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From: "Anne Halford" <>
Subject: David B. Conklin (1807) and Hannah Sweezey
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:11:01 -0500
References: <001c01c16b18$89870940$75208bd0@hppav>


This will incorporate the slight editing some of you have offered and what I
have learned since I 1st posted on 9/13/2001.
Sunday I received a copy of the full text of a letter written from a long-lived
great-aunt Lucy Butler to my mother in 1962 in response to her geneological
questions. (Have to love these inquisitive, long-lived intelligent ancestors!)
Niw I know why Jemima Ann Butler, the future wife of Nehemiah Travis Conklin b,
Mar 13, 1840 seemed to be related to Emma wife of John Conklin, Nathaniel's
younger brother. They were 1st cousins in addition to being good friends.

Dr. David Conklin (family history says "one of Benjamin Conkling and Lydia
Tuttle's 12 sons, Benjamin, John" - but currently accepted lineage is "son of
Justice Benjamin and Sarah Corey, Henry, John^1") and
+Susan Bailey the parents of

David B. Conklin b. 1807 in Jamesport, Long Island, New York d: 1877
+Hannah Swezey b: 1810 d: 1895 m: November 08, 1828 - daughter of Moses Swezey
b 1770 and Fanny Blidenburgh.
They moved to OH in 1864. Both buried at Berline Hts., OH, West End Cemetery,
All children born in Aquebogue NY (Suffolk Co. - NE L.I.)

David Allen Conklin 1829 - 1846

Benjamin Franklin Conklin 1831 - 1886 m 11-25-1856 to
+ Arminda Aldrich 1836 - 1927 daughter of Rogers Aldrich and Hannah Hallock,
all children born on L.I., NY
Florence 1859 - 1943 m Robert Cornwell
Arminda 1861 - 1935 m.William M. Wells
Susan Belle 1873 - 1955 m. George E. Bryant
Emma Louise 1875 - 1876

Moses Swezey Conklin 1834 - 1913 m. 4-14-1891 to
+ Mary L Hough All children born in OH
Allen 1872 - 1942
Peter 1877 - 1941 m. Sarah L.Brown
Kate 1881 - 1967
Horace 1887 - 1955
Ezra 1891 - 1892

Nehemiah Traverse Conklin b: May 13, 1840 d: 1910
+ (Jemima) Ann Butler b: April 10, 1846 d: 1911 daughter of Justus Butler
and
Lois Amanda Bytler m: June 24, 1872 in Berline Township, Erie Co., OH
All children born on homestead near Lacey, Barry Co. MI
Avis Lucinda Conklin 1873 - 1943
+Hiram D Babcock
George Addison b: Sept. 12, 1875 d: Sept. 21, 1960
+ Lena May Packer b: July 24, 1881 d: June 19, 1947
m. March 09, 1899 children born on farm E. of Lacey, Barry Co.
MI
Albert Ezra Conklin b: Jan 1900 - 1980
Leslie T. Conklin b: 1902 - 1992
John R. Conklin b: 1904 -1943
Clifford G Conklin b: 1907 - 1993
Nina J. Conklin (Stanford) b: 1909 - 1995
Edna M Conklin b: 1911 - 1915 (died from rattlesnake bite)
Anna V. Conklin b: 1915 - 1915
Elsie J. Conklin (Davis) b: 1917
Grace M Conklin (Ritchie) b: January 5, 1920
Louise Jennie Conklin (Fender) b: Sept. 6, 1923
Anne Marie Fender (Halford) b. Jan. 14, 1946

David Vincent Conklin 1878 - 1956
+1) Edith Stephenson (d 1914),
+ 2) (Lena) Gladys Jones

Hannah Lois Conklin 1881 - 1944 m.
+Frederick Stamm

Benjamin Walter Conklin 1885 - 1958
+ 1) Maggie Hyde (d. 1916),
+ 2) Jessie Case,
+ 3) Sylvia Bivens

Harold Hobson Conklin (orphan train "adoptee") July 1898 - 1982?
+ Mildred Palmiter 1908 - 1988

John Hulse Conklin 1847 - 1880
+ Emma Hiatt 1851 - 1938 daughter of Climena Butler and ? Hiatt
All children born in OH
She married Fred Groves after John died in 1880 and had 3 add'l
children
Climena Conklin 1869 - 1871
Harriet Conklin 1871 -1935 m. George Capen
Lydia Conklin 1873 -1954 m. John Mason
Charles Conklin 1875 -1951 m. Nora L. Wikel
Benjamin F. Conklin 1877 -1961 m. Mabel Grenman
Sarah Conklin 1879 -1880

I have a LOT more data, especially about Nehemiah's line.
I have learned that some families had left L.I. rather than pledge allegiance to
the king when the British occupied the east end of the island, and that there
was a dispute over rightful ownership of the Conklin family property after the
Revolutionary War.
Dr. David Conklin born in 1745 had no living children with his wife Lydia Moore
b: 1751 d: 1806 and assuming he is the same Dr. David who married Susan Bailey,
he was in his sixties when his children were born. I prefer proof to "said to
be" , and it is hard to come by!
I did find collaboration for Nehemiah's entertaining account of the terrifying
gale that they encountered when he was 16 on their brig "the Flying Cloud"

Wreck of the Conklin's Brig "Flying Cloud" at Montauk Point Lighthouse
from http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/lighthouse.html

For many years Montauk Point Light was a desolate, often inaccessible place,
and the early keepers of the light, their wives and families led solitary and
very lonely lives There was only one rock road leading from the Point to East
Hampton, the nearest village 20 miles away, and during the winter months,
snowdrift's usually made the journey to it impossible. Children were taught
their school lessons at the light by their mothers. A few visitors during the
summer made the job of the keeper a little less lonely. Although his work was
often tedious, it had its advantages if he liked bass fishing which was
excellent at the Point. ......
Wives replaced keepers at tending light when they died or when they were
called to other duties such as rescue work. Such was the case in December 1856,
when the brig "Flying Cloud" ran aground on the rocks at Montauk Point and
Patrick T. Gould, the keeper climbed down the face of the bluff in a gale to
save the crew from drowning in the surf. He was awarded a gold medal by the
grateful Lifesaving Benevolent Association of New York. The inscription on it
told of his "courage and humanity saving from inevitable death the crew of the
brig "Flying Cloud," wrecked on Montauk Point December 14.1856." However,
apparently nothing was mentioned of his wife's role in maintaining the light
during her husband's heroic rescue efforts.



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