1937 Eldred Band
Another View Near the Hudson River
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 letter to his mother, September 1918
Battle of Romagne-Sous-Montfacon
Madeleine Farm, France 1918/1923
St. Miehl, France, 1918
McKinley Austin 1890 to 1918
Jennie Austin, Gold star mother
1923 Romagne-sous-Montfacon
You can read about the Town of Highland’s Civil War, WWI, and WWII soldiers in my Halfway Brook books.
1851 Post Office Appointment
1821 Near Fishkill, NY
1821 Newbury, New York View
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 be a renewed interest in finding ones ancestors, and I would be interested if there are any descendants of these high school age gals who took the time to write such delightful letters to Uncle McKinley.
Lone Scout Letters, February 1–5
• Vera M. Allen, Cates, Indiana
• Anna Betsa, Lopez, PA
• Maggie Dempsey, Warrior, Alabama, Route 3
• Flossie Fraser, Gainsboro, Saskatoon, Canada
• Irene Freeland, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Ottie Godsey, Peerless, Indiana
• Helen Hamilton, Chicago, Illinois Continue reading
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:
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Irish-born artist W.G. Hall spent the summer of 1820 traversing 212 miles of the Hudson River’s 315-mile course. 20 plates were engraved as aquatints by master printer John Hill and published between 1821 and 1825 by Henry Megarey in New York.
Vocabulary word for the day: acquaint:
a print resembling a watercolor, produced from a copper plate etched with nitric acid.
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 selection of our common ancestor James Eldred to be the Lumberland Postmaster. It was signed by William T. Barry, Postmaster of the United States of America.
My readers may know that Barryville, New York was named after the US Postmaster General Barry around 1831. It’s always nice to get documented proof of an event.