Interesting newspaper article found re LEVI TRYON descendants

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From Sandy Creek News, May 17, 1928, page 7 (see http://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org)

Last week’s publication of the poem “The Wreck of the Asp” has brought forth surprising results. It was with little hopes that the quest of the identity of the author of the poem might prove fruitful, that the query was put forth last week. Therefore it was with some surprise that it was learned that Levi Tryon was the grandfather of Mrs. W. M. Hollis of Sandy Creek.

Mrs. Hollis can recall going to visit her grandfather at his home near Mexico. As she was then but seven years old, her memory of him is necessarily limited, but as she remembers him he was a grey haired, rather thick set man.

Our unfounded belief that he might have been of a religious nature seems to have some proof in the names of some of his sons, three of them having been named Peter, James and John. His other three sons were Morris Thomas and Alonzo and his daughters, Susan and Charlotte.

Of these children Alonzo Tryon had three sons, Fred, Charles and William. Mrs. Gleason Week being a grandchild of Alonzo Tryon; John Tryon lived in Iowa and never married; Morris Tryon had six children: Mrs. North, Mrs. Webb and Wellington Tryon now deceased, Clarence Tryon of Pulaski, Delos Tryon of Clyde and Mrs. W. M. Hollis of Sandy Creek. Wellington had three children: Mrs. Martha Cuthbertson, Mrs. Harold Lloyd and Harold Tryon. Mrs. Webb had one daughter, Mrs. Fry of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs. W. M. Hollis had three children, Miss Bessie Hollis, Don Hollis who passed away sixteen years ago, and Mrs. Ida Philbrick of Syracuse, whose three children are Mrs. W. B. Martin of Amboy Center, Florence of Ithaca and Ray of Jacksonville, Florida.

Charlotte Tryon married a Sampson and Susan Tryon married Henry Greenwood of Boylston whose son Walter Greenwood married an aunt of Fred I. Bellinger, who discovered this poem “The Wreck of the Asp” and gave it to us for publication.
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