Lucy Osgood

Lucy married Walter Stevens on 12 Nov 1827 in Almond, Allegany County, New York. Walter (son of Jesse Stevens and Molly Spaulding) was born about 1790 in Massachusetts; died on 16 Apr 1843 in Honeoye, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Honeoye, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dr. Walter A. Stevens Dead
Pioneer Chicago Dentist and Thirty-third Degree Mason Expires When 77 Years Old.
Dr. Walter Augustus Stevens, who had practiced dentistry in Chicago more than forty years, died yesterday at his residence, 2631 Wabash Avenue. He was born in Honeoye, N.Y., April 19, 1830, and was graduated from the high school at Palmyra, NY, and the Genesee Wesleyans Seminary, Lima NY. The facility of Rush Medical college gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine Feb. 15, 1887. When 27 years old he went to eastern Missouri, establishing himself as a civil engineer. He served as postmaster at Bird's Point under President Buchanan. He came to Chicago in 1861, and Sept 2, 1862, he married Elnora V. Richards of Lenox, Mass. Dr. Stevens was thirty-third degree Mason, and a founder and charter member of the Mariam family, which later became the Order of the Eastern Star. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Genevieve I., and a son, Dr. Wirt A. Stevens. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow in the asylum of Apollo commandery, 78 Monroe Street.
(Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, April 16, 1907)

Family/Spouse: Elnora V. Richards. Elnora was born in 1838; died in 1930; was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Honeoye, N. Y. - The death of William Stevens occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Huff, at Caledonia on Saturday morning. He had been a sufferer for the past two years or more from Bright's disease, which was the cause of his death.

Mr. Stevens was born in this town on July 26, 1832, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stevens, and the greater part of his life was passed here in his native town. He was a widely known and highly respected citizen; a member of the First Congregational church and of the local lodge of F. & A. M. Last fall he and his wife and daughter, went to spend the winter with Mrs. John Huff at Caledonia, and later decided to locate permanently at that place and dispose of his home here. The funeral was held on Monday afternoon from the Congregational church, Rev. Dr. Arthur O'Dell, assisted by Rev. S. Mills Day, officiating.

The interment was in Lake View cemetery. He is survived by his wife and three daughters, Minnie of Chicago, Mildred and Mrs. Huff of Caledonia; also three brothers and two sisters, Walter A. Stevens of Chicago, Ill., Ami W. Stevens of Atchison, Kansas, Othello H. Stevens and Elizabeth and Ellen A. Stevens of Rochester.
(Ontario County Journal, 20 April 1906)

Family/Spouse: Adelaide. Adelaide was born in 1842; died in 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Educator, lawyer and ardent temperance advocate. Died at the home he shared with his sister Ellen A. Stevens at 26 Gertrude Street in Rochester. He sold the 135 acre Stevens family farm in the town of Honeoye to Martin Kinney in 1917.

Wirt married Edith M. Briggs on 21 Sep 1918 in Cook County, Illinois. Edith (daughter of Jedediah Chauncy Briggs and Mary A. Beardsley) was born on 13 Sep 1875 in Honeoye, Ontario County, New York; died on 14 May 1945 in Greenwich, Washington County, New York; was cremated in Lakeview Cemetery, Honeoye, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]