Pioneer Folk - Compiled by Sharon Kraynek: Elisha A. Branch, of York, son of Levi Branch, known as "Judge" Branch from the fact that when the country was new, nearly all differences between neighbors which could not be settled between themselves were referred to him, and almost universally amicably adjusted, was born in Sweden, Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept 3, 1818.
At the age of 12 years, in company with his parents, 4 brothers, Lawson, Theodore, Levi, Edwin and Sster Mary, and several of their neighbors moved to Medina County, in October, 1830. His parents, sister and brother Edwin, drove through with a team; the rest of the party coming by canal to buffalo, thence by schooner to Cleveland, and footed it the rest of the way through the woods to Medina, being about ten days in making the journey.
The American House, at Medina, at that time was enclosed and Mr. Branch rentd a part of it and fixed it up with boxes, and lived in it while building a log house, where he had previously purchased 567 acres of land, and which he afterward sold to his sons and neighbors.
Elisha A. Branch, who was familiarly known as uncle "Lisha", was united in marriage with Sarah Gardner, daughter of Levi and Lydia Gardner, November 16, 1842, and settled on 50 acres of land which he had purchased frm his father, on the corner east of the old homestead. Six children were born to them, Emilia, wife of Lyman Watkins, Ella, widow of M. Gardner, Martha and three others, who died in their infancy.
Mrs. Branch was born in Monroe county, N. Y., in 1824, and her parents were old settlers in York township. Besides their own children, Mr. and Mrs. Branch adopted three boys, raised from their infancy, and they adopted the surname of Branch. These are Theodore, Fremont A. and Willis A., who was kolled on a rail road.
Mr. Branch was a Republican, and was honored with various township offices. He owned a good farm with comodious dwelling house and other buildings. Both he and his wife were members of the Congregational church at York, almost since its organization, and were loved and respected by all who knew them.
Mr. Branch remembered very distinctl that near where the viaduct is in Cleveland, he climbed a walnut tree and got some nuts from it, the first he had ever seen, also, that on the night in which his brother Lawson's first child (Fanny) was born, (she being the first white child born in York township,) the wolves made the night hideous with their
howling. The first school which he attended, and by the way, the first one taught in the township, was taught by his brother, Theodore, in his father's house.
At the age of 12 years, in company with his parents, 4 brothers, Lawson, Theodore, Levi, Edwin and Sster Mary, and several of their neighbors moved to Medina County, in October, 1830. His parents, sister and brother Edwin, drove through with a team; the rest of the party coming by canal to buffalo, thence by schooner to Cleveland, and footed it the rest of the way through the woods to Medina, being about ten days in making the journey.
The American House, at Medina, at that time was enclosed and Mr. Branch rentd a part of it and fixed it up with boxes, and lived in it while building a log house, where he had previously purchased 567 acres of land, and which he afterward sold to his sons and neighbors.
Elisha A. Branch, who was familiarly known as uncle "Lisha", was united in marriage with Sarah Gardner, daughter of Levi and Lydia Gardner, November 16, 1842, and settled on 50 acres of land which he had purchased frm his father, on the corner east of the old homestead. Six children were born to them, Emilia, wife of Lyman Watkins, Ella, widow of M. Gardner, Martha and three others, who died in their infancy.
Mrs. Branch was born in Monroe county, N. Y., in 1824, and her parents were old settlers in York township. Besides their own children, Mr. and Mrs. Branch adopted three boys, raised from their infancy, and they adopted the surname of Branch. These are Theodore, Fremont A. and Willis A., who was kolled on a rail road.
Mr. Branch was a Republican, and was honored with various township offices. He owned a good farm with comodious dwelling house and other buildings. Both he and his wife were members of the Congregational church at York, almost since its organization, and were loved and respected by all who knew them.
Mr. Branch remembered very distinctl that near where the viaduct is in Cleveland, he climbed a walnut tree and got some nuts from it, the first he had ever seen, also, that on the night in which his brother Lawson's first child (Fanny) was born, (she being the first white child born in York township,) the wolves made the night hideous with their
howling. The first school which he attended, and by the way, the first one taught in the township, was taught by his brother, Theodore, in his father's house.
Pioneer Folk - Compiled by Sharon Kraynek: Elisha A. Branch, of York, son of Levi Branch, known as "Judge" Branch from the fact that when the country was new, nearly all differences between neighbors which could not be settled between themselves were referred to him, and almost universally amicably adjusted, was born in Sweden, Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept 3, 1818.
At the age of 12 years, in company with his parents, 4 brothers, Lawson, Theodore, Levi, Edwin and Sster Mary, and several of their neighbors moved to Medina County, in October, 1830. His parents, sister and brother Edwin, drove through with a team; the rest of the party coming by canal to buffalo, thence by schooner to Cleveland, and footed it the rest of the way through the woods to Medina, being about ten days in making the journey.
The American House, at Medina, at that time was enclosed and Mr. Branch rentd a part of it and fixed it up with boxes, and lived in it while building a log house, where he had previously purchased 567 acres of land, and which he afterward sold to his sons and neighbors.
Elisha A. Branch, who was familiarly known as uncle "Lisha", was united in marriage with Sarah Gardner, daughter of Levi and Lydia Gardner, November 16, 1842, and settled on 50 acres of land which he had purchased frm his father, on the corner east of the old homestead. Six children were born to them, Emilia, wife of Lyman Watkins, Ella, widow of M. Gardner, Martha and three others, who died in their infancy.
Mrs. Branch was born in Monroe county, N. Y., in 1824, and her parents were old settlers in York township. Besides their own children, Mr. and Mrs. Branch adopted three boys, raised from their infancy, and they adopted the surname of Branch. These are Theodore, Fremont A. and Willis A., who was kolled on a rail road.
Mr. Branch was a Republican, and was honored with various township offices. He owned a good farm with comodious dwelling house and other buildings. Both he and his wife were members of the Congregational church at York, almost since its organization, and were loved and respected by all who knew them.
Mr. Branch remembered very distinctl that near where the viaduct is in Cleveland, he climbed a walnut tree and got some nuts from it, the first he had ever seen, also, that on the night in which his brother Lawson's first child (Fanny) was born, (she being the first white child born in York township,) the wolves made the night hideous with their
howling. The first school which he attended, and by the way, the first one taught in the township, was taught by his brother, Theodore, in his father's house.
At the age of 12 years, in company with his parents, 4 brothers, Lawson, Theodore, Levi, Edwin and Sster Mary, and several of their neighbors moved to Medina County, in October, 1830. His parents, sister and brother Edwin, drove through with a team; the rest of the party coming by canal to buffalo, thence by schooner to Cleveland, and footed it the rest of the way through the woods to Medina, being about ten days in making the journey.
The American House, at Medina, at that time was enclosed and Mr. Branch rentd a part of it and fixed it up with boxes, and lived in it while building a log house, where he had previously purchased 567 acres of land, and which he afterward sold to his sons and neighbors.
Elisha A. Branch, who was familiarly known as uncle "Lisha", was united in marriage with Sarah Gardner, daughter of Levi and Lydia Gardner, November 16, 1842, and settled on 50 acres of land which he had purchased frm his father, on the corner east of the old homestead. Six children were born to them, Emilia, wife of Lyman Watkins, Ella, widow of M. Gardner, Martha and three others, who died in their infancy.
Mrs. Branch was born in Monroe county, N. Y., in 1824, and her parents were old settlers in York township. Besides their own children, Mr. and Mrs. Branch adopted three boys, raised from their infancy, and they adopted the surname of Branch. These are Theodore, Fremont A. and Willis A., who was kolled on a rail road.
Mr. Branch was a Republican, and was honored with various township offices. He owned a good farm with comodious dwelling house and other buildings. Both he and his wife were members of the Congregational church at York, almost since its organization, and were loved and respected by all who knew them.
Mr. Branch remembered very distinctl that near where the viaduct is in Cleveland, he climbed a walnut tree and got some nuts from it, the first he had ever seen, also, that on the night in which his brother Lawson's first child (Fanny) was born, (she being the first white child born in York township,) the wolves made the night hideous with their
howling. The first school which he attended, and by the way, the first one taught in the township, was taught by his brother, Theodore, in his father's house.
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