Willing
Willing was formed from Independence and Scio on Nov. 19, 1851. Alma was taken off in 1854, and part of Wellsville in 1855. Willing lies on the south border of the county, east of the center.
Elijah Robinson, from Brookfield, Madison county, settled on the Genesee adjoining the State line in 1825. He built a sawmill and made other improvements for four or five years when he became deranged and left the town. The first death was a child of Austin Butler in 1837. The first school was taught near Beanville in 1836 by Betsey Lovell. Allen Gifford kept the first inn in 1838 in Beanville and James R. Wood the first store at the same place in 1839. Elijah Robinson erected the first sawmill near the Pennsylvania line on the Genesee. The first religious meeting (Protestant Methodist) was held at the house of Daniel Baker by Rev. Seneca Fish. [Source: J.H.French, Gazetteer of State of New York, 1860, p.168]
Child's 1875 Gazetteer for Willing
Cities, Villages and Hamlets
Hallsport - hamlet in northeast corner of town by Chenunda Creek
Beanville - north of Shongo
Paynesville - southeast corner of the town
Stannards - hamlet on the north town line
Shongo - Read about a cyclone that hit Shongo.
Stone Dam - southwest corner of the town
York Corners - hamlet south of Stannards
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Historical Vital Records
Cemeteries
*code #s refer to the Allegany County Cemetery Index card file at the Allegany County Historical Society and LDS Family History Library microfilm. See Western New York Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. II, No. 1 |
Resources
- Stephens-Peet Cemetery Records, Shongo, Township of Willing, New York copied by Beatrice and LeRoy Dodson, handwritten; Walter C. Hinkle Memory Library, Alfred, NY; also available at FHCs
- Graves Cemetery - Cemetery Records of Graves and Gardner Families handwirtten; Walter C. Hinkle Memorial Library, Alfred, NY; also FHCs
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