This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2RB.2ACE/4374.4145 Message Board Post: Family Group Sheet ========================================================================================== Husband: Silas W. COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: 1828 Dunbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire Occupation: 1850 Painter; Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Census: 1850 Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Occupation: 1860 Painter; Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Death: bet 1870-1880 New York Occupation: 1870 Painter; Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Marriage: abt 1850 New York Father: Hezekiah COLBY (1803- ) Mother: Mary MORSE (1805-1835) ========================================================================================== Wife: Julia M. PECK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: 23 AUG 1832 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1880 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1900 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Death: 30 OCT 1907 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Father: Mother: ========================================================================================== Children ========================================================================================== 1 F Augusta COLBY Birth: APR 1852 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1900 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Spouse: Seth ABY (1856- ) Marriage: 1882 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 F Emma COLBY Birth: 1853 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 M Walter W. COLBY Birth: JUL 1854 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1900 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York Census: 1910 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York Census: 1930 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York Death: 30 JUL 1932 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York Spouse: Esther Mary TAVERNIER (1859-1933) Marriage: JAN 1879 New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 F Adalade COLBY Birth: 1857 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 M Frank COLBY Birth: SEP 1859 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1860 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1880 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Death: 31 MAR 1881 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 M Henry COLBY Birth: 25 MAR 1863 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1880 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1900 Brasher Falls, St. Lawrence County, New York Spouse: Winifred DINSHAW (1864-1926) Marriage: 1885 New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 F Lucy COLBY Birth: 1867 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1870 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 F Effie COLBY Birth: 1871 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York Census: 1880 Chateaugay, Franklin County, New York ========================================================================================== Prepared 20 DEC 2005 by: Ronald M. Colby 4814 South 4180 West Kearns, Utah 84118-4014 COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS rmcolby@micro-net.com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~colby/colbyfam ========================================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HUSBAND NOTES: Silas W. COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1850): (living at home with father and step-mother) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WIFE NOTES: Julia M. PECK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1880): (listed as widowed.) Census (1900): (living with daughter Augusta and family.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Augusta COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1860): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Emma COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1860): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Walter W. COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1860): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) Death (30 JUL 1932): Aug. 8, 1932 Walter W. Colby, died suddenly at his home on Assembly street Saturday evening, July 30th. He had been in failing health for over a year and had suffered numerous heart attacks recently. He married Miss Esther Mary Tavernier of Chateaugay 53 years ago last January and they came to this village 51 years ago and lived in the same house continuously since that time. To them were born nine children: Frank H. of Massena; Ross of Norfolk; Miss Clara of Boston; Mrs. Grace Martin of Norfolk; Fredie of Norfolk; Silas R., Leon and Lena Cummings of this village and Willie who died at the age of 18. There are also eighteen grandchildren: Freeman, Mary, Jesse, Gertrude and Silas R. children of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Colby; Walter, Kenneth and William, children of Ross Colby; Earl, Paul and Pauline, children of Mr. and Mrs. Fredie Colby; Pearl and Percy Colby, children of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Colby and Eugene Harry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cummings. The two great grandchildren are June C. Bogart and Warren Colby, children of Mary Colby Bogart and husband and Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Colby. He also leaves one brother, Henry Colby of this village. Mr. Colby was the son of Walter C. (note: his father is Silas) and Julia Peck Colby of Chateaugay. He worked at his trade of paper hanger and painting for a while after coming to this village and then began work in what is now "The Agricultural Works" being employed there until poor health, caused him to retire about two two years ago. The funeral services were held Tuesday morning at St. Patrick's R. C church of which he was a faithful member. A requiem, high mass was celebrated by Rt. Rev. Msgr. C J. Crowley, burial in St. Patrick's R. C. cemetery beside his son, Willie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Adalade COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1860): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Frank COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth (SEP 1859): (calculated from age given at time of death.) Census (1860): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1880): (living at home with mother.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Henry COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) Census (1880): (living at home with mother.) General: The Malone Farmer Wednesday, September 28th, 1932 BRASHER FALLS AND VICINITY HAPPENINGS One of our Brasher Falls men whom we all admire and whom one of his friends describes, is Henry Colby. For the past forty-five years with an average of three hundred twelve days to the year and two trips to the day, making a total of twenty-eight thousand trips, Colby, such is the record of Henry Colby of this village, who with his faithful horse and wagon has held the position of drayman between Winthrop and Brasher for nearly half a century. When he began these trips he was a young man twenty-six years old. He was born in Chateaugay, New York on March 25th, 1861, one of eight children of Silas and Julia Peck Colby. The first 20 years of his life were spent in his native village. He then came to Brasher Falls to work-in the Church lumber mill, remaining there for five years. He then purchased a horse and a single lumber wagon and began his trips to Winthrop for freight and express. The distance is one mile. For many years when the twin villages were smaller the road was rough and rocky. Very little was expended to keep it in repair. Each man if possible worked out his own road tax, with minor effects on the road. In winter the drifts were many and deep. It was seldom anything one to help the traveler, except as some kind soul would get out with his horses and caldron kettle and drive through once. Winthrop had no church edifice at this time. Services were held in a hall. The village boasted three small stores, a post office, the old Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain depot, the old Dunton hotel, a harness shop and a blacksmith forge. Time and labor have gradually bettered things. Several fires have leveled the old building not a store or public building remains that was here when Mr. Colby began his trips in 1887. New and more modern buildings fill the places of the old ones. Winthrop's two churches were built in 1888 and 1889. The name of the village was changed from Stockton to Winthrop April 1st. 1891. Our cemetery association was incorporated in September, 1901. The brick pavement was laid between the two villages in 1915. The First National Bank of Winthrop was completed in 1915. There is no one in business in Winthrop who were there at the time Mr. Colby began his unceasing trips. Seymour Crapser, George H. Russell, Eli M. Shaw, John W. Morrison, Henry W. Stearns. Augustus C. Munson, Ben Seaver, R. F. Jaynes, Ivers Jenkins. John White, Adolphus Taylor, Edward F. Russell, Eugene D. Bettinger, David Post, William and Irving Hamilton, Fred Wood, Rose Wood, A. D. Miller, Mrs. Mary Miller, Moses Bowman, Charles Goodnough, Daniel P. Haley, Luther E. Ellison, Will Stickney, Cortland C. Covey, Omer P. Stearns, Spenicer H. Stearns, Herbert L. Davis, Henry Grant and George Prichard have all been prominent business people during this time and have passed to the beyond. Since the pavement was completed many new enterprises have followed, but Mr. Colby still travels the familiar street in the old familiar way. Neighbors listen interestedly for the methodical clap-clap-clap of his horses hoofs on the brick road. The iron shoes can be heard a long way off and with each four steps of the horse this is what one hears "Hen-ry Col-by, Hen-ry Col-by" until the man and his wagon are out of hearing. He has brought joy to many homes, each year with the delivery of many and wonderful Christmas gifts, deep sorrow to others when a casket or rough box has been his burden. Babies bonnets, threshing machines, tin pails and plows are all in his line, nothing is too heavy or too light for his load. On many days more than the accustomed two trips have been made. A carload of flour, wire fencing or coal has meant an all day's job but Mr. Colby has seldom missed his routine. An occasional short illness, or a too hearty kick from his faithful horse has caused a short time substitute, but the vacations enforced or otherwise have been rare and he is still as prompt and faithful as ever, accommodating to each and very businessman or private individual who has a trucking job for him. In 1885 he married Miss Winifred Dinshaw of this village, Two children, Howard Colby, now of Malone and Leah, now Mrs. Richard Andres of Alexandria Bay were born to them. There are three grandchildren in Malone, Eugenia, Marshall and Howard Colby Jr. Mrs. Colby passed away in 1926. Mrs. Nellie Smith, a dear old lady over 80 years old, now keeps the home. Mr. Colby good-natured, untiring and obiging seems to have no thought of giving over his task to a younger man. He has worn out four horses on the route. The first on did service for fifteen years, the present one "Beauty" (not named for her attractiveness we are informed.) plods along in her even rhythmic step as faithfully as though she was "Black Beauty." It is hoped Mr. Colby and his pal will continue their trips for many years to come. Their constant and methodical would be sadly missed by neighbors who line the road way. It is hoped they will not be displaced by the modern motor truck, but a long future is before them in their work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Lucy COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1870): (living at home with father and mother.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHILD NOTES: Effie COLBY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census (1880): (living at home with mother.)