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- 1880 Federal Census of Randolph, Cattaraugus County, New York
Garwood M. Torrence 65 M NY CT MA Head Farmer
Percus C. 63 F VT MA NH Wife Keeps House
Rena B. 23 F NY NY VT Daughter At home
Emily Boyington 37 F NY NY VT Daughter
Garwood Boyington 8 M MO NY NY Grandson
& 2 others
Persis and Garwood may have adopted Ethel L. Torrance.
Cattaraugus Biographies, Cattaraugus, New York
Garwood M. Torrence was born in Henrietta, N.Y., Aug. 4, 1814. He marri
Persis, daughter of Dea. Joel Bassett, of Napoli, who was born April 5, 1817.
He settled in life as a farmer and eventually owned the homestead, and died
June 16, 1885. Mrs. Torrence died Oct. 2, 1890. Children: Joel B.; Lucy C.,
born March 7, 1841; married William H. Cross; Emeline L., born Nov. 15, 1843,
married Benjamin Boyington; Mitchell T., born July 3, 1845; Carrie P. (Mrs.
James H. Foster); Mary M. (Mrs. David Babcock); and Rena V. (Mrs. Anderson
Gilbert). Joel B. Torrence, born Oct. 28, 1839, resides on the homestead. He
had a few terms at Randolph Academy and Sept. 6, 1862, enlisted in C
154th N.Y. Vols., being discharged June 11, 1865. Oct. 13, 1869, he married
Ella Wallace, of Perrysburg, Ohio, who died May 23, 1873. Sept. 25, 1876, he
married Hattie Churchill, of Ellington, N.Y., daughter of Cullen Churchill, a
pioneer of that town. Mitchell T. Torrence married Sarah J. Cross, of
Randolph. Dec. 11, 1864, he enlisted in Co. H. 14th N.Y. H.A., was confined in
the hospital with typhus fever three months in the summer of 1864, and was
discharged Aug. 26, 1864. In 1867 he settled on the farm where he now resides,
and where he also deals in cattle, fruit, and poultry. He has four sons and
two daughters.
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