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Excerpt from HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF YATES COUNTY, NEW YORK by Stafford
C. Cleveland published in 1873 in Penn Yan, New York, pages 1063-64 in
the chapter on the Town of STARKEY.
            
            
                SAMUEL CONKLIN.

    Was born in Orange County in 1800, and was a brother of Gamaliel D.
Conklin.  He married in 1823 Esther, daughter of Robert Ferrier.  He was
a stone mason and wrought at his trade in Eddytown, where he located soon
after his marriage.  Some years later he bought a farm on the old
Pre-emption line, in the northwest part of the town.  There he died in
1868.  His wife survives him, at the age of seventy-four, in 1872.  Their
children were Robert F., Thomas J., Mary Ann, Wilmore and Sarah.
    Robert F., born in 1824, married Emily A., daughter of David Semans, and
is a farmer in Milo, on the Charles Lee farm.  [From pp. 987-88:  "Emily
A., born in 1825, [daughter of David Semans, Jr. of Kent Co., Md., and
his second wife, Mary Starkey, sister of John Starkey] married Robert F.
Conklin, a farmer of Milo.  They have a daughter Frank, wife of Theodore
Ross."]
    Thomas J. born in 1826, married Mary Ann, daughter of Henry Titsworth. 
They reside on and own the Calvin Huson place near Dundee.  
    Mary, Ann, born in 1828, married John C. Shannon.  [From pp.  942-43:
"John C. born in 1825, [son of John C. and Anna (Martin) Shannon of
Starkey] married in 1847, Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Conklin.  She was
born in 1827.  They own and reside on his paternal homestead.  Their
children are Samuel W. and Mary E."] Their daughter, Mary E., is the wife
of Lucius P., son of George Wagener.
    Wilmore, born in 1830, married Amelia Wilcox, of Orange County.  They
reside in Starkey, and their children are William, Hester and Emma.
    Sarah, born in 1836, married William T. Beaumont.
    Henry Conklin, a brother of Gamaliel D. and Samuel, lived many years a
bachelor in Starkey, a wagon maker, finally moving west.  He was born in
1795.
    Shadrach, another of the brothers, married Jane Clark of Tyrone, and
lives in that town.  He was born in 1798.
    Julia, a sister of these, born in 1807, lives single in Starkey.