Cynthia Waugh
1799 - 1883 (84 years)-
Name Cynthia Waugh Birth 15 Jun 1799 Gender Female Death 20 Aug 1883 Pulaski, Oswego, New York 
Person ID I40789 Stewartsny Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Family Silas Lyman, b. 24 Jul 1794 d. 17 Oct 1883, Pulaski, Oswego, New York (Age 89 years) Children 1. Irene Lyman, b. 3 Jul 1819 d. 2 Nov 1886 (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. John N. Lyman, b. 3 Apr 1838 d. 10 Nov 1916, Ocean Park, California (Age 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Henry Harrison Lyman, b. 15 Apr 1841 d. 4 May 1901 (Age 60 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F12845 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
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Notes - Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, August 30, 1883 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Died, August 20th, Mrs. Cynthia W. Lyman, aged 84, wife of Dea. Silas Lyman. The maiden name of the deceased was Cynthia Waugh She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, June 15th, 1799, of religious parents. She removed with them to Camden, Oneida County, New York, when quite young and afterwards to Lewiston, Niagara County. At that time that section of country was still a wilderness. A few years after their coming, both the father and mother died within a few weeks of each other, leaving eight orphans, the oldest daughter only 16 years old and the youngest but two weeks, the deceased, Cynthia, being 12 years old. Very soon after this event the war of 1812 broke out between this country and Great Britain which placed the whole of Canada in hostility to this country beside making it a place of rendezvous for British soldiers and the point from which hostile expeditions were fitted out and sent forth for the invasion of our northern boundary. The Indians, not only of Canada but of this country, were furnished with arms and incited to attack the week and exposed settlements along the shores of our northern lakes and the St Lawrence River. This settlement was so exposed that a nightly watch was kept to warn them of the approach of the Indians, the sentinel writing back and forth every hour and at the door of each cabin crying out, "all is well." Of those times of anxiety and danger the deceased could never speak, even in her old age, without tears, so full of terror and sorrow was ever the remembrance. An uncle, residing in Camden, hearing of their orphaned condition and perils went out in the only mode of travel possible in those days with horses and wagons, gathered up the desolate family of four friends and carried them back to his own home. Shortly after they left Niagara the Indians invaded this settlement, sacked and burned the houses and murdered some of the inhabitants. In Camden, she was taken to the home of Deacon Upson and by him sheltered and nursed and at his home United in matrimony January 27th, 1817, to Silas Lyman, and now surviving husband, they having lived together for more than 66 years. Of this foster-father, the deceased never spoke but with the deepest gratitude and affection. Her husband was then living in Lorraine, Jefferson County, and there residing at first in a log house, working and toiling day by day with a wondrous diligence and thrift spinning and weaving and making all the clothing for the household, she became the mother of 12 children, three of whom died in infancy, the remaining 9 surviving to manhood and womanhood. She united with the Congregational church in Camden, previous to her marriage, while still in her girlhood and transferred her relations to the Congregational church in Lorraine soon after her marriage. During the last years of her life she was an invalid, suffering especially from and impaired and broken nervous system, doubtless the result of excessive labors endured in her earlier life, but patient, uncomplaining, serene and cheerful to the last, she passed tranquilly and quietly to her final rest.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, August 30, 1883 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Died - In this village, August 20, 1883, Mrs. Cynthia Lyman, aged 84 years.
- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, August 30, 1883 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Died, August 20th, Mrs. Cynthia W. Lyman, aged 84, wife of Dea. Silas Lyman. The maiden name of the deceased was Cynthia Waugh She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, June 15th, 1799, of religious parents. She removed with them to Camden, Oneida County, New York, when quite young and afterwards to Lewiston, Niagara County. At that time that section of country was still a wilderness. A few years after their coming, both the father and mother died within a few weeks of each other, leaving eight orphans, the oldest daughter only 16 years old and the youngest but two weeks, the deceased, Cynthia, being 12 years old. Very soon after this event the war of 1812 broke out between this country and Great Britain which placed the whole of Canada in hostility to this country beside making it a place of rendezvous for British soldiers and the point from which hostile expeditions were fitted out and sent forth for the invasion of our northern boundary. The Indians, not only of Canada but of this country, were furnished with arms and incited to attack the week and exposed settlements along the shores of our northern lakes and the St Lawrence River. This settlement was so exposed that a nightly watch was kept to warn them of the approach of the Indians, the sentinel writing back and forth every hour and at the door of each cabin crying out, "all is well." Of those times of anxiety and danger the deceased could never speak, even in her old age, without tears, so full of terror and sorrow was ever the remembrance. An uncle, residing in Camden, hearing of their orphaned condition and perils went out in the only mode of travel possible in those days with horses and wagons, gathered up the desolate family of four friends and carried them back to his own home. Shortly after they left Niagara the Indians invaded this settlement, sacked and burned the houses and murdered some of the inhabitants. In Camden, she was taken to the home of Deacon Upson and by him sheltered and nursed and at his home United in matrimony January 27th, 1817, to Silas Lyman, and now surviving husband, they having lived together for more than 66 years. Of this foster-father, the deceased never spoke but with the deepest gratitude and affection. Her husband was then living in Lorraine, Jefferson County, and there residing at first in a log house, working and toiling day by day with a wondrous diligence and thrift spinning and weaving and making all the clothing for the household, she became the mother of 12 children, three of whom died in infancy, the remaining 9 surviving to manhood and womanhood. She united with the Congregational church in Camden, previous to her marriage, while still in her girlhood and transferred her relations to the Congregational church in Lorraine soon after her marriage. During the last years of her life she was an invalid, suffering especially from and impaired and broken nervous system, doubtless the result of excessive labors endured in her earlier life, but patient, uncomplaining, serene and cheerful to the last, she passed tranquilly and quietly to her final rest.