Stege House and Pond
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Katie Stege, 1850–1936
Kate Stege was one of the fascinating people in the Town of Highland. This Sunday Mirror Magazine section article from February 27, 1938 is courtesy of the Bosch family. If you click the section, it will enlarge.
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1850 Lumberland Census
This list mainly includes the heads of families, so the wives and children are usually not listed. Also some names were hard to discern, so in some cases were not included. The folks were born in New York, unless otherwise noted.
J.P. Sanders, 30, farmer
W. Machin, 29, farmer
Geo Clark 27, farmer
C. Laurence, 27, Teamster
M. Macley, 26, sawyer?, Germany
B. Stanton, 42, teamster
A. Dunning, 40, farmer
Geo Dickinson, 23, Sawyer
J.W. Sacket, 47, millwright
A. White, 66, farmer
Stephen D. Myers, 8
H. Hunt, 40, farmer
D.C. Ayers, 36, Farmer
J. Wood, 24, laborer
Jon Gray, 39, farmer
J. Sprague, 20 lumberman
Geo. Seamen, 35, Lumberman, PA
Wm. Myers, 42, lumberman
D.W. Hartwell, 38, farmer
T. Pay, 55, farmer, England
D. Clark, 30, laborer, N. Jersey
M.J. Russell, 19
D. Wells, 39, farmer
Wm. Wells, 63, farmer
E. Wells, 29, farmer
H. Henrickson, 27, farmer
Geo. McLaughlin, 48, farmer
L. Scofield, 44, farmer, CT
C. McBride, 38, basket maker Continue reading
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1963 Jimmy Mills’ Dock
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1964 Eldred
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1840 Lumberland Census
In my mother’s super collection was a Lumberland Centennial booklet, which includes a list of Lumberland Town supervisors from 1798 to 1976. (Click on the image to read.) There are more familiar names in this 1840 census, including Johnston, writer of Reminiscences (which often includes his scathing and judgmental descriptions of the town’s inhabitants); Daniel Van Tuyl; Jacob Stage; my relatives: Fanny Austin and her son’s family Augustus Alonzo Austin; and Abraham Ingersoll, whose wife will eventually be the subject of a post.
Again, some of the names are difficult to discern, in some cases they were left out altogether.
Thomas Billings
Chauncy Thomas
James Dandridge
Isaac Young
Robert Johnston
Calvin P. Fuller
J.W. Johnston
Jane Johnston
Abraham Ingersoll male 1 under 5 1 30 to 29; female 2 under 5 1 20 to 29
Gardner Ferguson
Daniel Van Tuyl Continue reading
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Civil War Names
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2007 original Wilson building
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1963 House on Steges Road
© Jmeyer Photography (used by permission).
I was happy to receive some “Eldred” photos taken by J. Meyer, grandson of Joseph and Florence Meyer, mentioned in “Farewell to Eldred.”
Does anyone know who owned this house on Steges Road, in 1963? It was empty at the time, and the next house down from Abe Hulse’s little bungalow.
As long as I am asking questions, does anyone know the correct way to write Stege’s Road? Stege Road; Steges Road; Stege’s Road; Steges’ Road; or something different?
Update: I was sent this as the location. Click on the image to make it larger.
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There really is a Lumberland, NY
Continuing on after seeing the Pond Eddy Bridge, we took the road that went by the Town of Lumberland’s Town Hall.
Fortunately, I had done some research on the area, and was quite excited to see a Welcome Sign to the “Town of Lumberland, established in 1798″—just as I had read.
As we continued on to Eldred, I tried to locate where my Austin relatives had lived on Proctor Road, but was not successful, as the houses were not still standing (although I have been told that a current home was built on one of the old foundations); I was not very knowledgeable about the area; and I was overwhelmed with so much green—grass and trees!
