ELISHA CONES

 

Elisha Cone, deceased, was one of the original members of the Geneseo Colony, oneof the five who brought their families tothe county in 1836. A full account of the operations of the little band are given in another department of this work, and so far as has been possible personal sketches of the othermembers have been obtained and appear elsewhere.

Mr. Cone was born Jan.4,1803, in Wallingford , Conn. In his early manhood he removed to West­ern New York, and there, on the 1st of January, 1826 , he was married to Eliza A. Hill. She was born in West Bloomfield , Ontario County. Their family included five children: Harriet M. married William Miller ; Clarissa P. is the wife of E. M. Stewart, of Kansas; Francis F. married Gabriella Gilmore, and they live in Florida ; Ellen A. is the wife of Peter Hill, M. D., of Florida ; Charles E. was a soldier of the Eighth Kan. Vol. Inf., and died in the hospital at Nashville, Tenn., March 29, 1863. The death of Mr. Cone transpired in 1846. His widow still survives

 

 

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