Hi, Joel. We've been in touch before, regarding the O'Haras in Herkimer County. I'm the Pat O'Hara (Reilly) who grew up in Albany. Anyway, my Grandma O'Hara was a Kelley, born outside of Cooperstown in Schuyler Lake. I was working there last summer, and had time to do some research, but couldn't find any records of where they lived. I was about to give up when I thought of school records. I found my grandmother, Mary Kelly, age 5, and her brother, Patrick, age 7 in School District No. 8, in 1877. So, you might ask to browse through the boxes of ancient rosters to look for Lacounts. They have them organized by year. -----Original Message----- From: joel voorhees [mailto:joelv@ntcnet.com] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:09 PM To: NYHERKIM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYHERKIM] Lecount / DeVoe Hi, My grandmother Inez was born in 1871 in Boston had the surname Lecount/LaCount. Her father was Thomas Burnham Lacount. An unknown cousin I located in California through a GenWeb site claims her family said Thomas Burnham Lacount (our grandfather) was born in Cooperstown area. I went to Cooperstown last summer and found no Lacounts. I have found out that some family members spell the name Lecompte. I found them living in Somerville, MA. I have found many Lecounts/Lacounts in searches listed in NYC areas. Can't connect to any of them. Last week a nice person answered a posting I had on the MA list and I am not sure if these Lecounts/Lacounts are related to me. I'm at a brick wall. I looked in my family tree and none of my grandmother's siblings had the name of William. Here is the letter which he gave me permission to send to anyone: It seems like Somerville, MA (Suffolk County) was the place the Lecounts lived in and also Wellfleet (Cape Cod) Ma. Don't think any of this is a lead for you. My grandmother ran away when she had to get married. Her family never could find her because she married a man named Buhlman and they heard his name was Bowman so no matter how hard they tried to find her because they spelled the name wrong and internet searches weren't known - they never found her. I think her father was a minister and she disgraced the family. Betsy -------------- ---------------------- ---------------- Dear Betsy, The woman I knew was Helen L. Lacount, she was born on December 18, 1885, and died in early November, 1980. She was born and died at the family home at 34 Day Street, Somerville. I got to know her as a teenager and she was already an elderly woman. I did yard work for her and enjoyed keeping her company, and came to love her very much. She loved to talk about the past, which was all about her in that house. Her parents had been married in 1870, and bought the house she still lived in in 1875. Their names were Eugene Lacount, who had married a woman named Caroline (I think) Marsh. They had four children, Osgood, born in 1871, Edwin, born in 1873, Gertrude, born in I believe 1882, and Helen, born in 1885. Neither Gertrude nor Helen married, so had no children. Both Osgood and Edwin did marry, but I don't remember the names or number of their children. All of them are buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Both Edwin and Osgood had other first names they did not use, and I don't remember what they were. Edwin was a Methodist minister, and one of his churches was the Epworth Church on Massachusetts Avenue, which has a close affiliation with Harvard. He lived to a very old age, dying in 1970 or 71, as I remember it. He was buried from that church. The family also had a close connection with the College Avenue Methodist Church in Somerville, and in fact, the chapel there is the "Lacount Chapel". Osgood and Helen's names appear on a plaque affixed to the church. Their father served in the Civil war, and was badly wounded and spent a good deal of time in a Southern prisoner of war camp. I remember Helen showing me a few pictures of him in his Grand Army uniform which he wore quite proudly. He ran a mattress company in the Haymarket section of Boston and only retired after his wife died in 1936 or 7. He died in 1939 at the age of 95. Gertrude had contracted TB of the bone from unpasteurized milk as a toddler, and she never worked. Helen went to Boston University at a time when women didn't generally go to college, graduating in 1907. Her hopes of being a social worker were dashed when her mother and sister both got ill at the same time, and she basically devoted her life to her sister who didn't die until 1964. Having lived into old age with an affliction that should have killed her as a child. They seemed to me a rather remarkable group of people. I hope this helps you determine if there is a connection to you, and if I can help, let me know. Sincerely, Michael Schofield Boston, Ma Donna DeVoe wrote: > Sarah E. DeVoe b. 1840, marr. William H. Lecount, and had Josiah Morgan, Frederick, and Gertrude who was b. 1881. No other info shown on this entry in the book Genealogy of the DeVeaux Family by Thomas DeVoe in 1885. I am researching this book. Do you know what happened to this family? I am not related , just want to tie up a loose end. Thank you, Duane > >-- >Donna & Duane DeVoe >Come Visit Lena, Illinois! >http://www.villageoflena.com > > >==== NYHERKIM Mailing List ==== >QUESTIONS? Contact listowner Kim Branagan at branagak@twcny.rr.com, >a proud Donor of RootsWeb.com. > > > ==== NYHERKIM Mailing List ==== QUESTIONS? Contact listowner Kim Branagan at branagak@twcny.rr.com, a proud Donor of RootsWeb.com.