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From: Russ Sprague <>
Subject: [NYSTLAWR] Any Mosher Decendents around?
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 09:18:35 -0400
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Hi Anne (and list) - if you have not yet visited the site deadfred.com, you can go there and 'search now' and look for pictures of ancestors or 'submit now' and send them old photos in jpg format. I have sent a couple of pictures and have many more to send in the future. Despite the irreverent name 'deadfred', this looks like an excellent national repository of old photos. These old Mosher photographs may be good candidates for that once you get back to your scanner. It was definitely a widespread surname in Gouverneur at one time. There are many mentions in your cemetery and census records and in my newspaper records and church records.

I went to www.411.com and searched for Mosher in NY and there were more than 1300 listings. I refined the search to Gouverneur and there are two listings - James S. Mosher, 52 Grove St. and B. Mosher, 361 Summerville Rd. 411.com will list people who have listed phone numbers.

Russ

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> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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> Surnames: Mosher Henderson Graves Budd
> Classification: Query
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> Message Board URL:
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> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/6148
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> Message Board Post:
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> I recently purchased a set of old photographs on Ebay, mainly because most (around 11) were from Gouverneur (with additional pictures (one each) from Antwerp, Michigan, and Virginia). I received these yesterday and I believe most if not all of these are pictures of members of the Mosher family of Antwerp/Gouverneur from around 1885-1905.
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> One picture was marked on the back as "The Moshers" and is a picture of a man, woman, with two daughters. I have identified them as Eli C. Mosher, his wife Florence Henderson Mosher, and their two daughters Evadel and Helen. I was able to identify them since there are photographs of Eli and Florence in the 1905 Centennial history of Gouverneur and these are an exact match. Eli, Florence and Evadel (married name Budd) are all buried in Riverside Cemetery in Gouverneur and show up in my inventory. Some of the other pictures are either of a younger Eli, or else of his brothers (he had two I know of in Gouverneur). The resemblence is very very strong. There are also pictures of some children from around the 1890's that I'm trying to identify along with a very interesting looking couple from about the same period.
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> I don't have my scanner with me at my summer work location in New York, but I could try to use my digital camera to take pictures of these if anyone is familiar with the family and can help me identify them. I'd also be happy to pass these photographs on to any decendents who might still be out there and would like to have them. They are in remarkably excellent condition. All are studio shots.
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> Some of the pictures have handwriting on the back including:
> 1. Photo from "Cunningham & Smith" of Gouverneur of woman (looks a bit like Florence Henderson Mosher) but marked :Clara E. Schouton, Brockport, NY. WIth love and best wishes - June 19, 1897 - Perhaps this was a mailing address on the back?
> 2. Photo from "J.A. Faichney" of Antwerp, of a seated young girl (maybe 2 years old), dressed fancy and staring at the camera. Dated March 3, 1893
> 3. Picture that looks like a young Eli C. Mosher, from J.K. Cunningham in Gouverneur, dated 1887
> 4. Photo of a boy, maybe 15 years old??? with dark thick hair. From "Cunningham" in Gouverneur, dated Dec 24, 1888
> 5. Picture of a young woman around 20 years old from "F.S. Tisdell Studio" in Gouverneur. Dated March 1890. Looks like a young Florence Henderson Mosher.
> 6. Picture of a young girl, maybe 12 or 13 years ol with long, straight brown hair. From J.K. Cunningham in Gouverneur and marked "Married July 1898" on the back.
> 7. Picture of a young woman, maybe early 20's, from "Cunningham" in Gouverneur. Dated June 20, 1894
> 8. Picture of Eli C. Mosher, Florence Henderson Mosher and daughters Evadel and Helen. Helen is less than a year old and Evadel is probably around 9 or so. Taken at "The Cunningham Studio, Gouverneur NY". Probably around 1904-1905.
> 9. Photograph of a baby boy, probably less than a year old. Taken at University Studio, Charlottesville, Virginia. Labelled on the back as "Brooks Graves", Nov 17, 1899.
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> There are also 5 unmarked pictures:
> 10. Young women, not Florence, by Cunningham & Timothy Smith in Gouverneur.
> 11. Picture of couple (woman looks like an older version of the person in picture 10) from Cunningham & Smith of Gouverneur. Man could be a brother of Eli, but doesn't have Eli's trademark big mustache so its hard to tell.
> 12. Photo that again looks like a still younger Eli Mosher, but this one was taken in Battle Creek Michigan.
> 13. Picture of two young girls, maybe 8 and 5 years old. From Cunningham and Smith. Looks to be from around the mid-late 1890's to me...but that's a guess.
> 14. Picture of a brother and sister, both between 8-12 years of age. Both have somewhat droppy lower eye lids and boy has impressive set of ears. Taken at "The Cunningham Studio" so based on that name is probably from 1903-1906.
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> Ring any bells?
> Anne Cady

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