Is there a Claverack or Philmont historical society or historian? I'm trying to find out exactly when and where my widowed grandfather, Edwin Pier Chapman married widow Myrtie Philip Allen (the grandmother I knew). According to the 1900 Census it must have been 1898. I thinkthe marriage was probably in Philmont, as that was where Myrtie had been born and lived all her life, until after Grandpa died in 1946. And Grandpa's obit says he had been a member of the Reformed Church in Philmont (this was the Second Reformed Church of Claverack, Philmont) and a member of the Philmont Lodge of Masons. I know I wrote that church many years ago, but nobody every replied. Maybe I should try again. I want to congratulate and say thanks to Susan Stalker Mulvey. I haven't visited the Columbia County website in a long time. What a truly beautiful and well-organized site it is -- one of the finest I've seen.