January 3, 2007 by Martin.

We pick up Randolph (b. 1798) for the first time on the 1820 census for Romulus, NY as a 22 year old in Henry’s household along with 3 younger brothers, 2 sisters and Henry’s wife Phebe.  Randolph was probably about 14 when he came to Romulus with his parents. 

In 1821 Randolph married Mary “Polly” Geddes (b. 1799), daughter of John Geddes and Prudence Smalley, and, by the 1830 census has his own children and is now living in Varick, which was split off from Romulus into it’s own township in January of that year.  He has 4 sons (John G, Henry G, George A and Martin L) and a wife, Mary “Polly”. 

In 1831 he migrates to Lodi, Wastenaw County, Michigan, where he and Mary add 4 more children to their family (Mary Jane, Charles Melvin, Randoph Jr, and David).  Randolph and Mary both died in Lodi and are buried in the Lodi Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
 

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January 3, 2007 by Martin.

Sarah Jane was born in 1800, in New Jersey, and came to Romulus with her father in 1812 as best we can determine.  Sarah married Jonathan Ogden in 1817.  Jonathan Ogden had come to Seneca County in 1817 and became one of the early settlers of Romulus.  As recorded in “The History of Seneca County”, the land on which he resided, though then included in the town of Romulus, is now within the limits of Varick.  In 1843 he moved to the farm where Charles, his son, resided.  There he died in 1874.
Jonathan was a Mason, interested in all that pertained to that occupation, but his time was given principally to teaching, and for thirty years he followed that profession.  Jonathan and Sarah had two children, one of them named Charles born 1818.  We have not yet found information on the other child.

Sarah Jane passed away in 1875.  Both she and Jonathan died in Varick, and are buried in Union Cemetery, Ovid, Seneca County, NY.

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