FarleySide - Amos, Lucy & Children- From New England, to Stanstead Canada, To Kirtland Ohio, to Berrien Cty Mich: a Virtual Cemetery

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FarleySide - Amos, Lucy & Children- From New England, to Stanstead Canada, To Kirtland Ohio, to Berrien Cty Mich

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Moves made by Amos Farley and Lucy Hall caused children's births to span three places: First, New England. Second, Canada. Third, Ohio. Later, on fresh land in Michigan, many would raise their own children.
BIRTHPLACES:(1) Laura, first to survive babyhood, in Rockingham, VT; (2) The middle children, including our Rebecca Farley French, in Stanstead, Quebec, a place for quarrying granite, settled by New Englanders;(3) Eliza and Bethuel, the babies, in the "Western Reserve" of Ohio, by Lake Erie;

Stanstead sat on the VT border, attracted New Englanders for 20 years, until the War of 1812.

Their father Amos later filed a land claim in what became Berrien County, Michigan, still a territory, not yet a state. Youngest son Bethuel would be the last at the homestead.

Amos Sr. would die in a year remembered for its deaths from "ague" (malaria). Swampy backwaters had not yet been drained to improve the harbor ("Let's get those heavy boats through without ripping out their bottoms. Saving people from malaria-tainted mosquito bites? Just a side benefit.") The navigable part of the St. Joseph River allowed steamboats to move Michigan fruit and other fresh produce to hungry Chicagoans living across Lake Michigan.

All was well until the railroads gradually killed off both the steamboat biz (son Ebenezer had been a boat captain), and the stagecoach biz (some Frenches operated a tavern/inn). The later invention of refrigerated rail cars worsened matters, let produce sent from NY compete in feeding Chicago.

As chances for future success faded, more of the young left. Bethuel Farley's descendants stayed to farm, easily found in later Censuses, as did Rebecca's son A.O. French and Susannah's husband, Martin Friley.

The local support system died as too many left or died too soon. Daniel Farley and Rebecca's husband, Ransom French, died too young, both in 1852, both farming, but the Frenches had also started a foundry business in Sturgis, Michigan. By 1860, Rebecca and her youngest two would have to move in with the still large family of sister Susannah. Susannah's set would leave by 1870, as Martin was in his last days.

Of the many off to California, they never returned, said Rebecca's youngest son, A.O. French. You can almost feel and taste the tears, thirty years later, as he remembered all the good things, writing for his county's history. Did his brother Edwin French leave on the 1853-4 wagon train with his steamboating uncle, Ebenezer Farley, as A.O. remembered? Or, did he ride west in 1852 with his politician uncle A. French, since dead letters were recorded for both at the Sacramento post office? Did this uncle, once a legislator in Branch County, Mich, arrive in time for California's constitutional convention? He served 1 term as a state senator from the El Dorado mining camp.

Not going to Calif., Amos Farley Jr. married Ally Ann Moore, also from Ohio, on Feb. 24, 1848. Still in Berrien Cty, MI, for the 1850 census (done in summer months back then), son Emory said they moved before the year ended, to Mercer County, Illinois, to stay for two decades, before moving to Hume, Missouri. Of their five children, Emory would die in Salt Lake City. Emory left two children in his parents' cemetery, back in Missouri.

Amos may have attended the Underwood church, since destroyed, according to USgenweb, by suspected arson in the 1980's, so there are no records. However, he is in its cemetery:
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mocemete/vernon/Underwood/underwood.shtml

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Moves made by Amos Farley and Lucy Hall caused children's births to span three places:  First, New England. Second, Canada. Third, Ohio.  Later, on fresh land in <a href="#JBmiddle">Michigan</a>, many would raise their own children.
BIRTHPLACES:(1) Laura, first to survive babyhood, in Rockingham, VT; (2) The middle children, including our Rebecca Farley French, in Stanstead, Quebec, a place for quarrying granite, settled by New Englanders;(3) Eliza and Bethuel, the babies, in the "Western Reserve" of Ohio, by Lake Erie;

Stanstead sat on the VT border, attracted New Englanders for 20 years, until the War of 1812.

Their father Amos later filed a land claim in what became Berrien County, Michigan, still a territory, not yet a state. Youngest son Bethuel would be the last at the homestead.

Amos Sr. would die in a year remembered for its deaths from "ague" (malaria).  Swampy backwaters had not yet been drained to improve the harbor ("Let's get those heavy boats through without ripping out their bottoms.  Saving people from malaria-tainted mosquito bites?  Just a side benefit.")  The navigable part of the St. Joseph River allowed steamboats to move Michigan fruit and other fresh produce to hungry Chicagoans living across Lake Michigan.

All was well until the railroads gradually killed off both the steamboat biz (son Ebenezer had been a boat captain), and the stagecoach biz (some Frenches operated a tavern/inn).  The later invention of refrigerated rail cars worsened matters, let produce sent from NY compete in feeding Chicago.

As chances for future success faded, more of the young left. Bethuel Farley's descendants stayed to farm, easily found in later Censuses, as did Rebecca's son A.O. French and Susannah's husband, Martin Friley.

The local support system died as too many left or died too soon. Daniel Farley and Rebecca's husband, Ransom French, died too young, both in 1852, both farming, but the Frenches had also started a foundry business in Sturgis, Michigan.  By 1860, Rebecca and her youngest two would have to move in with the still large family of sister Susannah. Susannah's set would leave by 1870, as Martin was in his last days.

Of the many off to California, they never returned, said Rebecca's youngest son, A.O. French. You can almost feel and taste the tears, thirty years later, as he remembered all the good things, writing for his county's history.  Did his brother Edwin French leave on the 1853-4 wagon train with his steamboating uncle, Ebenezer Farley, as A.O. remembered? Or, did he ride west in 1852 with his politician uncle A. French, since dead letters were recorded for both at the Sacramento post office? Did this uncle, once a legislator in Branch County, Mich, arrive in time for California's constitutional convention? He served 1 term as a state senator from the El Dorado mining camp.

Not going to Calif., Amos Farley Jr. married Ally Ann Moore, also from Ohio, on Feb. 24, 1848.  Still in Berrien Cty, MI, for the 1850 census (done in summer months back then), son Emory said they moved before the year ended, to Mercer County, Illinois, to stay for two decades, before moving to Hume, Missouri.  Of their five children, Emory would die in Salt Lake City.  Emory left two children in his parents' cemetery, back in Missouri.

Amos may have attended the Underwood church, since destroyed, according to USgenweb, by suspected arson in the 1980's, so there are no records. However, he is in its cemetery: 
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mocemete/vernon/Underwood/underwood.shtml
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