Gateway First Four Years and More - 1969 and onward

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

Hello,
I am Bob Thomas, a resident of the village of Morris and a Fire Commissioner for the Joint Town and Village of Morris Fire District.
I ask your indulgence for a moment before I get into the work of the Advocates for Morris.

I have a story about the skunks and the deer and about whales and apes.

Last spring as I was raking up the piles of sticks, stones, and leaves that accumulate where you pile the snow when you plow I turned up the lower foreleg of a deer. There was still some hair and hoof on it.

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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.

I have been doing some research on my family. My grandfather's grandather according to family lore, Samuel Thomas, fought in the Civil War. From my research I got the impression that he served with the 24th Regiment NJ Volunteer Infantry. Going with that I looked for records related to his service. I did find that a Samuel Thomas, rank of private in Company A of that regiment had applied for a pension. The image of the pension card that gave me hope of locating him after 1870 is attached. -- Sure looked like Samuel J. Thomas to me.

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/

Hi Shannon,

I saw you listed on the Woodbury Heights Elem School site.

Your name jumped out at me because in winters past I have cross country skied along the unused railroad tracks in the photo below from Beaver River to Brandeth and back.

It is the only place named Brandreth that I know of --- and having your name you should know of it too.

All the best,

Bob Thomas

Finding some of the places that my ancestors lived.

***** Update *****
Found a photo of William Finley, the father of Chester Alexander Finley - husband of Beulah M. Van Leer. I don't know much about the photo, as far as when it was taken or who the little girl was. I think that the photo was taken late in the life of William Finley, 1849 - 1935.

Chester "Pop" Finley was my great-grandfather. I realize now that I didn't really lay out the whole genealogy -- as I understand it -

Here's an image the lays it all out.

"A dugout, Marie", I said. "A dugout, not a canoe. A canoe is a whole 'nother level of culture."

A dugout is a log with part of the log removed.

Here's a link to a photo of a few dugouts

http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/5171/wm/pd1270363.jpg

These were about the size of the one that I was ferried across the Niger River on when visiting a friend in the Peace Corps in Niger in 1977.

On Saturday May 3rd, 2009, my grandson, Mason, asked to have his training wheels taken off his bike. His father, Aaron, being a really good father, broke away from the job he had started of getting the boat out of the barn and readying it for the new season.

Jack Wiler has a blog - not really news now - but he listed the hit tunes of 1965 and I thought that it would be fun to list them with links to youtube vids of them - with the sound of course... His blog is

http://jackwiler.blogspot.com

I don't think we had all these 45s at my house and my sister loved to listen to records.

I don't have this many now. There may only be one 45 rpm record in the house and it is not a hit.

But I can listen to them when I please long as no one takes my internet awaaaay --- sort of like don't take my kodachrome away.

Recently I have taken an interest in Genealogy - fortunately some of my relatives have also. One of them used her/our family history in writing her master's thesis. Her name is Karen Lynn (Gant) Heiser. She is a graduate of and an employee of Rowan University. She grew up in Glassboro, NJ.

You can click on the link to download the Word Doc that she created. I recommend downloading the link and then opening the file. Enjoy!

Gant Genealogy

OK

You guys have to learn how to learn
or you will never learn anything - almost anyway - you know?

Conclusion

Do you have a favorite place that you have visited a number of times over the years?

Why not add a story to the site about a place that you would like us to know about.

A visitor to the site wrote:

My wife wants to know the meaning of the site name. Do you mean the first four gradating classes? School opened in '64 so she's confused and will make my life a living hell unless I get an answer.

My answer is:

Sometimes people have more luck watching a video after it has been converted to youtube's format.

Woodbury Heights on the stairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Iwd-PSVv0

Wenonah on the stairs - video from the stairs - I am trying to say "at a Press Conference"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDttRIqT98