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- [S607] e-mail: Jeannette Buck, consolidating ... Ah hah, yes, she came through this time. Text only, not email info (9) facts.
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From: Jeannette Buck [mailto:skymom@pennswoods.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:23 PM
To: wetzupdoc
Subject: Re: a photo- this time?
Ah hah, yes, she came through this time. That is Daisy Lovinna Williams born Feb. 9, 1902 married Chester Foster January 1937? (I'm doing this off the top of my head, I think you have the info) died January 1979 in Rawlins, Wyoming where she is buried. She was the mother of one child of her own, Margaret Arlene Foster, born July 17, 1938, and step mother to Eldine and Ronald Foster. Both of whom considered her their mother as they did not remember their own.
She is the second daughter of Charles EDSIL Williams and Betsy Rogers Williams.
Maybe we got the names reversed in the picture of them together. My grandmother, Mary Mariah Williams Morley, Daisy's older sister is narrower of face and her features are finer-- looks a little more like a Williams-- Aunt Daisy favored the Rogers family in appearance - larger bones and
features-- both wore the round glasses
We were going through the family descendants and stopped because it was taking too much time and I said I would send the rest to you. Can't remember where we left off. That is the promise I was referring to.
I'll be glad to see you if you have time to drop by.
I believe the woman with the round glasses in the back of the reunion photo is Mary Williams Morley-- don't remember if Aunt Daisy is in that one or not. Will have to look. Grandma is in it.
Isn't that a lovely picture of Aunt Daisy? Strikingly beautiful is right. She was always pretty, even in old age. And had a lovely smile. They were both beautiful women.
See you soon, I hope. Jeannette
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From: Jeannette Buck [mailto:skymom@pennswoods.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:23 PM
To: wetzupdoc
Subject: Re: a photo- this time?
Ah hah, yes, she came through this time. That is Daisy Lovinna Williams born Feb. 9, 1902 married Chester Foster January 1937? (I'm doing this off the top of my head, I think you have the info) died January 1979 in Rawlins, Wyoming where she is buried. She was the mother of one child of her own, Margaret Arlene Foster, born July 17, 1938, and step mother to Eldine and Ronald Foster. Both of whom considered her their mother as they did not remember their own.
She is the second daughter of Charles EDSIL Williams and Betsy Rogers Williams.
Maybe we got the names reversed in the picture of them together. My grandmother, Mary Mariah Williams Morley, Daisy's older sister is narrower of face and her features are finer-- looks a little more like a Williams-- Aunt Daisy favored the Rogers family in appearance - larger bones and
features-- both wore the round glasses
We were going through the family descendants and stopped because it was taking too much time and I said I would send the rest to you. Can't remember where we left off. That is the promise I was referring to.
I'll be glad to see you if you have time to drop by.
I believe the woman with the round glasses in the back of the reunion photo is Mary Williams Morley-- don't remember if Aunt Daisy is in that one or not. Will have to look. Grandma is in it.
Isn't that a lovely picture of Aunt Daisy? Strikingly beautiful is right. She was always pretty, even in old age. And had a lovely smile. They were both beautiful women.
See you soon, I hope. Jeannette
- [S644] FaceBook- Jeannette Morley Buck, L - R. Daisy Williams Mary Williams and Maizie Williams & Cora Williams, 21April 2012 For Christopher Lampman:.
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17.04.2012, 9:20 am facebook, Jeannette Buck: John, just found a snapshot here labeled Mary Morley and Daisy Foster cousins with Mazie and Cora sisters I know that Philemon had a daughter Mazie who married a Porter. Bet he had a daughter, Cora, too. But still don't know if he had any sons He died in Dalton, NY. Suppose that would help? OH, yes. Do you want this picture? . What was your father in law's name? I want to add Erways, need a starting point.. My father in law was Lawrence Eugene Buck wife, Mabel Evans Buck.
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L - R. Daisy Williams, Mary Williams (my grandmother and her sister) Maizie Williams and Cora Williams. The last two were sisters and daughters of Philemon Williams. And they were cousins of the first two. Are you confused yet?? ;)
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thanks Jeannette, and yes i'm confused...
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Third one over is your great grandmother.
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Think that is the only Picture i have ever seen of Her, Thank you Jeannette.
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What is the descendency? I find no wife for Philemon, nor Daisy's ofr Maizie's spouse/children. Help!
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I don't have a wife for Philemon, either. But Maizie was his daughter. She married someone named Porter.
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John, The Daisy in the picture is Edsil's daughter, married Chester Foster. I think you have that info.
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Chris Lampman is a descendant of Maizie and thus a descendant of Philemon, but doesn't have any information.
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You said above that Daisy and Maizie were sisters, or did I misunderstand that.
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Who were Chris's parents?
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It is confusing to do it this way. The girls on the left are Mary and Daisy Williams- daughters of Edsil and Betsy Williams. The girls on the right are Maizie and Cora Williams -- daughters of Philemon. (labeled as sisters on the back of the photo.)
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Chris Lampman is the son of Kenneth Lampman and Donna--- ?)
Kenneth Lampman's mother was Margaret Porter--- daughter of Maizie Williams Porter.
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Thanks. I can't get any of this off the web, strangely enough. Still a lot of gaps on your side of the family in my tree. I really appreciate your help.
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Thought I would look up Dalton NY that is where Philemon died, according to the family info. don't know what county that is-- maybe some info there.
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Oh, yes. Lots of gaps.
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I found two cemeteries in Dalton, NY: Dalton and Union Cemetery Dalton; neither has any Williams', let alone Philemon. I'll keep looking...
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Well, I did find a Philemon Williams, but only one: Philemon Williams
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- [S292] newspaper: Potter Leader Enterprise-, 1888-12-25. "Once Upon a Time".
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newspaper: Potter Leader Enterprise-, ... Francis Louis Truax, No record exists indicating whether they went alone, or even if their families knew of their intentions. Granddaughter Marie Morley Truax remember that Betsy told her the trip took all day.
The Bridal Book: Once Upon a Time in Potter County, published in the Potter Leader Enterprise, ca. 1988-
Charles Edsil Williams and Betsy Lucinda Rogers drove to Shongo, NY in a horse-drawn sleigh on Christmas Day, 1888, and got married.
No record exists indicating whether they went alone, or even if their families knew of their intentions. Granddaughter Marie Morley Truax remembers that Betsy told her the trip took all day.
The two did have a picture taken, dressed iin their "Sunday-go-to-meetin' best." Edsil (as he was known) was handsome and neat in his 3-piece suit, but at 28, his hands already showed the effects of years of hard work.
Betsy was just 18; very pretty, with hair piled high on her head. Her smile is slightly uncertain, but her hand rests firmly on her new husband's shoulder. The union they began that Christmas a century ago grew strong and true and lasted nearly 48 years, ending only with Edsil's death.
Charles Edsil Williams was born on Monday, June 25, 1860, in Harrison Vaeeley, the youngest son of Joseph T. and Susan Mariah MacMasters Williams.
When he was 14, his mother died. His father soon remarried, to a woman named Martha Gardner.
The new Mrs. Williams and her youngest stepson soon locked horns, and Edsil left home. He lived with his brother Philemon for a while, worked in the woods, farmed, did whatever was necessary to make a living.
Jim Morley remembers hearing his grandfather Edsil tell the following story about his youth.
Cure for Sleepwalking-
It seems Edsil was a sleepwalker, a habit which was, at the very least, an embarassing one to have in a camp full of burly lumberjacks. He surprised them by asking to sleep in a top bunk. They couldn't understand why he wanted to be so far from the floor when he began his nightly stroll. However, the young man knew what he was about.
The ceilings in those hastily built bunkhouses were extremely low, so when Edsil started to get out of bed in his sleep-- he smacked his head hard on a rafter. It didn't take too many bruises on his skull to cure him of his embarassing habit.
Betsy liked to tell this story about her own early years.
When she was 10 years old, she was "hired out" to George and Sarah Williams to help with their new baby girl, Mable.
Edsil, then 20, came to visit his brother's family and see his new niece.
Someone, in the age old fashion, asked him when he would "find a nice girl and settle down and have babies of his own." Always a tease, Edsil replied, "I'm waiting for Betsy to grow up." He may have been joking then, but 8 years later, he kept his promise.
Betsy Lucinda Rogers was born Oct. 30, 1870, near Gold, the 5th child of Calvin and Persis Lovinna Raymond Rogers. B the time she was 4 years old, she had begun to assume small responsibilities in the household. The first job she could remember was keeping the little bench that served as a washstand by the kitchen door scrubbed and the basin filled with clean water for her two older brothers and father when they came in from outside.
Betsy was proud of her heritage. Her great-grandfather Amos Raymond of Massachusetts fought in the Revolutionary War, and her grandfather Daniel Raymond was a veteran of the War of 1812. She was the offspring of pioneers, and she inherited their spunk and tenacity.
Signs Autograph Book--
On her 12th Christmas, Betsy was given a little authograph book. Adults staidly signed their formal names, such as "G.G. Acker, West Pike, PA" Her little brother Ray filled a page with a childish scrawl, and friends wrote infinite variations of the old standby: "Whereever you may be/Don't forget to remember me."
Her mother signed with a poetic admonition, "Strive to kep the golden rule/And be a good girl when out of school."
And on one page is simply: "C.E.Williams, Gold, Potter Co, PA"
There is no record of where Edsil and Betsy lived the 1st 2 months of their marriage. In February, 1889, Persis Rogers received a letter from her sister, Mrs. Spencer Preston of Michigan. "... David wrote that Bettie (as Betsy was sometimes called) was married Christmas and I know how badly you will hate to have her go for a great many reasons. But we didn't know how bad our Mother felt to have us go. We can only hope she will have a good Husband and home."
In March, 1889, Edsil and Betsy bought household goods from W.J.Grover in Newfield (see sidebar). It probably was at this time they went to Brookland to work for Mr. H.H.Dent.
Apparently Edsil and Betsy moved frequently during the early years, to wherever there was work. By 1896, they were living in Daniel Raymond's old homestead between Gold and Raymond. A baby was due to arrive in the late fall.
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Betsy's father, Calvin Rogers, kept a diary from July 1896 to April 1897, and from it we get a glimpse of what seems to have been a difficult pregnancy for Betsy.
In August, the Robers visited their daughter and found her so ill that they stayed with her all night. By the 19th of October, Betsy's mother Persis was getting nervous, according to Calvin's diary. "Pirt has been cleanin house and killin bugs all day!" On the 20th, she made a trip to Raymond in the morning with her daughter-in-law Neeley and then ironed all afternoon. "It's about time for Betsy," Calvin writes.
The fall harvest continued through the last days of October. Edsil was ill and needed help a day or two.
On Nov. 4, Edsil came for his mother-in-law. "Pirt has gone to Betsy's. She is sick. I am alone tonight. It's windy tonight."
On the 5th: "Pirt is to Edsil's. Betsy was sick. Wrayned all day."
On Nov. 6, Calvin's diary reads, "Helped D.W.Greene butcher his pig. It waid 170 LBs. Betsy had a girl baby this mornin. Wife got home." His sigh of relief is almost audible. His wife was home, and Mary Mariah Williams was present and accounted for. Shortly before Christmas, the little girl visited her grandparents for the 1st time.
There is no diary available for 1902, but it is safe to assume that Grandma Rogers was called into service again to help with the birth of Daisy Lovinna Williams, born Feb. 9, 1902. She was born in the house her father had built on land in Allegany Twp, near Gold, which he purchasted around 1900, close by his father-in-law's farm.
An itinerant artist happened by that summer and, in payment for one of Betsy's good suppers and a bed for the night, he made a pencil sketch of the Williams farm. It shows the house, a barn on the right, and a figure, supposed to be Mary, in the yard, surrounded by tree...
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17.04.2012, 9:20 am facebook, Jeannette Buck: John, just found a snapshot here labeled Mary Morley and Daisy Foster cousins with Mazie and Cora sisters I know that Philemon had a daughter Mazie who married a Porter. Bet he had a daughter, Cora, too. But still don't know if he had any sons He died in Dalton, NY. Suppose that would help? OH, yes. Do you want this picture? . What was your father in law's name? I want to add Erways, need a starting point.. My father in law was Lawrence Eugene Buck wife, Mabel Evans Buck.
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L - R. Daisy Williams, Mary Williams (my grandmother and her sister) Maizie Williams and Cora Williams. The last two were sisters and daughters of Philemon Williams. And they were cousins of the first two. Are you confused yet?? ;)
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Jeannette Buck Third one over is your great grandmother.
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Christopher E. Lampman Think that is the only Picture i have ever seen of Her, Thank you Jeannette.
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John Christy Wetzel What is the descendency? I find no wife for Philemon, nor Daisy's ofr Maizie's spouse/children. Help!
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Jeannette Buck I don't have a wife for Philemon, either. But Maizie was his daughter. She married someone named Porter.
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Jeannette Buck John, The Daisy in the picture is Edsil's daughter, married Chester Foster. I think you have that info.
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Jeannette Buck Chris Lampman is a descendant of Maizie and thus a descendant of Philemon, but doesn't have any information.
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John Christy Wetzel You said above that Daisy and Maizie were sisters, or did I misunderstand that.
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Jeannette Buck It is confusing to do it this way. The girls on the left are Mary and Daisy Williams- daughters of Edsil and Betsy Williams. The girls on the right are Maizie and Cora Williams -- daughters of Philemon. (labeled as sisters on the back of the photo.)
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Jeannette Buck Chris Lampman is the son of Kenneth Lampman and Donna--- ?) Kenneth Lampman's mother was Margaret Porter--- daughter of Maizie Williams Porter.
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John Christy Wetzel Thanks. I can't get any of this off the web, strangely enough. Still a lot of gaps on your side of the family in my tree. I really appreciate your help.
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Jeannette Buck Thought I would look up Dalton NY that is where Philemon died, according to the family info. don't know what county that is-- maybe some info there.
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Jeannette Buck Oh, yes. Lots of gaps.
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John Christy Wetzel I found two cemeteries in Dalton, NY: Dalton and Union Cemetery Dalton; neither has any Williams', let alone Philemon. I'll keep looking...
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John Christy Wetzel Well, I did find a Philemon Williams, but only one: Philemon Williams
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- [S386] Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online. Number: 520-78-1986; Issue State: Wyoming; Issue Date: 1973.
Record for Daisy Foster
Social Security Death Index about Daisy Foster
Name: Daisy Foster
SSN: 520-78-1986
Last Residence: 82334 Sinclair, Carbon, Wyoming, United States of America
Born: 9 Feb 1902
Died: Jan 1979
State (Year) SSN issued: Wyoming (1973)
Source Citation: Number: 520-78-1986; Issue State: Wyoming; Issue Date: 1973.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.
Description: The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.
- [S1085] census 1940 USA NY Allegany, Year: 1940; Census Place: Wellsville, Allegany, New York; Roll: T627_2459; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 2-44.
Record for Chester Mckinle Foster Chester Mckinle Foster in the 1940 United States Federal Census Household Members: Name Age Chester Mckinle Foster 38 IL head refinery foreman/superintendant Daisey L Foster 38 PA wife Eldine L Foster 9 IN daughter Ronald M Foster 6 NY son Margaret A Foster 1 NY daughter Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Wellsville, Allegany, New York; Roll: T627_2459; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 2-44
Chester Mckinle Foster in the 1940 United States Federal Census
date: May 6, 1940
enumerator: Mrs. Anna S. Bierman
Name: Chester Mckinle Foster
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year:1902
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Illinois
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House:Head
Home in 1940: Wellsville, Allegany, New York
Street: Osborne Street
House Number: 18
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935:Wellsville, Allegany, New York
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Resident on farm in 1935:No
Sheet Number: 7A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation:138
Occupation: Wilet Superantholeopialiatant
House Owned or Rented:Rented
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented:35
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 3rd year
Hours Worked Week Prior to Census:40
Class of Worker:Employer
Weeks Worked in 1939:52
Income: 2659
Income Other Sources:No
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Name Age
Chester Mckinle Foster 38 IL head refinery foreman/superintendant
Daisey L Foster 38 PA wife
Eldine L Foster 9 IN daughter
Ronald M Foster 6 NY son
Margaret A Foster 1 NY daughter
Source Citation
Year: 1940; Census Place: Wellsville, Allegany, New York; Roll: T627_2459; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 2-44
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Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
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- [S292] newspaper: Potter Leader Enterprise-, Thu, Nov 19, 1925 p7 John Schollard on The Early Days of Coudersport 20240403GHLn-.
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Mr & Mrs G.W. Atkinson are rejicing over the birth of a seven-pound daughter at the ouerport Hospital, November 14. She will be called Wilma Adelaide.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Metzger and children of Roulette, called on her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Mattison, Sunday afternoon.
Mr & Mrs Judson Dingman and children, Arneda, Isaac, Alta, attended the Williams' reunion at Edsel Williams' at Gold, Sunday.
The Harvester Class met with Miss Leona Matherson, Saturday evening.
IN THE EARLY DAYS
OF COUDERSPORT
Paper By John Sohollard, of Hebron, Read Before the Potter County Historical Society.
I was born in Coudersport in the year 1852. My people came here some time in the forties and settled in Coudersport. My father's occupation was railroading. That being a very poor occupation for a man in those days in Coudersport he went on the Erie Railroad as a brakeman on the passenger train running from New York to Covington, as the road was built only to that point at that time.
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Mr. Brown, who sometimes did clerical work, but his occupation was that of an iron molder. His place of business was where the silk mill now stands. Just above was the town carpenter and contractor, Eli Rees.
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Lady's wear, by Crissy Metzger.
... the book store of Mrs. John S. Mann, where people bought books for their school childfren. ... Lewis Mann, groceries.
On the other side of the street, where the Potter Gas Company now is, was a Mr. Judd, who kept postoffice. Where the Knight building now is, the Spencers ran the candy store and supplied the young people with sweets as a atter of course.
Back to Main Street, in the block was the store of C.S. Jones who sold groceries and a few other supplies. ... Also, the Armstrongs made to measure boots and ladies' shoes, guaranteed to wear a whole year or to be repaired for nothing. On the lower corner was the Bill Jones General Store where deer was bought and shipped by teams to Pottsville and carried to market to Philadelphia and sold.
On the next corner, where the Crittenden now stands, was the hotel kept by the genial Sam Mills where refreshments were bought for three cents a glass.
On the other corner across from the Crittenden House was a store run by J.B. Smith. On the corner where the Potter County Garage now stands was the Hickory Hotel, or Cartee House.
... There was also a WR. Starkweather, who claimed to be the best ox-shoer in town. There was also Mr. Thompson, the wagon-maker.
The legal minds were Mr. Maynard, Mr. Ellis and J.S. Mann. Other residents living in the town were Timothy Ives, Arch F. Jones, W.M. Metzgar, Ben Rennells, Judge Ross, Abiather rounseville, W.B. Gordnier, Albert Goodsell, Brum Rorabacher. I must also make mention of Jake Reed, who made the drive and felled fifty acres of timber before breakfast on a Sunday morning.
... the Irish families in thos early days: the Careys, Gillons, Ryans, Sullivans, Glavins, Calhouns, Kernans, McCarthys, and Mr. Tommy Linnehan.
wear a whole year or to be repaired gran to gTOW more grain. Dr. Ellison for nothingi On the lower corner was also built a more up-to-date grist and the Bill Jones General Store where, saw mill ophe Crittenden farm.
how. Shipped by teams owned by A." Bfephe'ns" "Estate', .'n-1 to Pottsville and carried to market to Philadelphia and sold. On the next corner, where the Crittenden now stands, was the hotel
other Industry in the town and a large asset to the farmers around the vicinity of the town, in the early days, was
. , ' ; ir-; p.;us4 , hralromer, 4-i, 1 lves Arcn 'i J0 .
V V uiunviuuu Vli WI& kept the ashery of Bill Jones, who bought i by the genial Sam Mills where re-! all the ashes made by the farmers and freshments were bought for three was leached in large vats, boiled down cents a glass. into crystals, called salts (or Potash) 1 On the other corner across from the sacked and shipped to New York and Crittenden House was a store run by refined and made into baking soda for J. B. Smith. On the corner where the tne People's pancakes for breakfast, i
Potter County Garage now stands was 1 W.B. Gordnier also built a Dlant for ' the Hickory Hotel, or Cartee House. making farm implements for farmers, Now I have taken you through the in the Iine of hy takes, cutting boxes business part of the town. There was and other necessary things. The fac- also a W.R. Starkweather, who claim-
tory was equipped with one brown ed to be the best ox-shoer in the town. norse that furnished the power with a There was also Mr. Thompson, the tread and a turning lathe installed, wagon-maker. J was Me the man who built a wood- ThA Wl mint WOM m, Mn.
'shed. He said: "I got it completed; I Mr. Ellis and J. S. Mann.
Other resi- stePPed back and took a look at it and ATir. livincr in T.hA Iavh woro Timnhv ' wufiiicu, .mm ii. yuu passenger train running from New York to Covington, as the road was built only to that point at that time. Unfortunately, my father was killed at a later date at Wellsville Station, N. Y. State, when I was only ' nine months old. It was rather a hard proposition for my mother, as, at that age, I was perhaps more of an item of expense than an asset. The point that I want to bring out is that Coudersport had generous people in the forties and fifties; but not nearly as many as now. I will try to give a bird's eye view of the town and what it contained and . ' nmiMn'.
novo (..lnoJ ki, Ablather " -" .w.t, , . nes, w. in. meizgar, i , Ben Rennells, Judge Ross, Abiather LU"'"" 1 "ave ne.T ... o n n Ian n-n i n cr of if Kounseville, W.
B. Gordnier, Albert. Goodsell, Brum Rorabacher. I must
A Mr. Sandberg added to the town's growth by building a tannerv growth by building a tannery which was located across the river. Mr. Sandberg's business was ruined by a Mr. Colville who banked his logs below the tannery and in the spring flood it backed the water up and put
also make mention of Jake Reed, who i which made the drive and felled fifty acres i
mention of the Irish families in those I early days: the Careys, Gillons, Ryans,!"18 business out of date. Other large Sullivans, Glavins, Calhouns, Kernans, interests Degan to come in, such as McCarthys, and Mr. Tommy Linnehan ' tne Hammond tannery, Mina Mills, of timber before breakfast on a Sun day morning.
It would be proper, perhaps, to make a I will not take up your time on the South Side as there was only one house at this time and that was the TTnll hmiap Tho lnnrl nn flio Rnnt-Vi U I ns -1 4.:-.-4.. X looked like. As a matter of course, I Side was owned by the Keatings and - iuc" '""y ior ..gms shall have to commence from some was cleared by them for a farm. The I Pfved st.re?ts'. a Pod sewaee system the building of the Coudersport & Port Allegany railroad.
The South Side began to build up with business places; also new residences, equipped of inem ior a iarra. me - . ... . - lnir,f , nw on T will Vo Keatine-s were verv crenerous makinf? ' PIenry 01 snaae' nne water and one f i1o0 f K0io0 f Mr r ,, homiest.
tn the Cnnntv and Schools. tne nicest county seats on the Penn- sometiems did clerical work, but his The Dent family was also residents of Jl nla map I occupation was that of an iron molder. the County Seat and was largely cred-I Thanking you for your time I have His place of business was where the ited for the interest they took in the taken up I am going to leave you to silk mill now stands. Just above was the town carpenter and contractor, Eli Rees. As you move down Main street, on the right hand side was where the ladies were supplied with bonnets, skirts and other fashionable garments, sold building of the town.
The town clock draw your own conclusions from your was a generous donation from the Dent family. F. W. Knox was also a resident of the town, coming here as principal of the High School. Now, as I have been taking you by urissey Metzger.
continuing on 'th,ough the early days of the Borough aown Main street was tne dook store owr imaginations of the early days of the town. JOHN SCHOLLARD. October 30, 1925.
of Mrs. John S. Mann, where people order to carry you a little farther of Coudersport, it perhaps would be in tioDi exponaa fieri facias, levari fa- bought books for their school children On the next corner was the store of Lewis Mann, who supplied the people with groceries in a small way. On the other side where the Potter Gas Company now is, was a Mr. Judd who kept postoffice. Where the Knight building now is, the Spencers ran the candy store and supplied the young people with sweets as a matter of course. Now we will go baok.to Main street, and in the block was the store of C.S. Jones who sold groceries and a few other supplies. In this block, also, was the Armstrongs made to measure down the line when others began to come in and establish other lines of business. The Canfields built a large gristmill with a race carrying water to furnish the power for a large buck- dersport, Pa. et wheel to do the grinding which
cias and sur mortgage, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Potter county, Pennsylvania, and to me directed, I shall expose to public sale or outcry at the courthouse in Cou- of be the & R.
SHERIFF'S SALE
By virtue of sundry writs of venditioni eponas, fieri facias, levari facias and sur mortgage, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Potter County, Penna and to me directed, I shall expose to public sale or outcry at the courthouse in Coudersport, Pa.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1925
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Parcel 1. in Homer Twp, containing 80 acres.
Parcel 2. in Eulalia Twp, containing 52 acres and being the northern tongue of Michael Snyder farm sold to Frank Howland June 6, 1907.
Parcel 3. in Homer Twp, containing 157 acres adjoining corner of lot deeded by J.H. Ayres to Alfred Ayres.
Seized, taken in exeution, and to be sold as the property of Henry Beihler and Elizabeth Biehler, at the suit of The Citizens Safe Deposit & Trust Company.
IRVING E. VELEY, Sheriff
R.R. Lewis, Plaintiff's Attorney
United States
Pennsylvania
Coudersport
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- [S262] obituary, Daisy L. Foster, cf. image in Master Source.
- [S405] Coudersport, PA, Potter Leader-Enterprise (print edition), consolidate 20190827Gold-.
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