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Ari & Cynthia (Bender) Draper

30. Cynthia Bender was born in 1822. She died on 9 Jun 1898 in Chittenango, Madison Co., New York. She was buried in the Oakwood  cemetery.

Her ancestors were part of the Palatine (German) emigration to America in the 1700s. A number settled in and around Herkimer NY.  Cynthia is believed to have been born in Herkimer.

She was married to Ari Draper (son of Boaz Brown Draper and Alice Olive Meyers) on 31 Dec 1840. Ari Draper was born on 4 Jun 1815 in Herkimer, New York. He died on 27 Jan 1884 in Chittenango, Madison Co., New York.

Ari is buried in the Fyler Community Cemetery on Fyler Road in (Sullivan) Chittenango.
 

Excerpt - Madison County Times Feb 8, 1884

Chittenango Station - The subject of this memorial, Ari Draper was born in the village of Herkimer on the 4th day of June 1815, died January 27, 1884. Of his early life and advantages his biography is limited. He moved to Sullivan, Madison County about the year 1838 and was married to Cynthia Bender the 31st day of December 1840 the ceremony being performed by the Hon Esq. Beebe of Canasaraga. He first located to East Boston and for years worked at the carpenter trade and mason work. From East Boston he moved to Syracuse and from thence to Lysander and thense to Ridgeville and in 1851 permanently located in Sullivan where he died as above stated.

He became seriously impressed in early life and formally united with the Weslyan Methodist, living an exemplary life for many years. He was so zealous and energetic in the cause of religion that conference granted him license to exhort. In 1866 he felt impressed to probe and thoroughly investigate spiritualism, which proved a more difficult task and strain on his mind than he anticipated. Ultimately he settled down as a consistent liberalist, claiming there was one Lord,one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and in us all.

It can be truthfully said of him that he can be numbered among God's nobility.-- the honest men. He earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, and is in happy communion with all the great and good that have preceeded him.

His wife improves this opportunity to express her sincere thanks to all of her many friends for their great kindness during her husbands quite protracted illness and feels very grateful for their manifestations of great respect shown deceased at the funeral.

Cynthia Bender and Ari Draper had the following children:

child+49 i. William Draper was born in 1842. He served in the Civil War. Enlisted at age 20 as a Private. Promoted to Full Corporal on 01 April 1865. Served New York Enlisted I Co. 157th Inf Reg. NY .Soldiers certificate number- 100387. Mustered Out at Charleston, SC on 10 July 1865. He died in Ohio in 1909.


child+50 ii. David Draper was born on 10 Apr 1844 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. He served in the Civil war. Enlisted as private at age 18. Served with New York Enlisted I Co. 157th Inf Reg. NY. Mustered Out at Charleston, SC on 10 July 1865. He died on 30 Nov 1934 in Rome, Oneida Co, New York.


child+51 iii. Ortency (Hortence) Draper was born in 1848. She married a man named Hulbert

 
child+52 iv. Charles Jerome Draper was born in 1849 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York. He died on 12 Jan 1933 in Prongua, Saskatchewan. He was a Farmer. He married Harriet Francelia Carpenter, born February 5, 1852 in Chittenango, Madison County, New York..

child+53 v. Mary Elizabeth Draper was born on 7 Jun 1852 in Chittenango, Madison Co., New York. She died on 28 Jan 1941 in Elm Mills, Barber County, Kansas. She was buried on 30 Jan 1941 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She was married to James Jackson.

Mary Elizabeth died in Elm Mills, Kansas at the age of 88 years, on Jan.28,1941of a heart attack. She was buried in Medicine Lodge, Kansas near her husband James.

child54 vi. Lillian Josephine Draper was born in 1857. She died on 31 Oct 1887.


child+55 vii. Ida Mae Draper was born on 5 May 1861 in Chittenango, Madison Co., New York. She died on 28 Jan 1936 in Chittenango, Madison Co., New York. She married Henry Camp


child+56 viii. Francis Elgin Draper was born on 11 Oct 1864 in Canastota, NY. Twin brother of Franklin.  He married Jesse Estelle Ingraham. Possible that he is buried in Portland, Oregon.

 
child+57 ix. Franklin Draper was born on 11 Oct 1864 in Canastota, NY. He died on 19 Dec 1929 in Arnold, Custer, Nebraska. Twin brother of Francis Elgin. He married Rosella Nichols (Hamilton)