Your Library might have  old city directories that you can check to see what Funeral Homes are  listed.  Maybe your H. B. Onderdonk might be listed.  --- On Fri, 6/4/10, KATHERINE MITCHELL <[email protected]> wrote: From: KATHERINE MITCHELL <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 6:27 AM I'm wondering if there might be Church records (marriage, births, baptism, death) in the area where you have already found information that you can pursue?   Also, check Library in the area to see if there might be a mortuary record book -- sometimes records are donated to a library if they go out of business etc.  I wish you luck..     -- On Thu, 6/3/10, Robert Hales <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert Hales <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:54 PM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave and Maureen Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls I have been searching for marriage information for years on my Great Grandfather, Andrew Capwell (Capwill) and have had no luck.  Andrew lived with his parents, James W. and Azubah Capwill in Kendall in 1880.  His wife to be, Jennie Burnett, lived in Shelby with her mother and Stepfather Alzina and Orrin Canfield and family.  I have checked with the Kendall Historian, Kendall Town Clerk,  Carlton Historian, Carlton Town Clerk, Shelby Town Clerk , Albion, Albany Vital Records, Buffalo Library films, Rochester Library films, Niagara County Historian.  There were no records of their marriage. (That is not at unusual.) Andrew's wife Jennie supposedly died in childbirth with twins in 1886, there is no death certificate to be found. Jennie already had my Grandfather in 1883.  They lived in Waterport which is evidently part of Carlton. (Yes) One of the twins died  in 1887.  A wonderful, helpful person, Mary Stack, from the Orleans County Website found the death certificate information for me at the Rochester Library. H.B. Onderdonk evidently was the Undertaker (from Albion?) that handled the funeral of Jennie's daughter in 1887. She died Carleton. I have been trying to find out what mortuary handled her burial. According to her death certificate, she was buried in the Waterport Cemetery in Carleton.  Because of a fire, they don't have any records for her burial and said that a lot of the old headstones were vandalized numerous times and are now rubble.  The Carleton Town Clelrk told me that all the town records from 1885 to 1900 are missing. Does anyone know of H. B. Onderdonk or of a mortuary from that time period? If so, what would have happened to the mortuary records? Any suggestions as to where else I could search would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Maureen Sausen Lincoln, CA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The 1887-1888 Orleans County Directory has the following entry on p.50. Onderdonk, Henry B., crockery, furniture and undertaking, 43 and 45 Main, h W Park and Academy When I was young in the 1950s, funeral homes as we know them were becoming more prominent. Before that you went to the furniture store and bought a casket (they didn't use vaults then). The furniture store owner was also a licensed embalmer. Then the casket was taken to the person's home for viewing. That is why many of the old farm houses had double front doors so that a casket could be brought in. My wife remembers as a child coming down the stairs in January 1951 to find Grandpa in his casket in their living room (the same room that we got married in). I suspect that those records went when the businesses went out of business. I haven't seen any but I will be on the lookout. People back then probably saw no reason to preserve the records of the furniture store. I checked one of the local funeral homes and their records go back to WWI. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KATHERINE MITCHELL Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls Your Library might have  old city directories that you can check to see what Funeral Homes are  listed.  Maybe your H. B. Onderdonk might be listed.  --- On Fri, 6/4/10, KATHERINE MITCHELL <[email protected]> wrote: From: KATHERINE MITCHELL <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 6:27 AM I'm wondering if there might be Church records (marriage, births, baptism, death) in the area where you have already found information that you can pursue?   Also, check Library in the area to see if there might be a mortuary record book -- sometimes records are donated to a library if they go out of business etc.  I wish you luck..     -- On Thu, 6/3/10, Robert Hales <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert Hales <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:54 PM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave and Maureen Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls I have been searching for marriage information for years on my Great Grandfather, Andrew Capwell (Capwill) and have had no luck.  Andrew lived with his parents, James W. and Azubah Capwill in Kendall in 1880.  His wife to be, Jennie Burnett, lived in Shelby with her mother and Stepfather Alzina and Orrin Canfield and family.  I have checked with the Kendall Historian, Kendall Town Clerk,  Carlton Historian, Carlton Town Clerk, Shelby Town Clerk , Albion, Albany Vital Records, Buffalo Library films, Rochester Library films, Niagara County Historian.  There were no records of their marriage. (That is not at unusual.) Andrew's wife Jennie supposedly died in childbirth with twins in 1886, there is no death certificate to be found. Jennie already had my Grandfather in 1883.  They lived in Waterport which is evidently part of Carlton. (Yes) One of the twins died  in 1887.  A wonderful, helpful person, Mary Stack, from the Orleans County Website found the death certificate information for me at the Rochester Library. H.B. Onderdonk evidently was the Undertaker (from Albion?) that handled the funeral of Jennie's daughter in 1887. She died Carleton. I have been trying to find out what mortuary handled her burial. According to her death certificate, she was buried in the Waterport Cemetery in Carleton.  Because of a fire, they don't have any records for her burial and said that a lot of the old headstones were vandalized numerous times and are now rubble.  The Carleton Town Clelrk told me that all the town records from 1885 to 1900 are missing. Does anyone know of H. B. Onderdonk or of a mortuary from that time period? If so, what would have happened to the mortuary records? Any suggestions as to where else I could search would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Maureen Sausen Lincoln, CA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a nice surprise. Thanks for saving my old inquiry and sending this new information. I appreciate your efforts. Maureen Sausen Lincoln, CA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RHales Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:23 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls The 1887-1888 Orleans County Directory has the following entry on p.50. Onderdonk, Henry B., crockery, furniture and undertaking, 43 and 45 Main, h W Park and Academy When I was young in the 1950s, funeral homes as we know them were becoming more prominent. Before that you went to the furniture store and bought a casket (they didn't use vaults then). The furniture store owner was also a licensed embalmer. Then the casket was taken to the person's home for viewing. That is why many of the old farm houses had double front doors so that a casket could be brought in. My wife remembers as a child coming down the stairs in January 1951 to find Grandpa in his casket in their living room (the same room that we got married in). I suspect that those records went when the businesses went out of business. I haven't seen any but I will be on the lookout. People back then probably saw no reason to preserve the records of the furniture store. I checked one of the local funeral homes and their records go back to WWI. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KATHERINE MITCHELL Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls Your Library might have  old city directories that you can check to see what Funeral Homes are  listed.  Maybe your H. B. Onderdonk might be listed.  --- On Fri, 6/4/10, KATHERINE MITCHELL <[email protected]> wrote: From: KATHERINE MITCHELL <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 6:27 AM I'm wondering if there might be Church records (marriage, births, baptism, death) in the area where you have already found information that you can pursue?   Also, check Library in the area to see if there might be a mortuary record book -- sometimes records are donated to a library if they go out of business etc.  I wish you luck..     -- On Thu, 6/3/10, Robert Hales <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert Hales <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:54 PM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave and Maureen Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NYORLEAN] Brick walls I have been searching for marriage information for years on my Great Grandfather, Andrew Capwell (Capwill) and have had no luck.  Andrew lived with his parents, James W. and Azubah Capwill in Kendall in 1880.  His wife to be, Jennie Burnett, lived in Shelby with her mother and Stepfather Alzina and Orrin Canfield and family.  I have checked with the Kendall Historian, Kendall Town Clerk,  Carlton Historian, Carlton Town Clerk, Shelby Town Clerk , Albion, Albany Vital Records, Buffalo Library films, Rochester Library films, Niagara County Historian.  There were no records of their marriage. (That is not at unusual.) Andrew's wife Jennie supposedly died in childbirth with twins in 1886, there is no death certificate to be found. Jennie already had my Grandfather in 1883.  They lived in Waterport which is evidently part of Carlton. (Yes) One of the twins died  in 1887.  A wonderful, helpful person, Mary Stack, from the Orleans County Website found the death certificate information for me at the Rochester Library. H.B. Onderdonk evidently was the Undertaker (from Albion?) that handled the funeral of Jennie's daughter in 1887. She died Carleton. I have been trying to find out what mortuary handled her burial. According to her death certificate, she was buried in the Waterport Cemetery in Carleton. Because of a fire, they don't have any records for her burial and said that a lot of the old headstones were vandalized numerous times and are now rubble. The Carleton Town Clelrk told me that all the town records from 1885 to 1900 are missing. Does anyone know of H. B. Onderdonk or of a mortuary from that time period? If so, what would have happened to the mortuary records? Any suggestions as to where else I could search would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Maureen Sausen Lincoln, CA ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message