Anyone have any information on Sherwood Family in Cambria, Niagara, NY around 1830(or earlier) to 1850? Dee from California

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/233 Surname: Chellman ------------------------- Seeking information on Henry Chellman d. abt. 1909-1910 in Niagara or Buffalo New York. He was my maternal grandmother's first husband and we have many pictures of him and his family. The pictures show the family with a "Hewitt Estate" in the background, but we don't know what the connection was--caretaking? Henry is shown with two apparent female siblings in many pictures. He worked for the power company and died in a turbine accident just one year after marrying my grandmother. Any help appreciated. Linda Hampton email: lehampton@thegrid.net

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/NiagaraObits/17 Surname: Fehrmann, Chellman, Kjellman ------------------------- Seeking obituary of Henry Chellman who died in abt. 1909-1910 in Niagara county. He was my maternal grandmother's first husband and from pictures was apparently in the military. His family apparently had something to do with a "Hewitt Estate" which is shown in many of the pictures that we have. He worked for the power company and was killed in a turbine accident. Any help appreciated. Linda Hampton email: lehampton@thegrid.net

I am researching the LEWIS family of Lockport. My great-grandfather's Civil War letters were addressed to: Thomas L LEWIS Esq, Lockport, NY. Thomas was born 1809 and died in Lockport in 1875. He married Maria Elizabeth CHASE (b 1810 Martha's Vineyard, MA) in 1833. Children of this marriage were George Trumbull, Ferdinand Claghorn, Lydia Spa(u)lding, and Alice Ann. Maria died in 1851. Thomas married Harriet Mighells in Lockport in 1861. They had one child, Estelle A. Thomas' father, also named Thomas, was born in England. He married Ann Groves in Portsea, England. I noted the Thomas LEWIS mentioned in Debbie's posting re "The Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York". Ed in CA

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/232 Surname: Hays, Hayes ------------------------- Niagara County, NY Otis Hayes spelled name with the "e" Some family mambers have dropped "e". Still looking for information. Some information about Lemeul has been located.

looking for anyone related to my family. george fulton born scotland about 1820 married to mary brooks born abt.1825 from england children born in ny were george w. fulton abt1852, john a. fulton born 1859, charles w. born 1862, daniel j. born 1866. any help would be grateful thank you.

And here I am with the next resource... "Western New York Land Transactions, 1804-1824" ... "Extracted from the Archives of the Holland Land Company" by Karen E. Livsey and published by the Genealogiical Publishing Co., Inc. - 1991. Again, for folks who like the "numbers"... this is F 118 L58 1991. Pgs v - xxii at the very start of the book (Introduction, How to Use this Book, etc) is an education in and of itself on what records are available, what indexes of names exist, what microfilms to go to for original records, etc etc. Of interest to people on this list is a listing on pg xvii and xviii of what range/townships of these lands belong to what NY county. The following counties are included: Allegany, Wyoming, Genessee, Orleans, Cattaraugus, Erie, Niagara and Chautaugua. There is also something called the "40,000 Acre Tract" in Livinston Co and the "Morris Reserve" in Allegany Co. I'll not share HOSMER and PRATT listings this time... but rather share the generic Niagara County information as follows: Pg xvii: << Niagara County - Range 5, Townships 13-16 Range 6, Townships 13-16 Range 7, Townships 13-15 Range 8, Townships 12-15 Range 9, Townships 13-15 >> Hope this helps someone!! debbie CAhobbies@aol.com

Dear Group, Around 10:00 this evening the phone rang and it was a call from a Dr. Amondeo from the VA hospital in response to my earlier call this afternoon to get some sort response from an eventual Dr. Singh who, of course I've never even spoke to in the first place. And for that matter, I've never even spoken to Dr. Amondeo before, either. Of course I was totally surprised to get such a call at that hour but, more than that, I was totally surprised with Dr. Amondeo's total interest and concern with my present concern with the swelling and redness in my breast after my biopsy. As far as the present condition of my breast, he told me the whole nine yards of what was going on with it after my surgery, it was a healing process and that there there was no problem with it. And when I sobbed out my concerns that I was afraid that the present condition of my breast might delay one more time the ultimate surgery, he again gave me the whole nine yards in real words. He let me know that the condition of my breast wouldn't be a concern. What WOULD be a concern tomorrow would be my pulse rate and my blood pressure. THAT will be their concern. And if they felt that it would be a danger to my health, yes the surgery might be prosponed once again. Well, if that's the case, I guess I can handle that. Debbie will not have to drag me out of the house with a rope around me and I'll show up at the hospital as calm, cool and collected as I can manage to be. And before Dr. Amondeo and I hung up, he let me know that he would be there with me on Thursday and I let him know that I expected him to cling to my hand when he showed up. He promised that he would be there and do that. Somehow I was reminded of Mozart in all of the above. Wasn't his middle name Amadeus? I dearly love classical music, it sooths me, and I guess Dr. Amondeo with his soothing words late this evening also soothed me. Isn't it funny how things turn out at the very last moment? vee

Hello again to all, This time - instead of waxing poetic on being in a research facility - would like to share some info from the following book researched during my recent visit to Sutro Library in San Francisco, CA. -->> Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York ... O. Turner. Originally published in 1849. Worked with the 1991 reprint published by Heritage Books. (and then I could make xerox copies too). For those of you who prefer to find books by number, it is F 127 H7 T7 1991 (then either vol 1 or vol 2) This book has tons of information - and I barely scratched the surface!! With all the land, "settlement", town and county information I found - I was surprised and pleased to find a biography on pgs 376-377 on Timothy HOSMER (1745, CT - 1815, NY). This is the Hartford, CT born HOSMER who (with William JUDD, Thomas LEWIS, William WADSWORTH and Isaiah THOMPSON) purchased land that was later to become the town of Avon, Livingston Co, NY. Because of this... other CT HOSMER people migrated north to CT (including my Graves HOSMER...) - whose son Sylvester HOSMER then migrated further west to Niagara County! Note that Timothy purchased this land "early" in 1789/90 and moved there in 1792. Graves HOSMER arrived ca 1798/9. I find Sylvester HOSMER in Niagara Co, NY in the early 1820s. All the townships and ranges are listed on pages 526-530 along with the first six people to purchase said land. I'm just now "learning" how to "match" the townships and ranges to towns/counties of today. I'll end this particular post with a list of HOSMER and PRATT listings in the index. (I'll move on to other trearsures from the library in future posts...) If anyone is searching these same surnames, these may peak your interests to go find this book! Good luck!! HOSMER listings in the Index - Pg 681: HOSMER, HOSMER, George HOSMER, Judge HOSMER, Mrs George HOSMER, Mrs Sidney HOSMER, Mres Sylvester HOSMER, Sidney HOSMER, Sylvester HOSMER, Timothy HOSMER, W C H HOSMER, Wm H C PRATT listings in the Index - Pg 690: PRATT, Calvin PRATT, Daniel PRATT, Ira PRATT, John PRATT, Mrs PRATT, Peter PRATT, Rollin PRATT, Samuel PRATT, Seth PRATT, Silas PRATT, Stephen debbie CAhobbies@aol.com

Dear Folks, Friends, Family and Loved Ones, I'm pretty much "out of it" right now, but I just had to post this message to both the PADUTCH-LIFE list and the Niagara County, NY, genealogy list. As most of you know, I'm facing radical mastectomy surgery tomorrow. But I also know that some of our new list members don't even have a clue as to why someone would post a message of this sort to the list. Frankly, the only reason that I can come up with is that over a period of time we have become friends in our mutual interest in genealogy, some of us have actually found that we are distant cousins, and what with my growing up in Niagara County, I have dug up family information and relationships to your families. Hey, that's what families do for each other! A great number of you have sent me warm loving inspirational words of support. ALL of them mean a great deal to me. TRUST ME, I don't know how I could get through this particular time in my life without those words of support. I know that I will continue to survive--I have no doubt whatsoever. Hey, I survived 30 years of service in the US Navy, what's a mastectomy compared to that?? :-) What follows below is a response to one of you that pretty much sums up my feelings right now. Just know that I luvya, vee In the meantime, I'm spending this evening tying up all the loose ends in preparation for surgery tomorrow. My niece Debbie took me out to dinner this evening, we had a whole bunch of hearty laughs over dinner, and afterwards we sat down in my office and went over the details of her picking me up tomorrow morning, laughed over the thought that she may have to tie a rope around me to drag me out of the house, kicking and screaming all the way, and then have to drag me into to hospital by 12:00 noon. I don't know how many days I will have to stay at the VA hospital afterwards, but Debbie assures me that she will be with me there and when I return home. In the event that you would like any sort of update on my progress after surgery, feel free to email her at Targon@peoplepc.com. She is prepared to respond to such messages. Right now, I'm turning to you for the best help that I need right now. Your prayers. Yes I know that God is with me but I need all the help I can get.

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/231 Surname: Proefrock ------------------------- I am looking for information on the Proefrock family located in N. Tonowanda, NY. Specifically, Walter Proefrock and family, names, etc.

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/230 Surname: TEMPLE Adam, TEMPLE James, TEMPLE Jane ------------------------- Adam & Jane lived in Lockport, Niagara County, NY in 1836 had Adam's father James with family. Children were Mary Ann, Elizabeth, James, Jane, William. Word received Adam died Hickory (McNall's Corners)east section of Royalton. Need dates and location of this place. Many thanks for your help.

Dear Group, Debbie's research musings this evening instantly brought to mind an experience of my own that had to do with the Pennsylvania Historical Society research library back around 1975. Yes, it was the same "check your belongings into a locker, no pens, only pencils, and you better behave yourself!" But I know how excited Debbie was to enter such a hallowed hall. What greets you when you enter is the sweet smell of old books and ancient papers! What a heady smell! And such anticipation! You just can't get such a feeling from the Internet! A number of years ago I posted to the (then) PA-Dutch list a story I had written at the time that includes a bit of personal excitement that occurred in that research library. No, it has nothing to do with Niagara County families, only my own. But under the circumstances, I thought it might be appropriate to post it to our list at this time. There's a genealogy message to it and maybe you'll benefit by it. (BTW, I've now been rescheduled for surgery on Wednesday the16th and if you want an update as to the outcome, please feel free to email my niece Debbie at Targon@peoplepc.com. She's prepared to handle such questions. Bless you all for your prayers. I'm overwhelmed by your support.) vee BARKING UP THE WRONG ANCESTOR I recently posted a query about my ancestor, Thomas DeWees, and I am pleased at the nice quick responses I've received as a consequence. Because his parents have eluded me for so many years, the responses unexpectedly brought my mind back to where I was when I first started my research on him and his parents. Actually, I wasn't the first one in my family to try to nail down their identity. You see, this was the situation many years ago: There is a DeWees family bible. It was probably purchased by Thomas (1808-1891) and was definitely given to his only son Daniel, my great-grandfather. In it is recorded births, marriages and deaths of family members. But there was one specific old photograph that had been placed in it and remained in it for over 100 years that certainly indicated earlier family ties. It was a photograph of an elderly man with his signature underneath, "Capt. Samuel DeWees." And all the family members to the current generation knew who he was, Thomas' father. My mother, her sisters, and especially my grandfather's brother, Lafayette DeWees, knew all about him. Captain Samuel DeWees had been a fifer in the Revolutionary War. He came to this country from France with General Lafayette and they fought in the war together. The family swore to that fact. My mother first took up the quest to find records that would tie our Thomas in with Capt. Sam (the name we eventually felt more comfortable with). That was in the 1960s. My older sister Norma then joined Mother and the two of them searched and searched. After Mother died in 1974, I joined my sister and we continued. In fact, it was in 1975 when I accompanied my sister to Philadelphia on my first foray into genealogy research. We were intent on our search for information about Capt. Sam! I was a complete novice at it but I was as dedicated as my sister was. We were in the PA Historical Society in Philadelphia and I was going through the card files looking for references to the DeWees family. I found a card that certainly caught my eye and I called Norma over and asked if she had ever checked on the book that it referred to, "A History of the Life and Services of Captain Samuel DeWees, A Native of Pennsylvania, and Soldier of the Revolutionary and Last Wars. . . [and the title goes on forever!]. Its date of publication was 1844. Well, no, she hadn't seen the book and so we asked the librarian if she would bring it up from the stacks. The librarian finally handed the book over to us (after a LIFETIME, it seemed, of waiting!) Norma and I sat down together and opened up the book. And there before us on the very first page was the SAME picture of Capt. Samuel DeWees that had been kept in the DeWees family bible for so many years!!! Well, if you've never shed tears over such a discovery, you haven't experienced the tearful joy of such an occasion! We excitedly leafed over page after page of the book trying to find some sort of reference to his personal life that would mention his wife and children and quickly realized that there was no way that we had time enough to go through the entire book. (Of course, there was no such thing as in Index to it!) Time was short (of course!) and the only hope that we had was, in desparation, to ask the Historical Society. to run off a Xerox copy of the entire book! Well, expense aside, it wasn't that easy. First we had to convince the society that the book was unavailable through used book stores. In the end, after I had made some desparate calls to the local stores, the librarian was satisfied that even in old book stores in Philadelphia, Capt. Sam's book wasn't to be found. We returned home and after a few month's time, the photocopied book finally arrived. I studied every page carefully and thoroughly and, although Capt. Sam rather casually mentioned his parents, his brothers and sisters, his four wives and his children, our Thomas just wasn't there--close, but no cigar! But if Capt. Sam wasn't Thomas' father, then why oh why was Sam's photograph always kept in the family bible??? Because of Capt. Sam's rather offhand reference to his children--and no mention of grandchildren--there just HAD to be a close family tie to him. And so my sister and I continued to search to find out just what that tie was. We continued to nag our DeWees aunts about the details of the picture, the bible and what their father had told them. We got the same answers we had heard before. We finally had the opportunity to see the bible which was then in the possession of Lafayette's son Donald DeWees, great-grandson of Thomas. We studied the records in it (what became of the photograph of Capt. Sam is now a mystery) and we took notes. But we were encouraged by what Cousin Donald remembered that his father, Lafayette, had told him about Capt. Sam. However, it sounded just a bit too familiar to me. Frankly, it reminded me of what I had read in Capt. Sam's book. It sounded like it was quoted almost word for word. And I guess that it was at that moment when I realized that there was "something wrong with this picture!" (In more ways than one!) There was one aspect of Capt. Sam's book that had bothered me. It was written in 1844 when Sam was in his declining years--his 80s--and it was obvious that his story was told by way of the pen of John Smith Hanna. Certainly Sam told John of his experiences, but more obviously John added all the swirls and grandiose words that would whip up the waning interest in the "heroes" of the Revolutionary War. It would help sell the book. I guess what gave me the clue was the obvious plea in the book to the public to help this aged soldier in his hour of need. Sam was on a meager pension in his waning years. And then to further the marketing effort to sell the book, it was, in my eventual opinion, peddled for all that it was worth. And how does one do that in 1844? Sell or give away autographed pictures of the actual "hero" himself!! And that's the conclusion I have come to as to why his photograph ended up in the DeWees family bible. The book must have been published at just the right time when people had some sort of need to connect themselve with the glorious heroes of the fading Revolutionary War. And what better connection did my DeWees family have but to lay claim to Capt. Sam as their very own ANCESTOR! They had his NAME! The moral to this story is NOT one that warns you to disregard any stories you hear from your parents or grandparents or other members of your family about your ancestors. It's only to warn you not to spend a total of 30 years of research based SOLEY on what they have told you. Listen to your family stories but, at the same time, consider the three most important rules of genealogy--(1) SOURCE, (2) SOURCE , (3) SOURCE!! But, psssst! Good old Capt. Sam sure did take us on one exciting ride!!

Hello everyone... wanted to share some specific research done recently .. but find that "first", I'd like to share some general musings about sitting in a library! I've lived in northern California for 30 years now, with family research to do for CT, MA, VT, MA and MI. I'm fortunate to have a FHC and the Santa Clara City Library nearby (within 20 miles) - and have spent many hours at those two places. I also borrow NEHGS books to research at home.. and of course I talk to folks like you on these lists, etc etc. Well, last weekend, I finally made it up north to San Francisco to the Sutro Library there. (sigh... it was a drizzly, cold day... and a glorious day inside that non-possessing building!) It was a classic for researchers. Check your belongings into the lockers... sign in... use pencils only... can't make xerox copies of materials published prior to 1921... etc etc. We've all done this, I know, at State Libraries, National Archives, etc etc. But the ritual already had me excited and I hadn't even looked around yet!! It was "good" to be in a research library!! Yes, I had done my "online searching" prior to going there... and had my printouts in hand. Not everything they have is online though, so it was time well spent to sit with their reference librarian and get the "overview" of their collections. Then to the surname and locality cards... on to the rows and rows of books... coming back and settling in at a table... treasures in hand... and gingerly turning yellowed & crinkling thin pages... in total heaven for the day!!! (again, a sigh escapes...) We've all seen the discussions of online research vs the cemetary walks, the dusty back rooms of town halls, the archives, etc etc. All these words - overloading your e:mail boxes - all to say - it was a wonderful and satisfying thing to look at "the real thing" ... and hold books in my hand ... ever grateful fot that fragile link between myself and the person who had labored to "create" the words on the pages I turned. All the while ... looking for this or that ancestor that might... just might... be on the very next page! ---- Now, believe it or not... I'm actually going to share some Niagara Co, NY research... and more about my HOSMER and PRATT families... but I'll put that into a separate e:mail. Thanks for your indulgence in reading all this. The "trail".. the things we do, places we go and the people we meet.. are so much a part of why genealogy is so rich and interesting. And voila! Hand-held discoveries.. bringing ancestors ever closer! And voila! I send more little "stories and vignettes" to my family of today... about their family of yesterday. And voila! I get to sit happily in yet another research institution - grateful for its existence, and for the collections preserved - history - waiting to be discovered!! Debbie CAhobbies@aol.com

Hi List Posting my Surname interest for Niagara Falls, Surname's are Pippard, Laraba, Martin, Townsend, Sporer, and Kumm. Does anyone know where I can find information on St.Mary Cemetery,on Portage Road? All my husbands Sporer Family is buried there but there are no dates on their headstones. Oakwood cemetery which is right next to St Mary's doesn't have any information on St.Mary's. And I was told all record to St. Mary's cemetery buried in a fire. Does anyone know if this is true? Thank you for any help Terri Pippard Email Terr716@aol.com

Dear Groups, I'm forwarding this message to two lists because both lists have been so supportive of me recently. My family roots are in the area of southeastern PA-Dutch country but my growing up years have been here in Niagara County, NY. I feel close to both lists because between Pennsylvania and New York, the two states encompass the greater part of my life and I have shared with both lists some of my memories and also the history and genealogy that I have managed to dig up in both areas. I just had to share with you this evening the delight I felt when I was handed a big bouquet of balloons today! vee ----- Original Message ----- From: Vee L. Housman <housman@adelphia.net> To: Debi Gregory <Debi@n4nw.org> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 8:59 PM Subject: A Big Bouquet of Balloons!! > Dear Debi, > > Let me tell you what happened this afternoon. I had enjoyed your messages > today and your get well wishes and then I saw a strange truck pull into my > driveway. Actually, I had been watching it as I had noticed that it had > driven by the house, then stopped by the side of the road and then started > to back up. Well when I saw it outside my office window all I could think > of when the strange man got out was that he was going to ask for directions > and so I went to my door to see what he wanted. > > That's when I caught sight of what was painted on the front of the truck, > "Clayton's Floral Designs." Oh my goodness, somebody was sending me > flowers!! But who?? When the strange man approached my door I could see > what he was carrying--a big bouquet of balloons!! I had to laugh out loud! > A bouquet of balloons??? And when I opened the door to him, I had a great > big smile on my face. I told him happily, "I don't know who these are from > but I know why they sent them." And then I looked at the strange man and > immediately recognized him. I just said to him, "You're one of the twins, > aren't you?" He smiled back at me and said, "Yes." > > To clear up that point, about 15 years ago when I was trying to make a > meager living in the business of word processing and trying to think up > personalized advertising gimicks that local business would pay me to make up > for them, I approached the family-run Clayton's Nursery nearby. They bought > some of my creative calendars with their name on it or some little cookbooks > of local recipes (written down by some of our oldtimers) to resell or > whatever, and I met both of the Clayton boys, identical twins. It was > obvious at the time that they were the muscles behind the operation of the > nursery way out in the country on Dickersonville Road. I would guess that > they were in their early 20s at the time. And today there was one of them > on my doorstep, 15 years later delivering a bouquet of balloons to me! I > guess the boys have kept the business going all these years and I guess in > the meantime I managed to survive until my Navy pension kicked in and Social > Security took up the slack. > > But back to the bouquet of balloons. I was totally delighted with them and > immediately decided which room I would take them to so that I could enjoy > them as much as I could all day long--my office. However, they almost met > with instant death! When I walked into the office with them they were > greeted by my whirling ceiling fan! I snatched them away from the fan in > time and tied them to the back of a ladder-back chair I have here. And then > I ripped open the envelope to see who had sent them to me. The card said, > "Thinking of you, Debbie & Don." Debbie & DON?? Well, of course my niece > is Debbie, but DON?? Well, maybe it was supposed to read Debbie & Dawn, her > daughter. But that didn't make much sense. Why weren't the rest of Deb's > kids included in the card? > > And then it dawned on me. It was from you and your father! Oh, Debi, you > have no idea how much that bouquet brightened up my day and my life! I > giggle at them every time I look at them! NO bouquet of flowers could have > come even close! Fancy flowers don't come with Smiley Faces and hearts and > "Thinking of You" printed on them! Not only that, but fancy flowers don't > come in such an outrageous commical bouquet as they are!! Thank you from > the bottom of my heart. > > And thank your dad, too. Please forward my message to him when his computer > is back up and running. > > luvya both, > vee > > >

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/229 Surname: ------------------------- Ann, I don't know about any photographs of the 151st Infantry from Niagara County, but this is what was written up on its history in the book, "Souvenir History of Niagara County, New York," by The Pioneer Assoc. of Niagara Co., 1902: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST INFANTRY On August 20,1862, Col. Franklin Spalding, of Niagara Falls, succeeded by Col. William Emmerson, received authority to recruit this regiment. The companies were recruited as follows: B at Niagara Falls, F and I at Lockport, G in the counties of Niagara and Orleans, H in the County at large, and K principally at Sumerset, Newfane and Lockport, 506 enlisting from the County. It was organized at Lockport and mustered in the service of the United States for three years, October 22, 1862. The regiment left the State October 23, 1862; it served in the Middle Department, Eighth Corps, at and near Baltimore, Maryland, from October, 1862; in West Virginia in the Third Separate Brigade, Eighth Corp, from February 1863; at South Mountain, Maryland, in June 1863; in Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps from July 10, 1863; in the First Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps, from August, 1863; in the First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps, from April, 1864; and under Lieut. Col. Charles Bogardus, it was honorably discharged and mustered out June 26, 1865, near Washington, D. C. During its service the regiment lost by death, killed in action, five officers, seventy-five enlisted men; of wounds received in action, twenty-six enlisted men; of disease and other causes, one officer, ninety-nine enlisted men; total, six officers, 200 enlisted men; aggregate, 206; of whom twenty-three enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy [my interpretation is that they probably died in one of the Confederate prisons] and it took part in the following engagements, viz: [and then it lists the 31 battles that the regiment took part. Note: one of the Battles that they fought in was the awful Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.] Vee Housman Youngstown, NY

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/228 Surname: Kittell, Krauss, Fischer, Mentz, Bender, Berner, Langendorfer, Stahl, Derner ------------------------- Henry Kittell was a soldier in the civil war serving with the Niagara 151 st Regiment Company B . Are there any photographs are history of this Niagara Regiment.?

Hi. I need some help. I am looking for someone who either has access to old newspapers or can tell me where I might access information about: 1. In 1910, Edward Mattison (age 19) was arrested for public intoxication. 2. In 1910, Walter Mattison was arrested for public intoxication. 3. In 1910, Walter Mattison was arrested in Auburn,NY for public intoxication. 4. In 1911 James E. VanAmberg was arrested for abduction in Niagara Co,NY.. Granted, the first three arrests may or may nor have hit the paper but surely the third did. I need to find copies of whatever was printed for any of these arrests. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Rose

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/227 Surname: Hays, Kelsey, Porter, Holmes, Garbutt, Armstrong, Caughey ------------------------- Niagara County, NY Looking for info on siblings of Otis Brown Hays son of James and Olivia Brown Hays. (from Western Pennsylvania Otis b. 2/6/1835 in Somerset, Niagara County, NY James b. 3/11/1827 m. ? 3 ch. d. 1895 Lydia Ann m. Porter Kelsey 4 ch d. 1905 Lemeul m. Hanna ? d. 1907 Albert m. Eleanor Porter d. 1912 Sidney d 1865 in Civil War Aurelia b 1/20/1839 m. John Barbutt 4 ch. d. 1934 Martha Emma b. 3/18/1842 m. Andrew Armstrong 1 ch. d. 1914 Alice m. DeWitt Caughey 4 ch. d. 1884