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Graves, Myron, East Hamburg, p. o. Orchard Park, was born on the homestead opposite to where he now resides.
December 7, 1829. He was educated in the district schools and follows the honorable occupation of farming. September
10, 1861, he married Orrilla R. Thurber of the town of Aurora, and they had four daughters: Hattie D., Rose B.,
Mary J. and Myra I. Rose B. and Myra I. are both dead. Hattie D. married Daniel Starkweather, and they have three
children, Sarah, George and Lucy. - Mary J. married Michael Schichtel of the town of Lancaster, and they have three
children, Ralph, Allen and Gertrude. Mr. Graves's father, Stephen R., was born in Vermont, June 29, 1805, and came
to this State with his father when seven years old. He married Delana Perry of his native State. and they had seven
children: Myron (as above), Merritt, Seth P., A. Minerva, Curtis L., William H. and Charles. Mr. Graves died in
1882 and his wife March 17, 1869. Myron Graves's grandfather, Gideon Graves, was born in Vermont, April 17, 1776.
He married Carolina Scott of his native State. Mrs. Orrilla Graves's father, Seth K. Thurber, was born in Vermont
in 1818. and came to this State when a young man. He married Harriet Darbee of the town of Aurora, and they had
six children: Martha M., Orrilla R. (as above), Elizabeth, Seth F., Charles W. and Jedediah D. Mr. Thurber was
killed in a charge on Fort Wagner in 1863. The first known of the Darbee family, three young married couples came
from Vermont in 1816 and located in the town of Aurora.
Source:
Our Countty and it's people
a descriptive work on Erie County, New York
Edited by: Trumen C. White
The Boston History Company, Publishes 1898
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