The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 436

the same time that Benjamin came in. He (Sherman) built the old stone stroe at Venice. Eliphalet Beardsley, son of Benjamin, is living in Essex county, and is the only one of the children living. Silas Skells came in with Benjamin Beardsley, from the same place, and settled about two and on-half miles from Genoa. He afterwards removed to Ohio and died there.

Josiah Beard was a cousin of Joshua Murdock's and came in with the latter from Vermont in 1800. He settled on lot 62, a half mile south of Venice Center, on the farm now owned by Lyman T. Murdock, from which the cemetery at Venice Center was taken. He died there July 30th, 1821, aged fifty-eight. His family moved west at an early day. Two children are living, Aaron, in Onio, and Ann, wife of Lockwood Rundell, in Genoa. Joseph Stewart, from Connecticut, settled about 1800 at the Corners, (Venice) which for many years, and even now perpetuates his name, where for some twenty years he kept the first tavern. He removed with his family to Michigan. Ezekiel Landon, Samuel Robinson and Amos Rathbun were among the first settlers, the former two at Venice, and the latter at Poplar Ridge.

Other early settlers, some of them among the first, though we have not beenable to ascertain the exact date of their settlements, were William Bennett, who came from one of the eastern counties with ax upon his shoulder, and settled first a mile north of Venice, afterwards removing to the village, where he died in the house now occupied by John Seymour, Novemeber 29th, 1855, aged seventy-six, and Urania, his wife, September 12th, 1848, aged sixty-six, and three of whose sons are living, viz: William D. and Dewitt C., of Auburn, and Henry M., in Moravia; James Glover, from one of the New England States,who took up lot 51, and settled about a half mile north of Venice, of which village he was the first postmaster, and who removed at an early day to Bolts Corners, and afterwards to the west; James Thompson, who settled two and one-half miles south of Venice Center, on the farm afterwards occupied by his son James, (who removed about 1847 to Ohio, where he is now living,) and now owened by Henry Taylor, where he died April 24th, 1843, aged seventy-two, and whose son Lovel, settled in the same locality and died there April 19th, 1871, aged seventy-one; Elijah Chapin, who settled about two miles south of Venice Center, on the farm now occupied by Daniel Hammond, where he died March 22d, 1830, aged sixty-nine, and four of whose children are living, viz: Orlin, in Scipio, Walter R., in Iowa, Mary Ann, wife of Nelson Morgan, in Venice, and Sarah, wife of Charles Manahan, in Ohio; Benjamin Whitten, who settled three and a half miles south of Venice Center, on the farm now occupied by John Myers, where he died June 26th, 1846, aged sixty-four, and two of his sons are living, viz: Benjamin, on an adjoining farm, and Job, near East Venice; Cornelius Brill, who settled three miles south-west of Venice Center, where his son, Thorn Brill, now lives, and where he died September 28th, 1868, aged seventy-four; Thomas E. Doughty, who settled about three miles southwest of Venice Center, where Hoyt Thie now lives, nears where he died October 15th, 1862, aged seventy-six, and three of whose children are living, viz: Thomas E. and Charles, in Michigan, and George, in Iowa; Josiah Tickner, who settled a half mile east of Venice Center, on the farm now owned by Josiah Moss, where he died May 9th, 1839, aged eight-three, and whose family moved west soon after his death; Timothy Green, a man of great muscular development, who often astonished his neighbors and others with exhibitions of his great physical strength, who settled two and a half miles south of Venice Centy, where he died, whose son James settled in Moravia, on the line of Genoa, and died there, leaving one son, Hampton, who is living in Montville, and whose grandsons, James and Jonas, are living on the old Wilson farm in Genoa; Henry C. Ames, father of Elder Bishop Ames, who died here June 22d, 1869, aged seventy-two; Deacon Jared Foote, from Vermont, father of Dr. Jared Foote, Jr., who afterwards removed to Rushville and died there; Wm. Mosher, who settled first in the east part of the town, on the farm now occupied by Geo. Smith, and afterwards removed to the west part, where he died in 1833, and whose son William, the only one of his children living, is residing in Michigan; and Isaac Morse, who came from

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