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From: Ginny <>
Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] HAWLEY Family - A Neglected Tomb - Salt Point- 1928
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:13:02 -0500

Wishing does make it so - we are all family here - Right Ro. I would like to see the look on the faces of the folks at TD Bank North at 21 Market Street, Poughkeepsie when & if I walk in there and ask about a 1912 account<smile> Poughkeepsie Savings Bank was still going by that name in the late 1980's - I think since then it became Bank of the Hudson and today is TD Bank North and it could have gone by a few other names in between there. I'm thinking now that the "tomb"/Vault is not located on the property that Mary Hawley bought in 1898 and sold to Eugene Allen in 1909. The property reserved for a burial ground in that deed may be the cemetery listed in Old Gravestones of Dutchess as "Smith Ground" The Hawley "tomb"/Vault may be located on property that Mary Hawley of Brooklyn purchased of Walter Husted of Stanford in 1880 - a 4 Acre parcel probably in the same vicinity. Dutchess County Deed 202:250 - this 4 acre parcel was also in Pleasant Valley and was noted as being on the south side of the Highway leading from Hibernia to Poughkeepsie - In this 4 Acre deed it mentions it being the same property described in a deed by David S. DeGarmo as the sole executor of Nicholas Allen - 1872 Deed 163:464. This earlier deed may be for the property on which the "tomb" was erected and the property which Mary owned at the time of her death in 1912. If Lewis Hawley died in 1887 - it would seem that the 4 Acre Parcel would be the one he built the tomb on as he surely must have built it before his death - if it was on the other parcel which Mary didn't purchase until 1898 then it seems he would have built it on property owned by another. This is why I was sort of wondering if the Hawley's were related to the Bowmans or Husteds but I have no connection thus far on Mary (Hicks) Hawley's side and I seem to be coming up rather dry on Lewis Hawley's side except that Seversmith says he was the son of Nathan of Dutchess County. Still Diggin! Ginny On 11/17/2006 10:48:16 PM, Rose Mary A. (McGrath) Neal () wrote: Ginny, Gotta love ya' You are a determined woman. I just know that the Hawley gravesite will be watched over...and the bank questioned about its care.... You go girl. There is one and only one like you in every family and I and I am sure all here wish you were in our family. Ro Ginny <> wrote: More On Mary HAWLEY in case anyone is following this! ---------------- Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle Newspaper Published at Poughkeepsie Saturday, December 14, 1912