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Sylvester farmed with his father, James L. Blake, for many years. After his father's death(1900- 1910), Sylvester and Hattie opened a general store in Morgan.

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Joseph is mentioned on Page 1303 of the HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE [op.cit.], as follows:
Joseph is said to have been "a comparatively early settler of this part of the state. Leaving his New England home about 1834, Joseph Scribner started westward with his family, journeying overland with teams, at the end of twenty-two days arriving in Leroy township. Taking up a tract of land that was still in its virgin wildness, he cleared and improved a homestead, on which he was engaged in tilling the soil until his death, April 20, 1861, at the age of sixty-four years. His wife, whose maiden name was Judith Stevens, survived him, passing away in 1878, aged seventy-five years."

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On 12 August 1861, Alonzo enlisted as a Private in Co. D, 5th Vermont Infantry Regiment at Hyde Park. Along with other verterans, he re-enlisted on 15 December 1863. On 29 June 1865 at Munson's Hill, Virginia, he was mustered out, having served almost 4 years without sustaining any injuries He was most fortunate to survive, because the 5th Vermont suffered severe losses. Its greatset loss was on 29 June 1862 at Sawyer's Station in Virginia. During a 30 minute period, the 5th Vermont suffered the greatest loss of any Vermont regiment in any one battle, losing 188 men. Then, in June of 1864 at Petersburg, the 5th Vermont lost 349 men. Among the other battles in which that regiment took part were Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, the Wilderness Campaign, Spottsylvania and Gettysburg.

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Ai was a successful stock raiser and farmer in Nebraska. His story is told in COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRPAHY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA [op.cit.], pp. 1038-39.
From the time he was ten years of age, Ai made "his own way" in the world. His father, Abraham, died when Ai was only five, and his mother re-married in 1861, when Ai was 14. As a young man, he worked hard, sometimes without pay, and attended school during the winter months. In 1865, he went to Oregon, where he lived 6 years, then returned to Washington County, Iowa, for a brief time.
In 1872, he took up a homestead in Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska, upon which he started a farming operation. He and Ellen and family lived there until 1884, when, due to his declining health, they moved north to Hay Springs, Sheridan County, Nebraska. That over-300-mile trip north took from 30 May to 4 July. Then, it was necessary for Ai to travel to the town of Valentine, Nebraska (a round-trip of over 200 miles), in order to file a claim for land. In 1884, there was no railroad and no town closer than Valentine. There in Hay Springs, they resumed farming, while living in a tent. After several years of failing crops, he turned to raising stock animals. Eventually, his farm encompassed 640 acres, much of which was given to raising wheat.
In the article about Ai, it states that he "has seen his share of the hard times in a new country and does not want any more frontier life. He is satisfied with what he has accomplished and would not care to go east to live."

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Grayson was a carpenter. They lived in Missouri, Kansas and California.

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In the 1910 Census of Ft. Scott, Kansas, Egbert is listed as "Albert."

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Art was the Manager of a Hide Company in Durango, Colorado (1920) and a meat-cutter in a meat shop in San Juan County, New Mexico (1930).

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George was a carpenter.

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Jack served in the U.S. Army throughout World War II, enlisting 16 September 1940, and being honorably discharged 7 June 1945. He was buried in the Santa Fe (NM) National Cemetery on 11 October 1995.