This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jewllz68 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.columbia/2334.100.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Meredith, I emailed Rich Hummel yesterday to get the info you have posted here. I am grateful to get it. My mother Marie Lezette and your grandmom Evelyn were best of friends since their childhood. They were actually both born the same day 11-7-1920 and lived up the street from each other on Aitken Ave. Your dad Ken and Uncle Rich and family and our family shared loads of grand times at the Kiora Farm. Mom always said that we were related somehow and now I know how. I have an extensive tree at ancestry.com and i have some photos at home of your grandmother with my mom. I believe my sister has more. Some of your Dad and Uncle Rich too. When we were children, they lived and worked for the Firemans Home farming the land. Then I remember them moving to the Kiora farm. We have grand memories of spending weekends there and getting up at the crack of dawn to milk the cows, gather the eggs and such. I also visited your mother and dad after they built the house next to the farm when you and your sister were very little. I remember Dorothy Howard living up the street from us for a while when we were kids in Hudson. Then they moved up north somewhere. That would be Ev's sister i believe. My mother and father passsed away a few months after Evelyn, in Nov. I attended Aunt Evs memorial service with my sister, but could not stay afterwards since Dad was in Albany Med and we had to get there. Mom and Dad passed about 2 weeks apart. Can't take away the memories.. Hope to hear from you. And I am so glad that you had all this info posted. Joan Lezette Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.