Dated June 11, 1887, proved Nov. 12, 1892; Wyoming Co. Probate 17:169-72. Of Sheldon; to 1st Free Will Baptist Society in Sheldon, NY $1,000 to be kept invested in trust - the income to help pay preacher & expense of Sabbath School; to Central Assoc. $500 in trust ... Exor friend Dexter S. Davis; Witnesses: Russel J. Stone, Attica & George H. Corp., Varysburg.
-June 25, 1861 Anna Grinnell and the committee for Esther Grinnell (Anna Grinnell & Charles Wilder) conveyed to Polly Grinnell, widow of their father, George Grinnell, 1/2 acre in Sheldon, her dower interest in the estate. [Wyoming Co. Deed 45:485]
THE FREE WILL BAPTIST PARSONAGE The present home of Ronald Wert was formerly the home of the Baptist ministers. The last resident pastor to occupy the parsonage was the Rev. William Walker, around 1933. On July 29, 1882, the church had purchased the land from Miss Anna Grinold for $1.00. Her father was George Grinold, who contributed a great deal towards the church building. The house was built shortly after the purchase, when the Rev. Washington Parker was pastor, who was the first to occupy the house.
WILLIAM GOODRICH VARIETY STORE The Grinold sisters occupied this house for a number of years and it is thought this was the location of their millinery shop in the village. Following the death of Anna Grinold in 1891 William Goodrich and his mother Agnes Graham Goodrich, widow of Charles moved here from their home on Attica Street. William who was a peddler had moved his variety store business into a small store-like addition to the house around 1890 and continued here until 1920. The story is told that this house had a board rail white fence about it and each Halloween the village boys would take it down and the next morning William D. would put it right back up again.
