No, but you've definately got me intrigued with your reference to Bolton, Warren County, NY. I have no relatives there but my immediate family, but I did grow up there. I knew a family named French there, too - at the moment I can remember the name only of the girl, Bonnie, who was my age. I think she had either a brother, or a half brother, or a nephew, who was raised as her brother, named Arthur. Either that, or that was the father's name. Possibly both. The mother was a quiet woman with grayish white hair, allegedly from some illness - and a rather dark complexion, atleast relative to her hair. But Bonnie was fair skinned. Her father was one of the chief vestry members of the Episcopal church there, where my father was the minister. He was a very proper man, rather quiet, and I think he worked on something like the town road crews - which is how a number of the steadier men in the village made their living. It was alot of work - they not only repaired roads in the summer, they plowed them in the winter, and that place gets two feet of snow a dozen times during the winter. The town is physically large and spread out, with extensive back roads, that all got completely adn properly plowed. In fact, that road crew did a good job. I now live in Texas and have no contact with the place. What are your connections to it? If I find out Tuttles are ancestral to anyone who lived there when I was growing up, I will CROW! Unless that turns out to be the Frenches - they seemed like good and quiet people, possibly a bit troubled, looking back on it; I never saw them appear snobbish, which outright stands out in that town, and they always left me alone. I think there may also have been another family - they had a girl a year or so younger than me named Marsha French, I think. She had quite a butch image. Which is most of what I knew about her. I had a VERY strange childhood, and in a village of 800 people, I hardly knew anybody. ON a visit to the village, years after I'd left, I ran into Marsha and got the idea that she was still butch but had matured and kind of gotten socially incorporated into the village. Both Marsha French and the boy who was raised as Bonnie's brother and I believe was actually her illegitimate nephew, had very dark hair and complexions, I thought in the latter case probably because he was illegitimate and I heard very vague but unpleasant rumors or speculation about his father, and Arthur French's complexion was also somewhat dark but he was so proper and always dressed in somber suits, when I saw him, that it was hard for me to tell. In Bolton Landing (the name of the village in the incorporated township), my schoolmates always thought that people had dark complexions for very dark reasons. When they noticed someone had a dark complexion, that is, which they often didn't - it kind of required that someone was on the social periphery. I never heard a negative thing said about Bonnie's parents, though there was much that I didn't hear or that apparently got talked about all the time but it took me a very long time to hear of it. During most of my childhood, there were no black people at all; in fact, though carefully taught not to be prejudiced I thought of Black people like aliens. The people of that town were lower middle class and snobbish, and they could be ugly. My father was a nerdy sort of person, a fairly good man, atleast, to people outside of his own family he was pretty much a paragon of virtue, and a conscientious minister, but high-strung, too serious, quiet and nervous, my mother had both manic depressive temperament and mild manic depression, and, rigid and anxious and afraid to let their children out of their sight, they literally didn't let us out of the house except for scouts and school. Thus we all had an extremely hard time with the people of that town. The place has grown rapidly, I know it doubled and may have tripled in population. I now live in Austin, Texas, and have access to the state library. They have seemingly all Texas records of every kind, and census for the entire US through 1910. Is there anything you want looked up? I could also make some inquiries if you'd like - I'm not on speaking terms with my parents, who would probably have the most information, but my brother and sister left there later than I did and have retained connections to the place, and also my sister's best friend from childhood, who is a true Boltonite in most senses of the word, followed her here to Austin. Yours, Dora Smith --- "Richard S. French" <rfrench@axiom-systems.com> wrote: > Is anyone on this list researching Tuttle > families from San Antonio, Texas? > Or connections to Bolton, Warren county, NY? > > > > > ==== TUTTLE Mailing List ==== > ** To stop receiving email from this list > ** send the Message: unsubscribe > ** to TUTTLE-L-request@rootsweb.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/