. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. d, 1761, and movedto Cayuga connty. New York, some thirty-fouryears after. About 1800 he bought a farm oftwo hundred and fifty acres of land near Sher-wood and followed farming all his life, dyingbetween 1835-40. Thomas Lapham was amember of the Bajitist church, in which he wasa deacon. He married Thankful Smitii, adaughter of John Smith, of Gloucester, RhodeIsland, and by this union there came nine child-ren : Cynthia married Elijah Kemp; Sallywedded Benjamin Waldrou; Amalek unitedwith Charlotte Ballard; Sinai became the w
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. d, 1761, and movedto Cayuga connty. New York, some thirty-fouryears after. About 1800 he bought a farm oftwo hundred and fifty acres of land near Sher-wood and followed farming all his life, dyingbetween 1835-40. Thomas Lapham was amember of the Bajitist church, in which he wasa deacon. He married Thankful Smitii, adaughter of John Smith, of Gloucester, RhodeIsland, and by this union there came nine child-ren : Cynthia married Elijah Kemp; Sallywedded Benjamin Waldrou; Amalek unitedwith Charlotte Ballard; Sinai became the wifeof Nathaniel Tibbels; Winsor married ElminaDunham ; Sidney was the husband of Jane Mc-Comber; Cyrene was the wife of Jesse jSIoss;■ Alva married Laura Hauna; and Arioch, fatherof subject. The maternal grandfather ofArioch Lapham, Jr. was Charles Sherman, anative of Massachusetts. He moved fromDartmouth about ISOO and settled in the townof Venice, Cayuga counts-, where he owned afarm of one hundred acres. He also had atract of four hundred acres in Ohio, in what. OF CHAUTAUQUA COUSTY. 195 was known as the Connecticut Fire Land. Hespent his life in farming and died aljoiit Shermans wifes maiden name was LoisWest, who Ijecame tiie mother ot six children :Jonathan was a farmer in Indiana; Charles diedyoung; Benjamin was an agriculturist in Eriecounty, New York; Eunice is subjects mother;Edith became Mrs. Dorcey Roberts; and Loismarried Samuel Rogers. Arioch Lapham, Sr.,was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and,moving with his ])arents to Cayuga county,New York, worked upon his fathers farm untilhe was twenty-one years of age. He afterwardjoined David Thomas engineer corps, then en-gaged in the construction of the Erie this work was in progress he sickenedand died at Middleport, Niagara county, in No-vember, 1820, two months before the birth ofour subject. He married Eunice Sherman about1815 and three children, all sons, were born :Charles, a farmer in Iowa
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