Yates Co. News Articles

for the town of Benton

1900's 

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Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser  Rochester,  NY,      Sat    Jan 2, 1900    contributed  by: G. Subyak

A chapter of the Epworth League has been organized in the Methodist Church at Benton Center with the following officers: President, Charles REYNOLDS; vice presidents, Fannie BISHOP, Margaret SHOEMAKER, Ray CHAPMAN and Archie INGRAM; secretary, Susie BISHOP; treasurer, Esther BISHOP.

Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser  Rochester,  NY,       July 17, 1906    contributed  by: G. Subyak

LAST OF FAMILY OF THIRTEEN
 
Death Of Joseph W. H. Havens, Of Benton  -  A Son Of The Revolution - His Father Was One of the Minute Men

 Mr. Havens Lived in Benton Practically All His Life -- Remembered When Deer Were Plenty
 
Penn Yan, July 16, The death of Joseph William Harrison HAVENS, which occurred yesterday in the town of Benton, removes from Yates county one of its 
oldest pioneers. He was born December 19, 1815, in a log cabin in that town, on property owned by Alfred BECKER, and at that time a part of Ontario  county.
In 1818 Mr. HAVENS's parents moved to the farm  where he resided at his death, with his daughter, Miss M. M. HAVENS. With the  exception of about two
years spent in Buffalo in a wholesale and retail grocery,  and a year in the West, Mr. HAVENS had always resided there.
The parents of Mr. HAVENS settled in Benton in  1806. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, belonging to what were  known as "Minute Men." In one of the campaigns when Andrew JACKSON was a  candidate for president, Joseph HAVENS, Sr., built a hickory cart, leaving the  bark on the wood, and
with a horse drove to Washington and gave the vehicle to  President JACKSON. The cart is now in the Smithsonian Institute in that  city.
Mr. HAVENS remembered __, deer, wild oats, and  bears were numerous in this section, Benton Center's business section consisted  of four corners surrounded by woods. He was the last of a family of thirteen  children, five sons and eight daughters. He was married November 9, 1853, at  Fort Plains, N. Y.  Four children were born of this union, Mary, Jennie, Charles  and Frank. He cast his first presidential vote in the VAN BUREN campaign in  1837. He was named after William Henry HARRISON, a general in the war of 1812,  afterwards president.
Mr. HAVENS could recall when the first cast-iron  plow share was brought to this section. Wooden plows had been in use, and when  his father brought
home an iron one the neighbors were suspicious of it and  feared that it might poison the land.  Mr. HAVENS's mother's name was Mary WEED. She was  born on the day General CORNWALLIS surrendered. She lived to be 96 years  old.

Yates County Chronicle          Wednesday     August 18, 1909           contributed by Cathy Coon

WILLIAM VAN SICKLE

Unknown Newspaper    Dec 21,  1918                          contributed by Cathy Coon

KENNERSON - At the home of her daughter, near Bellona, December21, 1918, Mrs. Charles Kennerson, aged 58 years.

Rochester Times Union,  Rochester,  NY,      Friday,    June 21, 1946    contributed  by: G. Subyak

LARHAM - Miss Carrie A. LARHAM, 389 Flint St., June 19, 1946. She is  survived by her brother, John H. LARHAM.  Friends may call at her home. Services Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, Rev. Albert F. McCLEMENTS officiating. Interment at Bellona, N. Y. Geneva and Penn Yan papers please copy.

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