Fuller, Thomas

THOMAS FULLER, farmer, P.O. Spartansburg, was born December 20, 1806, in Whitehall, Washington Co., N.Y., son of Abiezer and Sarah (Lyons) Fuller, the former a native of Vermont, the latter of Washington County, and who moved in 1817 to Elk Creek Township, Erie Co., Penn., where they resided about nine years, and then settled in Sparta Township, this county. They were parents of twelve children, five now living. Mrs. Fuller’s father was crippled by a wound received on Lake Champlain during the Revolutionary war. Our subject, the second in the family, was reared on a farm, helping his father, who was a poor man, and enjoyed but limited educational advantages. In 1831 he married Huldah, daughter of Silas and Sally (Hare) Bates, natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts respectively, and who settled in Erie County, Penn., in 1823, whence after a short residence they came to this county and located in Sparta Township. Of their family of ten children, four are now living. To Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have been born four children: Jasper L., who, with his wife, was killed at the Angola disaster in 1867; Mary A., wife of Irwin Kindly; Jane A., wife of Joel Rogers; and Flora May, who died in September, 1878. Our subject and wife are the oldest couple living in this township, having settled after their marriage on their present farm, comprising 150 acres of the best land in Sparta Township, all of which Mr. Fuller has cleared excepting fifteen acres. He has given 100 acres to his daughters, who reside near him. He has satisfactorily served as Supervisor, Constable, Road Commissioner, and in other township offices. In politics is a Democrat. Mr. Fuller has always been a hard worker, but though he has passed the allotted period of life, he is as spry and active as most men of fifty.