Levi Farnsworth

[Grampa_Jeff at bellsouth.net]

Hi David Giesel,

I am Howard Farnsworth though i dont appear to be directly related to Levi.
 I will see what my sources can say about Levi
i would like to invite you to a brand new website I have created
Specifically for research into the Farnsworth Clans.
So Come and Join.
http://farnsworthancestry.ning.com/

If not I will reply to your email with all i can find

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dcgiesel at comcast.net>
To: <history at farnsworth.org>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 9:15 AM
Subject: Levi Farnsworth


> Hello.  I am new to Farnsworth history and want to introduce myself.  My 
> name is David Giesel, and I am from the Ashland, Ohio area.  I reside now 
> in Chattanooga, TN.  Levi Farnsworth was my great, great, great 
> grandfather, who was born around 1803 in New York and died in Sullivan, 
> Ohio around 1875.  (I'm doing the dates from memory, so they're not 
> exact.)  He is buried, along with many of his family, just outside 
> Sullivan going East on US224 in a small cemetery on the North side of the 
> road.  He was married to Bellona Hewitt, also of New York, and had several 
> children.  One of his daughters married Ezra Freyman, son of Joel Freyman 
> (1805-1900).  They had a son, William, who married Carrie Hart (d. 1958), 
> my great grandmother whom I knew.  They had several children, one of whom 
> was Harry Freyman, my grandfather.  His daughter, Ruby, is my mother.  My 
> mother is still alive, but many of the other Freyman's are buried in the 
> main cemetery as you come in to Sullivan from the south on S
> R 58.  Joel Freyman, and many of his immediate family, are buried in the 
> old German Reformed Church cemetery northeast of Homer.
>
> Levi Farnsworth was a Baptist minister, who apparently preached against 
> slavery.  I recently came across a link on Google to a book held by the 
> Oberlin College Library.  The book is about the trial and acquittal of 
> several men from the Sullivan-Oberlin-Wellington area, who had hidden a 
> runaway slave and were indicted.  The actual copy of the book held by 
> Oberlin's library had been presented to Levi Farnsworth by his 
> congregation.  The first page has a handwritten note to him, and so does 
> the last page.  He is not mentioned in the book so far as I can tell.  I 
> don't know how they came into possession of the book, but Levi also had 
> another daughter, Lydia, who married Whitney Chamberlain.  They had a 
> daughter, Cora (1860-1956), whom I also knew.  She had graduated from 
> Oberlin College and left them part of her estate, so she could well have 
> donated the book.
>
> Cora Chamberlain never married and when she died, she left her house in 
> Sullivan to one of my aunts, who lived there with her husband for 46 
> years.  After my aunt and her husband died, my cousin, Larry Keillor of 
> Ashland, was settling the estate and came across two old picture albums 
> from the attic of that house.  There he found many pictures, mostly of the 
> Chamberlains, but among them are pictures of Levi Farnsworth, Bellona 
> Hewitt, Ezra Freyman and Cora and her sister when they were young girls.
>
> This is all I know of Levi Farnsworth.  Any other information will be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
> David Giesel
> dcgiesel at comcast.net
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