Sarah S ABER

Father: Jonas W ABER
Mother: Jane STEWART

Family 1: Frank BREWSTER
  1.  Fred BREWSTER
  2.  Monroe BREWSTER 
                 _Nathaniel ABER _
 _Jonas W ABER _|
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|--Sarah S ABER 
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|                _James STEWART __
|_Jane STEWART _|
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William Worth HARPER Sr.

Father: John HARPER Sr.

Family 1: Mary Jane COON
  1.  Martha E. HARPER
  2.  James J. HARPER
  3.  Elizabeth B. HARPER
  4.  Emma HARPER
  5.  Louise HARPER
  6. +William Worth HARPER Jr.
  7.  Bin HARPER
  8.  S. Byron HARPER
  9.  Henry HARPER
  10.  Stephen HARPER
  11.  Marcus HARPER 
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William W. Harper Sr. was born in 1819 at (Varrick), Senecca County, Ne w York. His residents were: 1843: Varrick, Seneca County, New York. 1864 : Waterloo, Seneca County, New York. He moved his family from Seneca Coun ty, to Michigan on November 13, 1871. William later setted at Mason (Veva y Township), Ingham County, Michigan. His family later moved in with loca l neighbors because of financial hardship due to disability. [S92]

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Thomas Edward KELLEHER

Father: Francis Robert KELLEHER
Mother: Helen Ethel CRYST

Family 1: Carolyn Virginia BERNEKING
  1.  Amy Virginia KELLEHER
  2.  Andrew Thomas KELLEHER
  3.  Anna Bailey KELLEHER 
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 _Francis Robert KELLEHER _|
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|--Thomas Edward KELLEHER 
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|_Helen Ethel CRYST _______|
                           |_Amelia HURLBURT _______
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Tom was born in Clifton Springs, New York. The hospital was chosen as Tom 's Aunt ( Olive Hilda McDonough a.k.a. Aunt Olive) because she had delive red her daughter Sue Kelleher there, and recommended it to Helen Kelleher . It has been noted that on May 1, 1947 it snowed - and it must have bee n some accumulation in the Clifton Springs area of West Central New York , as Helen Kelleher often told of the snow in conjunction with the birt h of Tom.
The development years for Thomas ( in Geneva he was known as Tommy ) wer e the 1950's.
Tom attended various schools as his mother was a teacher in the Geneva Sc hool System, and she moved Tommy to various schools. For example: Kinderg arten - Tommy attended North Street School; 1st Grade - 1/2 of 5th Grad e Tommy was at St. Francis De Sales Elementary School. At St. Francis, To mmy's mother Helen was his 3rd Grade Teacher, until about April when he r health (Cancer of the Uterus) caused her to take a leave of absence an d she did not finish the year. A substitute teacher Mrs. Maslyn came an d finished the year. Tommy was generally an A+ student, but he began to h ave more difficulties reading and this may have been a result of his moth ers illness and distractions at home. In any event, in the 4th Grade Tomm y was still in the top 10% of the class, but he worked harder. In the 5t h Grade his teacher was Sister Laura-Marie, a more stern teacher and on e who saw Tommy's grades slip, and he was struggling for grades in the 5t h Grade. Here is again where Helen removed Tommy from St. Francis School , though Helen had returned to St, Francis to teach, she was not comforta ble with the environment and not at all with Sister Laura Marie. Tommy wa s moved back to North Street School in the middle of the year, just afte r Christmas Vacation. Generally Tommy was not aware of the anticipated ch anges and seemed to adapt socially quite well, after all, he had known bo th schools kids before, so change was not so bad. Tommy seemed to bounc e back quite well with Mrs. Hemple the 5th Grade Teacher at North Stree t School. In 6th grade Tommy was in Miss Wilson's class, an older teache r who unlike Mrs. Hemple did not know Tommy's parents and she was an ol d mad, who lived with her mother in North Main Street. She was an avid Bi rd Watcher and one who was more strict. Tommy was a B to B- Student there . In the 7th grade Tommy was moved again - this time to the Junior High S chool. His home room teacher for the 3 yrs. (7th - 9th) was Mr. Sours. So urs was a former Minister who had for some reason left that profession a t or near retirement. He and Tommy were not 'close' Tommy was always a fa st witted kid, who challenged most teachers for the classes attention. To mmy was a A to B- Student in Junior High. One high point for Tommy in Jun ior High was that he came in 2nd in the New York State Science Fair. Tomm y built a 7 inch reflector telescope. On the day of the competition at Br ockport NY Tommy was taking an entrance exam for Prep School, and had a c lass mate and his father take the telescope for him to the state fair. Th ey inadvertently left the eye piece home, and this may have effected th e judges scoring. Tommy was still quite a hit tom the small Geneva Commun ity, with newspaper coverage and special recognition at school.
In the 10th grade, Tommy or Tom then, was sent to St. Francis Prep School , in Spring Grove Pennsylvania. Tom was a B to C- student, and had diffic ulty with Algebra, but not Geometry which he did quite well in. Because h e had struggled with Algebra, he was not eligible for passes to town on S aturday with the other boys. This was an expensive private Perpetrator sc hool, which Tom's Mother found through a contact at church. Tom went onl y one year to the Prep School, and then returned to De Sales High Schoo l where he was a junior. Tom went out for the football team which he ha d done in 9th, and 10th grade. Tom was not at all a gifted athlete, but r ather a kid with 'stick-to-it' stuff. He was a true bench warmer, but nev er missed a practice, and even though in 9th grade his JV uniform was no t even the same color as the others, he invited his boy-hood hero, Harr y F. Moran ( a neighbor on Maple Street, and fellow employee of Tom's Dad ).
The real disappointment for tom came at time of graduation. Tom was not a llowed to graduate with the class, but rather he had to rewrite his senio r English paper as he wrote it on Tobacco Road and that book was not allo wed in the Catholic Schools in the mid-60's. Tom did and graduated and at tended Paul Smith's College in the Adirondack Mountains, in the fall of 1 965.
The former Geneva Times had an article about the 50's which is included a s it highlights many local facts. They were the Fabulous Fifties. ( as i t appeared July 25th in the Finger Lakes Times) A time of prosperity, th e baby boom and innovative technology that helped shape the future of th e world. The population of the United States - just 48 at that time - wa s 151.3 million. The average annual income was $2,992; a dozen eggs cos t 72 cents, a quart of milk, 21 cents; and a pound of butter, 60 cents . A 1958 Dodge, equipped with a push-button automatic transmission, coul d be bought new for $2,500; and a Cadillac El Dorado Brougham rang in a t $13,074. A little-known singer from Tupelo, Miss., hit the music worl d with a bang in 1955 and a hit called 'Heartbreak Hotel.’’His name was E lvis Presley and his sound would change the music industry. As the decad e came to an end, on Feb. 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper (J . P. Richardson) and Ritchie Valens were killed in an airplane crash; sin ger Don McLean later immortalized that as 'the day the music died.’’ Driv e-in movies and diners became popular; air raid sirens and drills w ere commonplace. Headlines of the ‘50s blared that North Korean troops ha d invaded South Korea; Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II of En gland at the age of 25; Josef Stalin died and Nikita Khruschchev later ro se to power in the Soviet Union; Fidel Castro lead a revolution in Cub a; McCarthysim lead to the Red Scare here at home; and Dwight D. Eisenhow er was twice elected president, with Richard Nixon his vice preside nt. The economic boom trickled down locally, in some cases, only tem porarily. Harold Secor, 80, of Savannah, was born and raised in that sma ll town and has owned Secor Lumber since the 1950s. 'It’s a differen t town now,' Secor said. 'It used to be a farming community, and n ow it’s a bedroom community.' He said Savannah is 'just your average smal l town' and hasn’t changed much over the years, except for a decline i n businesses. 'Life is what you make it in these places,' he added. Befor e I was married, we would usually go to Lyons because there wer e a couple of beer joints there, and Clyde had a hotel,' Secor said. Th e kids, he said, would go either to Owasco Lake, where there was an amuse ment park; or go swimming in Cayuga Lake. There were several store s in the downtown area in the 1950s, including an International Harveste r dealer, TV sales and repair, barber shops, grocery stores, a hardware a nd a variety store. Secor said the town had two or three packing houses , to process produce from several farmers who worked the many acres o f muck land, and celery was one of their main crops. He said labor contr actors hired migrant workers from the south to work in the packing houses . There were probably as many migrant workers as residents in the town i n the early 1950s,' he said. Companies including Campbell’s bought farm l ocal crops and stored produce in buildings in Savannah to await pickup b y freight train. The razing of the New York Central Railroad depo t in 1954 signaled the decline in railroad dependence; four years later , the cold storage buildings stopped operating. Down the road in Clyde, 8 2-year-old Anna Burley also fondly remembers a bustling village that wa s Clyde in the 1950s, where businesses boomed and her children’s friend s played happily in the backyard. There were two banks, a half-dozen groc ery stores, dry cleaners, barber shops, a newspaper, shoe stores, d ry goods stores, several restaurants and creameries. When GE came in 1951 , it was a big thing,' Burley said. Her first husband, Russell Groat , was one of the first people hired to help prepare the assembly lin e for workers. Other family members, including her sister, Eleanor DeLisi o, secretary to the general manager, also found employment at the Gen eral Electric plant. On Saturday evenings, Burley said, many farmers woul d come into town to do their banking and shopping, and took in a movie a t the theater on Glasgow Street. Burley said even though kids in th e 1950s didn’t have what is available to kids today, they made their ow n fun. We always had kids at the house. They would get together and pl ay baseball, have pajama parties and stay all night,' she said. I mad e a lot of pizzas and cookies back then,' she added. Her husband, Fre d Burley, said Tom Gallagher, the one-man police department of the 19 50s, kept the kids in line the old-fashioned way. I remember whe n he was having trouble with a kid in the park, he turned him over his kn ee and spanked him, and there was no more trouble,' Fred Burley said. Yat es County Historian Fran Dumas said Yates County in the 1950s was l ike everywhere else. It was a period of great prosperity, particularly i n the farming and manufacturing industry,' she said. But it was also a ti me of reaching the peak of progress, at least for some time. After that i s when the rural economy generally started to slip,' she said. 'The ‘50 s were the good old days. Everybody looks back at how prosperous an d happy they were,' she added. One milestone of the decade that made phon e calls easier was the arrival of dial telephones to replace operators i n Newark, Lyons and Palmyra. The decade also heard broadcasting from t he first AM radio station in Wayne County, WACK, which is still on the ai r; the opening of the new Newark Hospital, now called the Newark ca mpus of Via Health of Wayne. Shopping malls were also a creation of the ‘ 50s, including the Newark Plaza on Route 31 and Town and Country P laza on Hamilton Street in Geneva. The rose gardens were going great gun s then, too, said Wayne County historian Deborah Ferrell. People w ould come from all over the world to see them, and there was a parade eve ry year, she said. Sampson Army Depot in Seneca County also saw exp ansion during the decade.
In June 1950, with the outbreak of the Korean War, the depot had 803 civi lian employees; peak employment of 821 was reached two years later. In 19 53 and 1954, two large General Service Administration warehouses were con structed, and in 1956, the first white fawn was spotted in the residen t deer herd at the depot. In the northern end of Seneca County, in 1951 , a contract was awarded for $1,642,286 to W.A. Wikstrom, Inc., of Skanea teles to construct a 4.5-mile section of the state Thruway across the Mon tezuma Wildlife Refuge. Construction and consolidation were among the bi g news in Ontario County, as Manchester school was centralized during th e first year of the decade to become Red Jacket Central School. The reope ning of Canandaigua’s Main Street, after reconstruction, came in August 1 950 during the Finger Lakes Festival, when about 40,000 people lined th e streets to watch a 100-unit parade. Fred Burley said he would like to s ee the new millennium breathe life back into the smaller towns. I’m tire d of hearing the word ‘progress’when it destroys,' he said. Secor said t he fate of Savannah and other rural towns in the next thousand years ma y depend not on business and industry but tourism. [S977]

Medical: Diabetic # 2 (diagnosed) 1992 Galblade removed in 1982 Hernia su rgery/repair 2 times, in Jr. High School aprx 1959 and as an adult 1999

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Daniel MORSE

Father: Samuel MORSE
Mother: Elizabeth JASPER

Family 1: Lydia FISHER
  1.  Obediah MORSE
  2.  Daniel MORSE
  3.  Jonathan MORSE
  4.  Lydia MORSE
  5.  Bethia MORSE
  6. +Samuel MORSE 
                     _Richard MORSE ___
 _Samuel MORSE _____|
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|--Daniel MORSE 
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|_Elizabeth JASPER _|
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J. H. Morse & Emily Leavitt,Morse Genealogy,(New York:Morse Society, 1903 ).
Gene A. Hill,'Ancestors and Descendants of Oliver Johnson Scofield', (Po rtland,ME:Privately Printed,1989.
Kingsbury, John M.,'Genetic Inbreeding in a Colonial Puritan Community' , National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 84(June 1996). [S749]

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Mary Eliza PERRY

Family 1: Henry Martin (Rev.) SHERMAN 

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Janelle S. SMITH

Family 1: Ronald J. PEDERSON
  1.  Benjamin Smith PEDERSON 
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|--Janelle S. SMITH 
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Sarah STRONG

Father: John STRONG

Family 1: Joseph BARNARD
  1. +Thankful BARNARD
Family 2: (Capt) Jonathan WELLS 

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 _John STRONG _|
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|--Sarah STRONG 
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Malcolm M. THORPE

Family 1: Mabel E. HOSFORD
  1.  Ruth Ellen THORPE 
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|--Malcolm M. THORPE 
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