The Town of Brandt, PA

April 4, 2009

With just a small paragraph written on the back of an early 1900’s postcard of Brandt, I wonder if the printer, C. D. Burton, had any idea of how prophetic his brief description of this little village really was. With his use of the word “vicissitudes” – the unpredictable changes in life – Brandt and its populace did indeed experience the many ups and downs of life in this small but unique Pennsylvanian town.

Brandt Post Card Text

Brandt Post Card Text

From newspaper articles gathered from the Historical Society in Montrose, PA, I have arranged several events in the order that they occurred to portray the rise, fall and the eventual demise of much of the small businesses and industries that once flourished.

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The Town of Brandt, PA – Prosperous Times

April 4, 2009

“Brandt in a Nutshell”
A Happy New Year!

Charles Kessler, of State College, Pa., has returned to his home in the place for a couple of weeks.

S. C. Brandt, of Clinton, N. Y., paid a flying visit to his many friends here Friday.

Ed. Terrell of Oneonta, N. Y., spent a few days of the present week with his mother.

Engineer John Madden, of Binghamton, visited his parents of this place Sunday.

C. E. Folmsbee, of the firm of Folmsbee & Ives, cigar manufacturers of Binghamton spent Monday, on a hunting trip.

Conductor E. H. Madden and wife of Susquehanna, spent Christmas with his parents.

George Rivenburg, an employee in Soops’ stone quarry, met with a bad accident Saturday afternoon. While taking off top dirt an axe in the hands of a fellow workman flew off the handle, striking Rivenburg a glancing blow in the face, making an ugly wound.

Mrs. Monroe and family, of Philadelphia, are visiting her sister, Mrs. J. S. Perkins.

Did you see the Christmas tree at the Point?

The Transcript, Dec. 31, 1887

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The Town of Brandt, PA – Brandt Faces an Uncertain Future

April 4, 2009

Both the American Chair Company and the Brandt Clay Product Company, both of Brandt, have shut down indefinitely.
Montrose Independent Republican 9-25-1896

The several industries at Brandt are in operation on full time. Prosperity has struck the Jefferson Branch.
Montrose Independent Republican 13 Aug. 1897

The Brandt Clay Product Company’s works have resumed operations after a shut-down of several weeks.
Montrose Independent Republican 8-25-1899

The citizens of Hallstead and the Brandt Chair Manufacturing Company have at last reached an agreement by which the Company will move its factory to Hallstead. It is expected that the new building will be ready for occupancy about July 1st.
Montrose Independent Republican 3-30-1900

The contract between the Brandt Chair Co. and the Hallstead Board of Trade has been signed. It will require about $10,000.00 to erect the buildings, which will be ready for occupancy by July 15. About 65 men will be employed at first.
Montrose Independent Republican 4-13-1900

J. S. Brandt is soon to discontinue the mercantile business at Brandt.
Montrose Democrat 2-14-1901

Several citizens of Brandt will apply for a charter for an intended corporation, it to be known as the Brandt Clay Product Co.
Montrose Independent Republican 11-7-1902

The new works of the Brandt Clay Product Co., are progressing rapidly. They expect to be ready to make brick by April 1st.
Montrose Independent Republican 1-16-1903

Dr. J. S. Brandt, will remove from Brandt to Susquehanna, 4-1
Montrose Independent Republican 3-20-1903

The Brandt Clay Product Co. has gone into bankruptcy.
Montrose Independent Republican 10-30-1903

The Brandt Clay Product Co. has commenced the shipment of large orders of brick. Both yards, under the management of Charles Lee, of Binghamton and C. C. Pratt of New Milford, with a large force of men and teams, under the supervision of M. W. Madden, of Brandt, are doing a hustling business.
Montrose Independent Republican 12-11-1903

At Trustee’s sale, the plant of the Brandt Clay Product Co. was sold to Andrew Blank, Jr. of Brandt, in consideration of about $35,000.00. The works will soon start up again.
Montrose Independent Republican 3-18-1904

It is reported that the Brandt acid factory will be closed for all time in less than a year, owing to the exhaustion of the wood supply.
Montrose Independent Republican 9-2-1904

Brandt Chair Factory

Brandt Chair Factory

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The Town of Brandt, PA – Brandt Falls on Hard Times

April 4, 2009

Fire at Brandt

Sept. 27 – Fire which did damage in the village of Brandt, started as fires in the forests surrounding the village, and those in turn were threatening this evening to destroy the town. The fire started in the Brandt Chemical company’s plant. It was started by an explosion of acids being mixed by an employee of the company. A bucket brigade was soon formed and the villagers did their best to subdue the flames. In spite of their efforts the entire plant of the chemical company, the large warehouse of the company, a nearby blacksmith shop and the residence of Samuel Paugh were consumed. The sheds of the Presbyterian church were on fire, but the villagers succeeded in extinguishing them so as to save the church. Flying sparks set fire to the nearby woods, and the flames spread rapidly there, so as to surround the town and threaten it with destruction. Several other explosions occurred as the flames of the chemical plant reached the stored acids, with the first explosion, Foreman William Watkins, was blown through a window and thrown for some distance.

Montrose Democrat 24 Sept. 1908

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The Town of Brandt, PA – Brandt’s Station on the Jefferson Division

April 4, 2009

A small passenger train slowly wends its way down the Jefferson Branch of the Erie Railroad, the engineer making a leisurely descent as he prepares to stop at Brandt Station. A few men are waiting with a load of quarry stone that has to be loaded; several milk cans are being kept cold on the back of an old wagon. The conductor quickly switches mail bags with the postmaster and two older ladies board the train. A man alights onto the wooden platform, he has the look and feel of “city” and in fact, he is “city”- an editor from Carbondale and he has come to do a piece about Brandt for his newspaper. As he walks down to stand on the wooden bridge that spans the Starrucca Creek, let’s join him there as he gathers his thoughts on how best to compose his story. And because it is his story, we need to let him tell it..

Brandt Station

Brandt Station

“Brandt’s Station on the Jefferson division is one of the places in this hilly country which is not calculated to make a favorable impression upon visitors who take their first view of the place from the depot platform. Directly opposite the station a rather dingy three-story structure looms up with bears upon its weather boards in huge letters, the legend “Brandt Chair Manufacturing Company”. A little to the left a group of smaller buildings may be seen, al bearing upon a smaller scale a similar legend. A few rods above the depot a wooden bridge spans the Starrucca Creek and a dilapidated looking blacksmith shop close by, completes the rather interesting first glimpse of Brandt’s.

The man who makes up his opinion of the village and the people who inhabit the place, from the first glimpse, will be forced to the conclusion later on that the old maxim, “first impressions are safest”, will not apply to Brandt’s. At least that was the conclusion which a party of Carbondale gentlemen arrived at after spending a few hours in the village on Saturday. The residence portion of the village completely hidden by the factory and the store buildings, and is not until on has crossed the stream and ascended the further bank that a view of the homes can be obtained.

The man who visits Brandt’s for the first time is treated to a grand surprise. Instead of a factory village, with its one story tenements that one naturally expects to see, he finds beautiful homes in the most charming homelike place in the world. The residence portion of Brandt’s is simply a beautiful park. The roadways are drives and the walks are free from the objections found by pedestrians in more pretentious places. Many of the dwellings are handsome modern structures and the entire park is filled with attractive homes. Near the entrance stands the church, a brick structure, handsomely finished and furnished, with a seating capacity for two hundred.

A little farther down the principal driveway stands the town hall which does service at all public gatherings. The building is new, of pretty design, and erected at a cost of nearly two thousand dollars. It contains a reading room, dining room and kitchen and on the second floor a commodious hall. This building is leased to the Young Men’s club at a nominal rental and every effort has been made to provide such elegant quarters for their use. Brandt’s industries are numerous and apparently profitable. The manufacture of chairs employs at present seventy-five men and boys. The chairs made at this establishment are among the finest made in this country. People who look with distrust upon factory made furniture, should visit these shops and see for themselves how substantially Brandt’s chairs are put together. The upholstering department is presided over by a gentleman who is master of the profession, and in the wood-making room several skilled carvers are employed who deftly transform the “oak wood” into life-like figures. Less than half a mile from the chair factory, down the stream, is located the brick yards where 25, 000 brick are made daily during the brick-making season. About the same distance up the stream from the village is located the tile and brick works which is the newest industry of the village. Here bricks are made that vie with the best grades f the Philadelphia article for smoothness. Paving brick which has withstood the severest of tests, and all manner of sewer pipe are also made at these works.

The clay deposits on the Brandt lands are the richest to be found anywhere. The mountains are filled with it and the pits at the tile works show that the clay bed is more than thirty feet thick. The supply is virtually inexhaustible and the men at the head of the brick-making enterprise have material for one of the largest plants in the world. The clay is free from sand and is fine enough when taken from the pits for use in the manufacture of all kinds of pottery. The Messrs. Brandt and Kessler, who own these industries, are pushing, enterprising gentlemen, and these industries, now in their infancy, will, we predict, within a few years attract the attention of the world by the superior quality of the ware made at Brandt’ tile and pottery works.”

The Tri-Weekly 9 Oct. 1890

Brandt, PA from the East

Brandt, PA from the East

The Brandt Chair Factory

The Brandt Chair Factory

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Stevens Point Ladies Aide Society

April 2, 2009

As with a lot of small country churches in the past, many people played a huge role in its upkeep-the men had to make sure that there was plenty of wood or coal to heat the building, the ladies did their part with keeping the church clean and supplied. Monies were always needed to upgrade or replace items needed for the worship services, for missionary work or for the maintenance on the property or structure.

Because Stevens Point Methodist Church had an attractive community hall next door, the members had the opportunity to raise monies for the church and other organizations by utilizing the hall with special dinners and functions. This little community had a wealth of “willing workers”, ladies that were very busy, not only with their own lives, but were full of activity for church work as well. I have posted numerous pages of minutes from the Stevens Point Ladies Aide Society-the organization that was this strong support system for the Stevens Point Methodist Church. Enjoy a glimpse into the past and perhaps you will recognize one of your relatives as one of these “willing workers”.

Scanned pages of the The Stevens Point Ladies Aide Society ledger can be found in the gallery.

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Newspaper Items (Stevens Point Cemetery Burials) From Research at the Historical Society in Montrose, PA

April 2, 2009

George Kuhn, aged 55 years, died suddenly at his home on the outskirts of Susquehanna on Tuesday 7-20-1920. He is survived by one son, who resides in Stevens’ Point.
Montrose Independent Republican 8-6-1920

Roland Kuhn, of Stevens Point, aged 18 years, son of George Kuhn of Oakland, lost his life Sunday morning, near the Erie stone bridge at Lanesboro, by being hit by an Erie express train.
Montrose Democrat 11-20-1913

Elwin Kuhn, aged 22, was fatally injured while gunning, near his home at Stevens Point, on Saturday afternoon. In some manner his gun was accidentally discharged and an artery in one of his legs was severed. He died in a few hours. The funeral took place on Tuesday from the Steven’s Point Methodist Church.
Montrose Independent Republican 11-10-1899

At the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Seamans at Steven’s Point, Feb. 22, 1898, occurred the death of George Wilson after an illness of about two months. Son of Frederick Wilson, he was age 13 years 5 months.
Montrose Democrat March 17, 1898

The death of Cora, the daughter of F. L. and Mary E. Wilson, age 17 years 10 months and 27 days formerly of Susquehanna, occurred in Scranton on Wed. May 3, 1899, after a protracted illness resulting from appendicitis. She is survived by a father, mother and two sisters, Mrs. Lillie McHenry of New Milford and Mrs. Nellie Bell of Windsor.
The remains were brought to Stevens Point and interred beside those of her brother; Rev. D. C. Barnes of Lanesboro conducted the services at the grave.
Montrose Democrat May 11, 1899

The remains of Elmer Carnegie, who died in Elmira, were brought to his home at Stevens Point, Wednesday, 10-15.
Montrose Independent Republican 10-24-1902

At his home in Stevens’ Point, PA, May 2, 1901, S. H. Carnegie , aged 74 years. Funeral held last Sunday from the Methodist Church in that place, Rev. D. L. Meeker officiating.
Montrose Independent Republican May 10, 1901

Albert A. Rockwell, 62 years old, died at his home in Stevens Point, Sunday 5-18-1924. He is survived by his wife; four daughters, Mrs. Linn Schenck , Mrs. Ray Keesler, Mrs. Walter Glover, and Mrs. Walter Brady, 3 sons, Ray, Merlin and Harold, 2 sisters, Mrs. James Reed and Mrs. M. H. Connelly. Burial in the Stevens Point Cemetery.
Montrose Democrat 5-22-1924

At the Brandt Brick Works on Saturday morning, Eugene Campbell of Stevens Point, was killed by the caving in of an embankment. Deceased leaves a widow and four children. The funeral took place, Monday, with interment in the Stevens Point Cemetery.
Unidentified Newspaper July 3, 1903

The remains of Mrs. Frank Burchell of Syracuse, N. Y. were brought to Stevens Point for burial Tuesday of last week. H. I. and C. F. Burchell brothers in law, from this place were in attendance.
Forest City News 9-20-1925

Frank Burchell, of Stevens Point, an aged and respected citizen, died 8-21-1913 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Michael Sheffelm, Lanesboro.
Montrose Democrat 9-4-1913

Mrs. Horace Burchell of Stevens Point, died suddenly on Thursday of pneumonia. The funeral was held at the M. E. church in that place.
Forest City News 1-22-1914

The death of Horace Burchell, a veteran of the Civil War, occurred at his home in Endwell, March 12th. The body was brought to the home of his son, Chauncey Burchell, of this place. The funeral was held Monday at Stevens Point. Burial was also made at that place.
Forest City News 3-19-1931

Charles Tewksbury met his death last Saturday afternoon while helping a neighbor, Perry Bushnell, unload hay. Mr. Tewksbury was standing under the hay forks, when they fell striking him in such a manner that it severed the jugular vein and he died in a few minutes. Mr. Tewksbury was about 70 years of age, had lived in this neighborhood for many years and was respected by all who knew him. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hattie Tewksbury, two daughters, Mrs. Agnes Keating of Avoca, and Mrs. Mabel Corby of Waverly, and six grand children, Marjorie, Edith, Ruth, Agnes and Marion Keating, and Mrs. Anna Prentice, who had always made her home with her grandparents, up to the time of her marriage. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial was made in the Stevens Point Cemetery. Rev. Lamb of Lanesboro officiated.
Binghamton Newspaper 9-12-1918

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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 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 1

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

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

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

Ianthus Walker

Hannah Storer 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

Ianthus Walker Tombstone

Hannah Storer 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

Stevens Point Cemetery New Sign

Steven Point Cemetery Sign

Steven Point Cemetery Sign

Stevens Point Cemetery sign at Burdick Hill Road

Stevens Point Cemetery sign at Burdick Hill Road

Steven Point Cemetery - March 2009

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

Old Home Day 1939

Mary Walker Rockwell - Old Home Day 1939

Mary Walker Rockwell - Old Home Day 1939

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

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.

Men working in the Hobbs Quarry

Men working in the Hobbs Quarry

Barney Rockwell

Barney Rockwell

Charles Rockwell

Charles Rockwell

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Harmony Township Quarry

February 10, 2009

This picture came from a collection of pictures from Ethel (Rockwell) (Glover) French, sister to Ray Rockwell. Her first husband was Walter Glover and in the several censuses, it has he and his family living and working in Thompson, as a farmer and a quarryman. The original picture is a black and white 4” X 8” print pasted on heavy gray cardstock. No names are written on the back. There were several active quarries around at the time of Walter Glover and because these pictures were from Ethel French, it is likely that this picture may have been taken at the Company Quarry (owned by Joseph Botts) on Pig Pen Alley Road in Lanesboro or the Hobbs Quarry (owned by the Rockwells) located in Stevens Point. Either way, the picture is unique that it shows the hard labor of quarrying and the lack of sophisticated equipment used to mine the stone from the earth.

Men working in the Harmony Township Quarry

Men working in the Harmony Township Quarry

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