War of 1812 Burials
Daniel B. Loomis (1782-1864)
Captain Daniel B. Loomis, the son of Revolutionary War soldier Daniel Loomis and Amy Peck, was born in 1782 in Pittsfield, MA. Daniel was a lieutenant in Colonel Chamberlin’s regiment of the Massachusetts militia and saw service in Boston during September and October 1814. At the behest of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, in the spring of 1820 Daniel moved his family to Gates, NY where he purchased 90 acres for the sum of $450 in August 1820. He was a master builder and designed and built numerous structures for the Rochester family and other leading citizens. Daniel died on his farm two miles west of the Rapids on 1 March 1864. The value of his personal property, excluding real estate, was appraised at $880.33. The Rochester Museum and Science Center has some belongings of Captain Daniel Loomis. His obituary reads: Died – In Gates, on the night of March 1st, 1864. Daniel Loomis aged 82 year and 2 months. Funeral will take place on Sunday next at 2 o’clock, at his late residence, two miles west of the Rapids. Capt. Loomis was an officer in the last war with Great Britain, in Gen. Chamberlain’s Regiment. He removed from Berkshire Co., Mass., in the spring of 1820, and located upon the farm upon which he died. He was one of the senior Pioneers, and for thirty years a prominent builder in this city, when he has left many monuments of his energy and skill. He was highly esteemed by community generally, who truthfully considered him one of the “noblest works of God, and honest man.”
Electa Loomis (Sherman) (1787-1863)
Electa Sherman was born in Lanesborough, MA in 1787 to Timothy and Polly Sherman. Not yet 17 years old, she married Daniel Loomis on 21 December 1803. Of their 12 children, only five survived to adulthood. One of these was born in Amsterdam, NY while on the journey from Massachusetts to Rochester. In addition to bequests to her children in her will, Electa left $25 to a Catherine Simmons, wash woman. She died in Gates, NY on 3 November 1863.
Myra Loomis (1818-1820)
Myra Loomis, daughter of Daniel and Electa, was born 5 November 1818 in Massachusetts. She died 30 July 1820 not long after the family’s arrival in the Rochester area. Other young children of this family likely to be buried here are: Calvin, born 29 January 1806 in Lanesborough, MA and died 28 October 1820; Timothy, born 14 April 1816 in Lanesborough, MA and died 16 February 1822; Mary, born 11 February 1825 in Gates, NY and died 23 March 1825; unnamed son, born 23 July 1828 in Gates and died 28 July 1828.
Isaac Loomis, eldest surviving child of Daniel Loomis and Electa Sherman, was born 23 August 1807 in Lanesborough, MA, and came with his parents to this area in 1820. Trained by his master builder father, he became Rochester’s first “professional” architect, having established his practice in 1826 or 1828. Isaac initially worked with his father on several Rochester public buildings and private dwellings, then independently in the 1850s and 1860s. From the early 1870s through the mid-1880s, he practised in partnership with his son-in-law William H. Richardson who is also buried in Rapids Cemetery (STOP 16). For a brief period in the late 1830s and early 1840s, Isaac lived in Michigan and is purported to have been the architect of Governor James Wright Gordon’s 1839 Greek Revival home in Marshall, MI. He designed homes in nearly every town in Monroe and Livingston counties. The circa 1870 Romanta T. Miller home in Wheatland, NY is a Loomis building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Isaac died on 30 June 1894 and was buried at Rapids Cemetery. His home at 42 Atkinson Street still stands in the Corn Hill neighborhood of Rochester.
Lydia Chapman, a daughter of Revolutionary War soldier John Chapman, was born 15 October 1810 in Montpelier, VT. She came to Rochester with her family in 1816 and married Isaac Loomis on 25 November 1828. Together they were the parents of five children. The eldest two died within a month of one another while the family was resident in Marshall, MI. Three daughters survived to adulthood and married. One of them was Myra, who is buried here with her husband William H. Richardson (STOP 16). Lydia died at the home of another daughter in Charlotte, NY on 13 May 1899 and was buried here on May 16th.
Loomis Family Headstones 
Daniel Loomis Obituary
