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Penny Postcard -(no date ) Happy New Year to all

1913 Postcard with 1 cent stamp Merry Christmas 2016

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS -           LAWRENCEVILLE,PA  BRIDGE 2010 PHOTO BY DENNIS ABBEY TO GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE WE GO

I know this  is not a complete list but it is what was in the  Lindley Historian's files.   October 2007  when the  Lindley Veteran's monument was dedicated.            Kitty Korean Veterans June 25 th , 1950 , –Jan 31,1955 Y indicates deceased in 2007         Some of those listed are no longer with us.           Last             First   M.I.             Rank           Service                  Dec.   Aldrich                  Earl     ...

There is considerable interest in the  United States elections in  November - 2016 . In 1791, settlers in the Land of Painted Post as it was then called held a election which undoubtedly  was the topic of conversation for quite sometime .. and it's all documented in local histories. The following is copied from the History of Steuben County, New York and Its People  by Near   1911  Vol.1 page 135                               "First Legislative Representative                   On the first Tuesday in April 1791, the first "Town Meeting" in what is now Steuben County was held. It took place at Painted Post, and the organization effected embraced all the settlements in the county organized five y...

Copied from Colonial Ancestors and Descendants by Uri Mulford Corning,. 1920      ( Gt.Grandson of Dr and Mrs. Mulford).                                     Dr. Ezekiel Mulford Ezekiel Mulford, (  5th generation) (Ezekiel -Jeremiah -Thomas - William) was born at East Hampton in 1764, married Nancy Lindsley, daughter of Eleazer Lindsley and his wife Mary(Miller); died in Town of Lindley,N.Y. of Pneumonia Typus January 13, 1813; she died the preceding day and they are  both buried in one grave. The disease started in New England in the spring of 1811 and spread from community to community -causing many deaths. Dr. Mulford studied medicine and surgery first as an apprentice and doctor's assistant as was then the  practice, at Sag Harbor and la...