Apr. 1 went to Sunday School & to Mrs. DeLapp’s for dinner. Went to “young people’s meeting” in the evening.
Jesse attended the Utica Baptist Church, likely the oldest religious organization in Utica as it was established in 1849. The brick church that Jesse attended was built in 1868.
Mrs. De Lapp is Mary Foster De Lapp, widow of Joseph De Lapp, both born in Indiana. Her son George Augustus De Lapp was married to Jesse’s older sister Rosa Bench and the couple were living in the large Bench household during the 1900 federal census.
Thank you to the Livingston County Library and Darlene Cole for the webpage on Utica’s history.
