was hardly a recess that we had that we did not see a great procession of farmer's slights with grists aboard, going to and from these mills, and they afforded excellent targets for young snowballers. some took it goodnaturedly, others did not. One time we thought it smart to knock the hat off one innocent looking old farmer. But the snowball hadn't been out of our hand three seconds when out he came from his sleigh, armed with a blacksnake whip and my! didn't he give me an awful warming. Some of the big boys came to the rescue and literally rained the hardest kind of snowballs upon him, and he was glad to beat a hasty retreat. After he landed in his sleigh a nicely directed ball hit him squarely in his left ear which pleased me so much that my audible grief over the warming ceased in mid-air and turned into hilarious laughter: (G.C. Roberts - Feb 28, 1895)

Note here that all of the residence address for Frank Darby are 304 W. Church,and his business address in 1893 is 316 E. Church.

1880 Census

6th ward, Elmira, Chemung Co., New York enumeration district 79. sheet 2, line 37 (image 2) enumerated 1 June 1880

418 W. Church St.

Darby, Frank   W m head     33 m NY  NY  NY  Dentist

---, Mary E W f wife 32 m NY NY NY

---, Fannie w f daughter 9 s NY NY NY

---, Bessie w f daughter 5 s NY NY NY

Shea, Kate w f servant 21 s Can Can Can

Kelly, William b m servant 22 s NY Unk Unk Domestic

1900 Census

3rd ward, Elmira, Chemung Co., New York enumeration district 12, sheet 6, line 96 enumerated 8 June 1900

304 Church St.

Darby, Frank D. head w m Mar 1846 54 m 33 - - NY NY CT Dentist

---, Mary W. wife w f Jun 1846 53 m 33 4 3 NY CT NY

---, Francis daughter w f Sep 1871 28 s -- - - NY NY NY

---, Elizabeth daughter w f Feb 1876 24 s -- - - NY NY NY

---, Dorithea daughter w f Dec 1889 10 s -- - - NY NY NY

Costello, Bridget domestic w f Mar 1850 50 s -- - - Ire Ire Ire

1910 Census

3rd ward, Elmira, Chemung Co., New York enumeration district 13, sheet 2, line 9 enumerated 16 April 1910

304 Church St.

Darby, Frank B head m w 63 m1 42 - - NY NY NY Dentist

---, Mary wife f w 63 m1 42 4 3 NY NY NY

---, Betsie daughter f w 25 s -- - - NY NY NY

---, Dorithy daughter f w 22 s -- - - NY NY NY

Lawstin, Helen servant f w 17 s -- - - PA Ire Ire

1920 Census

3rd ward, Elmira, Chemung Co., New York enumeration district 15, sheet 1, line 7 enumerated 2 January 1920

304 Church St.

Darby, F.B. head m w 72 m NY NY NY Dentist retired

---, Mary E. wife f w 72 m NY NY NY

---, Dorthy D. daughter f w 30 s NY NY NY

Andrews, Myrtle S. servant f w 22 s NY NY MY servant

(From Bill Hart as are census above) 1889-93 Elmira city directories on Ancestry.com

1889

Frank B. Darby, dentist, 126 E. Water, 304 W. Church

1890

Fannie W. Darby,  boards 304 W. Church

Frank B. Darby, dentist, 126 E. Water, 304 W. Church

1891

Fannie W. Darby, boards 304 W. Church

Frank B. Darby, dentist, 126 E. Water, 304 W. Church

1892

Fanny W. Darby, boards 304 W. Church

Frank B. Darby, dentist, 126 E. Water, 304 W. Church

1893

Bessie C. Darby, student, , boards 304 W. Church

Fanny W. Darby, boards 304 W. Church

Frank B. Darby, dentist, 126 E. Water, 304 W. Church

Frank B. Darby dentist 126 E Water 304 W Church Elmira NY 1889

Frank B. Darby dentist 126 E Water 304 W Church Elmira NY 1890

Frank B. Darby dentist 126 E Water 304 W Church Elmira NY 1891

Frank B. Darby Dentist 126 E Water 304 W Church Elmira NY 1892

Frank B. Darby dentist 316 E Church 304 W Church Elmira NY 1893

The Mark Twain Archive at Elmira College reports:

Collections

The Archive, in conjunction with the Center for Mark Twain Studies, affords scholars the uniquely rewarding experience of ready access to a collection of primary and secondary materials on Twain as well as the opportunity to live and work in the same home, Quarry Farm, where Twain spent some of his most productive summers in the 1870's and 1880's.

In addition to various editions of Twain's work, the collection includes photographs, books from Twain's library and the library at Quarry Farm, books and articles written about him and microfilms of letters and manuscripts from the Mark Twain collections at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Vassar College and the Huntington Library. Through the generosity of friends over the years, the collection has also acquired a fine collection of Mark Twain titles in languages other than English, the Love Collection of framed photographs and autographs, correspondence between Twain and members of his Elmira circle such as E.M. VanAken , Dr. Frank Darby and Julia Jones Beecher, letters written by Twain at the end of his life and other photographs and memorabilia that add greatly to the scope and interest of the collection.

Mark Woodhouse, librarian writes: "Dr. Darby was Twain's dentist when he and the family were summering in Elmira. There is some correspondence between Twain and Darby which shows them to have had a congenial relationship. Darby seemed rather witty in his own right.

What we have are two letters from Twain to Darby given to us by a Mr. Fred Petrie, a local gentleman who is the great nephew of Dr. Darby. In one of the letters Twain asks Darby to send him some tooth powder which Darby apparently manufactured and sold from his office here on Church Street in Elmira. This house is still standing. The other letter has to do with a bill but they appear to be joking with each other.

Mark forwarded copies of the letters to me : A picture of Frederick D. Petrie has the caption "Reads two notes sent to his grandfather, Dr. Frank W. Darby (1846-1936), a prominent Elmira dentist, by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). Clemens was a good friend of the Darby family, including Mr. Petrie's mother, Frances D. Petrie, the beloved Elmira who died at age 104 in 1975. The notes were found in her family "treasure chest" on the table. "

Mark Twain Notes: in "Society Bulletin":

Two notes from Mark Twain to a prominent Elmira dentist were found in family papers recently by Frederick D. Petrie. The notes were written from Hartford to Dr. Frank W. Darby (1846-1936), Petrie's grandfather. The notes and an envelope are reproduced below. Mr. Petrie plans to donate them to the Chemung County Historical Soc8iety. The Chemung Historical Journal, Vol 27, No 4 (June, 1982). The tooth powder referred to in one note was a personal concoction known as "Darby's Favorite". Dr. Darby also prepared a salve that many older Elmiran's still remember as "Darby's rose Cerate". The "Work of art" referred to in the other note was probably something humorous, according to Mr. Petrie. His Grandfather loved to joke and he & Mark Twain enjoyed each other's sense of humor."

One letter reads: "Jan 4th, ,1886 - My Dear Mr. Clemens, Knowing you to be a true American citizen: I want to make your heart bleed, by showing what your native land will ultimately come to. It may not be in your time, or mine, but our children will probably live to see the next issue of Government Shinplaster with an engraving of P(?) Maloney thereon in lieu of G Washington, Z Taylor, Thomas Meridith or any other man. I presume by that time the woman suffrage will be settled and Mrs. Maloney will also be on the back.

If the enclosed illustrations are preserved they will be silent witnesses of the truth of my predictions. Hoping you will find consolation in the fact that your years are numbered. I remain, Yours very truly, Frank B. Darby.

P.S. The double transformation act was performed by Mrs. E C Etz of Havana and presented to me as a slight expression of her gratitude for service rendered, Vis "store teeth". F. B. D. (Probably a political cartoon of the time involving someone called P. Maloney, and/or women's suffrage was sent with this letter.)

Jan 10, 1886:

"Dear Doctor, Many thanks for the addition to my works of art. They are pinned up in the billiard room & their exceeding Fine (?) ingenuity fetches out lots of applause. Yours Sincerely, S.L. Clemens"

In an 1889 note, Mark Twain writes "Say - please send us half a dozen bottles of your tooth powder, B'goshalmighty, and oblige, Sam Clemons"

Sept 2, 1889 a transcription of a dental bill amounting to $25.00 was sent with a note, in which Dr. Darby pasted a clipping to the bill that read: "Mark Twain's income is $80,000 a year". Darby writes below this:

"If this item is correct please let me know and I will hereafter make bill accordingly." F.B.D."

Clemens has written sideways along the edge of the bill:  

"You be hanged. You've already begun. All this old last year's work - been paid for twice already."

Dec 20, 1889: "My Dear Mrs. Clemens. The book with Mark Twain's hand writing has arrived and I assure you, it made me happy - and I know will be appreciated by my friend. The promptness with which my request was carried out suggest the fact that there is one other woman who has her husband under absolute control. And I wouldn't have Mrs. Darby know it for the world, for she has been happy for twenty one years in the belief that there was but one. What can I do for you. Just name it. Yours very truly, Frank B. Darby.

Dec 30, 1889

"Dear Mr. Clemens, Enclosed find bill from which please deduct price of the book you so kindly sent. And oblige. Yours very truly, F.B. D. "

Mark Twain is buried in Elmira, New York: Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow. - On the grave of Mark Twain, Elmira, NY State

Mark Woodhouse

Elmira College - Gannett-Tripp Library

Head of Technical Services

College Archivist

Mark Twain Archivist

Announcements in the Elmira Newspaper, that had to do with Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain":

Mark Twain (Mr. Samuel J. Clemens) married Olivia, a sister of C. J. Landon, and wrote most of his "Innocents Abroad" in Elmira, and spends much of his time here, while in America. His reputation is too well known to need any comment.

LANGDON--Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens. The remains of Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens, wife of Mark Twain who died in Florence, Italy, arrived in New York City Tuesday on the steam- ship Prince Oscar. Mark Twain, his two daughters, Clara and Jane L. Clemens, also arrived on the ship and were met at the quarantine station by E. E. Loomis, second vice-president of the Lackawanna Railroad, a relative of the family, General C. J. Langdon and son, Jervis Langdon, brother and nephew of Mrs. Clemens. The funeral party and the remains arrived in this city last evening at 10:10 o'clock, the members of the party coming in Mr. Loomis' private car. The funeral of Mrs. Clemens was held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the home of her brother, General Charles J. Langdon, on Main Street. Rev. Samuel Eastman officiated and the interment was private in Woodlawn Cemetery. There were no pallbearers and all the arrangements were carried out with the utmost simplicity.

1870 listed as dentist on Front Street, Owego, Tioga County, New York

Ransom Walker may have been Erastus D. "Ransom" Walker, listed in the 1869 Chenango County Directory as dentist.

Frank DARBY Household

   Male   

 Other Information: 			

   Census Place Elmira, Chemung, New York  

   Family History Library Film 1254817 

   NA Film Number T9-0817 

   Page Number 42

   Birth Year <1847>  

   Birthplace NY  

   Age 33  

   Occupation Dentist  

   Marital Status M <Married>  

   Race W <White>  

   Head of Household Frank DARBY 

   Relation Self  

   Father's Birthplace NY  

   Mother's Birthplace NY  

Here is the cemetery listing for Dr. Ranson Walker, DDS, in whose office all three of the Dr. Darby's DDS practiced before college graduation:

WALKER Ranson D.S. b 1819 d. July 30 , 1894 aged 75 yrs. 9 mos.

 Mary Snider     wife     b 1822 d. November 1901     aged 78 yrs.   3 mos. 

 Maude     b. 1884     d. June 3 , 1932 

 *Fred G.     d. November 30 , 1998     aged 71 yrs.  

Virgil Rural Cemetery, Cortland Co, New York

SNIDER Dea. William d. June 24 , 1866 aged 76 yrs. 6 days

 Nancy     his wife     d. August 20 , 1874     aged 76 yrs.   11 mos.   20 days 

 Sophronie Tyler     wife of C.P. Snider     d. September 6 , 1866     aged 32 yrs. 

 Frank     their son     d. March 15 , 1859 

 John     d. October 14 , 1825     aged 72 yrs.     (Rev.War Soldier) 

 Lois     wife     d. December 8 , 1849     aged 83 yrs.   3 mos.   14 days 

Samuel WALKER

[NI133]

2 Aug 1783 - 11 Jun 1839

BIRTH: 2 Aug 1783, Granville, New York

DEATH: 11 Jun 1839, Chenango, New York

BURIAL: UNKNOWN, Sylvan Lawn Cemetery, Greene, New York [15]

Father: James WALKER

Mother: Sarah SHAPLEY

Family 1 : Clarissa EVANS

MARRIAGE: 1800

Filinda WALKER 

Clarinda WALKER 

Harriet WALKER 

Nathaniel WALKER 

Lorane WALKER 

Thomas Dewey WALKER 

Ransom WALKER *31 in 1850, wife Mary

Anna WALKER 

Edward WALKER 

Sally WALKER 

+Simeon WALKER

+Samuel WALKER

John WALKER 

Caroline WALKER 

+Clarissa Maria WALKER

+William WALKER

James Nelson WALKER 

Willard WALKER 

James WALKER

[NI135]

1 Jan 1750 - 23 Jun 1841