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- Eliada was one of the founders of Parish in the very early years of 1800, along with his wife Mary, and neighbor Thomas Nutting, when it was still part of the town of Mexico. In 1844 he and several of the town's men, including two of his sons and a son-in-law, purchased land for a cemetery in Parish that would become Pleasant Lawn Cemetery. However, there is no record of Eliada's burial there or anywhere. His sons, John and Jeremiah, daughter Luanna Orton Green, and son-in-law Luther Green who all died in Parish also have no burial place records. This suggests there was a family cemetery that is now lost. Eliada's obituary gives his date and place of death.
Parents; Eliada Orton and Lucina Hungerford (her death and burial details unknown)
Sons; John, Jeremiah, William, Marvin, Ransom, David, and Uriah. Uriah is not listed in the Orton book, but is buried next to his mother, "son of Elida and Mary"
Daughters; Luanna (Green), Polly, and Julia
"In Parish, on Monday morning, April 28 Aliardy [sic] Orton, in the 86th year of his age.
Deceased was born in Connecticut. During his boyhood his father removed to Vermont. from there he came to Otsego county in this State, and while there he married, and in 1840 [sic*] removed to this town, which was then an unbroken wilderness, and the bear, wolf, and deer round through the forest with none to dispute their right of possession. In this wilderness he erected his cabin and commenced clearing a farm- suffering all the privations incident to a new country. Thomas Nutting moved and settled upon the adjoining farm about the same time that Mr. Orton did, and together , on foot they would each carry a grist to mill, to Camden, a distance of some twenty miles, there being no grist mill nearer; and afterwards, when he got an ox team, he would make the journey, and nights, when upon the road, would unhitch his oxen and put a bell upon one of them, and let then eat during the night, while he partook of his humble meal and then lay down upon his load and slept until morning, when he would arise and partake of his breakfast, find his team, and then proceed upon his journey. Thus, by untiring industry and almost incredible endurance, he continued to prosper until he accumulated a handsome property.
From his youth he had a wen between his shoulders, which at the time of his death was very large. He usually enjoyed good health, and during the past winter he appeared unusually well; recently, however, his health began to fail, but no one supposed it serious, and on the morning of his death he arose as usual, and walked about some, and then sat down. The people of the house hearing a slight noise, went to him just in time to see him as the last breath of life left his body. During the past winter he conversed much upon religious subjects, and seemed deeply interested in the subject of salvation.
Thus has the aged father and patriot faced the storms of life four score years, and now full of Christian devotion and Heavenly love, his soul quietly leaves it tottering frame to take its happy flight from this cold world of sorrow, to dwell with Him who gave his blood that mankind might live. BELL" Mexico Independent May 15 1862 (*should be 1804)
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1775 - 1862 (86 years)