Has Anyone heard from Evelyn Cooper
She hasn't posted anything since April, Just wondering
She always Forwarded the Niagara News, that I transcribed to the Niagara List
nothing since April????
Glenda
Hi Joyce,
Sorry I haven't responded to your message. I don't remember getting it
and I guess that isn't an excuse but it is a good as I have.
I have been ill all week so my mind maybe wasn't working very well.
Anyhow I'm glad you sent a message again thru the list.
I would love the Myers information if you would like to share.
Thanks again,
Muriel
OK Vee, you need to drink some STRONG BLACK coffee, take some aspirin and
hit the hey. Sounds like you had one to many.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Vee L. Housman [mailto:housman@adelphia.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 7:57 PM
To: NYNIAGAR-FOLKS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Here's the story
Thanks Jo for your applause. Actually I really wish that Betty and I would
have ever done such an outrageous thing. In fact, when I read back over the
story, it almost made me a bit tipsy m
The Elusive Ancestor
by Merrell Kenworthy
I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still.
He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will.
He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences.
He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census.
He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame.
And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name.
His parents came from Europe. They sho
Dear Folks,
Kim Brown from Texas sent me the following message regarding our planned joint list "reunion" on Wednesday July 23, Thursday July 24 and Friday July 25. It reminded me that I needed to remind the rest of you who had expressed your intentions to attend. At last count there are 34 of us hoping to get together.
There aren't any special events planned for us with the exception that the Niagara County Historical Society will provide us with a "Welcome" room where we will all get together at 1:00
Dear Folks,
Those of you who are also on the NYNIAGAR list have already read this but I thought the rest of you would appreciate how my day went yesterday.
A couple of days ago I was at the Town Hall (Town of Porter) and the Town Clerk begged me (as town historian) to take some of their old records off their hands because he was running out of room in their storage room. I was
only too willing but I don't have a filing cabinet to store them in. I discussed the problem with the Town Supervisor and he ass
Hello List!
I seem to have run into a "brick wall" researching the lineage of my ggrandmother, Jennie S. BAKER (b. 3 JAN 1861 in Lewiston, NY) who married Henry A. URTEL of Wolcottsville/Lockport, NY. Jennie's death certificate lists her father as Asa BAKER and her mother is not listed as her maiden name was not known. I found an Asa BAKER m. to a Sarah J.(birth place Canada West) in the Lewiston 1860 Census. I am fairly certain that these are Jennie's parents as Jennie named her first daughter (my gran
I've started an exciting new project that some folks might find
interesting.
My 4th great grandfather Isaac WOOLSON was born in 1757 in Weston,
Massachusetts. He fought for freedom in the Revolutionary War, enlisting
a total of four times between 1775 and 1781. After the war Isaac married
and raised a family, earning a living as a farmer and a cabinet maker. He
lived in Waterbury, Vermont for a while, where he built the town's first
grist mill, and in 1817 he came to the wilds of Lewiston, NY to live with
Oh dear Raymond,
I give you a standing ovation!! I've known of your dedication in
researching your Woolson family and of your tireless effort to find the
graves of your ancestors, but this has to be your finest hour!
And when the time comes that the tombstone and the military ceremony is held
over the family Woolson plot, please let me know in advance and I'll be
there with a big supply of Kleenex in hand. I just hope I won't embarrass
you when I cry my eyes out!
vee
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From: <
Nancy,
Dickersonville Cemetery is a old fairly small cemetery located on Ridge Rd.
(Rt. 104) about 1/3 miles west of Lewiston. It's well maintained and I
believe that Raymond Woolson made serious notations recently in recording
the information off of the existing tombstones.
vee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy"
To:
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:23 PM
Subject: [FOLKS] Dickersonville Cemetery?
> Hi all,
> Someone has asked me where D
BETTY AND VEE'S AFTERNOON OUTING
June 28, 2003
Picture it. The year is 2003 and two "over-age" ladies decide to take a drive into the countryside. Each of them is agoraphobic in their own way. To be precise, Betty is afraid of getting lost and Vee doesn't even want to leave her house AND she has no sense of direction. But they talk each other into going anyway. And awaaaayy, they go.
Betty is driving and Vee's acting as navigator. After driving around for about a half hour, Vee gets confused and
Dear Folks,
Now that the Town of Porter Historical Society newsletter is in the mail to all our members, I'm finally coming up for air and can put aside my editor's hat until September.
This afternoon I looked around my office and finally couldn't stand the chaos in it. I took care of the little stuff, threw some of it away, filed some of it and then turned my attention back to the stack of stuff I had inherited recently from the Town of Porter. With some of it I still need a filing cabinet to store it
Dear Folks,
This afternoon as I was engrossed in my newest murder mystery "She Walks These Hills" by Sharyn McCrumb (SUPER!), and listening to soft classical music, a thunderstorm hit and the next thing I knew the electricity went out. It was only 5:00 so I continued to read by the light coming through the window. But when 6:00 rolled around and I still was without electricity, I knew that it was definitely dinner time. I wasn't all that worried. I have a gas stove and I knew that I wouldn't starve to
Group:
So is this what happens when we turn 29? Boy, I have a lot to look forward too!
This Saturday, the 5th, I turn 49, whoops I meant 29!
I'm surprized I made it this far!
Kim
Dear Jo,
Regarding our having an Erie Canal cruise and dinner at Canalside as a GROUP
would certainly be a last-minute call. For me to make reservations for our
group I'd have to have an approximate number interested and I would have to
come up with sizable deposit.
However, there's nothing to say that if any of us showed interest in making
individual reservations during July 23, 24 or 25 and agreed to make them for
the same time, we could still sit together on the canal barge and hopefully
all sit at th
Dear Folks,
One of our group members (who I will call Ann) let me know the ongoing problems she's been having since this past February concerning an auto accident she had been in, her injuries, her eventual loss of her job because of it, the insurance companies wouldn't fork over any money, she was denied Unemployment benefits because she's not physically fit to go back to work and she will have to wait until a year goes by before she will be eligible for Social Security Disability benefits. Therefore, sh
Hey Charles,
What? And spoil the delicious thought??
vee (hiccup!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "matheson"
To:
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 9:41 PM
Subject: RE: [FOLKS] Here's the story
> OK Vee, you need to drink some STRONG BLACK coffee, take some aspirin and
> hit the hey. Sounds like you had one to many.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vee L. Housman [mailto:housman@adelphia.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 7:57 PM
>
Dear Folks,
I just returned home after running two simple errands in the village. One was to deposit 2 library books into the box outside the library (I knew the library was closed by then) and the other was to take a few things to the post office to mail.
So I tootled on down to the library, walked blithely inside the building, walked up the stairs and was confronted by a "closed" sign on the library door. Oh rats! I had forgotten! I went back down the stairs, out the door and deposited the books in
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR ANCESTRAL NAMES AND OTHER RECORDS
(Forwarded to us by Eugene Hampton)
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(1) Thou shalt name your male children: Abel, Balaam, Daniel, Elisha, Elijah, Frank, Jack, James, John, Joseph, Levi, Michael, Nimrod, Noah, Richard, Thomas, or William
(2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elender, Elizabeth, Hulda, Julia, Lucinda, Lourana, Mahala, Mary, Martha, Nancy, Nelly, Phoebe, Sarah and Tabitha.
(3)
Hey, Jo, what you'll sees is what you'll get!! :-)
Frankly, I'm still laughing my head off myself at that ridiculous story I
wrote. Although I made the whole thing up, I can still picture Betty and me
hanging on to each other perched at the end of a hay wagon singing our
hearts out!
Wheeee!
vee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josephine Grieve"
To:
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Here's the story
> Vee, You are soooooooo
Vee,
About that MYERS Family, Well you got it. That is part of my Family. I have alot of information for Muriel. She asked about Sunday night. Well, I e-mailed direct. Have not gotten a respones frome her I hope that she will read this and get in touch with me.
I hope to make it for the reuion but, my brother is coming from Texas that week. I was looking forward to it.
I also have been putting the daniel and Martha WILSON family on my pc hope to get most of the names indexed bef
Dear Folks,
I don't know if my advancing age is getting to me or my arthritis is getting to me or whether I'm just getting incredibly lazy. But nowadays I don't wanna do nothing that I don't wanna do.
Such as day before yesterday as I was getting dressed in the morning I took note that I was putting on the last pair of clean skivvies that I had, the laundry basket had filled up and I had to sternly warn myself that I had to the laundry THAT day. But I didn't WANNA!
I agonized over it most of the day bu