“Is that the new teacher?” Children and adults whispered the question as Chester Beers, six feet four and one-half inches tall, stepped into the Lumberland Congregational Church, on Sunday, November 29, 1868. Chester, age twenty-six, was a farmer from Walton, … Continue reading
Hello Halfway Brook friends, It has been a long time since I posted, but we are doing ok here in Cave Creek. Abby, Laurilla, and Mary Ann, the book about my Hickok ancestors (1600–1900), is hopefully in the last stages. … Continue reading
Yet another find in the pre-1950 family photos and information collection of Mom’s. My dad was elected School Director of the Town of Highland in November 1945. Who knew?
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
To the left are two of the pages I referenced for “The Mill on Halfway Brook” regarding the arrival of the Eldreds in what would become Eldred, New York. The pages were copied by my great-aunt Aida Austin from what … Continue reading
I continue to organize my Halfway Brook files, when I am not doing new research. This is one of the many images which I scanned in color. I was on such a steep learning curve when I first began compiling … Continue reading
“Ancient Woodbury” and Southbury, Connecticut As I have researched “Ancient Woodbury,” Connecticut, the home of the ancestors of Asa and Esther Hinman Hickok (who arrived in Lumberland in 1811), I have run across several familiar names. Southbury was one of … Continue reading
Washington, January 16, 1862 Dear friends, I don’t know what they can want better than we eat. We get rice and molasses twice a week, beefsteak twice a week, pork and beans and corned beef the rest of the week. … Continue reading
Note 2/5/2014: In double checking the census of 1790 does not list Lumberland. In 1743 Lumberland was part of the Precinct of Mamakating; later (1788), the Town of Mamakating. On March 16, 1798, Lumberland was created as a town from … Continue reading
