. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ging. Bethany Church and congrega-tion are deeply indebted to him for the erection WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. of their meeting-house, and for saving it fromsubsequent liabilities. His second wife wasJoanna Bunnell, now deceased. His childrenby his first wife are: Lucy, wife of BarneyBunnell, of Dyberry, died in Newark, N. J., in j1885; Alvira, wife of Gordon Graves, ofiBethany, died in Chicago in 1877; Flavilla,wife of Kockwell Bunnell, died in Prompton in1870; Virgil, settled in Lebanon townshipwhere he now resid
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ging. Bethany Church and congrega-tion are deeply indebted to him for the erection WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. of their meeting-house, and for saving it fromsubsequent liabilities. His second wife wasJoanna Bunnell, now deceased. His childrenby his first wife are: Lucy, wife of BarneyBunnell, of Dyberry, died in Newark, N. J., in j1885; Alvira, wife of Gordon Graves, ofiBethany, died in Chicago in 1877; Flavilla,wife of Kockwell Bunnell, died in Prompton in1870; Virgil, settled in Lebanon townshipwhere he now resides, and Ezra, who resides I (Dayton) Barnes, who was born in Connecticut,October 22, 1813. Her parents were natives ofConnecticut, removed to Coventry, Chenango Co.,N. Y., in 1818, where they resided until theirdeath. Her father died in 1875, aged eighty-nine ; her mother in 1845, aged sixty-one. Theirchildren are Hannah, deceased ; Nancy L. Sa-bra, the first and third of whom reside in NewYork State, and two sons, Edward and Gilbert,who reside in 4^^ &~trt*Cj one mile west of the old homestead ; Major E. iresided on the homestead until his death, in1876 ; William Drinker is a mechanic ofHomer, N. Y.; Lepha S., wife of LymanGleason, a farmer and lumberman in Dyberry,died in 1882; Horace resides at New Milford,and Ortenca Maria is the wife of Mathew Watt,of Wilkesbarre Pa. Ezra Brooks, second son of Deacon HomerBrooks was born in Mulberry, Yt., September11, 1812, and married on Christmas eve, 1836,Nancy L., daughter of Daniel and Mehitabel Ezra Brooks resided at home until twenty-three years of age. After two years he pur-chased fifty acres adjoining the homestead forfive hundred dollars, upon which was a smallframe house with one room. He cleared thegreater part of his laud, and has added to it, bypurchase, ninety acres more. In 1847 he builthis present residence, and he erected his com-modious barns and planted most of his 1842 he built, in connection with
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