Person:Sidney Larabee (1)

From Historical Gazetteer And Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, NY

Fayette C. Larabee was born in East Otto, March 13, 1847. His grandfather, Eleazer Larabee, came from Hamburg, Erie county, about 1823, and with him came also about the same time five sons and four daughters, four of the sons - Miner, Thomas Nathan, and Ira - being married and bringing their families. Eleazer Larabee was born Aug. 31, 1756, and died Jan. 29, 1837; his wife, Mary (Grant) Larabee, was born Sept. 15, 1767, and died May 28, 1835. Sidney L. Larabee, the youngest of the five sons and father of Fayette C., was born in Oneida county April 2, 1805; his wife, Lorinda (Scovel) Larabee, was born in Orwell, Vt., Feb. 15, 1810; they were married Sept. 16,1827. Hezekiah Scovel, the father of Mrs. Larabee, had settled in town in 1822. In 1840 Sidney Larabee located on the farm where Fayette C. now lives, which has been in the possession of the family for fifty-three years. Here he resided till his death June 6, 1875. He was the father of six daughters and six sons, of whom but two sons and one daughter are now living. Fayette C. Larabee married, Dec. 21, 1869, Abbie T., daughter of Rev. N. F. Langmade, a Baptist clergyman of this county. They have one son, C. Rossie, born Dec. 22, 1880. After the death of Mr. Larabee's father his mother was cared for by him till her death Oct. 12, 1890. In the earlier history of the town the Larabees composed quite a proportion of the inhabitants; it is said there were at one time about thirty voters by that name, but at the present time Fayette C. and his family are the only representatives of the name left. His only remaining brother, Nathan, is a farmer in Otto and his only sister resides in the west.

From Edwina

Sidney and Lorenda had 6 girls and 6 boys - but only 2 sons and one daughter lived to maturity.

So far the names I have gotten are:

Fayette C. Larabee b) 1847 d) 1927 married Abbie T. Langmade on 12/21/1869 (Abbey = Abigail) She was born 1849 and died 1921 (that was in the E.O. Cemetery Book). They had one son: C. Rossie Larabee b) 12-22-1880 and d) 6-10-1965. His funeral was at Ellicottville and he's buried in the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Ellicottville. He was living in Olean at the time of his death. He married a Zora Reynolds who died on January 19, 1933

From Rossie's Obit

They had two children: Mrs. Franklin R. Becker (Niagara Falls) and Parley F. Larabee (Albion).

1. ↑ G.T. Ridlon, Sr. Saco Valley Settlements and Families. (1895)
   page 808.
2. ↑ Wyoming County, New York Historian's Office
   Paper written by Palmer C. Fargo.