At 3-28-2006 05:49 PM, Annecady@aol.com wrote: >Cook's Corners - There are a couple similar names in St. Lawrence, but most >likely in Pierrepont, to the south-east of Canton. The only directions I >find >are some for Cook's Corners cemetery. It is on Wilson Road (Higley Area). >Directions are Gulf Road to Green Road, then to Wilson Road. So, from >Crary's >Mill you would go south to Route 68, then take 68 to Gulf, then Green, then >Wilson....or you could cut from 68 to Hanson Road, then Green, then Wilson. It's about 3 miles out of Cranberry. If you take the Tooley Pond Road north out of Cranberry Lake, it's the left turn toward Newton Falls. (Do a Google Maps http://maps.google.com/ search for "cranberry lake ny to newton falls ny"; Cook's Corners is where the route takes a left and is labelled "Clifton". If you go to the satellite or hybrid view, you'll see Cook Pond. You'll also, in various places, find it called 'Windfall', after a tornado which touched down there in the late 1800s. There may be a few permanent residents; mostly, it's camps and hunting 'lodges'. Or do a Mapquest http://mapquest.com/ search for 'cook corners' - Note the spelling... - it comes up directly. (Saint Lawrence County trivia - While you're at Mapquest, do a search for 'Newbridge, NY' - it's on the Tooley Pond Road, a few miles south of DeGrasse; population 0, and has been for at least half a century. Last time I was up there, you could barely make out the foundations of 3-4 houses. Mapmakers do this to help protect their copyright. If a map shows up with Newbridge on it, they have a pretty good idea where you got it from.) Joe -- Joe Makowiec can be reached at: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe http://makowiec.org/

Here is what I found in "Claims to Names" Eben - Railway Station in the town of Potsdam. Looking at a map, to get to Eben from Crary Mills you'd go north on 66 for about 4 miles. Eben is at the intersection of 66 and the Conrail Railroad. . Giffen's Corners - Can't find this in any book, but if you take Howardville Rd west out of Crary Mills, the first street coming off to the north is Giffen Road. The road only looks to be a couple miles long with about 3 intersections, so I'd guess one of those intersections is "Giffen's Corners". Cook's Corners - There are a couple similar names in St. Lawrence, but most likely in Pierrepont, to the south-east of Canton. The only directions I find are some for Cook's Corners cemetery. It is on Wilson Road (Higley Area). Directions are Gulf Road to Green Road, then to Wilson Road. So, from Crary's Mill you would go south to Route 68, then take 68 to Gulf, then Green, then Wilson....or you could cut from 68 to Hanson Road, then Green, then Wilson. Hope this helps some. My NY state map book is getting frayed, but I think I read the street names corrrectly. Anne Cady Manassas, VA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLER, CANFIELD, ADAMS, PARO, LEONARD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8483 Message Board Post: Would someone be able to look up an Obit on Jonathan Weller b.1865 in Vermont. D. 12 Feb 1836 at 71 years in West Parishiville, New York. In the Revalutionary War, from Potsdam, NY. Burried at Riverview Cem, Parishville, NY. Also an obit for Jonathan's wife Chloe Canfield Weller b. 1861 d. 05 Nov 1825 in Parishville, NY. Burried at Riverview Cem, Parishville, NY Thank you so much. Lois Ann arizona_lady@qwest.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meacham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8482 Message Board Post: Need someone to do a LOOK UP in the Courier and Freeman in January, 1900, an article written by E. A. Wood of Nicholville. My fourth great grandfather Stephen Peabody Meacham is one member of a band of Mormon converts that left Hopkinton in 1844, only to find Nauvoo, Illinois, and the Mormon life, did not prove the haven , which they had anticipated. And in fact, they found that it was much easier to join the Mormons than to disassociate themselves from them. Norman Meacham, a cousin of Stephen, was murdered trying to get away, Stephen got away. But the Mormon's held his wife and children. I would love to have a copy of the article, if someone could copy it for me. Thank You Jerry R. Smith

Can someone give me an idea of where Eben, Giffen's Corners, and Cook's Corners are in relation to Canton? I've been spending some time looking for Vaughan, Vaughn, Forbes, and Emerson references in both the Canton and Potsdam papers that are on line and the above locations keep popping up. My grandparents came from the Crary Mills and Langdon Corners area and I'm familiar with those but I never heard of the other places and I couldn't find them on the county map that's on the St. Lawrence county web site. Jerry Jerry & Phyllis Vaughn Corpus Christi, Texas Hunter 40 NoETA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DOUD, PERKINS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2RB.2ACE/3007.3329.1.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: I have had some contact with the descendants of Florence Marie Doud, the daughter of William Wesley Doud, please contact me if you are inerested.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHIMNER, FISHER, FUGURE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8481 Message Board Post: Would appreciate it if someone could look-up the name Orilla CHIMNER and Lewis CHIMNER . Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8480 Message Board Post: Dear Folks: Looking for information re: John Mealey (Maley) 1880 Census Constable in Ogdensburg b. 1811 Ireland d. 1903 Ogdensburg Wife Elizabeth Whitten b Ireland circa 1814 d.1883 Ogdensburg at least one child Abram b. circa 1866 in NY State I believe John's sister, Isabella Mealey came circa 1859 to St. Lawrence County and lived with the family before her marriage. I believe, according to information left by Isabella, that the family was from Northern Ireland, Armagh. If anyone has information re: the Mealeys, please contact me. Thanks Sue

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8477.2 Message Board Post: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset_library.asp click on SEARCH at top and type in first/last name and just browse. There are several martin Levacs.

Obit for Ida Hills Price - from Watertown Daily Times of March 21, 1942. Widow of J.L. Price, 86, dies. Succumbs after brief illness at her home. Always Gouverneur resident. Funeral for Mrs. Ida Hills Price to be Held from the Home Monday at 2:30 p.m. Gouverneur, March 21- Mrs. Ida Hills Price, 86, widow of Jay L. Price and a lifelong resident of this area, died Friday afternoon at 5:30 at her home, 146 Park street. She was taken ill one week ago. Previously, she was in good health and very active for one of her age. Funeral rites will be conducted from the home Monday afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. Harold A. Thomas, pastor of First Methodist Church. Burial will in Riverside cemetery. Surviving are one son, Wilber E. Price of Richmond Hill, L.I., two daughters, Mrs. Fred (Lena) Lohmiller of Brooklyn and Mrs. Murray (Edna) Dodds of Canton; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren, and one niece, Mrs. Lynn Sprague of Gouverneur. Mrs. Price was born on a farm near Peabody's bridge, Clinton road, town of Gouverneur, Dec. 22, 1855, the daughter of Jesse and Helen Walling Hills. When she was but a small child, her father purchased a farm on the Little Bow road a few miles from this village. Mrs. Price lived on this farm for 60 years before moving to her Park street residence in the village where she had lived for the past 22 years. She was married to Jay L. Price of the Johnstown road, Gouverneur, on March 13, 1874. The couple resided on the Hills farm at Little Bow road from 1880 to 1920 when they retired from active farming and moved to this village. Six years after their marriage, Mr. Price bought the Hills farm. Mr. Price died there in 1925. Mrs. Price was a member of Gouverneur grange for a great many years and was also a member of the Rebekah lodge.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KIO, FOUNTAIN, LAIDLAW, DOYLE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8476.1 Message Board Post: I stand corrected and will make the correction on my FTM. Thank you. Awhile back we corresponded re Alex Laidlaw and his wife Eleanor Doyle, she was a twin of Michael Doyle and both siblings of my Loretta Doyle Whalen. I recently received a photo of Loretta Doyle.

Consider that maybe that site does not have a death notice for this person. The search facility is pretty basic, you find stuff or you don't. They add new papers over time so you might try again later. Also try this site: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/ which has information on papers available on microfilm via interlibrary loan (you initiate the request at your local library if they have a microfilm reader). Hope this helps - Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland From: "Carol V" <wynnregula@hotmail.com> To: NYSTLAWR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYSTLAWR] I need help with the Fulton site Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:08:11 -0800 www.fultonhistory.com I need help! I have tried and tired searching this website for the following death notice: LeVieu, Andrew d. May 3, 1877 age 48, 1A---bur. Old St. Mary's Cemetery, Potsdam, NY Andre VIAU [LEVIEU] was born on November 8, 1830 & baptized on the 10th in St Laurent QC. Son of Paul Viau & Marguerite Viau. When Andrew died, he left a wife, Lucy nee Leduc (LaDuke) and 10 children. I don't know what I am doing wrong but I know I need help. Would some kind soul please try to bring up a death notice for Andrew LeVieu. I truly appreciate the help as I am trying to rule out whether this is my great grandfather or not. Thank you so much. Carol

I have quite a bit of Hills info to share if anyone has an interest. Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the Watertown Daily Times, October 1915 Former Resident Dead Gouverneur, Oct. 14 - A copy of the Saginaw, Mich Courier-Herald recieved here yesterday contains notice of the recent death at Bridgeport, Mich, of Mrs. Asenath Hills Chandler, a native of this town, aged 89 years. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.D. Wolcott, after a short illness caused from pneumonia. Mrs. Chandler was born here August 15, 1827, a daughter of Nathan R. and Lavina Hills, and she grew to young womanhood in this section. At the age of 18 she was united in marriage with C.W. Chandler and in 1856 they moved to Michigan, settling in Genesee county where Mr. Chandler died in 1888. In 1894 Mrs. Chandler went to Saginaw county and had since made her home with her daughter. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Wolcott, with whom she lived and Mrs. William King, Saginaw, and one son D. W Chandler of Mt. Morris, six grandchildren and seven? great-grandchildren. Burial was made at Mt. Morris Saturday.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/7758.1.2 Message Board Post: My wife is descended through Gilford E. Howard as well; though his son Wayne. That would make us relatively close cousins (well, my wife and you). We believe that Edger G. and Gilford E. are probably the same person as the dates match very closely. You mentioned that you forwarded some information to the original poster here...I will contact you via private e-mail regarding this.

I checked the Fulton site and didn't find the obit fro Andrew LeVieu that you wanted, but I didn't really expect to. They don't have any Potsdam papers of that vintage scanned. You can see what papers they have by clicking on the Newspaper Index button on the upper right of the screen at http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html . I also checked the Northern NY Newspaper site ( http://news.nnyln.net/ ), but they also don't have Potsdam papers that far back, though they do have Potsdam papers back to 1897. I checked the Potsdam papers anyways but the name LeVieu doesn't appear in any articles between 1897 and 1951. Sorry, Anne Cady Manassas, VA

www.fultonhistory.com I need help! I have tried and tired searching this website for the following death notice: LeVieu, Andrew d. May 3, 1877 age 48, 1A---bur. Old St. Mary's Cemetery, Potsdam, NY Andre VIAU [LEVIEU] was born on November 8, 1830 & baptized on the 10th in St Laurent QC. Son of Paul Viau & Marguerite Viau. When Andrew died, he left a wife, Lucy nee Leduc (LaDuke) and 10 children. I don't know what I am doing wrong but I know I need help. Would some kind soul please try to bring up a death notice for Andrew LeVieu. I truly appreciate the help as I am trying to rule out whether this is my great grandfather or not. Thank you so much. Carol

This message was sent to me from an Irish research group member. I searched for my deceased husband's REGULA, WONSOWICZ, WILKEY, & GOODEY lines and was pleased to find several entries. In my excitement, I forgot to check for my other lines. Have fun and please pass this along. Carol -------------------- Chicago online obituary archive An online obituary archives is available for the Chicago (Illinois) Tribune, with a search engine which goes back to the 1870s. Of course, the best obits are in the time period of 1900 to 1930 or so, when newspapers had space for longer articles and employed staff to write them up. Below is an example. http://tinyurl.com/9yoed I am told by a Chicago Irish descendant that the better newspaper for Irish-Americans was the Chicago Daily News.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Perry, Poirier, Denny, Denis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8479 Message Board Post: Please can someone help....? Im tring to find the parents of Obediah Perry aka Oby, b.1840 Canada. He came as young boy to Massena in the mid to late 1840s. He met and m. Eliza A. Denny b. 1841 in Canada. They were married abt. 1862. Their children were: George W. Perry b. 1872, Henry A.Perry b.1868, Samuel Perry b. 1873, Fred D.Perry b. 1876 and Joseph A. b. 1874. Obediah and wife lived in the Massena area all their lives and most of their children did too. Any help is appreciated.......I notice there is an Allen Perry b. 1813 Can. Living in the area at the same time...but cannot make any connection.........Thanks,,,,Marj

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8478.1 Message Board Post: Many of the people you are interested in are shown in my photo inventory of Ogdensburg Cemetery (online at my webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/index.HTM ). Once on my site, look for the link to my inventory of cemeteries and go to the town of Oswegatchie. I found the following for Cameron and for Winters: (you can see pictures of the stones at my webpage). Cameron: James Cameron, Feb 2, 1829 - Oct 12, 1902 (Section 20) Rachel Bolton, his wife, April 26, 1845 - March 31, 1888 (Section 20) Allan A., their son, Aug 12, 1871 - June 10, 1909 (Section 20) George E., their son, Oct 4, 1874 - Oct 21, 1911 (Section 20) William M. Cameron, 1868-1931 (Section 78) ELizabeth J. Winters, his wife, 1868-1914 (Section 78) Frank Sibel, 1894 (Section 78) Catherine M. Cameron, his wife, 1896-1952 (Section 78) S. Mildred Cameron, daughter of Wm & Elizabeth Cameron, 1899 - Dec 13, 1901; AE 2 yrs, 6 mos; Second Stone (Section 78) Maude E., 1903 (Section 78) Doris (Section 78) Winters: Eliza Smith, wife of James Winters, 1842-1878, erected by her daughter, Sadie (Section 62) James Winters, Co D 106 Regt NYV 1831-1904 (Section 105) From the above, it appears James Cameron's wife's name was Rachel Bolton. Also, going to http://www.fultonhistory.com and searching for "William Cameron" and "Ogdensburg" gave a listing of the obituary for the wife of William Cameron which reads as follows: Watertown Daily Times, 1914 Mrs. William Cameron Ogdensburg, July 22 - Mrs. William Cameron died yesterday morning after a long illness of tuberculosis, aged 45 years. She is survived by her husband, who is a well known stone mason, and three daughters, Catherine, Maude and Dorothy; a brother, William Winters of this city, and three sisters, Mrs. Harry Dunn of this city, Mrs. W. C. King of Brockville and Mrs. P. J. Conway of Ottawa. The funeral will be at the house, 50 St. Lawrence Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 2, Rev. A. M. Wight of the Congregational Church officiating, and Interment will be made in the Ogdensburg Cemetery. There are other articles on this family that you can find on that newspaper search site. Hope this helps, Anne Cady Manassas, VA

In the article below, I'm pretty sure the 'Hill' mentioned should be 'Hills'. Does anyone reading this know the first name of the 'Mr. Layton' mentioned? This is interesting because ususally you get the man's name but not the woman's name. The article below is from the Watertown Daily times of June 1913. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gouverneur, June 13 (1917) Mrs. Lynn Sprague arrived home late Monday night from Glens Falls, where she was called a few days previously by the illness of her aunt, Mrs. Helen Layton, a former resident of this section. Mrs. Layton died a day after Mrs. Sprague arrived at her bedside in the Glens Falls hospital. Mrs. Layton was born near Natural Dam in this town about 70 years ago, her maiden name being Hill. Her early life was spent here but after her marriage to Mr. Layton, a contractor , she had since lived in New York, Utica and Fort Edward. For a year or two past she had lived with a relative at the latter place and when taken seriously ill she was removed to the Glens Falls hospital. Mrs. Layton's husband died many years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland