Person:Anthony Van Aken (7)

From The Van Benschoten Family Pp 426 Anthony Van Benschoten m 1st in the Delaware Valley, Elizabeth Hornbeck, nee Wells. Following closely the lead of his brother, John, and his brother-in-law Ludowyck Van Demark, he early migrated and located on a farm at Junius, Ontario, NY. Having lost his wife, he timed life anew with the new century and m 2nd, Jan 1, 1800, at Romulus, NY Martha … this second marriage, it is said, sprang from the exigencies of a hunting expedition. “One evening early in the winter of 1799 a hunter wrapped in a coat of fur and accompanied by his dogs claimed the hospitality of the McMath home”, on the shores of Lake Seneca near Ovid. “It was Anthony Van Auken of Junius”, and “this was the occasion of his making the acquaintance of Martha, the eldest of the McMath daughters, who not many weeks afterwards assumed the cares and duties of wife and Mother in his little household.” Anthony died July 12, 1827 from injuries received in a run-away accident and is buried in Lyons NY. Martha died in 1831 and is buried at Parma Corners, NY.

Written by William HH Van Auken, 1891, for his grandniece, Ida Van Auken: Anthony van Auken and wife, Martha, were vsiting his brother-in-law, William Bainbridge, about nine miles east of Lyons, on the canal, July 4, 1826 or 1827, When on the way back, horse kicked him, inflammation set in and he lived only four or five days.

From Memorial of the McMath Family (1895)

Pp 48 Anthony, the third son of James, married for his second wife, Martha McMath…One evening early in the winter of 1799, a hunter wrapped in a robe of fur accompaniued by his dogs, claimed the hospitality of the McMath home. This was Annthony Van Auken, of Junius, the most northern township of Seneca Co. His childhood and youth had been spent in the vicinity of Port Jervis, New York, but on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. He had married a Miss Hornbeck, but now, five motherless children played around his hearth. They bore the names of Benjamin, Lodowyck, Levi, Cornelius, and Elizabeth. …Of Martha, the eldest of the McMath daughters, who not many weeks afterwards assumed the cares and duties of wife and mother…Levi Van Auken married a lady named Peters at or near Little falls, NY. A grandson now resides in Alexandria VA, named F.L Van Auken (son of John Peters Van Auken, b 1816; d 1843).

1. ↑ Van Benschoten, William Henry. Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in America: A Genealogy and Brief History. (Poughkeepsie, NY: A. V. Haight Co. Printers, 1907)
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2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ann Croston (?). Descendants of Anthony Van Aken
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3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Van Benschoten, William Henry. Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in America: A Genealogy and Brief History. (Poughkeepsie, NY: A. V. Haight Co. Printers, 1907)
   426.