Chapman Family - Ourfolk

THE FARGO FAMILY

BY PALMER C. FARGO

Nehemiah Fargo was born in Bozra, Conn., on January 10, 1764,
and was married in June, 1783, to Mary Chapman.
They resided in Bozra about ten years after their
marriage and then, successively, at Colchester and Hebron,
in Connecticut; Sandisfield and Great Barrington, Mass.;
Green River and Geneseo, N. Y. At the latter place
Mr. Fargo worked on the Wadsworth estate one year and
after putting in his crops he took his axe on his shoulder
and started through the woods, coming out at Warsaw,
where he immediately negotiated for a piece of land, and
made an opening preparatory to building a log house,
to which he returned in the fall and completed all except
hanging the doors. He built the house double, large
enough to accommodate any weary traveler or home-seeker
who might come his way. Therefore, he became really
the first keeper of a public house in town, though he
never did that as a profession or as a business. In the
spring be loaded up for the last time his belongings on
a cart drawn by oxen and a wagon with horses, and after
three days, going by the way of LeRoy and over Bethany
Hill he arrived at Warsaw.

This was in 1804. Mr. Fargo made a large purchase
of land; more than one-third of the village of Warsaw oc
cupies a portion of his investment. He gave to the Prea
byterians the land on which their church stands and in
return, it is said, was given his choice of pews. He settled
on the place, corner Main and Livingston streets where
his son Allen Fargo resided for so many years and which
is now occupied by his great grandson, Wilber G. Fargo.
Nehemiah Fargo was a prominent factor in the early his
tory of Warsaw and many of his descendants still reside
here and are active and influential in the affairs of the
town.

Nehemiah Fargo went to Warsaw as one of the 'founding fathers' in 1804. A son of
his (Alpheus) drowned in the autumn of 1804 at the age of five. His was one of the
first burials in Warsaw - on Main Street in what was commonly referred to as 'the
old burying ground'. (This burying ground is now known as the Warsaw Village
Pioneer Cemetery)]

Memorial Inscription - Warsaw Pioneer Cemetery

In memory of Nehemiah Fargo, who departed this life Oct 13, 1828, AE 64y 9m 3d, He rests his body in the tomb, His soul on high with saints and angels blest. His Lord doth glorify. His hopes and faith are fled and now in rapture sweet.

The Settlement of Warsaw - page 271-283 - excerpts

In 1803 a number of families and several young men settled in town. Three named Hovey came early in the spring, and they were followed in a few months by their father with five younger sons...

Mehemiah Fargo ... and others settled in the course of the first season.

The second death in the Warsaw, NY was that of a son of nehemiah Fargo, who was frowned in the Otaka creek, in the autumn of 1804, at age 5. His was the second burial in the :old burying ground' on the east side of Main street,

From 1848 to 1857 Benjamin F. Francis, jr., John M. David and Allen fargo were in trade under different firms.

In March 1850, the Warsaw Cemetery Association was formed and the following officers were elected; ... Allen Fargo.

Benjamin F. Fargo was secretary and treasurer of the Warsaw Gas Works in 1859.

David Fargo was chosed Trustee of the Warsaw Baptist Church in 1828.

'He rests his body in the tomb, His soul on high with saints
and angels blest. His Lord doth glorify. His
hopes and faith are fled and now in rapture sweet.'
(from The Driverand Green Families & Ancestors in America)