Mary Dezire WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

GIVEN NAME: Was her name Mary Dezire or Dezire Mary? (see below for info from FIND A GRAVE.)

PARENTAGE: According to the Early History of the Town of Milford and other parts of Otsego Co. From 1773 to 1903 by Ezra Stevens - Section II.
Mrs. Farrington's father, Old Mr. Wickham, as he was generally called, was a remarkable man for longevity. Mr. Wickham lived to the age of 102 years. He died very suddenly, was very smart and retained his faculties until he dropped dead. The day he was one hundred years old, he married his second wife, and his appearance was like a man at sixty. The woman he married was in her eighties.
(Note: "Old Mr. Wickham" is assumed to be John Wickham,1734-1835, since there could not have been too many Wickhams who lived to be over 100 and married at age 100.)

1800 NY CENSUS, Rensselaer Co, Schodack:
Ephraim Farington:
2 m. under 10:
1 m. 26-45;
2 f. under 10:
2 f. 10-16:
1 f. 26-45

1810 NY CENSUS, Otsego Co, Milford:
E. "Ferinton":
1 m. under 10:
1 m. 10-15:
1 m. over 45;
2 f. under 10
1 f. 10-15:
1 f. over 45
(Listed next to Jn. Wickham, Jn. Wickham, W. Wickham, Bn. Wickham, Wm. J. Wickham A. Merry and T. "Bailus" on census.)

1820 NY CENSUS, Otsego Co, Milford:
Ephraim Farrington:
1 m. 10-16:
1 m. 16-26:
1 m. over 45:
1 f. 10-16:
1 f. 16-26:
1 f. over 45
3 engaged in agriculture.

1830 NY CENSUS, Otsego Co, Milford:
Ephraim Farrington:
1 m. 5-10;
1 m. 20-30:
1 m. 50-60:
1 f. 10-15:
1 f. 50-60
(Listed next to them on the census were Jacob Farrington and Ephraim Farrington Jr. and nearby were Josiah Peet & "Coorad" Yager.)

1840 NY CENSUS, Otsego Co, Milford:
Ephraim Farington:
1 m. 10-15:
1 m. 70-80:
2 f. 5-10:
1 f. 40-50:
1 f. 60-70:
1 engaged in agriculture.
(Listed nearby on census were E. R. Farington, 30-40, and "Conrod" Yager.)

Early History of the Town of Milford and other parts of Otsego Co. From 1773 to 1903 by Ezra Stevens - Section II.
Chapter 14 - "Ephriam Farrington Settlement":
Mrs. Farrington died before her husband at the age of 84. Mr. Farrington died at the age of 93.

BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW - Biographical Sketches of the Leading Citizens of Otsego County, New York, Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Co., 1893, p. 713-714:
Ephraim Farrington was brought up a farmer boy, and was married near Chatham to Miss Mary Wickham. Some years afterward, about 1805, he remove to Otsego County, and settled in the wilderness of the town of Milford, where he improved a farm, and on this farm both he and his wife died, he at the age of ninety-three, and she at the age of eighty-four.

FIND A GRAVE - Milford Center Cem, Milford Center, Otsego Co, NY:
DEZIRE
wife of
Ephraim Farrington
died July 9 1846
aged 78 yr 4 m & 14 d

Mary married Ephraim FARRINGTON about 1783 in near Chatham, Albany Co, NY (became Columbia Co. in 1786).¹ (Ephraim FARRINGTON was born calculated 24 Feb 1760 in NY,³ died on 26 Dec 1851 in Milford, Otsego Co, NY ³ and was buried in Milford Center Cem, Milford Center, Otsego Co, NY ³.)