The Headley Family
Blacksmith and farmer Chalion Headley and his
wife Mary
Davenport, both born 1799, came in the late 1820s from New Jersey to
first
Milo, Yates County and then before 1830 to Hornby. They had nine
children and
lived in northeast Hornby more than thirty years until 1861 when they
returned
to Yates County where he died in 1874, Mary in 1892.
A book by Rev. Abraham James Fretz published in 1905,
"A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Leonard Headley of
Elizabethtown, N. J." and census data provided most of the information
I
have about this family. Chalion’s ancestor Leonard Headley was an
English
immigrant first appearing in America in 1664.
Chalion’s
children did not intermarry with other Hornby residents as those of
other
Hornby families tended to do. And there is no cemetery record of a
Headley
being buried in Hornby although three of his children died there. Son
Samuel,
born in Hornby in 1832, was a Civil War casualty, having died of
disease in
Portsmouth, VA 1863, but he is not included in the Hornby Civil War
Memorial.
Only
two of his children married while he still lived in Hornby. The oldest
son John
married a Jane Hull from Pennsylvania and daughter Electa married a
canal boat
builder from Dix, Schuyler County. John and his brother Albert moved to
Kent
County, Michigan in the early 1860s where Albert married. The two
youngest
children married in Yates County after Chalion returned there.
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The Hazen Family
The John Judd Hazen family appeared in Hornby only in the
1860 census, but thanks to The Hazen
Family in America, compiled by Tracy Elliot Hazen and published
in 1947, we know a great deal about where they came from and what
happened to them. John, the son of Anson and Hannah (Townsend) Hazen,
was the descendant of immigrant ancestor Edward Hazen born 1614
England. He was a lumber dealer in 1860, living in Hornby Forks
with his wife Esther Jane Hale of Williamsport, PA and four year old
son William Hale Hazen who was born in Hornby 3 October 1856.
The family returned to Williamsport. There was a stillborn daughter
born March 1862 and Esther died in November at the age of twenty five.
John returned to his birthplace of Carmel, NY where he died in 1864 age
thirty five.
Their son William lived in Williamsport with his maternal grandparents
William H. and Eliza (Bradley) Hale into the 1870s. In June 1880 he was
in Carmel, a locomotive engineer boarding in the household of butcher
Charles Brewster and wife Mary Tandy. He married their daughter Nellie
in July and they had four children before divorcing in 1895. That same
year he married Gertrude Wheeler with whom he had three more children.
They lived in Brooklyn where in 1900 he was a saloon keeper and in 1910
a chauffer. Gertrude reportedly died about 1914. I have yet to discover
what happened to William.
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