Horace and John VanLeer

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VanLeer, a family on my maternal grandmother's side included

Horace VanLeer

and

John H. VanLeer

They were both featured with line drawings in the following book

Biographical, Genealogical and Descriptive History of the First Congressional District of New Jersey:
Illustrated ...
published by Lewis, 1900 - Camden County (N.J.)

-- which can be viewed on line or downloaded for free from
books.google.com

Charles and Mary Purdy

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Family Treasures Found -- trying to get photos and clippings of Purdy family back to a blood relative.

MFD Placemat 2019

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The PDFs attached below will print placemats that are 11 x 17 inches.

There was a request for more white space on the placemat.

The PDFs should be downloaded from the list below for printing -- they will be better quality than the preview images above.

1972 Nancy

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Use filename below image above to select larger version of photo from list below.

4 Collingswood young women read The Courier Post in Ocean City, 1950

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Looking through some old photos from South Jersey. Wouldn't the girls in the photo or their descendants like to see this photo?

It is #41 on this site
https://www.courierpostonline.com/picture-gallery/news/local/south-jerse...

A Downer, NJ postmark

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Most Gateway students might not be interested, but I was interested because a grandfather of mine had family living in Downer, NJ at one time. As far as I can determine the Post Office there closed in 1936. Click on the second link below for a higher resolution image. When this postcard was offered on eBay the seller read the postmark as 1910, but I see Dec 17, 1930 -- and US census records show Oscar Walter Huntsinger with mother, wife Emma, and niece Viola living in Downer in 1930. Viola would not have been born yet in 1910. You can click on the relevant census page link below.

Charles. A. Richmire

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Information about C. A. Richmire

A paragraph in this book on page 412.
https://books.google.com/books?id=XdZWAAAAMAAJ

The page is shown below.

Click links below.

In the yearbook of the Allegheny College, The Kaldron -- he is listed on page 22.

You can see his career tracked in The Campus issues linked below.

Whitcomb Family

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Attached PDF files.

Page 3 of The Morris Chronicle, published in Morris, New York on Wednesday, May 15th, 1901 includes obituary of Angeline Whitcomb Holliday -- daughter of David Whitcomb. Angeline was a sister of Mrs. L. P. Carpenter -- owner and publisher of The Morris Chronicle.

Page 3 of The Morris Chronicle, published in Morris, New York on Wednesday, August 24th, 1881 -- mentions Julina Whitcomb

The Morris Chronicle, Page3, 1890-01-08-Zula-Whitcomb-and-others

The Morris Chronicle, Page3, 1898-11-23-Henry-Whitcomb-2-mentions

A Whitcomb Family reunion!!!

1956 Hansen-Valentine Wedding

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Attached is a PDF of a Cooperstown newspaper about a neighbor's wedding -- now over 60 years ago.

Part of a page from their yearbook at high school is attached, too.

Barnes-King-Chenango-County

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Barnes-King Genealogy
by R. C. Barnes, San Antonio, Texas
1962

Page 19 has George Curtis - Carol corrected spelling of his wife Harner, not Harmer.

Barnes and King families in Chenango County.

Lynn Ann (Condell) Kempfer of Stafford, VA, formerly of Wenonah, Gateway class of 1969

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Lynn Ann Kempfer

Posted: Thursday, February 5, 2009 in Stafford County Sun at
http://www.staffordcountysun.com/lifestyles/article_877d9abc-3abf-5204-9...

Lynn Ann Kempfer, 57, of Stafford, died Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, at her residence.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Margaret Mary and Raymond Condell.

Gant Flexon Thomas Genealogy and Ganttown Gant Genealogy

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These are in PDF format.

Gant Flexon Thomas Genealogy by Kenneth Cooper Thomas, 1993

Ganttown Gant Genealogy by Karen Gant Heiser, 2003

The branch of the Thomas family descending from Alphonso Lyon Thomas, Sr. is outlined in the PDF below by Anna Frances Reistle Nicely in 2020.

Robert Joseph Stewart, father of James, class of 1977, and Samuel Stewart

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James Stewart graduated from Gateway with the class of 1977. He grew up on South Lincoln Avenue in Wenonah. His brother Sam attended Gateway for at least a year and then switched to Friends Select in Philadelphia. Recently James has been active on the the facebook.com page "You Know That You Are From Wenonah If ........" Located at https://www.facebook.com/groups/146176322130108/

In messages outside of facebook.com James shared some details about his father's role as a pilot and group leader flying B-17s in the Normandy Invasion starting with D-Day. He also provided the photo below and the chart which shows the places that Mr. Stewart's bombing missions took him. There is an attachment at the bottom of this post that shows the bombing missions in sequence as an image in a powerpoint file.

Learn more about B-17s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17

Robert Joseph Stewart, D-Day veteran


Dr. William Yates and Judge Arthur Yates

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Looking in

http://books.google.com

for

"William Yates" Sapperton -

I found the following about William Yates and his son Arthur on page 461

I will post a link below the image. The book is freely available -- you could download the PDF if you want to see more of it.

http://gatewayfirstfouryears.com/files/Yates-Arthur-G.png"

http://books.google.com/books?id=I-I-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA461&dq=%22William+Yat...

The will of William Stickney of Edmeston, Otsego County, New York, 1790 - 1854

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These days I live in Morris, NY. I was trying to trace the land that my house is on back to the time that it was in the hands of the Oneida tribe of the Iroquois and come up with a list of owners from them to me.

Searching for information about my grandfather's grandfather, Samuel G. Thomas

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Found some more information.

He was named Samuel G. Thomas. Through another person on ancestry.com I learned that I could request copies of vital records for people in New Jersey. By doing that I got a copy of the "Return Of Marriages" for Camden County for May, 1852. On May 10, 1852, Samuel G. Thomas's marriage on February 18, 1852 was recorded. You can see a scan of the photocopy that was sent to me by clicking on the link below.

John M. Higbie 1804-1887 of Exeter, Otsego County, New York

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It was over a year ago that I learned about a web site named Find A Grave.

Now, at first blush, you might not think that Find A Grave is some place that you want to visit.

I mean, who wants to go looking for a grave? What plans do we have? Do we need to be searching for a grave today?

Find A Grave doesn't help you find a grave for yourself or your relatives.

Instead it helps you find the graves of your relatives or anyone else that you think you are interested in knowing more about it/

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