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From History of Walworth County Wisconsin, Vol. 1, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912 - Page 437-450

Marriages

Samuel Mills BAILEY, born in 1825, was son of Enoch, whose American ancestors, reckoned from himself backward in time, where Charles, Stephen, James, John, James, of Massachusetts in 1860.

John BOORMAN (1805-1864) had wife Mary (1809-1893).

Charles BROWN (1798-1876) married Nancy VAN DRESSER.

Mills CHURCH married Mary DANIELS, October 24, 1844.

William M. CLARKE married Fanny MAXON July 2, 1845.

Harlow M. COON (1819-1899) married Harriet E. CRUMB (1823-1884).

Newell CROOKS married, October 25, 1840, Phoebe Angeline, daughter of Christopher and Phoebe DOUGLASS.

Joseph T. CRUMB (1799-1872) had wife Harriet M. (1816-1882).

Thomas FEATHERSTONE (1816-1863) married Catharine PRAMER, November 3, 1844.

Henry FEROW (died 1869) married Leah SIMMONS (1807-1886).

Thomas GODFREY (1809-1878) married Mrs. Elizabeth (WEST) HIGHLAND, who died in 1881, and he built the first house on Big Foot Prairie, in 1837.

Sylvester HAWVER married, March 27, 1842, Agnes Noailles, daughter of Christopher DOUGLASS.

Amos Dike JOHNS (1812-1884) had wife Beulah (1806-1877).

John KEITH (1792-1864) and wife Margaret (1792-1864) were but three days separated by death.

Edmund KITELY (1822-1909) lived in Sharon; his wife, Mary M. SALISBURY, died in 1901.

Matthias MOHR went to Kansas and died there in 1887.

Truman PIERCE (1787-1866) and Mary (1755-1852), his mother, were buried at East Delavan.

Robert L. RODMAN (1806-1895) married Rebecca Harsel (1825-1910), daughter of Robert A. POTTER and Sarah PINE, a niece of the bishops Alonzo and Horatio POTTER.

Sterling Pomeroy SEARLE (1807-1885) in 1860 had wife Ellen and five children.

Lucius W. SMITH married Mary Maria MASON, October 26, 1843.

Robert John WOOD married Lucy Miranda JONES, April 17, 1844, at Col. Maxwell's house.

Dr. Albert WORCESTER (born 1811) was son of Parker (1782-1864) and Abigail (1785-1863).

John Lefferts WYCKOFF (1808-1892) was son of Rev. H. V. SYCKOFF, of Montgomery county, New York. He married, first, Hannah PETTIT (died 1848); second, Anna T. SMITH. He came to Walworth in 1841.

Seffrenes YOUNG (1810-1888) and wife Eliza (1819-1885) were buried at Walworth. His name seems an odd form of "Sophronius."

Religion

Meetings were held in 1845, at which a society of Seventh-day Baptists was permanently formed. At or near the same time a district school house was about to be built - that which was long known and is yet remembered as the "cobblestone school house." Several members of the new society subscribed to the district building fund, but with a proviso that the house should be so enlarged as to permit its temporary use as a chapel. Among the founders of the society are named Nathan L. BASSETT, Hannah M. COON, Harriet E. COON, William DAVIDS, Charles N. DOWSE, Deacon Alfred MAXSON, and John B. MAXSON. A considerable number of this congregation became stockholders in the Big Foot Academy, which was built in 1856-7, and in 1860 the society bought this building and held it for its double use as school and as church until 1874. In 1873-4 a substantial church was built at the village at cost of seven thousand dollars, and dedicated in March, 1874.

Elder Stillman COON held protracted meetings in 1846, and with Daniel BABCOCK afterward supplied pastoral ministration. Rev. Phipps W. LAKE, of the greater branch of the Baptist church, also contributed his services to these meetings. In March, 1847, Elder COON came as resident pastor. For two years from 1849 Elder LAKE and Thomas MAXSON supplied pulpit service. Thereafter were Oliver P. HULL, 1851-9; Varnum HULL and William M. JONES, six months each. Within the next four years, Charles LEWIS, 1863; James BAILEY, 1865 and 1869; Solomon CARPENTER, 1866; Lebbeus M. COTTRELL, 1867; Deacon William B. MAXSON, 1869 (two months); Leander Elliott LIVERMORE, 1871-4; Oscar U. WHITFORD, Alexander McLEARN; Simeon H. BABCOCK, 1887; S. Lafayette MAXSON, 1887; Mazzini G. STILLMAN; Andrew P. ASHURST to 1912. It is told that forty persons were converted during the LEWIS pastorate. The church has now about one hundred members. Its relations with other churches have been harmonious. In 1856 this society made antislavery an article of its faith.

Baptists of the larger branch of the denomination formed a society about 1856 and built a church in section 18, one and one-quarter miles westward from Bell's Corners. This is locally known as the "brick church." It was well built and is pleasantly situated. It has always been strong in numbers and in spirit. Its pastors have been: Thomas BRIGHT, 1857; Albert R. BALDWIN, 1858; Alexander HAMITLON, 1861; Edward L. HARRIS, 1868; James J. McINTYRE, 1869; Ferdinand D. STONE, 1871; Spencer G. ADAMS, 1871; Enoch PICKERING, 1882; Levi PARMLY, 1886; B. F. HUTCHINSON, 1888; Alfred ROWLAND, 1889; S. C. ENOE (unordained), 1891; J. J. SCHULER, 1893; John Y. MONTAGUE, 1894; Joseph J. JENKINS, 1895; Henry TIBBETS, 1904; W. T. McGANN, 1906; D. W. PORTERFIELD, 1908; Harvey H. MULLAN, 1910. This pastoral service from 1857 to 1912 has been, as is understood, without noticeable intermissions.

The Congregational society organized and built its church in 1892 at the village. Its pastor list is: Moulton N. CLARK, 1892; John Wesley JORDAN, 1901; Alexander Charles WARNER, 1906; William E. DAVIDSON, 1910. This pulpit also supplies Fontana and Williams Bay.

Immanuel Evangelical Society was formed in 1883 and built its church at the village in 1891. Its pastors have been: Jacob SCHNELLER, 1883; F. KRUEGER, 1886; John SCHNELLER, 1889; H. NINNEMAN, 1890; Samuel J. ERFFMEYER, 1893; J. C. HOFFMAN, 1897; C. F. RABEHL, 1898; Herman J. PROCHNOW, 1901; F. A. MUNDT, 1904; George F. HACK, 1906; Johann Carl ETZELMUELLER, 1910. This church has more than sixty members. Its trustees are Johann UTESCH, who is clerk; Carl SCHWABE, Ludwig SCHACHT. It is not a Lutheran church.

Other Information

Hans ARVEDSON died in 1873. He and wife Esther were natives of Norway. At least one namesake changed his name to ARWOOD, by translating the syllable "ved." Seth M. BILLINGS (1814-1880) became sheriff. His wife was Lena MARKLE. Dr. Joseph A. CLARKE (1814-1873) came to Whitewater in 1839. His wife was Mary Jane STEDMAN. Warner EARLE was a lawyer, served as town clerk, as member of Legislature, as hotel-keeper, and in 1850 went to California. Abraham HACKETT (1811-1885) was son of Jacob and wife Eliza MOORE. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph RANDALL. She died in 1852. John HACKETT (1816-1886), Abraham's brother, had wife Eliza (1818-1869). John T. HAMILTON (1815-1900) married, first, Marian Eliza NEILL; second, Mrs. Amelia CHAMBERLAIN. Richard HOPPIN (1783-1869) was born at Salem, Massachusetts; his wife, Sarah A. (1790-1867), was born at New Haven. John McINTYRE, a Nova Scotian, was born in 1809, a son of James C. He married Hannah, daughter of Moses EDISON. Peter B. MILLIS (1819-1885) married Emma J., daughter of Samuel and Martha VANCE. Ebenezer PARDEE (1787-1877) married Thankful (1791-1868). Samuel PRINCE (1791-1867) had wife Eliza. Hezekiah Martin SANDERS (1803-1894) married Elnora P. (1808-1890). Erastus SHERMAN died in 1866; his wife was Rhoda T. (1802-1870).

Township Map circa 1900

Township Map circa 1907

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