Hi Catherine, yes this is an interesting place. We have one of those very shallow closets in what I'm guessing was the office when the attorney lived here. (Just looked at the paperwork again, the attorneys name was Horace Mann). I never knew what it was for until I read about someone else having one and discovering it was for the old style hats, stove pipes and such. I'm still finding things here, just found some very old license plates that were used to cover holes in the floor, lots of interesting stuff about! On 1/22/07, Catherine Havemeier <catgh@msn.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Tom, > What an interesting history! My grandmother's sister was Marion Kemp. Her > husband, Rob, farmed in Meridale on what is now Kemp Road. She had two > children who never married: Russel and Nell, who was a teacher.Their house > was a beautiful Victorian on the main street of Franklin. Nell was there > till she died in the 1940s. > Thanks for the reply. > Catherine > > > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thank you for sharing your interesting finds. The name Horace Mann rang a bell with me, so I checked a little. He was a famous educator and attorney, also an anti-slavery member of the U.S. House of Representative. He was from Massachusetts and not connected to New York in any way I could see right away. Your Horace Mann could be a descendant, however. Florence from Ohio Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom Buffington <mhr6068@gmail.com> > Date: January 23, 2007 12:35:12 AM EST > To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] Pictures > Reply-To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com > > Hi Catherine, yes this is an interesting place. We have one of > those very > shallow closets in what I'm guessing was the office when the > attorney lived > here. (Just looked at the paperwork again, the attorneys name was > Horace > Mann). I never knew what it was for until I read about someone else > having > one and discovering it was for the old style hats, stove pipes and > such. I'm > still finding things here, just found some very old license plates > that were > used to cover holes in the floor, lots of interesting stuff about! > > On 1/22/07, Catherine Havemeier <catgh@msn.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Tom, >> What an interesting history! My grandmother's sister was Marion >> Kemp. Her >> husband, Rob, farmed in Meridale on what is now Kemp Road. She >> had two >> children who never married: Russel and Nell, who was a >> teacher.Their house >> was a beautiful Victorian on the main street of Franklin. Nell was >> there >> till she died in the 1940s. >> Thanks for the reply. >> Catherine >> >> >> To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa- >> admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa- > admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDELAWA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message