Levi Farnsworth

[Grampa_Jeff at bellsouth.net]

Hi Ineke,

My line also goes back through Josiah(2) and Hanna Buttrick who had 2 of 
several children

One was Solomon = Levi's father  His brother John F is my linage back also 
to England.

Toledo ohio Farnsworths are my Clan we may all be distant cousins LOL.

My tree is on Ancestry.com called Farnsworths 500 peopleor so I think.

We will be chatting I think.

Howard Farnsworth


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ineke" <aukrf at yahoo.com>
To: "Farnsworth Family History mailing list" <history at farnsworth.org>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Levi Farnsworth


Dear David,

Read your email with interest. My name is Ineke Fenzl and I am married to Ed 
. His mother is a Farnsworth. Her roots go al the way back to Matthias 
Farnsworth. There is a good website on Rootsweb that has Levi Farnsworths 
pedigree nicely worked out. When I did the ( fast) research tonight it 
appears that our families both are from the same line through Josiah 
Farnsworth and Mary Pierce.
Here is the link:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=homden&id=I179584

And here is my website on rootsweb:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fenwol&id=I3137

Also the most interesting thing is that we lived in Wellington and Oberlin 
for about 9 years before moving here to NY. My husband worked for Green 
Circle Growers not the college .
I have driven through Sullivan many times and I am familiar with the slavery 
history of Oberlin and the great escape from Wellington.

Hope this info helps,

Greetings from Baldwinsville NY

Ineke Fenzl




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From: "dcgiesel at comcast.net" <dcgiesel at comcast.net>
To: history at farnsworth.org
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 9:15:01 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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