The following items were taken from the Allegany County Democrat of October 12, 1892:
The 1875 census of Willing was taken by S. A. Elliott of Wellsville;
Some of the deaths in that year were:
Elic McVeigh, age 67, liver complaint
Mariah Graves, age 48, consumption
Name not copied of one from enlargement of the liver & one from "paralesis"
Rosbind Stills (last name not too legible) suicide by cutting throat
Jane Graves, 83, b. Pa. old age
Bernard Hawkes, 82, b. Mass; wound on foot
Miller Richmond, 2 & 3/12, congestion
Marriages during the year were:
Warren Billings & Estelle Leach, Sept. 5
Ortho Richmond & Martha Wood, Oct. 3
Frank Bingley & Sue Billings, Oct. 11
Charles Underwood & Susan Graves, March 18.
"Beat This"
We the undersigned potato diggers of the Town of Willing did dig, pick up, draw and
put in the cellar 250 bushels of potatoes inside of ten hours on Azariah Beach's farm
near Yorks Corners on the 7th day of October, 1892.
C. A. Gardner
M. Loaring
H. E. Med
A. Goodridge