Editor, The Beacon:

I was quite interested in your article about our county name and some of the history of the town of Volusia.

There is another Volusia in the state of New York. It’s a little southwest of the Chautauqua Institution.

My great-great-grandparents lived in the town (village?) of Volusia and are buried in Volusia Cemetery, New York. My great-grandmother married John Fay from Westfield, New York. They moved to Fulton, Illinois, after the Civil War. She promised her parents that she would take the train home to Volusia, New York, every year and introduce new babies to them.

Westfield is on Lake Erie and a little west of where Henry DeLand lived in Fairport, New York. I called the librarian in Westfield a year or more ago, and she did not know the origin of the name of Volusia. It certainly could be a Native American name.

Sincerely,

Ruth Ann Fay
DeLand