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Miss Cordelia A. Jackson

22 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by SKH in 19th Century Photos, Education, Genealogy

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Born April 1825 in NY, she might have been a daughter of Eldad Jackson of Ithaca, NY called “Delia” when younger, but there is nothing to prove this.

Cordelia Jackson

On the porch at Rose Hill, the Fraleigh farm house in Red Hook.

1860 Red Hook Journal article mentions a “private school” kept by “Miss Jackson” and in 1877 her “virtues as teacher of the Primary School are above comments.” In 1879 she taught at the public school and in the early 1880’s she taught “Sabbath” school at the Red Hook Methodist church. While she was a teacher, she resided with the John and Jane Curtis family in Red Hook in 1860 and 1870. In 1880 she boarded with Misses Mary, Gertrude, and Charlotte Benedict in Red Hook.

On 7 Oct, 1884, she left Red Hook for Indian Territory “having accepted a position as teacher in Spencer Academy, and Indian Mission School of Choctaw Tribe.” She spent two years out there and returned in the fall of 1886. The Spencer Academy was in what would be Choctaw Co, OK. It had reopened in 1882 but shut again in 1886, which, presumably is why Cordelia came home.

The Choctaw, one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the southeastern United States, wanted to have their children educated. In fact, they placed a high priority on education before and after their removal to the Indian Territory (present Oklahoma) from 1831 to 1834. They saw education as necessary to survive in the white world that was encroaching upon them. Choctaw principal chief Isaac Garvin (1878-80) declared, “I say educate! Educate! Or we perish!”

– Oklahoma Historical Society’s Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

 In the Red Hook Journal of 2 May 1890 thobitere is a mention that she was from New York, formerly from and visiting friends in Red Hook. She’s a “visitor” in the home of John and Susan Van Home in Manhattan in 1900. How they knew each other is a mystery, but she was 65 years old and was probably retired from teaching at that point. She died 10 Mar 1905 at the home of Herbert Jackson Curtis (the author’s g-grandmother’s brother) and is buried at the Methodist Cemetery in Red Hook with the Fraleigh and Curtis families.

Feller & Fraleigh

01 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by SKH in 19th Century Photos, Genealogy

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William J Feller and his wife Catherine Fraleigh at rightCatharine Fraleigh and Wm Feller

William was born 23 Aug 1798 in Taghkanic, NY to Jacob Felter and Anna Delamater. Catherine was born 22 Aug 1800 in NY to Peter P Fraleigh and Elizabeth Schmidt. Peter P Fraleigh was one of this author’s ancestors. William and Catherine married 7 Oct 1821 according to her father’s bible. They had at least two children: Mary Feller 1827-1913 who married Alfred Rennsalaer Westfall and George W Feller.

George was born 15 Dec 1831 presumably in the area of Germantown, NY. He married first Barbara Anna Younghanse (born c. 1835 daughter of Henry Jonkhans of Gallatin) on 2 Oct 1854. It’s presumed that she died before 1870 as in that census, George was married again to Sarah Saulpaugh, a daughter of John I Saulpaugh. Sarah died 3 Mar 1898. George left a large sum of money to his sister Mary when he died and they did not have any children. George and Sarah lived in Nevis, a hamlet south of Clermont, NY. Their portraits are below and they might be buried at a Lutheran cemetery in the area.

George Feller son of Wm Sarah Saulpaugh Feller dau of Wm

Aunt Fanny Telephoning

20 Tuesday Mar 2012

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“Aunt Fanny Telephoning” by John Losee, December 25th, 1940

Pictured are Rosalie Fraleigh Losee on the left and Fanny Keyes Elmore Fraleigh on the telephone, probably at Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook, but possibly at the Thomas/Losee house in Upper Red Hook. My guess is Rose Hill, because there is a lot of paperwork in the secretary behind Fanny. Rosalie’s husband Dr. Harvey Losee had been dead for nine years when this photo was taken so I imagine that the farm would have generated the papers, not a widow in a house by herself.

“Elmore + Clint + Two Bucks”

11 Friday Nov 2011

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November Series

“Elmore + Clint + Two Bucks” November 15th, 1942 by John Losee

Elmore is our cousin Elmore Fraleigh 1909 – 1995 who lived at and worked Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook, NY. I do not know who Clint is, but he’s probably a local as well. Data from Grampa’s slide diary indicate that the picture is local, but not exactly where these gentlemen are. Grampa and his friends were avid hunters, fowlers and fishermen even before the war and hunted both for sport and for food.

Next post, I think I’ll introduce you to Fred.

New Wheels

21 Friday Oct 2011

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19th Century, bicycle, Fraleigh, jackson corners, photography, red hook

As a follow-up to the previous post, here is a selection from The Pine Plains Register of Friday April 11, 1902, a year before the date on the section of quilt. This post started as an attempt to find Ward Bathrick mentioned in the social column of local newspapers and has become a post about getting around in the early 20th century.

Although cars were just becoming popular in 1902, most folks still used horses to get around or the very popular bicycle, I learned something from this paper from 1902; people of that era referred to a bicycle as simply as “wheel”. See the entries below for three examples from the same article.

First, a fun post from a place south and west of our area about someone getting a new car:

“There were great doings in the village of Walton one day last week. One of its prominent citizens purchased a fifteen hundred dollar horseless carriage in Philadelphia, and after it reached its destination and was unloaded from the cars, because of some defect in the machinery it could not be put in motion and the disappointed owner finally hitched his horses to it and drove to his home. His admiring friends accompanied him with drums, flags, horns, etc., and made the town lively for a while.”

Elizaville (the bit I had been searching for initially)

“Ward Bathrick and wife spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister, who is quite ill at Staatsburgh.”

Jackson Corners

“A few days ago Silas Lawrence lost a bag of corn between Nelson Bathrick’s and Pine Plains. Mr. Lawrence would be greatly pleased if the finder would notify him. His initials were on the bag.

The boys in this place have been getting their wheels out and are taking some lively spins.

James R. Wilbur went to Pine Plains one day last week on his wheel.

Harry H. Bathrick has a new wheel.”

The Pine Plains Register and countless other newspapers from NY State can be searched and viewed at Old Fulton Post Card.

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Red Hook children, c. 1890: Unknown girl on left, Leland 1874 – 1918 and Minnie Curtis 1880 – 1967 with their cousin Martha Fraleigh b. 1887. This image is part of my collection.

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