Are you sure than Ossining did not come first? ! :) My mind is open. >NOTES: Ossining, New York was originally named SIng SIng, after the Sinct >Indians. Once the infamous prison was referred to as SIng Sing, residents >sought a name change for their town. Thus, Ossining became the name of the >town. > >Jessie J. COLLIER/COLLYER was the Mayor of Ossining circa 1960. >===================== > >Minneapolis Journal >February 4,1924 > >SURNAMES: COLLIER, JOHNSON, BROWN, EUGESON > >"Ice Traps Motorcar" > >Yorktown: Three young men who in a closed car sought to cross Lake Mahopan >near here, on the rotting ice Sunday and were plunged into ten feet of water >when the ice broke through, owe their lives to the presence of mind of Mrs >Jessie J COLLIER, of Ossining. As the automobile disappeared under water, >she summoned scores of horrorstricken fellow skaters, her husband among them >and at her direction they formed a human chain and one by one brought the >submerged men to safety. In the front seat of the sedan were Frank >JOHNSON, and >Herbert l BROWN and in the back seat Milton EUGESON, all of Croton Falls. > >SOURCE: >http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=65386 >*************************************** >Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/ >*************************************** >Browse or Search the Mailing List Archives of postings sent to this >list over the years. Visit >http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/NY/westchester.html#NYWESTCH >*************************************** >------------------------------- >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