TOWN OF IRA HISTORIAN
Town of Ira Municipal Building
2487 West Main Street
Cato, NY 13033
Phone # 315-626-3444
Fax # 315-626-3120

March 15, 2006

John E. Hoyt
7325 Hessler Ct., NE
Rockford, MI 49341

Dear Mr. Hoyt:

In answer to your email of March 4, 2006 to Jill Campbell, Town Clerk for
the Town of Ira here we go.

1. Town records. Book 3, pg. 87, Hoyt, Edward Oscar, death March 3, 23
    1922, buried in Union Hill Cemetery, Village of Cato
    Book 3, pg. 84, Hoyt, Josephine E., death, November 24,
    I921, buried Union Hill Cemetery, Village of Cato, NY
               Book 1, pg. 0, Hoyt, Steven S. & Betsey A. Barnes, mar.

2. Cemetery records:
In Monumental Grove Cemetery, Village of Meridian, Town of Cato,
Cayuga Co., NY
a. Stephen C. Hoyt, d. Feb.29, 1888, ae. 65 years
b. Wife, Betsey Barnes Hoyt, d. Jan. 6, 1907, b.Oct.30, 1821
c. Daniel W. Hoyt, d. 1894, Civil War Veteran
d. Phebe Lawrence Hoyt, d. 1892 (Daniel's wife)
e. Lewis Hoyt, d. 1891, b. 1804
f. His wife, Esther M. Pierce, d. 1888, b. 1812
g. Their daughter, Mary A. Hoyt, d. 1860, b. 1840
h. Nehemiah Hoyt, d. November 14, 1877, b. March 14, 1800
i. His wife, Martha R., d. October I 5, 1857, b. November 25,
1802

		From the Van Wie Genealogy, no verification given
		Rosina & Sabra Van Wie are sisters, daughters of Henry Van
		Wie and Lydia Conger Van Wie.

		John Hoyt b. Mary I 2, 1822, place ?
		His wife, Sabra Isidore, b. February 8, 1826
		They married July 25, 1844 in the Town of Ira, Cayuga Co., NY

		Benjamin W. Hoyt, b. May 17, 1817
		His wife, Rosina b. June 4, 1821
		They married June 1, 1843, in Town of Ira, Cayuga Co., NY

	To find out about land records you will have to contact the Cayuga County
	Clerk, 160 Genesee Street, Auburn, NY 13021 or the web site for the
	County, http://co.cayuga.ny.us

	The Town of Cato does NOT have a web site therefore any contact with
	them should be addressed to Town of Cato Clerk, Short Cut Road, Cato, NY
	13033.

	Good luck with your research.
	
	Sincerely,
	
	Mrs. Dorothy Southard, Historian