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The Storer Family

April 1, 2009

The Storer family is one of the earlier families to have settled in Harmony Township. Coming from Derbyshire, England, five children of George and Julia Storer’s eleven offspring came to America while their parents remained in England. Of the five that settled in and around Susquehanna and Bradford County, it is Moses and Mary Ann ( Hartshorn) Storer that I am most interested in as they are the parents of Hannah (Storer) Walker – my great, great grandmother.

Moses and Mary Ann Storer

Moses and Mary Ann (Hartshorn) were married in England and came to this country in 1847 to make their home in Stevens Point, PA. According to several mentions of the Storers in Beers’ Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania, these families settled in “the wilds of Harmony Township”. Moses and Mary Ann had six children and it is their second child, Hannah that married Ianthus W. Walker. Several of the Storer family members are buried in the Brandt Cemetery; Moses and Mary Storer, Hannah and Ianthus Walker, George W. Storer ( 1851-1906). It seems that John Storer is buried there as well – a stone that lies next to one where the inscription has long faded away, bears the name of “Myra Storer, wife of John Storer”. There may very well be other family members buried there without a stone.

In 1985, Sarah (Bailey) Warder gave my family her extensive research on the Storer family; it is her work that I have posted here..

Storer family history from Sarah (Bailey) Warder - Page 1

Storer family history from Sarah (Bailey) Warder - Page 2

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The Stevens Point Cemetery – Unmarked Graves

March 30, 2009

Although there aren’t any stones or markers that bear these names, old records show that these souls do rest in the Stevens Point Cemetery in Stevens Point, Pennsylvania.

Unmarked Stevens Point Cemetery Burials

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Ianthus and Hannah Storer Walker

March 29, 2009

Researching family history is a bit like unraveling a big ball of tangled yarn….if you have patience and perseverance, you might end up with enough yarn to make a nice sweater but if you give up too easily and cut away half the knots, you might only have enough for a pair of small mittens. The same goes with searching out family members from the past, sometimes it just take time, patience and perseverance. And with the right mixture of all three, you might be able to sort out some of your relatives! That was the way it seemed when a few years ago, I began to be interested in Ianthus and Hannah Walker, my great, great grandparents. I had seen beautiful portraits of both and I realized that I didn’t know too much about them-where they were born, where they had lived and what other children they might have had. I only knew that they were my grandfather’s– Ray Milton Rockwell– grandparents. Ray Rockwell’s mother, Mary (Walker) Rockwell was their daughter and Mary (Walker) Rockwell had a twin sister, Sarah (Walker) Carnegie.

Ianthus Walker

Hannah Storer Walker

It was only by chance that I happened upon Ianthus’s civil war card at a Veterans Administration and my interest was peaked when I learned that he was buried alongside his first wife, Hannah (Storer) Walker in the Brandt Cemetery in Brandt, PA. I was thrilled to see that the names and dates were still pretty legible. The quest was on!

Ianthus Walker Tombstone

Hannah Storer Tombstone

Ianthus W. Walker was born on July 13, 1836 in the little town of Sanford, NY to unknown parents. He gives no information about parents or siblings in his Civil War Pension Papers, just his birthdate and where he was born. His name first shows up on an 1850 census as a 14 year old boy living with a Thomas and Debbie Henderson, in 1860 he is married to Hannah Storer and they have a small daughter, Harriet. He is elusive in the 1870 census – his name can not be found. In 1880, Ianthus is living in Tioga County, NY and is married to Abigail (Carnegie) with several children, I have found out later through Ianthus’s Civil War Pension Papers that some of the children are Hannah’s and some are Abigail’s.

Ianthus Walker once farmed a large piece of land in Stevens Point but sometime after his return from Civil War, he moved to Brandt and was employed by neighbors to do farming and light carpenter work, at one time he worked at the Brandt Chair Factory. He came home a wounded man, was only able to work some of the time and as he got older and was steadily worsened by his wounds; he was barely able to keep employment at all. It has only been through Ianthus’s Civil War Pension Papers that I have been able to piece together this life story…I have posted numerous pages from his pension papers along with his and Hannah’s portraits, their gravestones, so you, too, can see how the Civil War had affected this small family from Harmony Township.

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The Stevens Point Cemetery

March 28, 2009

The Stevens Point Cemetery lies within the boundaries of the little village of Stevens Point, PA. It is an old cemetery with some of the earliest stones dating in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, some of the stones are still crisp and legible while others have been worn away with the weather and time. Some graves are marked with plain bluestones or have just a field stone to grace their last resting place, while others graves have nothing at all. Rose bushes from ages past still adorn some of the unmarked graves; lily of the valleys can be found growing in places where there are no stones. Old oak trees and giant pines lend their quiet beauty to this cemetery, a final resting spot for those folks from Stevens Point and the other little villages that are only a few miles from here….

Stevens Point Cemetery New Sign

Steven Point Cemetery Sign

Stevens Point Cemetery sign at Burdick Hill Road

Steven Point Cemetery - March 2009

Photos of all the individual tombstones in the Stevens Point Cemetery (taken in March of 2009) can be found in the Steven Point Cemetery gallery.

Markers

Adams, Robert E. (unmarked)
Alexander, Charlotte (unmarked) (Died: 12-28-1893) (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Allen, Brintha A. (unmarked)
Anderson, Penious (unmarked) (Civil War Registration Card)
Anson, Enos (unmarked)
Anson, Mrs. Amanda (unmarked)(Died Dec. 23, 1903) ( (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Barton, Beatrice (obituary)
Barton, Charlie D. and Mary A.
Barton, James W.
Barton, Robert E. and Beatrice (Welch)
Barton, Robert Eugene (Pfc. US Army WWII)
Barton, Stanley B. and Mary E.
Birchard, E. L. and Louisa (Hovencamp)
Botts, Daniel Lee and Diane M. (Rockwell)
Botts, Daniel Lee and Diane M. (Rockwell) (back of stone)
Botts, Rebecca
Brown, Caroline Phoebe “Coraline” (Bishop)(unmarked) – 1826 – unknown (information from Nancy Mess)
Brown, Edward W.
Brown, Edward William (death certificate)
Brown, Eugene (unmarked) (Died: 9-29-1901) ( (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Brown, Fenton F. (S1 US Navy WWII)
Brown, George (death certificate)
Brown, George H. and Lulu M.
Brown, Grant Arvine – (unmarked) Jan. 1865 – Dec. 29, 1923 (information from Nancy Mess)
Brown, James W.
Brown, John L. (Sgt. 18th Inf. US Army)
Brown, Meddie E. (death certificate)
Brown, Media E.
Brown, Melesia (Iola) (death certificate)
Brown, Mrs. Stella (unmarked)
Buchanan, Clarence Alfred (unmarked)
Buchanan, Elmer (unmarked) Died 7-5-1905 ( (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Buchanan, Jennie (unmarked)
Buchanan, L. N. (Co. F 1 NY Mtd. Rifles)
Buchanan, L. N. (funeral notice)
Buchanan, L. N. and Dortha A.
Buchanan, Sarah (death certificate)
Buchanan, Wesley (death certificate)
Buchanan, Wesley and Sarah
Burchell, Ernest E.
Burchell, Frank
Burchell, Frank (death notice)
Burchell, Franklyn (death certificate)
Burchell, Horace (Co. D 76th PA Inf.)
Burchell, Horace (death notice)
Burchell, Louise (unmarked)
Burchell, Mrs. Frank (unmarked)
Burchell, Mrs. Horace (funeral notice)
Burchell, Nina (unmarked)
Burdick, Leonard M. (obituary)
Burdick, Leonard M. and Josephine G.
Butts, Allan B.
Butts, Marjorie R.
Butts, Rebecca Marie (obituary)
Butts, Thomas George and Rebecca Marie
Campbell, Elizabeth (unmarked)
Campbell, Eugene (unmarked)
Campbell, James (unmarked) (Died 1-27-1903) ( (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Campbell, William H. (death certificate)
Campbell, Wm. H. (Prvt. Co. H 143rd Reg. NY Inf. Vol.)
Carnegie (Burial Plots)
Carnegie, Elmer (obituary)
Carnegie, Elmer (stone lies next to other Carnegie stones)
Carnegie, George (death certificate)
Carnegie, George L.
Carnegie, Ianthus W.
Carnegie, Ianthus W. (funeral notice)
Carnegie, Jane (Rockwell)
Carnegie, Jane Ann (death certificate)
Carnegie, Mrs. Sarah (obituary)
Carnegie, S. H. (funeral notice)
Carnegie, Samuel H.
Carnegie, William F. (death certificate)
Carnegie, William F. and Sarah E.
Carr, Erastus (death certificate)
Carr, Erastus and Susan
Carr, Mrs. Susan (funeral notice)
Chadden, John (funeral notice)
Chadden, John H. (unmarked)
Charrington, Mary (name on top of stone)
Cokely, James A. and Charlotte R.
Cokely, James Allen (obituary)
Cokely, Timothy C. and Cheryl L
Cokely, Timothy C. and Cheryl L. (back of stone)
Cook, Leverne D. (unmarked)
Decker, Ida (death certificate)
Decker, Ida (Penny)
Decker, Roscoe
Decker, Roscoe (death notice)
Degnon, Laura (Hobart) (obituary and funeral notice)
Deyo, Daniel T. (Pvt. Co. A 6 NY Regt. Civil War)
Deyo, John (obituary and funeral notice)
Deyo, John H. and Rose
Deyo, Lucy Lee
Deyo, Rosa (death certificate)
Deyo, Wm. (unmarked) (Died: 8-30-1903) (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Duree, Maud (Walker) (death certificate)
Edwards, Edward(unmarked)
Edwards, Mrs. Polly (funeral notice)
Edwards, William F. (death certificate)
Edwards, William F. and Polly F. (Squares)
Eggleston, Laura Ann (Brown)
Finch, Mrs. Lydia (Shay) (death certificate)
Finch, Orlando W. (death certificate)
Finch, Orlando W. and Lydia B. (Shay)
Franciotti, Pasquale (unmarked)
French, Harry A. and Irene M.
Furman, Gladys (unmarked)
Furman, Nancy
Furman, Nancy (death certificate)
Furman, Theodore (unmarked, questionable)
Gay, Hattie (Walker) (Tewksbury) (marriage certificate)
Gay, Hattie (Walker) (Tewksbury) (obituary and funeral notice)
Gay, Hattie A. (death certificate)
Geer, Floyd (Funeral Notice)
Geer, Floyd H. (Memorial Card)
Geer, Floyd H. and Anna L.
Glover, Jessie May (Furman) (unmarked) (6-10-1894 -10-17-1913) (information per Nancy Mess)
Graham, Nellie (unmarked)
Guyer, Hiram and Abigail (Adare)
Hand, John (Co. B 52 PA Inf.)
Hand, John (death certificate)
Harbin, Donna (obituary)
Hard, Mrs. Goldie (death and funeral notice)
Hard, Mrs. Goldie (unmarked)
Histed, Frank H. (death certificate)
Histed, Frank H. (Prvt. Co. E. 13th Penna. Vol. Inf.)
Histed, Jessie (Luscomb)
Histed, Sarah
Hobart, Ben
Hobart, Benjamin Franklin (death certificate)
Hobart, Edith Pearl
Hobart, Elaine (Cummings) (obituary)
Hobart, Elizabeth (Keating) (death certificate)
Hobart, Ellis R. (obituary)
Hobart, Ellis R. and Elaine M.
Hobart, Gene Parker
Hobart, George Albert, Sr.
Hobart, Infant (funeral notice)
Hobart, James
Hobart, James H.
Hobart, James, Jr. (death and funeral notice)
Hobart, Laura June (seeLaura June (Hobart) Degnon
Hobart, Lynnie (obituary)
Hobart, Nathan (death certificate)
Hobart, Nathan and Elizabeth
Hobart, Winthrop R. and Lynnie T.
Hobart, Zaidee
Hobart, Zaidee (death certificate)
Holford, Lewis L. (unmarked)
Holford, Wm. L. (Co. G 77 PA Inf.)
Hotaling, Christopher (death certificate)
Hotaling, Christopher and Mabel L.
Hotaling, John (death certificate)
Hotaling, John and Rachel
Hotaling, John E. (death certificate)
Hotaling, John E. and Laura J.
Hotaling, Mabel L.
Hotaling, Margaret Louise
Hotaling, Margret L. (death certificate)
Hotaling, Rachel (death certificate)
Howe, Edward (death certificate)
Howe, Edward (Priv. Co. D 54 Regt. PA Vol.)
Howe, Lucy J.
Howe, Lucy J. (death certificate)
Howe, Warren (death notice)
Howe, Warren (unmarked)
Johnson, C. S.
Johnson, Charles (death certificate)
Johnson, Elizabeth (unmarked)
Johnson, Elnora (Burchell) (unmarked)
Johnson, Ewin or Ervin (unmarked)
Jones, Ethel (unmarked) (1886 – 9-10-1954) (Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Jones, Frank (unmarked) (11-7-1878 – 8-20-1943) ((Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Jones, Gladys
Kaney, Frank W. (obituary)
Kany, Frank W. and Anna L.
Kany, Milton M. and Clara J.
Kany, Mrs. Anna (obituary and funeral notice)
Keesler, Infant (death notice)
Keesler, Mary E.
Keesler, Ray (death certificate)
Keesler, Ray (death notice)
Keesler, Ray C. and Ruth L.
Keesler, Raymond C. (funeral notice)
Keesler, Ruth (obituary and funeral notice)
Kubin, Mrs. George (funeral notice)
Kuhn Articles
Kuhn, Edward-Elwin (death notice)
Kuhn, Edwin (funeral notice)
Kuhn, Elwin
Kuhn, George
Kuhn, George P. (death certificate)
Kuhn, George P. and Arvilla
Kuhn, George P., Sr. (death certificate)
Kuhn, James
Kuhn, James (death certificate)
Kuhn, John
Kuhn, Martin (death certificate)
Kuhn, Martin and Myra
Kuhn, Myra (death certificate)
Kuhn, Myra (obituary)
Kuhn, Roland
Kuhn, Roland (death certificate)
Lebig/Leibig, Anna (Paugh) – Memorial Page
Lebig/Leibig, Anna (Paugh) (unmarked)
Lee, Alfred (unmarked)
Lee, Edna (unmarked) (9-19-1886 – 7-4-1936) (Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Lee, Eliza J. (Deyo)
Lee, Eliza J. (Deyo) (death certificate)
Lee, Gilbert Raymond (unmarked)
Lee, Harry (unmarked)
Lee, Oliver (death certificate)
Lee, Oliver A.
Lee, Robert E. (unmarked)
Luscomb, Edward and Blanche
Luscomb, Edwin or Elwin Levi (death certificate)
Marcum, Clayton M. and Hulda B.
Mead, John (unmarked) (Died: 11-12-1901) ( (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Mead, William (unmarked)
Meagley, Ethan Andrew
Meagley, Ethan Andrew (obituary)
Melious, George (unmarked)
Melious, Julia
Melious, Julia (death certificate)
Melious, Laura
Melious, Laura Helen (death certificate)
Melious, Ruth
Melious, Ruth (death certificate)
Milks, Alta May (unmarked) (1890 – 11-26-1909) (Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Moore, Celia (unmarked) (1911 – 10-18-1911) (Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Mott, Lillian Edna (unmarked)
Mott, Thomas (unmarked)
Mracum, Clayton (cremation certificate)
Nickerson, Clarence E.
Nickerson, Clarence E. (death notice)
Nickerson, Cornelia F. (unmarked)
Parker, Baby
Parker, Baby (death notice)
Parker, Genevieve (unmarked)
Parker, George E. (unmarked)
Parker, George W. and Narcissa J.
Parker, Harry
Parker, Hattie (Walker) (death certificate)
Parker, I. Richard
Parker, I. Richard (death certificate)
Parker, John R. (death certificate)
Parker, John R. (obituary)
Parker, John R. and Hattie F.
Parker, John W.
Parker, Lydia T.
Parker, Lydia T. (death certificate)
Parker, Narcissa (death certificate)
Paugh, Maria
Paugh, Mary (unmarked)
Paugh, Samuel (unmarked)
Penny, Marilla (Poole)
Penny, Marilla (Poole) (death certificate)
Penny, Nathan
Penny, Nathan (death certificate)
Phillips, Harold Donald (unmarked)
Prentice, Mary (unmarked) (1846 – 11-26-1918) (Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Putnam, Francis E. (death certificate)
Putnam, Francis E. and Theodosia V.
Putnam, Mrs. F. E. (funeral notice)
Ramey, Nathan (unmarked) (1833 – 2-8-1918) (Mumford Funeral Records, Starrucca, PA)
Reed, Catherine Doris (unmarked)
Reigles, Francis Catherine (unmarked)
Reigles, George
Reigles, George (death certificate)
Reigles, Susan (Wayman)
Reigles, Susan (Wayman) (obituary)
Robinson, Dr. James K.
Robinson, Dr. James K. (death certificate)
Rockwell (family names)
Rockwell, Albert (death certificate)
Rockwell, Albert A, Mary N., Charles, Barney, Susan
Rockwell, Albert A. (obituary)
Rockwell, Albert J. and Betty (Geer)
Rockwell, Albert J. and Betty (Geer) (back of stone)
Rockwell, Albert J., Sr. (Ssgt. US Army Air Corps. WWII)
Rockwell, Barbara M.
Rockwell, Barbara M. (back of stone)
Rockwell, Barbara M. (obituary)
Rockwell, Barney (death certificate)
Rockwell, Benjamin John
Rockwell, Benjamin John (back of stone)
Rockwell, Benjamin John (obituary)
Rockwell, Betty Marie (Geer) (obituary)
Rockwell, Charles
Rockwell, Harrison Phillip
Rockwell, Mary N. (death certificate)
Rockwell, Mary N. (funeral notice)
Rockwell, Oliver and Nancy (unmarked)
Rockwell, Olivia (memorial card)
Rockwell, Ray M. (memorial card)
Rockwell, Ray M. and Olivia M.
Rockwell, Robin Marie
Rockwell, Sarah
Rockwell, Tiffany Cora
Rogers, James Allie (unmarked)
Rogers, Stella (Molleninox) (unmarked)
Rose, Susan (Rockwell)
Rose, Susan (Rockwell) (back of stone)
Rose, Susan (Rockwell) (obituary)
Sampson, Carrie R. (Kuhn) (unmarked)
Sampson, Geo. (death notice)
Sampson, George R.
Sampson, George R. (death certificate)
Sampson, George, Jr.
Sampson, Leora (Cook) (death certificate)
Sampson, Leora F.
Sampson, Ralph O.
Sampson, Ralph O. (death certificate)
Seamans, Carrie I. (Dickenson) (death certificate)
Seamans, Samuel (obituary)
Seamans, Samuel A. (circa 1965)
Seamans, Samuel A. (death certificate)
Seamans, Samuel A. and Carrie I. (Dickinson)
Seamans, Sarah Lovina (death certificate)
Seamans, William G. (death certificate)
Seamans, William G. and Sarah L. (Owen)
Shay, Abel (death notice)
Shay, Abel Jonner (unmarked)
Shellman, Riley G. (funeral notice)
Shellman, Riley G. (unmarked)
Simmons, Pauline (Hobart)
Smith Hattie M. (death certificate)
Smith, Clinton E. (obituary)
Smith, Clinton E. (US Navy Vietnam)
Smith, Frank and Hattie
Smith, Gorman Frank (death certificate)
Spears, Alvin G. (death certificate)
Spears, Alvin G. and C. Maude (Putnam)
Spears, Audrey T.
Spears, Mrs. C. Maude Spears (obituary and funeral notice)
Spears, Mrs. Nora (death certificate)
Spears, Mrs. Nora (funeral notice)
Sprague, Lydia A. (unmarked)
Squires, Luellie
Squires, Oren
Stephens, Agnes
Stevens, J. B. (funeral notice)
Stevens, John B. (death notice)
Stevens, John B. and Roxey (Cargill)
Stevens, John, Roxey and Wallace (Memoriam)
Stevens, Mrs. J. B. (memorial card)
Stevens, Mrs. John (death notice)
Stevens, Wallace (death notice) (unmarked)
Stevens, William B. (funeral notice) (same as Wallace?)
Strait, Sarah A. (unmarked)
Swackhammer, Daniel H. II (obituary)
Swackhammer, Daniel H. II (US Army)
Terrell, Calvin (unmarked) (Died 10-3-1895) (Early Deaths( Book I and II) 1893-1905, Susquehanna County Courthouse, Montrose, PA )
Terrell, Delevan (death notice)
Terrell, Dellwin H.
Tewksbury, Charles (obituary and funeral notice)
Tewksbury, Charles L. (death certificate)
Tewksbury, Chas. L. and Hattie (Walker)
Tewskbury, Charles (100YearsAgoArticle)
Vennerstrom, Mrs. Mary (Daffey) (obituary)
Vennerstrom, Victor (obituary)
Vennerstrom, Victor and Mary E.
Walker, Abbie (Carnegie)
Walker, Abbie (Carnegie) (death certificate)
Walker, Abbie (obituary)
Walker, Maud
Wheeler, Baby Earl
Wheeler, Baby Floyd
Wheeler, Jeffrey and Susan (Barton)
Wheeler, Margaret E. (death notice)
Wheeler, Margret E. (Garlow) (unmarked)
Wheeler, Orin (Mus’n Co. A. 56 PA Inf.)
Wheeler, Susan (Barton) (obituary)
Wilson, Cora (funeral notice)
Wilson, Cora and George T.
Wilson, Frederick L.
Wilson, George (funeral notice)
Woodard, William and Sarah C.
Woodward, John
Wright, Morris (death certificate)
Wright, Morris and Mary (Smith)
Wrighter, Martha (unmarked)

A previous survey of the Stevens Point Cemetery from June 26, 2001 can be found here.

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Old Home Days At the Stevens Point Methodist Episcopal Church and Community Hall

March 22, 2009

For several years throughout the 1930’s and the 1940’s, the men and women of the Stevens Point Methodist Episcopal Church held a social gathering called “Old Home Day” in the adjacent community hall. This huge undertaking involved days of cooking, baking and organization in the hall to accommodate literally hundreds of people for an homemade turkey and dressing dinner complete with all the “fixins”- fresh baked rolls and brown breads, oven baked beans and all kinds of handmade pies. People would come from miles around to enjoy this delightful day with family and friends – a day for good eating and reminiscing. If the weather was cooperative, a few of the pews would be taken from the church and placed out in the church yard where the guests that were waiting to be served could sit and visit while waiting for their turn at the dinner tables. Because the hall could only hold about 50-60 people at one setting, dinner guests were issued tickets and numbers were called as room became available.

Old Home Day 1939

Mary Walker Rockwell - Old Home Day 1939

Old Home Day 1939

Long wooden benches lined each side of the wooden tables and the food would be served by the younger ladies of the community. A ledger was kept at a small podium for the guests to sign in, buy their ticket. You will find their signatures as they were presented on those “Old Home Days”– on what are now honeyed pages complete with a little worm wood. Old Home Day sign in pages from the Stevens Point Methodist Episcopal Church and Community Hall are listed in the galleries links.

Old Home Day Ledger

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Quarry Documents

March 21, 2009

These documents were typical of quarry transactions of the period.

Walter Glover Quarry Receipts

Pennsylvania Blue Stone Company

Putnam and Whipple Stone Company

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The Hobbs Quarry

March 21, 2009

This picture is of the Hobbs Quarry in Stevens Point. This quarry was located past our grandfather’s farm (Ray Rockwell) on what is now called, “Rockwell Road” . The original picture is a black and white 4” X 8” print pasted on heavy gray cardstock. No names are written on the back. Two people can be identified in this picture-the man with the heavy white beard on the far right is Bernard (Barney) Rockwell because of a labeled portrait of him that is in our possession. Barney Rockwell was the grandfather to Ray Rockwell. The little boy in the picture is either Ray Rockwell as a child or his older brother, Charles. A picture that came from Ethel Rockwell shows this boy at this exact age but with no name on the picture. My brother thinks that he remembers our grandfather, Ray Rockwell, saying that it is he in the picture. (Charles Rockwell died as a young man of 23 as a result of a quarry accident; he was hit in the hip with the boom and passed away after two years of bed rest). Ray Rockwell was born in 1898 and he looks to be about 10-12 in this picture, making the date to be in the early 1900’s.