1940s Eldred Group
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1937 Eldred Band
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Another View Near the Hudson River
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Remembering Town of Highland’s WWI Soldiers
My Uncle McKinley Austin, the oldest son of Mort and Jennie Leavenworth Austin, died in France in October 1918. His body was brought back to the US at a later time. McKinley in France Ruth Colville, Barryville, writes McKinley McKinley’s … Continue reading
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1851 Post Office Appointment
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1821 Near Fishkill, NY
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1821 Newbury, New York View
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Dear Soldier Boy, 1918
I would like to revisit the young ladies (who read a Lone Scout magazine ad) and wrote letters/postcards to Mortimer McKinley Austin who had enlisted in the army. The letters were mostly written in February of 1918. There seems to … Continue reading
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1820 Hudson River
In my searches for photos on the Library of Congress site, I found several in the Hudson River Port Folio of interest. From LOC: Irish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River’s … Continue reading
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1831, James Eldred Postmaster
A couple weeks ago I was contacted by a descendant of C.C.P. and Effa VanTuyl Eldred. She wanted to share some documents and photos from her family. What a wonderful surprise that one of the documents was for the 1831 … Continue reading
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