I was pleased to hear of success in reuniting a family with a family Bible. the following family Bibles are also for sale on e-bay all of which are from pennsylvania, one from NY and one from W Va. Hoyt-McCracken 1849, Moses Hardy 1806, Mason Family (W Va), William Jones 1842 (NY). Hope someone finds family. Jean Bond

Hi Myrt, (copy to Tri-County Mail list) Thanks for notifying me, but there is not much you can do about it except what you are doing - keeping your virus protection up to date and not downloading any files you don't understand. The new viruses use email addresses of people that they get from other sources. they really are not necessarily from the address it says it is from. I even get them from myself. My address is on all 7500 of my site's pages and that is one of the sources they use. Others have reported this to me also. Just be VERY Very, cautious. The mail list itself does not spread infected files. I get my list mail in a separate account and none of the messages have attached files. It just can't happen. No files can be sent through the mail list filter. But, addresses of mail list subscribers can be confiscated and used as a phony sender address. I am sending this answer on to the mail list also, so I don't; have to repeat it. Thanks, Joyce M. Tice > Subj: BUGBEAR VIRUS > Date: 10/6/2002 2:02:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Myrt Townsend) > To: [email protected] > > Joyce, I don’t know what else to do about this, but notify you, yourself, > and let you do whatever you prefer. Today I received an e-mail purporting > to be from Mike Roberts, sent to “Undisclosed persons” and using the > Tri-Counties name. My Norton anti-virus alerted me that the Bugbear Virus > was enclosed in this e-mail. It was quarantined, and deleted, but I > thought you should know about it. > > Sincerely, > Myrtle Townsend > >

Hi all, Last week someone was king enough to post a note saying there was a Doane/Eiklor Bible up for sale on e-bay. It turned out to be a great thrill for me. Eiklor is my family and I was able to win what turned out to be my Great-grandfather's brother's family Bible. Today I was browsing through e-bay -- hoping for lightning to strike twice :o) -- and there was the following bible up for sale. It is listed as the Hoyt McCracken Family Bible. Just thought I would pass it on. I have no stake or interest in the sale at all. Just thought I've seen that surname on this list and maybe someone will be as lucky as I was last week. Lisa Cordero

At 08:02 AM 09/30/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:10:13 EDT >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [Tri-Counties] One Room Schoolhouse in East Smithfield >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Hi Everyone, > I have a letter from a lady wanting info about a one-room schoolhouse >between Smithfield and Ulster, and who the teacher might have been in the >late 1920's. I have come up with two possibilities. I'm going to give you >the info that I have found, and if anyone can add to my information please >let me know because I am going to write to this lady in the next couple of >days. > There was one on the corner of Bluebird Road and Ulster Road, but I > have >been unable to find out the name of this school. There is a good >possibility that the teacher at this school was a Miss Thomas (source: >Barbara Decker). The other school that I came up with was on the corner of >the Saco Road and the Ulster Road. It was called Riggs School, and the >teacher at this school was a Miss Florence Eiffert during the late 1920's >(source Eunice Eiffert Nichols, sister of Florence). > I would appreciate any further information you may have. Thanks > Pat Raymond Pat, I do not know the layout of Smithfield at all. However, I know that my grandparents and my grandmother's siblings lived in Smithfield and attended a one room schoolhouse. This schoolhouse was Sunny Side. A school souvenir booklet for Sunny Side from 1906 appears on the Tri-County web-site. The booklet states that the school is in East Smithfield. I recently looked at the 1930 Census which listed my grandmother's brothers, Tom and Bill Donovan, who owned the family farm in 1930. At the bottom of the page it said "Ulster Road." My understanding is that the property where Sunny Side was located was eventually bought by them and incorporated into their farm. Unfortunately, I do not know much more about Sunny Side than this. Hope this helps. Does anybody else have information about Sunny Side? - Tom Weingart

Is there an existing picture of the old covered bridge about a mile above Lawrenceville? Jane Webb

The 1897 History states that Obadiah Inscho was buried in the Bentley graveyard. Does anyone know where that graveyard was located and if the graves were moved where were they reburied? Jane Webb

Subj: Archives Week Open House Date: 10/2/2002 10:34:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time From:    [email protected] (Heather Wade) To:    [email protected] Dear Joyce:   I just wanted to let you know that we are having an open house at the Chemung County Historical Society's research library in observance of Archives Week, on Fri. Oct. 11, 2002 from 4-7PM.  We'll have an exhibit of an assortment of our most prized documents for people to view for one night only.  We'll also offer tours of our research facility.  Staff, student interns, and volunteers will be on hand to talk about the work we do at our library and help people plan their research.  The public is invited, and light refreshments will be served.    Is there any way that you could help us spread the word?    Thank you!   Heather A. Wade Archivist The Booth Library, CCHS 607/734-4167 ext. 207

Here is a portion of the game commission press release for this years game lands tours. Many of these are through areas that at one time contained thriving settlements that are now ghost towns. For anyone in other areas of PA here is the link to the release listing all tours in the state http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/PGC/newsroom/2002/nr077-02.htm Bradford County: Sunday, Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. This will be a 26-mile self-guided driving tour through State Game Lands 12 and 36. The route will start at the parking lot on Route 154 about one mile north of Wheelerville, Bradford County. The tour will continues across SGL 12 toward Sunfish Pond, through the Barclay area and end on the east side of SGL 36 at Schrader Creek in the Weston area. Tour participants will see food plots that the Game Commission created in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation; several timber sale operations in various stages; border cuttings; two deer exclosure project sites; and a strip mine reclamation site that was completed in 1983. Additionally, the tour will include stops by the remains of towns and farm sites; a former refuge area; Barclay Cemetery; and evergreen plantings done by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. A handout with a history of the game lands and the surrounding area will be provided to each vehicle. Roads are passable for most vehicles. Tioga County: Sunday, Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., State Game Lands 37. To attend, take Route 287 to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ives Run Recreation Area, then follow signs to the Stevenhouse Run Parking Lot. This will be a self-guided tour on roads not normally open to the public. Tour participants will be given a map and written tour guide. Game Commission personnel, stationed at various exhibits along the tour route, will be available to answer questions. Luzerne/Wyoming counties: Sunday, Oct. 6, State Game Lands 57. Registration will be held from 7:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the headquarters building complex on State Game Lands 57, Ricketts Station, Forkston Township, Wyoming County. Game Commission personnel will be on hand to explain various points of interest, including wildlife habitat improvement projects. Four-wheel-drive vehicles are recommended for this three-hour, 30-mile, self-guided driving tour. Directions: At the intersection of Routes 487 and 118, take Route 487 north for 7.5 miles and turn onto a dirt road near State Game Land sign on right. Travel on dirt road one-tenth of a mile to a "Y" intersection and proceed left three-tenths of a mile to the headquarters complex. Each vehicle will receive a map and brief explanation of wildlife management programs being carried out on this parcel. -- Dana Richter (607) 255-7163 fax (607) 255-9001 http://www.chess.cornell.edu [email protected]

The Booth Library of the Chemung County Historical Society will host an open house Friday, October 11, 2002 from 4:00-7:00PM in observance of Archives Week. Members of the society and the general public are welcome to meet the library staff and volunteers and peruse treasures from The Booth Library's manuscript, photograph, map and rare book collections, which will be exhibited on-site for one day only. Archives Week (held this year from October 6-13) is an annual, weeklong, national observance of important historical documents to our lives. Among the local historical documents to be exhibited for this event are Mark Twain's marriage certificate, a late eighteenth century land grant, Civil War documents and early "x-rays" on glass plate. Researchers from around the world use The Booth Library's resources for genealogical research, house histories, , and to study such topics the Elmira Prison Camp, Elmira's role in the Civil War, Mark Twain in Elmira, regional railways, and many other subjects specific to the Chemung Valley region. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer research questions and to help plan historical research. The Booth Library is located on the second floor of the Chemung Valley History Museum Building at 415 E. Water Street, Elmira, NY Admission to the event is free. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact the library staff at 607-734-4167 ext. 207 or by e-mail at [email protected] George R. Farr, CCHS volunteer

Hi Everyone, There was a mistake in my last post. The school was on the corner of Ulster Road and the Bridle Path Road, not Bluebird Road. Sorry Pat Raymond

Hi Everyone, I have a letter from a lady wanting info about a one-room schoolhouse between Smithfield and Ulster, and who the teacher might have been in the late 1920's. I have come up with two possibilities. I'm going to give you the info that I have found, and if anyone can add to my information please let me know because I am going to write to this lady in the next couple of days. There was one on the corner of Bluebird Road and Ulster Road, but I have been unable to find out the name of this school. There is a good possibility that the teacher at this school was a Miss Thomas (source: Barbara Decker). The other school that I came up with was on the corner of the Saco Road and the Ulster Road. It was called Riggs School, and the teacher at this school was a Miss Florence Eiffert during the late 1920's (source Eunice Eiffert Nichols, sister of Florence). I would appreciate any further information you may have. Thanks Pat Raymond

A few more assorted baptisms from St. Patrick's Church in Elmira, NY KANE, Catherine b. 9/1/1873 Parents: Jacobus Kane and Mary McMahon KANE, Grace Mary b. 6/29/1883 Parents: Michael H. Kane and Helen Eagen KANE, John b. 8/8/1889 Parents: Peter Kane and Sara Gorman KANE, Martin Henry b. 8/19/1894 Parents: Thomas Kane and Margaret Green CAIN, Mary b. 6/11/1894 Parents: John Cain and Susanne Cain FLAHIVE, Mary b. 4/10/1876 Parents: Jacob Flahive and Honorah Ryan ENNIS, Jeremiah b. 9/26/1893 Baptism: 10/1/1893 Parents: John Ennis and Mary Murphy Sponsors: Thomas Gibbons and Helen Murphy ERVIN, George Francis b. 9/14/1893 Baptism: 10/1/1893 Parents: John Ervin and Margaret Reagan Sponsors: William Sheehan and Elizabeth Ervin ROCKWELL, Francis Joseph b. (not given) Baptism: 9/19/1893 Parents: Frederick Rockwell and Delia Valliard Sponsors: Mrs. Wm. Walsh FAY (nee Downs), Cora Mary Baptism: Oct 3, 1893 Sponsors: Fay HOLDEN, Jeremiah b. 7/12/1884 Baptism: Oct 3, 1893 Parents: Ralph Holden and Margaret Sheehan Sponsors: Jeremy Sheehan and Catherine Sullivan HOLDEN, Anastasia b. 2/26/1886 Baptism: Oct 3, 1893 Parents: Ralph Holden and Margaret Sheehan Sponsors: Patrick Ha?? And Joanna McQuinn RUTLEDGE, Elizabeth b. 11/1/1868 Baptism 10/7/1893 Parents: Thomas Rutledge and Anna Watts Sponsor: Rev. D.J. Ryan CONNOR, Catharine b. 10/13/1893 Parents: Martin Connor and Catharine Cronin Sponsors: James McC?? And Mary Connor

Fitzgerald Baptisms at St. Patrick’s Church late 1800’s Mary Fitzgerald b. 3/23/1885 Parents: Michael Fitzgerald and Joann O’Connor Beatrice B. Fitzgerald b. 6/3/1886 Parents: Michael Fitzgerald and Joann O’Connor William Fay Fitzgerald b. 11/11/1888 Parents: William Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Fay Catherine Elizabeth Fitzgerald b. 9/6/1891 Parents: William Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Fay Thomas Gavin Fitzgerald b. 6/26/1893 Parents: Thomas Brian Fitzgerald and Margaret Gavin Frank H. Fitzgerald b. 11/28/1894 Parents: William K. Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Fay Elizabeth Fitzgerald b. 4/13/1901 Parents: Patrick Fitzgerald and Adelaida McMahon

Hi listers, Anybody out there know anything about this web site? --- Phil Green's Web Page-- Everitt/Everett Family of Jackson Township Tioga Co., PA I found it on Joyce's site, but, can't bring it up. Any advice? Betty

Will the woman who sent the 1899 Tioga County Directory please contact me. It arrived today. Thanks, Joyce M. Tice

This was posted on www.ebay.com . I have no stake in the sale, but wanted to get this out Bradford Co. researchers. Here is the description. In the search box type in Bradford Co. PA Here you are looking at a very interesting Family Bible presented to William and Dessie(Doane) Eiklor, handwritten and dated 1914. Later handed down to Paul B. Doane, June 1954. Included in this bible is a hand written page explaining how in the year 1800 Daniel Doane arrived in Windham Twp., Bradford Co. which at that time was just a wilderness with only one or two settlers. It goes on to tell about the relatives who owned and worked the Doane Farm. The farm was considered one of the best farms in the township. Does this farm exist today? Bible also contains handwritten Holy Matrimony page of this couples marriage, other family marriages, births, and very detailed Death page. As like most older Family Bibles this one contains several loose articles such as 5 newspaper clippings mentioning Doane relatives and also a Birth Registration for Paul Doane Benjamin, dated Jan. 4, 1925 naming Claude Earl Benjamin as father and Dessie I. Doane as mother.(Born in Windham Twp. Bradford Co., Pa.)Original bible purchase receipt dated 1914. An original Certificate of Marriage uniting Nathan Caitlin(?) and Dessie Benjamin on July 2, 1935. There are several references to the Benjamin name in this book but I am not quite sure of the family connection. This large , brown cloth Bible cover is in delicate condition. Front of cover is almost completely detached. Inside pages of Bible seem solid and still very intact to binding. Only very slight page foxing and slight water/dampness marks to bottom of some pages. Contains numerous full page black & white biblical scene pictures. On the whole for an 88 year old Bible this book has survived very well!!! This makes one nice piece of Windham Twp. Bradford Co. Pa. history.

The motel that Sue asked about was the Breezy View. The main house is still there, the lot too overgrown to see if the cabins are standing. It was located on the west side of Rt. 409, near US 6. It used to be on the "old" road (replaced in 1962/63) They also had a restaurant at the time. My first job was as a waitress there. Cheers, Alice

I am unable to determine some of the family relationships in the Haven Family Cemetery in Columbia Township. Is anyone researching anyone buried in the cemetery? If so, could you please contact me. J. Kelsey Jones [email protected]

This may not have anything to do with Bradford County, but maybe there are some other descendants running around who can help me out. I need info from Perrin, John and Otis to join the Mayflower Society and I'm wondering where to get it, to authenticate things. John Ross (Lt Perrin Ross, Jeremiah Ross, Joseph Russ, John, John, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Reingolde Russ) was born 1776 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and died April 10, 1855. He appears in the 1850 Census for Rush Twp, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He married Debra Terry January 1815 in or June, daughter of Rev Terry and Bethia Wells. She was born 1788 in Terrytown, Pennsylvania, and died September 29, 1851. More About John Ross: Burial: Snyder cemetery Notes for Debra Terry: Married first to Stephen Turner of Terrytown. More About Debra Terry: Burial: Snyder cemetery More About John Ross and Debra Terry: Marriage: January 1815, or June Children of John Ross and Debra Terry are: Otis A. Ross, born 1820 in Pennsylvania; died Aft. 1850 appears in 1850 Rush twp census with his wife, Harriet. Thanks, Terry C NJ

HI everyone: This is enough of this hoax business. Jdbgmgr.exe is a legitimate file and belongs in windows. Leave it alone and lets get on with our genealogy. Up in Big Flats, on the side of the road, across from the Strates Farm, was a marker that said something about a demarkation line - or Mass. border; anyone know about this. I was only ten or twelve when I saw it and it haunts my memory. Bill Stiles Charlotte, NC