From a Manuscript sent to me from the Town Clerks Office of Collins, NY - The Clark/Munger Papers c1909.
Obituary:
When our neighbor is called from time to eternity, one with whom we have often met for long years in our daily rounds of life, when his lips are sealed forever from our mortal hearing, then our inquiries go out after him that we may learn from others more about him, and ponder upon the life that was, but now gone forever. Abram Patch, the subject of this sketch, was born in Groton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, on the 10th day of March 1810. When nine years of age his father moved from there to Rutland County, Vermont, where he grew to manhood and on September 18, 1836, married Miss Lydia Tucker of Mount Holly, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. He came to Collins, New York and bought the farm of David Prindle in 1844, where he lived until 1853, when he sold out and purchased the Martin Perrin farm where he lived several years. His first wife (Lydia) died in 1852, after which he sold again and went to New Jersey in 1861, but only stayed a few weeks and moved to Concord, where he bought a large farm. Prior to this he had married second to Mrs. Cynthia Smith (January 1, 1854) and from this union there were three daughters born. After the death of his second wife he married his brothers widow (Mrs. Aaron Patch) in 1868. William Russell, Justice of the Peace, married them. Mrs. Patch was, before her marriage, Lucy Robbins of Mount Holly, Vermont, and from this union there was one son (Byron Patch). He sold his farm in Concord and bought the Daniel Allen farm of Sheldon Perrin in 1869, which adjoined the first farm he bought forty years before, where he closed his long and useful life, in 1886.
Mr. Patch was a man of sterling integrity, of strong will power, and very industrious through his life. In those years when the fugitive slave law was in force, slaves fleeing from their masters on their way to Canada, found his home a refuge, and himself a helper in the underground railroad toward the star of their destination. His oldest son Joseph T. Patch was here at the funeral, but Joel V. Patch (an artist, living in Iowa) and daughter (Arthusa, wife of Elisha Calkins) of Kearney, Nebraska, were absent. His other children, Mrs. Myron Allen, niece Harriet Patch, and youngest son Byron, were here to sooth his dying pillow and pay their last sad rites.
A son of Edmond & Philomela (Lawrence) Patch.
For more information about the underground railroad, please see:
http://cstl.semo.edu/crossroads/SRK2009/Ellis.htm
From a Manuscript sent to me from the Town Clerks Office of Collins, NY - The Clark/Munger Papers c1909.
Obituary:
When our neighbor is called from time to eternity, one with whom we have often met for long years in our daily rounds of life, when his lips are sealed forever from our mortal hearing, then our inquiries go out after him that we may learn from others more about him, and ponder upon the life that was, but now gone forever. Abram Patch, the subject of this sketch, was born in Groton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, on the 10th day of March 1810. When nine years of age his father moved from there to Rutland County, Vermont, where he grew to manhood and on September 18, 1836, married Miss Lydia Tucker of Mount Holly, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. He came to Collins, New York and bought the farm of David Prindle in 1844, where he lived until 1853, when he sold out and purchased the Martin Perrin farm where he lived several years. His first wife (Lydia) died in 1852, after which he sold again and went to New Jersey in 1861, but only stayed a few weeks and moved to Concord, where he bought a large farm. Prior to this he had married second to Mrs. Cynthia Smith (January 1, 1854) and from this union there were three daughters born. After the death of his second wife he married his brothers widow (Mrs. Aaron Patch) in 1868. William Russell, Justice of the Peace, married them. Mrs. Patch was, before her marriage, Lucy Robbins of Mount Holly, Vermont, and from this union there was one son (Byron Patch). He sold his farm in Concord and bought the Daniel Allen farm of Sheldon Perrin in 1869, which adjoined the first farm he bought forty years before, where he closed his long and useful life, in 1886.
Mr. Patch was a man of sterling integrity, of strong will power, and very industrious through his life. In those years when the fugitive slave law was in force, slaves fleeing from their masters on their way to Canada, found his home a refuge, and himself a helper in the underground railroad toward the star of their destination. His oldest son Joseph T. Patch was here at the funeral, but Joel V. Patch (an artist, living in Iowa) and daughter (Arthusa, wife of Elisha Calkins) of Kearney, Nebraska, were absent. His other children, Mrs. Myron Allen, niece Harriet Patch, and youngest son Byron, were here to sooth his dying pillow and pay their last sad rites.
A son of Edmond & Philomela (Lawrence) Patch.
For more information about the underground railroad, please see:
http://cstl.semo.edu/crossroads/SRK2009/Ellis.htm
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