A Mr. Margarum is found in 18391113SSS_WHS1. SSS talks about removing the remains of family from Vernon to the new "Family Vault." The vault was completed and a procession of re-interment occurred as Mr Margarum gives up the bones of the "departed relations," making "no ob- jection to the removal but would prefer their remaining as it aded respictability to his farm. He had kept the burying plot in firm repaire much to his credit." He apparently lived in John Seward's old house. Stephen Ford Margerum, the sun of Samuel Edward and Mary F. Margerum, was born at Hamburg 1793, and died in 1852. He inherited the enterprise of his family, and his business connections were very extensive. In 1827 he bought, at commissioners' sale, of the estate of William Smith, deceased, merchant of New York city, and partner of Elias Haines, 1,088 65-100 acres of the Colonel Seward tract upon Snufftown Mountain. He added to this purchase by others afterwards made. The venerable John Seward mansion was his home, and his mother, Mrs. Mary F. Margerum, resided with him. The old house has only recently been taken down to make room for the more commodious and tasteful dwelling erected by his son, Noah H. Margerum. After standing a century and a quarter, much of the old frame was sound and good. Mr. Margerum had a saw mill and grist mill, and ran the forge, upon the Seward Creek branch of the Pequannock above his house and near the Vernon township line.