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Lanny Nunn?Potter/McKean County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
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15You, Patricia Neilly Vella, Cece Zerbst and 12 others
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Patricia Neilly Vella
I always thinking of washing all those white clothes (with only a wringer washer if you were lucky !) !!
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Joan Nelson Gulden Kaminski
I wonder if the Stocums were from Coudersport.
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John Christy Wetzel Yes, they lived in Coudy. They were included in several posts on this and the Coudersport site. Louis was Potter County Commissioner and in 1911, Registrar, when he signed the death certificate of his father-in-law, Melville Sirilus (M.S.) Thompson [shown here, so photo must be within a couple years short of 1911], who had adopted his (M.S.'s) sister's daughters, Marion (Mrs Marion Stocum, here) and Marcia (married Wm Stevens) (the girls had been re-named at adoption); the little girls are their daughters. Wm W Thompson was M.S.'s nephew, married his partner at the Potter County Journal Eva Dyke; Vesta was their daughter. The Thompson and Mann families (M.S.'s wife was Cora Eloise Mann) had been very active in the underground railroad. William Stevens was deputy to sherriffe George A. Farnsworth in 1899. TMI?
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John Christy Wetzel
Louis Stocum:
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Ric Main
Patricia Neilly Vella. My mother, born 1912, spoke often of herself, sisters and their mom (my grandmother) washing clothes when they lived on Pinneo Hill Road off the Eleven Mile at Chrystal in Potter County. They would fetch water from the well, heat it and fill a metal tub, add soap and use a washboard. Same process repeated to rinse and then twist (ring) out the water, then hang to dry. A few items needed ironing; they would heat the iron on a stove -wood? This would have taken place up to 1920 on the hill until they moved to Shinglehouse at Martin St. I'd presume the home had indoor plumbing but no machine because she said this process with the washboard continued as Grandmother did it for others for some income up to the time of her death in 1924. She told this to me many times over as a child and once retrieved the old board from our attic which she somehow ended up with, or one like it. Loved those old stories. Sure wish I knew what happened to the board. Here is one just like it.
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