Monthly Archives: December 2012
1913 Merry Christmas
1913 Christmas Post Card
1913 Christmas Card
Christmas Cards sometimes arrive after Christmas. I went through my extensive old Postcard scans file and found a few cards that I don’t think I have posted. So here is a belated very old Christmas Card.
Christmas V-Mail 1943
Each Book in the Memories from Eldred Series includes a war unfortunately. Book 3 which I am working on includes World War II. Recently my cousin sent me this greeting from my dad to her family in 1943.
Others in 1915
Joseph Meyer, a glass cutter, and his wife Florence Van Eastenbridge had a son Raymond. Florence was the daughter of Mary van Eastenbridge Bosch and Mary’s first husband. Alexander and Ida Wait had two children. His mother Mary Wait lived … Continue reading
Mountain Grove House 1915
Homestead Cottage Burns Down The Homestead Cottage on Collins Road that Mort and Jennie Austin ran, burned down in 1915 or 1916. Mort and Jenny then purchased Mountain Grove House, which seems to be the Austin house on Proctor Road … Continue reading
Eldred News, March and August 1915
Abel A. Hazen has purchased a new automobile of the Studebaker type. Mr. Hazen is learning to operate his machine and will use it in carrying his summer guests from and to Shohola station. Mr. Hazen’s boarding house is finely … Continue reading
Sergeant Homestead—ID needed
Does this house look familiar to anyone?
Eldred News, February 23, 1915
Mr. and Mrs. J.R. [Jackson] Myers spent Wednesday in Port Jervis. Sunday was A.S. [Abel] Myers’ 80th birthday. He had two pretty birthday cakes and many expressions of good will from his many friends. Many were remembered with cards from … Continue reading