Benijah Corey and Deborah Talferd Williams

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Husband Benijah Corey ¹

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           Born: 24 Oct 1778 - Burlington, Chittenden Co, VT 1
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           Died: 4 Mar 1870 - near Fort Wayne, Allen Co, IN 1
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         Father: [Ancestor] Corey (      -      )
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       Marriage: 20 Feb 1799 1

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Wife Deborah Talferd Williams ²

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           Born: 10 Sep 1780 2
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           Died: 25 Aug 1872 - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV 2
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Children

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1 F Anna Corey ²

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           Born: 20 Feb 1800 2
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2 M John Corey ²

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           Born: 4 Jul 1802 2
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3 M Alfred Corey ²

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           Born: 6 Apr 1804 - New York 2
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           Died: 6 Apr 1891 2
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         Spouse: Rachel Adams (      -1881) 2
           Marr: 25 Apr 1831 2

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4 M Moses Corey ²

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           Born: 9 Jun 1806 2
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         Spouse: Lydia Adams (      -      ) 3

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5 M Charles Wesley Corey ²

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           Born: 19 Jun 1811 2
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         Spouse: Julia Ann Sailor (      -      ) 2

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6 M Lewis Corey ²

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           Born: 11 Sep 1813 2
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7 M John Nelson Corey ²

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           Born: 27 Jan 1816 2
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8 F Lydia W. Corey ²

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           Born: 17 May 1818 2
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9 F Phoebe J. Corey ²

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           Born: 4 Apr 1821 2
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10 F Deborah M. Corey ²

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           Born: 5 Jul 1823 2
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11 F Elizabeth P. Corey ²

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12 M Barkley Corey ²

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           Born: 6 Nov 1825 2
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General Notes: Husband - Benijah Corey

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He was a descendant in the seventh generation of the American progenitor of the Corey family.

Immediately after his marriage he purchased three hundred acres of land, which later was located in the heart of New York City. They cleared this and placed it under cultivation, in which they were very successful, but, owing to the depredations of neighboring children, Mr. Corey, much against the wishes of his wife and children, sold this property and removed to the wilds of Pennsylvania, where he purchased another farm, and cleared this, it later being a part of Jefferson City, Pennsylvania. When this section commenced to be more thickly settled, Mr. Corey sold it also, and removed to near Fort Wayne, Indiana, which he later sold for a similar reason, and purchased another farm at Peru, Indiana, which became part of the suburbs of that city. At this place he and his wife contracted fever and ague, and this, combined with the infirmities of old age, forced them to visit their three sons who were living at Port Perry, Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Monongahela river. Mr. Corey was a John Wesley Methodist, was a class leader in this church fifty-five years, and prided himself on not having missed a single Sabbath in all of this long period.

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General Notes: Wife - Deborah Talferd Williams

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She was a Quakeress.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 654.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 655.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 658.