Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Bemiss, Oscar May 1, 1922 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net January 20, 2008, 9:52 am Author: Hardin & Willard Bemiss, Oscar, Winfield, one of the representative farmers of Winfield, was born in Richfield, Otsego county, May 1, 1822, and came to Winfield in 1832, with his father Asahel C. Bemiss, who was born May 9, 1780, and died December 27, 1848. He married Betsey Harding, born September 20, 1792, who died March 27, 1884. Oscar F. Bemiss married, February 20, 1850, Esther A. Bemiss; born September 26, 1822, died September 23, 1892, aged sixty-nine years, eleven months, and twenty-three days. She was a daughter of Jonathan Bemiss, of Edmeston, Otsego county. Oscar F. and Esther A. Bemiss had five children: E. Elizabeth, Martha O., Lyman D., Kate M., and Flora C. Bemiss. Martha married Frank M. Westfall, and they have two daughters, Mabel Bell, and Orrilla May. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/herkimer/bios/bemiss243gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb