Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

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1st marriage: 1691, Lavinia; b. 1811; d. 1824. 1692, Rachel A.; b. Oct..
10, 1813; m. Mar. 6, 1839, George Perce, of Lisle, Broome County, N. Y.
1693, LoEEN Lorenzo; b. Sept. 17, 1814; d. Apr. 5, 1864; m. May 17, 1840,
Sarah Ann Wheeler; dau. of Azariah Newcomb Wheeler. 1694, Sarah;
b. 1819; m. Oct. 7, 1839, Horace Osborn. 1695, Ariel.
(770) LUMAN OLMSTED, Triangle, N. Y. b. Mar. 2, 1792; d. Dec. 6,
1878; m. Mar. 23, 1814, Laurancy Taft; b. Mar. 28, 1796; d. Apr. 2, 1870;
dau. of Asa and Sarah (Whitney) Taft. He served in the War of 1812. Discharged
at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Was private in Col. Mead's regt. of
New York Militia under Capt. Thornton Watson.
1696, Sarah +. 1697, Seth +. 1698, Teressa; b. May 1, 1819; d. June
12, 1860; m. Jan. 3, 1843, Oliver C. Whitney, of Triangle, N. Y. 1699,
Lyman; b. Jan. 13, 1824; d. Feb. 1, 1824. 1700, Chandler; b. Jan. 7,
1825. 1701, Charles S. +. 1702, Luther L. +. 1703, Franklin; b.
July 14, 1834; d. Sept. 8, 1834.
Luman Olmsted came into the then unsettled state of New York in
the year 1800. He settled about one mile north of the present village of
Triangle. His early opportunities were very small, but he obtained a good
common school education, and taught school a number of terms. Necessity
required constant toil. The dense forest must be cleared up, and the new
land be brought into a state of cultivation. The young people of the present
day can hardly conceive what their fathers had to endure to turn a dense
wilderness into a cultivated field.
The aggressions of the Mother Country in 1812, aroused the patriotism
of his youthful heart and he went forth to perpetuate to succeeding genera-
tions the blessings secured to us by the sacrifices and blood of our fathers.
Peace being declared, he was discharged, but without any money to bear his
expenses home. He had to beg his way. By some he was treated kindly,
by others as if he was a miserable tramp, telling him " He had no business
to be in the army." He was a kind neighbor, and affectionate in all the various
relations of life. By the efforts of his son, C. S. Olmsted, Esq., he had just
commenced receiving his pension as a soldier of the war 1812. But he has
gone from the battlefields of earth and his name will be stricken from the
pension list, but:
" Each soldier's name
Shall shine untarnished on the rolls of fame.
And stand the example of each distant age.
And add new lustre to the historic page."
For 66 years he had been a member of the Masonic order. He was about
one year old when Washington was inaugurated President, for the second time;
hence he lived under tlje administration of every, president of the United
States. He was a voter when James Madison was elected President in the
fall of 1816. He was formerly a Democrat but becariie a Republican and
continued so till the close of life.
(772) MANNA OLMSTED, Union City, Mich. b. June 16, 1796; d. Mar.
31, 1866; m. (1) Apr. 8, 1821, Maranda Goodenough; b. Apr. 24, 1801; d. May
18, 1823; (2) Dec. 15, 1824, Ghloe Burnett; b. Apr. 12, 1805; d. Nov. 12, 1866;
dau. of William Burnett. Mr. Olmsted moved with his father to Triangle,
N. Y., then to Hartland, N. Y., and in 1841 to Union City, Branch County,.
Mich.