James Henry Fellows

HISTORICAL SKETCHES of the TOWN OF PORTLAND BY H.C. TAYLOR, M.D. Published 1873

FELLOWS, Abigail

Came to Portland, NY with a large family from Stillwater, Saratoga County, NY, in 1825. Mr. Fellows died in that county in 1820. Mrs. Fellow’s maiden name was Light. The year previous she had purchased the Richard Williams farm, now owned in part by Lincoln Fay, part of lot 25, T. 5.

The house then occupied was a long narrow frame, unfinished, and now occupied as a barn on the farm of J. H. Martin on the same lot.

She kept a tavern here for six or seven years and about 1837 exchanged with Wm. Clark for a farm in the town of Westfield, where she d. Nov. 28, 1857. She was buried in Brocton cemetery.

Family of Mrs. Fellows –

• JOHN: b. March 20, 1805; m. 1st Barbara Correll Aug. 25, 1829, who d. July 23, 1838; 2d Olive Twing June 9, 1839; lives in P. on p’t of lot 36, T. 5.
• ANDRUS: b. April 5, 1806; m. Charlotte Davison; was a blacksmith and lived for several years at Portland Center; d. in Ill.
• GEORGE: b. in March 1808; m. Drucilla Bean; settled in Michigan.
• DEBORAH: b. in 1810; m. Luther D. Harmon; settled in Westfield.
• JESSE: m. 1st in Canada; 2d in Ill., where he now lives; names not remembered.
• ELIZABETH: m. Sidney S. Lake in P.; d. in California.
• MARY: m. Chandler Persons; lives in Westfield.
• EPHRAIM: m. Susan _____; lives at Gowanda, Catt. County.
• LEVI: m. Prudy Selkrig; lives in North East, Pa.
• JAMES HENRY: d. young
• EZRA: m. Martha Spurr; lives in Ill.

The family were all born in Saratoga county.

NOTES: Mrs. Abigail Fellows married Abel Thompson 28 Feb. 1828 at Portland by Rev. Mr. Dakes: Groom of Stockton – Bride of Portland. – Fredonia Censor dated 3/12/28

John Fellows – d. 25 Jan 1889 –from obit Fredonia Censor 30 Jan 1889.

Deborah Fellows m. on 18 March 1832 at Portland by Elder Hiram Whicher = from Fredonia Censor 3/28/32 –

Elizabeth as Betsey Fellows married 31 Dec. 1835 at P. by Rev W. Luce. – Fredonia Censor 1/13/36.