Town of Pulteney Historian Report
July 2011
I’m still working on the Glenview Cemetery records and the Steuben County Census records.
Doris Wells from Phelps came to visit at the office on June 14th to inquire about Snyderville. It appears that it may have been where my great great grandfather Anthony Snyder lived just across the Pulteney town line in the town of Prattsburgh.
Shay Pickett from the state of Washington came to see the Pickett Cemetery and the Old Presbyterian Cemetery on Sunday, June 26th. I missed meeting him by about an hour. However, I did speak with him on the phone and through e-mail. He was thrilled to stand on ground that his ancestors stood on and mentioned how beautiful the Town of Pulteney was. He is going to send me copies of the pictures he took, so I can put them in the “Pickett” file.
I haven’t heard anything from Mark Wright regarding the Military Wall rails out in the hall. Helen Case Conley Southard sent me some copies of pictures of Bill and Junior Case, Robbin Conley and Bob Conley for the Military Wall. She had read about the wall in the newspaper. She also sent a picture of Eleanor Case Frisk which I put in the family file. Eleanor Frisk was the owner Frisk’s Grocery at the bottom of Boyd Hill. As a kid, I never knew it as Frisk’s Grocery. It was always the “Store at the foot of the hill” (Self explanatory because it was the only store in Pulteney at the foot of a hill !!!)
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I have attached a copy of a picture of the cast from a play taken by Frank Foster ( a professional traveling photographer and resident of Pulteney) sent to us by the Steuben County Historian, a copy of a poem and drawing by Milt French done in 1980, and an article regarding a luncheon in honor of President Lincoln’s birthday dated 2/17/1927 and titled “Recollections of Pulteney Veteran”. A portion of it reads:
Those who were seated at the “guests of honor” table were: Rev. and Mrs. Stoddard of the South Pulteney Baptist Church, Rev. and Mrs. Barnard, Rev. Schofield, Mr. And Mrs. Wm. Pratt, Mrs. Alice Genung and Mrs. Elmina McConnell and Past Presidents Marion Simonson, Charlotte Pierce, Edith Coryell and Mabel Prentiss. Another portion says: Charles R Roff was employed in the Commissary Department at Washington, in the time of the Civil war. Mr. Roff saw Lincoln many times, and feels proud that he can say he has shaken hands with Lincoln. He would have been in the theatre the night of Lincoln’s assassination (Good Friday, April 4th, 1865) but for the fact that he had loaned his best suit of clothes to a convalescent soldier who wished to go to the theatre. Mr. Roff also remembers very clearly the long line of reverent people, of which he was one, passing through the Capitol to view Lincoln’s remains.
I sent thank-you notes to Helen Southard and the Steuben County Historian.
Sharon Daggett
Pulteney Town Historian
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