Sisson Luther

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Vital Records Extracted from the Yates County ChronicleEditor: Stafford C. ClevelandJanuary - April 1871
5 January 1871Died at his residence in Dresden on Monday, January 2, 1871, Luther Sisson, at the age of seventy-seven years and five days. [He] was the son of George Sisson and his wife Bethany Luther, natives of Rhode Island. His parents were firm and devoted members of the Friend’s Society, and his birth Dec. 27, 1793, is said to have been the third in the Friend’s Settlement. He was the youngest of the children. His brothers were Benoni and Jonathan, and his sisters Lydia and Lament. Benoni married Mary Meek, and was the father of James and John Sisson of Jerusalem. Jonathan married Catharine Vosbinder, and was the father of six children, among whom is Harrison H. Sisson of Jerusalem. Lydia married Isaac Prosser, and has a son living in Torrey. Lament was the wife of Richard Hayes. George Hayes, her son, resides in Dresden…. [Luther Sisson] married Sarah Maria, sister of Wright Brown, Jr. of Torrey, who is still living. They had one son, Charles H. Sisson, who resides at Dresden.


Luther Sisson's obituary in the "Yates County Chronicle" 5 January 1871:Luther Sisson (77 years and 5 days) died at his home in Dresden, January 2, 1871. He was the son of George and his wife Bethany Luther Sisson, natives of Rhode Island. His parents were firm and devoted members of the Friend's Society [led by "the Friend" Jemima Wilkinson, not to be confused with the Society of Friends, the Quakers], and his birth Dec 27, 1793, is said to have been the third in the Friend's Settlement. He was the youngest of the children. His brothers were Benoni and Jonathan, and his sisters Lydia and Lament. Benoni married Mary Meek, and was the father of John and James Sisson of Jerusalem. Jonathan married Catherine Vosbinder and was the father of six children, among whom is Harrison H. Sisson of Jerusalem. Lydia married isaac Prosser and has a son living in Torrey. Lament was the wife of Richard Hayes. George Hayes, her son, lived in Dresden. Luther Sisson grew up under the immediate influence of the Friend's Society, attending the meetings with his parents. In conversation with the writer of this notice in 1868, he spoke with the highest respect of the Friend, and declared in the most emphatic terms that he held statements adverse to her integrity to be utterly false. Mr. Sisson was one of the early school teachers having commenced at the age of 19 in Larzelere Hollow in Jerusalem in 1812. He taught school several years, and was at one time a clerk in the store of William Huston at Eddytown. He married Sarah Maria, sister of Wright Brown, Jr. of Torrey who is still living. They had a son, Charles H. Sisson, who resides at Dresden. Mr. Sisson was in his more vigorous years a man of activity and quietness of thought, and nearly always held some town office. In 1854 and 1855 he was supervisor of the Town of Torrey. As a constable he frequently attended court at Canandaigua, before Yates County was erected, and took a number of persons to jail there when imprisonment for debt was the law of the land. He was a Justice of the Peace, a teacher, merchant, and farmer by turns, and lived to a good old age, retaining his mental vivacity to the lastest period. He was a descendant of Richard and Mary Sisson of 1608 ca.

Luther married Brown Sarah Marie on 07 Feb 1822 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Sarah (daughter of BROWN Wright Samuel and NEWLAND Hannah, daughter of BROWN Wright Samuel and OLNEY Bethiah) was born in 1799 in Prob. Stillwater, Saratoga Co., NY; died on 17 Aug 1847 in Milo, Yates Co, NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1850, Benton, Yates Co., census, Charles was eleven years old and living with his father, Luther and stepmother, Patience. His father was a lawyer.

1860 census for Torrey, Yates Co., Charles is listed as a clerk and was 17 years old.

1870, also in Torrey, Charles, age 27, was still living with his father, a retired lawyer, and a housekeeper. He was the local postmaster.

The 1880 Federal Census for Milo, Yates County, NY, it lists Charles as a Boot and shoe dealer. He is 36 years old, married to Frances, age 31 and had daughter, Eva M., age 7, who suffers from paralysis.

1900 census for Penn Yan, Yates co., Charles was 56 years old, married 28 years to Frances E., age 50. The had only one child, Mary E., age 27 and single, living at home with her parents.

1910, census for Penn Yan, Charles is 66 years old, married 37 years to Frances E., age 61, with one child, Eva, age 37 years, single and still living at home with both parents.

1920 census for Penn Yan, Charles is 76 yrs., and works as a tax collector of the town of Penn Yan in the Town office. Frances is 61 yrs old. and daughter, Eva is 37 and single, living with her parents. He died sometime before the census in the 1930.

Charles married Seeley Frances E. on 18 Oct 1871 in Penn Yan, Yates County, NY. Frances was born on 16 Nov 1849 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to the 1880 Federal census for Milo, Yates Co., NY, Eva, at the age of seven, was in school but suffered paralysis of the limbs. She lived her entire life single, with her parents. By 1910, the family was living in Penn Yan, Yates Co., NY.