World War I soldiers in Highland

by Louise Smith Posted on November 10, 2010


Photo courtesy of my cousin Cynthia.

I had two uncles who were in World War I. They both wrote letters home and the letters were saved and are a part of Book 2 which I am currently writing.
This is the list of names on the plaque in Highland.

Raymond Austin [my uncle]
Claude Angell
William Ashauer
Raymond Beufve
Herman Bosch
Edward Bosch
Ralph Bosch
George Beck
Ernest W. Beck star
Ferman Beck
Joseph Cox
Edwin L. Crail
William W. Conrad
Clarence Clouse
George Dunlap star
Davis Raymond
George E. Eldred
Joseph Claab
John Horton
Ernest Horton
Abram Hulse
Raymond J. Keller
Martin E. Kendrigen
Jay Lass
Ralph Livingston
Emmet Livingston
Emerson McBride
Ezra Mc Bride
John Metzger star
Fred Metzger
Wesley Morgan
Fred Morgan
Edgar Mitchell
John McQuirk
Harvey Myers
Earl Owen star
Fridolin Straub
Edward Schumacher
Walter Toaspern
Mathew Volmer
Clarence Wormuth
Will Raoul
Carl Wolff
Everett Wells

Highlands Martyrs
M. McKinley Austin [My uncle, my dad’s oldest brother.]
Frank E. Clouse
Henry J. Loerch
C. Dewey Liebla
Edwin T. Wolfe

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Eldred Year Books 1939 to 1950

by Louise Smith Posted on November 9, 2010

This post is to let you know about the link to Eldred Yearbooks from 1939 to 1950. Credit for uploading the Yearbooks is given to Russell Amore from Glen Spey Troop 102. Thank you so much Russell. It has provided several people I know with hours of enjoyment.

I was surprised to find out that my dad, Art Austin (only graduate in 1930), was the president of the Eldred alumni in 1940.

Book 3 in my series, Memoirs of Eldred, New York, 1800 to 1950, will mention a number of the teachers and students in these yearbooks. Some of the teachers and students are in Book 2, Echo Hill and Mountain Grove, that I am currently working on.

Eldred Yearbooks link

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Eldred, New York

by Louise Smith Posted on October 21, 2010

The next few posts will feature family postcards or photos of the village of Eldred, New York, where my Austin and Leavenworth relatives lived.

This first photo was in Great Aunt Aida Austin’s photo album and looks to be a postcard. It is a view of Eldred looking west from the vicinity of Highland Lake and Proctor Roads.

For those of you who have read The Mill on Halfway Brook, the house on the right was that of C.C.P. Eldred, son of James and Polly Mulford Eldred. C.C.P. was the postmaster for a number of years.

On the far left is the home of Abel Sprague Myers and his second wife Maria Hankins. The house was a boarding house at one time and called Orchard Terrace. I don’t know when the home was originally built.

Second from the left is the Congregational Church built in 1835.

The Methodist church, built in 1859, is in the distance and has a steeple on it. I have read that there was no steeple on the Methodist or the Congregational Church until after 1900.

However, in my great-grandmother Mary Ann Austin’s 1879 letter, she mentioned they were to have put the steeple up in July of that year. I don’t know whether that happened or not.

I do have two photos that will be in book two of the churches with no steeples.

If you have more information on any of these Eldred photos, please feel free to leave a comment on this site or contact me by email:
info at halfwaybrook dot com

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