Family/Spouse: C. Hadley Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Roxana Grace [Gardner] Howe on 8 Jun 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Walter and Helen lived for many years on farms, first at West Potsdam, then at Diana, near Carthage, New York. Later they moved to a farm about a mile from Potsdam on the Sissonville road, their two boys attending school in Potsdam. They sold the farm and bought a house in Potsdam, near the Fair Grounds. Their sons, William and Arthur, left home to settle in the west, and in Feb. 1898, they sold their property in Potsdam to join their sons. The father went to live with Arthur at Leon, Iowa, but Helen, hearing that William and his wife, Mabel were going to Alaska, attracted by the Yukon gold rush, refused to let them go without her. The trip, however, proved to be too much for her, and she died at Lake Tagish, Northwest Territory, on May 6, 1898. She is buried in West Potsdam, New York.

Elon married Helen M. [Branch] Howe on 20 Mar 1863. Helen (daughter of John Harvey Branch, (8) and Samantha [Gaines] Branch) was born on 8 Feb 1838 in Canton, New York; died on 6 May 1898 in Lake Tagish, Northwest Territory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Walter and Helen lived for many years on farms, first at West Potsdam, then at Diana, near Carthage, New York. Later they moved to a farm about a mile from Potsdam on the Sissonville road, their two boys attending school in Potsdam. They sold the farm and bought a house in Potsdam, near the Fair Grounds. Their sons, William and Arthur, left home to settle in the west, and in Feb. 1898, they sold their property in Potsdam to join their sons. The father went to live with Arthur at Leon, Iowa, but Helen, hearing that William and his wife, Mabel were going to Alaska, attracted by the Yukon gold rush, refused to let them go without her. The trip, however, proved to be too much for her, and she died at Lake Tagish, Northwest Territory, on May 6, 1898. She is buried in West Potsdam, New York.

Died:
She died looking for gold in the Yukon with her son William and his wife.

Notes:

In 1824 he was living in Panton, Vermont. John Harvey sold his farm in Panton in March, 1836 and moved Canton, New York, where he settled on a farm. On this trip westward, his family7, consisting of his wife and four children, and his household goods, were loaded on a long sleigh drawn by two horses, while he rode a third horse. Years later his son, Walter C., then six years old, told of the journey down the Vermont shore, crossing Lake Champlain on the ice somewhere in the vicinity of Rouses Point, and proceeding through Champlain and Chateaugay to Canton.
About 1860, he again sold his farm, and moved to Norfolk, New york, where he purchased a farm located agbout four miles northeast of Norfolk, on the Lost Nation Road. Unfortunately, the old homestead burned down, so that only the stone foundation remains to mark the spot, but the double row of maple trees which he planted, and which extend a quarter of a mile in each direction from the house, still stand, as do the two old barns which are directly across the road from the house.
By 1870 he had sold the farm near Norfolk, and purchased a house in Hewittville, New York, on the high bank of the Raquette River. this became his home, and his children's home, for many years. His wife died there.
It is to be regretted that several years later his daughter, Eliza Ann, had the old markers showing the dates of their deaths, together with the markers of three children, replaced by a plain but well- proportioned brown stone monument with only the name BRANCH inscribed on it. In front of this monument, stretching the width of the lot, are the small markers with the following names--but no dates:
Georgie Harvey Pamelia William Mother Father Eliza A.
In addition to being a very successful farmer, John Harvey Branch was a wheelwright and a casket-maker.

Died:
Buried in the Bixby Cemetery, about three miles out of Norfolk, on the Lost Nation Road.
It is to be regretted that several years later his daughter, Eliza Ann, had the old markers showing the dates of their deaths, together with the markers of three children, replaced by a plain but well- proportioned brown stone monument with only the name BRANCH inscribed on it. In front of this monument, stretching the width of the lot, are the small markers with the following names--but no dates:
Georgie Harvey Pamelia William Mother Father Eliza A.

John married Samantha [Gaines] Branch on 10 Jun 1824 in Panton, VT.. Samantha (daughter of Jonathan Gaines and Betsy [Farrand] Gaines) died on 27 Dec 1882 in Hewittville, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Buried in the Bixby Cemetery, about three miles out of Norfolk, on the Lost Nation Road.
It is to be regretted that several years later his daughter, Eliza Ann, had the old markers showing the dates of their deaths, together with the markers of three children, replaced by a plain but well- proportioned brown stone monument with only the name BRANCH inscribed on it. In front of this monument, stretching the width of the lot, are the small markers with the following names--but no dates:
Georgie Harvey Pamelia William Mother Father Eliza A.