Marriage Notes for Clifford Cheeseman and Angeline (Sarah) Wheeler-326
According to the Vital Records for Theresa, NY Clifford was 44 years old hen he married Angeline Wheeler.
Clayton, Jefferson, NY : Churches, Part I
THE M. E. CHURCH OF DEPAUVILLE
The succession of pastors from 1848 to the present has been B. F. Brown, Josiah Zimmerman, Moses Lyon, D. W. Roney, H. O. Tilden, Royal Houghton, Chamberlain Phelps, A. f. Wheeler, Moses Lyon (second time), G. D. Greenleaf, W. B. Joise, D. Fulford, J. H. lamb, S. W. Worn, Anson Cheeseman, and S. F. Danforth, the present incumbent.Sulpher Springs United Methodist Church - Sulpher Springs Road, Hounsfield, Jefferson County, New York:
"Our church is one of the oldest in Jefferson County, being built in 1847 at a cost of $500.00 by the Seventh Day Baptist Society. A Methodist Society was organized in 1868 with both Societies using the building until 1877 when it was given to the Methodists. The Reverend Anson Cheeseman was the minister at the time, and the Trustees were Orange Dimick, Ira Hall, and Schuyler Washburn.(The first clipping calculates out to have been written in 1949:
DEXTER METHODIST CHURCH CELEBRATES
TWO ANNIVERSARIES NOVEMBER 22Trustees’ Book Contains
Items of the Past--New Facilities
To Be Dedicatedby Marion H. Evans
Dexter, Nov. 5 -- The Dexter Methodist church celebrates two anniversaries this month, the dedication of its first building in November, 1874, and dedication of the present building Nov. 22, 1899. The accompanying pictures owned by Mrs. Eva Dunn show both of these buildings.
The incorporation of the Methodist Episcopal church at Dexter took place on Aug. 10, 1874, the paper being signed by S. F. Danforth and O. L. Kane, notarized by Farlin Ball, justice of the peace. The first trustees were Farlin Ball, Henry Binninger and A. T. Knox.The pastors in the first years of the church served both the Brownville and Dexter churches. As nearly as can be determined from the trustees’ book, the early pastors were Rev. S. F. Danforth, 1874; Rev. Sanger Dewey, 1876; Rev. Carlton N. Higby, 1879; Rev. Samuel M. Warn, 1882; Rev. A. Cheeseman, 1887; Rev. C. E. Beebee, 1889; Rev. George Ernst, 1892, and Rev. F. G. Severance, 1897.
In 1887 came the great revival when Rev. E. S. Cheeseman was pastor. He had the Misses Barker and Anderson to assist him in this special work. The membership was so increased that it was not long before the people were talking of a new and larger church. Extracts from the diary of William R. Gladwyn tell how this building work was accomplished. We will start quoting from the diary with January, 1899.
Clayton, Jefferson, NY : Churches, Part I
THE M. E. CHURCH OF DEPAUVILLE
The succession of pastors from 1848 to the present has been B. F. Brown, Josiah Zimmerman, Moses Lyon, D. W. Roney, H. O. Tilden, Royal Houghton, Chamberlain Phelps, A. f. Wheeler, Moses Lyon (second time), G. D. Greenleaf, W. B. Joise, D. Fulford, J. H. lamb, S. W. Worn, Anson Cheeseman, and S. F. Danforth, the present incumbent.
History of the Town from Child’s Gazetteer of Jefferson County, N. Y. : Theresa
(pp. 688-696)
THERESA (p. o.) village was incorporated June 29, 1871, under the general act of April 20, 1870, for incorporation of villages. The first election, held July 29, resulted in the choice of George E. Yost, president; John Parker, Ambrose Walradt, and Gideon Snell, Sr., trustees; Hiram P. Salisbury, treasurer; Charles Fairbanks, collector. The trustees appointed Melvin E. Cornwell, clerk. George Rockwell made a survey and map of the corporation, which embraces about 1,200 acres. The village is a station on the U. & B. R. division of the R., W. & O. Railroad, 17 miles from Watertown, 190 from Albany, and 332 from New York. It has telegraph, telephone, and express offices, and a population of about 1,100. The principal manufacturing establishments of the village are Pool & Cheeseman’s grist and saw-mill, C. Wakefield & Son’s iron foundry, Reamer, Pool & House’s planing-mill, Snell & Makepeace’s flouring and feed-mill, E. D. Sheley & Son’s Lumbermill and sash and blind factory, A. N. Brittan & Son Manufacturing Company (chairs), and William D. Chapman, Son & Co., manufacturers of fishing tackle. The village also contains two hotels, a weekly newspaper, a banking house, three churches (Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Methodist Episcopal), four general stores, several groceries, hardware stores, jewelry store, two drug stores, show stores, several clothiers and merchant tailors, millinery and dress-making establishments, blacksmith shops, wagon shops, harness shops, shoe shops, meat markets, photograph gallery, a furniture dealer and undertake, a marble shop, and a number of professional men. It is one of the principal villages of the county, and is pleasantly situated at the High Falls on Indian River, which furnishes an excellent water-power. May 12, 1859, the village was visited by a most disastrous fire, which spread devastation on both sides of the river, distroying (sic) one barn and two dwellings,* two or three saw-mills, a woodworking shop, machine shop, a foundry, grist-mill, and a cloth factory. The bridge was also totally destroyed. In 1863 a flood did great damage here, carrying away the upper dam, the covered bridge, and other property.
Marriage Notes for William Cheeseman and Mary Poole-341
Rev. M M Rice married them.
"Soon after their marriage (Abiah Curtis and Ruth Cheesman) grandfather Curtis bought a farm about one mile below Theresa Falls on the west side of the Indian River (Theresa, Jefferson County, NY). Their farm was partly on the river flats and part upland with ledges of stone and pine bluffs. Here they went in the wilderness alike with those early hardy pioneers to clear up their land and build homes for their wives and children." - from Through Poverty's Vale by Henry Conklin
Never married.
Never married.
"Uncle Philander never married and so was always at home. He had of his own forty acres he bought of my father, joining my grandfather's place, and after grandfather was too old and feeble to work, [his place] also fell to the lot of Uncle Philander and Aunt Sebra Ann to look after. As soon as cousin Ruth (daughter of Sebra Ann) was old enough to work she was their helper in all things, growing up on the old farm, caring for all and looking after the interests of all concerned. In fact she was the sole director of the whole affair for many years after garndfather and Aunt Lydia had gone to rest, and then Uncle Philander's health was poor for many years before he died and the whole business of carrying on the farm devolved upon Ruth." from Through Poverty's Vale by Henry Conklin
"Pages 613 & 614
Surnames: HENRY, CHEESEMAN
Gideon HENRY was born in 1777 and settled in Farmersville in 1826. In August
of that year his right shoulder was dislocated by the kick of an ox. It was
not properly set, inflammation and rheumatism set in, and for many weeks he
was a great sufferer. The neighbors were faithful in volunteering to watch
with him night and day, and after he began to recover they made a large
logging-bee. This helped the elder boys, Backus and Thomas, so they sowed
about the quantity of winter wheat the father had intended. He died here
January 14, 1857. Of Protestant Irish descent his father emigrated to
Colchester, Conn., when seven years old (in 1737), and thence to Richfield,
Otsego county, when Gordon was sixteen, where he was married to Phebe
CHEESEMAN in 1803, and where all his children were born, five sons and three
daughters. He came to this town May 6, 1826. Unselfish and charitable,
honest and just, he was especially prompt to pay hired help. He was deacon in
the Presbyterian church, and after the division he sympathized with the new
school. He was one of the first to embrace the temperance movement and
espouse the cause of the slave, and discarded the use of tobacco when sixty
years old after using it over forty years. With Phebe, his wife, he lived a
loving and respectful union of fifty-four years. Their oldest son, Anson G.
HENRY, was a person of many virtues and varied experience. He studied medicine
in Richfield Springs, N. Y., and Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1829 came to visit
his parents in Farmersville, where he taught the district school the following
winter. Completing his medical education he located in Springfield, Ill., in
1832, and became a close and a life-long friend of Abraham Lincoln. Dr. HENRY
took an active interest in the politics of the State and was elected and
appointed to places of importance and great trust. He moved to Oregon and in
1861 was appointed surveyor-general of Washington territory, which position he
held until his death. After Lincoln's assassination Dr. HENRY accompanied the
remains on their journey to Springfield and sailed for his home in Oregon on
board the Brother Jonathan, but was wrecked Aug. 12, 1865." Source: TOWN OF FARMERSVILLE: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES FROM: "HISTORICAL GAZETTEER AND BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL of CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NY, ed by WILLIAM ADAMS, Published 1893
"Benjamin Palmer Cheeseman No. 221, says that Betsey visited him some time in 1860, he enquired after Calvin's children, she told him Calvin had three sons, their names not remembered, one was in Cattaraugus Co., NY and the other two in Philadelphia, PA, one was a Presbyterian preacher, the other two physicians. - Page 73 Genealogy of the Chesman Family from 1713-1893.