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101	Mountain Democrat May 21, 1904 Wedding Bells The wedding bells are chiming merrily on in our city, the last couple to embark on the matrimonial sea being Clyde T. Chichester and Lillian M. Roberts, both popular young people... Miss Metra Chichester, sister of the groom, attended the bride, while Will Roberts, the bride's brother, acted in the capacity of the best man. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was partaken of at the bride's home on Coloma street, the dining room being artistically decorated with La France roses and smilax.	CHICHESTER Clyde Totten
102	A beautiful old home lounges on a Placerville hillside, a block north of Highway 50 on Spring Street. Today, that Victorian beauty serves as a popular bed and breakfast inn, Chichester-McKee House, owned by Bill and Doreen Thornhill. But, on June 11, 1892, it was nothing but a building frame -- a skeleton -- a promising beginning to the eye of the writer who reported on its construction for the Mountain Democrat. Two months later, on Aug. 27, the Democrat reported, "D.W. Chichester's new residence is nearing completion. It is a neatly constructed and exceedingly attractive dwelling. It is of modern design, and cost a snug sum to build." The home's owner, Daniel Wood Chichester, was a low-key character in El Dorado County history. Although he was partner in a prosperous lumbering operation, owned a beautiful and spacious hillside home and raised a family of six children, he led a conservative life. Daniel was descended from a long line of Chichesters that traced their lineage back several generations in New York and, before that, England. Born on July 21, 1831 in Coeymans, a small town along the Hudson River in Albany Co., NY, Daniel was the second child born to David E. Chichester and Eliza Wood. He had an older brother, Reuben, who was a year his senior, as well as two younger brothers, George and Linton. A baby sister, Sarah, died in September 1842 when she was just five months old. She is buried in the Gilboa Rural Cemetery, in Gilboa, NY, the small Mohawk Valley town the family moved to when Daniel was a young boy. Two more sisters followed, Bessie and Amanda, as well as two adopted girls, Julia Middlebrooks, who died at 15, and Caroline Matilda Totten. Caroline, who would always be known as "Tilly," would grow up and marry Daniel's younger brother, Linton. Upon Linton's death, Daniel, also widowed by then, would marry her himself and build the beautiful Placerville home for her. Gilboa, the place in which Daniel spent his childhood, was a hilly, rural beauty, not unlike Placerville. When he was 17, he left home to work and attend the better schools of New Bedford, Mass., where he stayed with relatives. For two years, he kept to his work and studies, then, in January 1850, the 19 year-old was inflicted with gold fever, like so many other young men. The Hibernia sailed out of New Bedford harbor with Daniel onboard. By now, he had grown into a slender young man of average height -- 5 foot 8 inches tall. Deep-set blue eyes complimented his fair skin and a head of wavy dark hair gave him a youthful look, even later in middle age. The Hibernia followed its usual route, rounding Cape Horn a couple months later and docking in San Francisco Bay on June 2, five months after leaving Daniel's homeport. Striking out from San Francisco, he worked his way east until, by autumn, he was in Placerville. By the spring of 1852, he had joined Predmore & Company, which had started the first sawmill at the lower end of town. Over the next few years, Daniel engaged in a couple ventures, usually involved in lumbering. However, he did spend some time at a stamp mill, where ore from the old Pacific mine was crushed. Time passed, and on Jan. 1, 1866, Daniel was married to Sarah Luella Young, a dark-haired 19 year-old from the town of Fulton, in Calloway County, Mo. A baby girl, Lillie, was born two days before Christmas that year. The following Sept. 1, 1867, Daniel's brother Linton was married to "Tillie" Totten. On Aug. 16, 1868, Sarah gave birth to Sarah Eliza, who would be nicknamed "Daisy." Back in Gilboa the following March 22, Daniel's father, David, died at the age of 60, preceding his wife, Eliza, by three years. Daniel and Sarah added two more daughters to their growing family -- Georgie Eldridge and Luella May -- on Nov. 27, 1870 and Dec. 4, 1872, respectively. However, 1872 was to be a year of losses for Daniel. On Jan. 12, his grandmother, Eliza Wood died back in Gilboa. Then, in December, the birth of Luella would prove to be too difficult for Sarah. She couldn't recover. She died on Christmas day at the young age of 25. Daniel could not raise an infant, so baby Luella was sent to live with Sarah's father, Garrard Young, and his wife, Jane. He worked and took care of his girls, but in 1877 the dreaded diphtheria made a deadly visit, taking the lives of little Georgie on May 19 and "Daisy" three days later. A small death notice for the girls in the Mountain Democrat on May 26, read: "Little Georgie, sweet and mild, half a fairy, half a child, slowly, softly laid away underneath the fearful clay; kisses on her little brow -- ah, the angels kiss her now! Roses on her little bosom, her sweet self a broken blossom." As if that was not heartbreaking enough, beneath it, for her sister, it said: "Kiss her; leave her laid away, underneath the fearful clay. Leave the roses on her bosom; kiss and leave the broken blossom. Angel Daisy! Sweet and mild. Beauteous angel, love my child." Daniel was left with but one child, Lillie, who was now nearly 11. Then, some time before the first part of 1879, Daniel married his brother Linton's widow, "Tillie." "Tillie", the beautiful daughter of Levi Totten and Ann Bronk Totten, had been born in Fultonham, NY on Sept. 1, 1849. She had suffered her own tragedies. Not only had she lost her husband in 1875, but also she had lost their two year-old daughter, May, in 1870. "Tillie" and Daniel had so much in common. It was a natural union. They were lucky enough to have 20 good years together. On March 10, 1880, Daniel and "Tillie" welcomed their own child, Metra, into the world, followed two years later by a boy, Clyde Totten Chichester, on May 5, 1882. Meanwhile, Daniel had been mainly working in the lumber business, but sometime between 1880-1885 he became the bookkeeping partner in the firm of S.G. Beach & Co. He built the house on Spring Street for "Tillie," a home they would get to enjoy for too short a time. Lillie and Luella married and moved to their own homes. Metra and Clyde were still living at home. Daniel would spend some 14 years with S.G. Beach & Co. before becoming ill. He ailed for five years before dying at age 69 on Aug. 1, 1900. Three days later, his family stood graveside as Rev. George Bird conducted services in Placerville's Union Cemetery, where Daniel's first wife and daughters were waiting. By 1904, "Tillie" was living in Woodland. The next year Clyde married Lillian Marie Robert, followed on June 28, 1905 by Metra's marriage to David Johnston. Clyde and his wife would eventually move to the Bay Area, where he died in 1972. He left three children. Metra and David, although they remarried each other in 1934, never had children. They moved to Woodland. "Tillie" and her own mother, Ann Totten, would also make their home in Woodland until "Tillie's" death at Metra's home in 1920. She was buried with Daniel in Placerville. Metra died in Mill Valley in 1960. It's a story tinged with much sadness, but while the Chichesters lived on Spring Street, they were happy. Many family photos, in the collections of descendents, show them together and with friends, enjoying life. The house is lively these days. Bill and Doreen Thornhill never seem to tire of telling the family stories they've learned from the Chichester descendents they have met. They admit they feel that the Chichesters are their own ancestors now. Doreen loves to show the special architectural details and furnishings of the home and Bill seems delighted to pull out the Chichester photos and the research he has done on the family. Neither gets ruffled when strangers stop by to ask about the old home, which was painstakingly restored in 1978, its rooms filled with Victorian treasures. Its four bedrooms, though boasting of period appeal, also bow to modern requirements -- each has its own full bathroom.	CHICHESTER Daniel Wood
103	Died at 3 years.	CHICHESTER Emalet
104	Died at 2 years of age.	CHICHESTER Joan Elizabeth
105	Friday, July 5, 2002 Kenneth Chichester STAMFORD — Kenneth A. Chichester, 81, went to be with his Lord on Monday, July 1, 2002, after a long struggle with poor health. He was born on Sept. 28, 1920, in Hauversville, the oldest son of Cleo and Emily (Lewis) Chichester. Ken graduated from Middleburgh Central School, Class of 1941, and attended the State University College at Fredonia, majoring in music. He took courses at Cornell University and the State University College at Oneonta. He met his wife, Christina Strong, the first day of college. He enlisted in the Army Air Force, transferred to the 513th Air Force Band, stationed at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., where he and Chris were married Oct. 31, 1943, and would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. He saw service in England and was discharged in 1946. Ken has held various types of work, from New York State apiary inspector, to DHI milk inspector, to dairy, horse and cauliflower farming, as distributor at Scintilla, and, lastly, bus driver at Stamford Central School for 30 years where he also served as a substitute teacher, "gofer" for his wife, and friend and defender of all "his kids." Ken was choir director in every village or city where he and his family lived: in First Baptist Church, Biloxi, then Middleburgh, Otego and Stamford United Methodist Churches. He was choir director in Stamford for 39 years until failing health made it impossible. He had led the Area Ecumenical Choir for at least 15 years, giving Cantatas at Christmas and Easter gathering those who loved to sing or play an instrument from the area communities. He also began the U.M. Handbell Choir, taken over by his wife and now under the direction of Claudia Bell. Ken and his family were very involved in the raising and showing of horses, mostly Morgans. Ken with the County 4-H agents started the First 4-H Horse Club in New York State. His emphasis in riding or showing horses was good sportsmanship, first and foremost. Over the years Ken held many positions in the church and was always on call to help with whatever needed to be accomplished. With his wife he was instrumental in beginning the Area 13 Special Olympics (Delaware, Otsego and Chenango Counties), the State and National Special Olympics. Ken always volunteered to drive the school bus filled with happy athletes to the events with the kindness and understanding of the late Jack Siring and then Dick Little. Other schools also offered their buses but S.C.S. was tops. With his family, his church activities, his horses and the Special Olympics, Ken was continually helping with his heart as big as gold. Ken belonged to the Stamford United Methodist Church, the V.F.W. and to the Northeastern Jurisdiction Fellowship of Music, Worship and other Arts. Ken is survived by his wife; his children, Ken Jr. "Skip" and Lucy Chichester, Michael and Linda Chichester, Gary and Sharon Chichester, Susan and Peter Powell; and grandchildren, Shannon and Roger Smith, Peter II and Heather Simmonds Powell, Christopher, Morgan and Brianne Chichester, Michael and Linda Chichester, Stephen and Karen Chichester and Jamie and Terry Chichester; great-grandchildren, Elizabeth, Michael R., Megan, Zachery, Casey, Austin, Sheridan and Chezney Ann. The Chichesters raised and loved nine other children, including four that they had custody of, Ronald (Betty) Dzikowski, Ernest (Sarah) Dzikowski, Madeline (Robert) Heisler and David Dzikowski, staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, killed in 1976. Funeral services will take place at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 6, 2002, at the Stamford United Methodist Church, Stamford, with the Rev. Lawrence Charles officiating. Calling hours will take place from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, July 5, 2002, at the MacArthur Funeral Home, Hobart. Burial will be at Stamford Cemetery, Stamford. Contributions in his memory may be made to Stamford United Methodist Church, Catskill Area Hospice or the Stamford Emergency Squad. Arrangements are with the MacArthur Funeral Home, Hobart.	CHICHESTER Kenneth Austin
106	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	CHICHESTER Laura Elizabeth
107	Woodland Daily Democrat Thursday, October 11, 1934 David Johnston Reweds Former Wife The remarriage in Santa Cruz last week of David A. Johnston and Mrs. Metra Johnston, both formerly of Woodland, has been learned here by relatives of Mr. Johnston. The couple are making their home in Santa Cruz. Mr. Johnston was formerly a partner with his brother, William Johnston of Woodland, in the grocery business here, leaving about three years ago to live in San Francisco. Both he and his wife have many friends here. Oakland Tribune Thursday, November 13, 1952 - FARLEY—In Oakland. November 12, 1952. Lillie. wife of the late Emile J. Farley, sister of Mrs. Luella Pryor, Clyde Chichester and Metra Johnston: foster-mother of Ruby Smith; a native of Mud Springs, California; aged 85 years. Friends are invited to attend the services at the East Oakland chapel of Grant Miller Mortuaries. 2372 East 14th Street, Oakland, Friday, November 14, 1952, at 11 o'clock a.m.	CHICHESTER Metra
108	According to the Town of Fulton (518-827-6365) town clerk, his death certificate says he was 73 years old and was buried in Rensselaerville. Mother's and father's names were not given. Death certificate #3412. His name was spelled "Ransslar". I have a note that says he was buried in Barrickman Cemetery located in a swamp at the south side of road at corner of East Hill & Campbell roads.	CHICHESTER Rensselaer
109	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	CHICHESTER Samuel
110	WWI Veteran.	CHICHESTER Virgil B.
111	Civil War veteran.	CHICHESTER William E. "Saxie"
112	Frank came to the US in 1898 and lived with his cousin in Schenectady, NY. The 1900 census record showed that he was married and had been for 7 years. His wife and 2 sons immigrated in 1900.	CHLOPECKI Frank
113	Immigrated to the US, arriving on 5/30/1883 on the steamship Pavonia. Obituary 2/7/1901: Mrs. Thomas Hughes died at 11:30 Thursday night at her home at 22 Storrie Street aged 66 years. Beside her husband, she is survived by 4 daughters Mrs. George Rogers, Mrs. William Dickson, Mrs. Sam McGrattan and Miss Margaret Hughes of this city; and 8 sons President William H. Hughes of Rockton {he was president of Rockton}, Lieutenant George Hughes of the 46th separate company, Shephard, Robert J., Joseph and Richard of this city, James of Brooklyn and Thomas of Jersey City.	CLARK Rachael
114	Was a railroad engineer.	CLOSSON Leon C.
115	Died at 7 years in a diphtheria epidemic.	COE Ann
116	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	COE Child
117	Died at 12 years in a diphtheria epidemic.	COE Edward S.
118	Died at 9 years in a diphtheria epidemic.	COE Joseph
119	Joseph immigrated to the US in 1858 and settled at Flat Creek. In 1881 he moved to Amsterdam. Jane Moore says: Joseph farmed at Stony Creek near Canojaharie, NY. He lived with Jane and Shephard when his wife died. He was crippled in an accident which left him with a humpback. Julia loved him dearly and said he looked like a little elf. He and Julia had a very sad life. They had 8 children, one of whom died as a baby. Edward, Annie and Joseph died in a diphtheria epidemic within 10 days of each other.	COE Joseph
120	Her obituary in the Amsterdam Daily on 8/26/1898 states in part: Mrs. Mary A. Coe Hughes, wife of William H. Hughes of Rockton died today at quarter past twelve this morning of heart trouble at 44 years old after an illness dating from the early part of June. Besides her husband, she is survived by her children Edward, Raymond and twin daughters Anna May and Anna Mabel, two brothers Thomas of Baldwinsville and William of Amsterdam, her father Joseph Coe and her sister Mrs. Shephard Hughes. There is a discrepancy in birth dates: her obituary and grave stone say 1854, but there is other information that says 1858. Since the dates for the obit and stone are probably from her husband's recollection rather than an official document, the 1858 date is probably correct.	COE Mary A.
121	He came to the US in 1861. Lived at home in 1870 and moved out the same year (he was counted twice in the census). He was a farm laborer. Lived in Baldwinsville in 1898 when his sister Mary died. In the 1910 census, he was a roomer and listed as widowed. He was an electrician. Thomas and Emma Coe were sponsors at the baptism of Elmer Hughes in 1912 - son of Elmer and Ethel. His first wife Kate must have died before before the 1900 census. Thomas must have remarried (Emma) between the 1910 census and the birth of Elmer in 1912. He was the Chief Engineer at the Grand Opera House in Syracuse for 13 years before his death. He was crushed to death by an elevator car.	COE Thomas
122	In 1900, William was a boarder and listed in the census as single. His occupation was mill laborer. His obituary said he died suddenly at the boarding house where he resided. He apparently never married.	COE William
123	Dixon Evening Telegraph (Dixon, IL) - December 12, 1953: MORRISON - The Rev. Osgood G. Colgrove, retired Universalist minister, died Friday in Morrison Community hopital, two years after he married his childhood sweetheart. The Rev. Colgrove, a widower, married Isabel Jacobs, then 90, on Easter Sunday, April 5, 1951. They had parted 63 years before, after a quarrel. He was bown in Hanover, MI and received a doctor of theology degree from Lombard College, Galesburg, in 1887. He served as a Universalist minister in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio for 63 years. He married Minnie Ogsbury in 1891. After her death he married Miss Jacobs, who had retired after working in a Chicago hotel for many years. The widow is the only survivor.	COLEGROVE Osgood Ghordis
124	Died young. She was not listed in the 1870 census when she would have been 11.	CONKLIN Ellen
125	Died at 1 year.	COUNTRYMAN Benjamin
126	John served as an ensign in Col. Samuel Clyde's regiment, Herkimer's battalion, at the battle of Oriskany.	COUNTRYMAN Johannes
127	Cliff was a police officer and later police chief in Niskayuna, NY.	CROOKES Clifford J.
128	Died at 1 month.	CROUNSE Aaron
129	Never married.	CROUNSE Agnes
130	Known as Alley.	CROUNSE Alden
131	He was robbed and murdered.	CROUNSE Alexander
132	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	CROUNSE Allie
133	Never married.	CROUNSE Arthur
134	Died in infancy.	CROUNSE Benjamin B.
135	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	CROUNSE Bertha
136	Served in Civil War. Died of injuries received in battle.	CROUNSE Edward
137	Died at 5 years.	CROUNSE Elizabeth
138	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	CROUNSE Eva
139	Died at 1 year.	CROUNSE Flora Ann
140	Frederick Crounse, the emigrant to America, was born in Germany, died in the Helderberg region, now the town of Guilderland, Albany county, New York, April 16, 1828. He was a shoemaker by trade; he settled first at Rhinebeck, New York. He married Anna Barbara Weber, who died March 6, 1823, aged seventy-six years, two months and twenty-three days. Becoming dissatisfied with conditions and prospects he broke up his home and started to find a new one north or west. On foot, with perhaps one team of oxen, they traversed the wild region west of the Hudson until finally under the rugged rocks and mountains of the Helderbergs the mother's fortitude and courage gave way. She refused to proceed further and compelled her husband to choose a location in that valley, which he did, not far from the present village of Altamont. He secured a tract of land containing several hundred acres from the Van Rensselaers, paying a nominal lease; later his descendants came into soil possession by title and deed. He cut logs on his own land with which the first house was built, making a little clearing to which field by field was added as the years rolled on. He did not live to accomplish a great amount himself, but he laid the foundations on which six succeeding generations have built, and founded a race of hardy men and women, who have honorably borne the Crounse name. Wherever in this narrative the "old homestead" is referred to, the tract first reclaimed from its wild conditions by the sturdy German emigrant and his plucky wife is meant. Frederick Crounse was drafted in the revolution and rendered service. At the first town meeting held in Guilderland, April 5, 1803, he was chosen commissioner of highways. He left sons and daughters. The family were members of the German Lutheran church and clung to their church and mother tongue always, speaking German in their personal intercourse for two and three generations. The family religion has remained Lutheran through all the generations, while the family politics have been Whig and Republican, the latter day Crounses being particularly strong in their Republican sentiments.	CROUNSE Frederick
141	Died in infancy.	CROUNSE Harriet Mabel
142	Civil War casualty.	CROUNSE Henry
143	Also known as Alexander H.	CROUNSE Henry Alexander
144	Fairview Gravestone shows 22 Feb 1822 as birthdate. Baptized as Henry Christopher, but preferred to be known as "Henry P." Married as "Henry P." Engraving and article in Howell & Tenney's "History of the County of Albany, NY From 1609 to 1886," page 864.	CROUNSE Henry Christopher
145	Twin brother of John I.	CROUNSE Jacob I.
146	Never married.	CROUNSE James A.
147	She never married.	CROUNSE Jennie May
148	On several early Lutheran Church records, Johann is shown as "Johann P." AKA "John P." Gravestone indicates "John P., ae 67 yrs."	CROUNSE Johann Adam
149	Twin brother of jacob I.	CROUNSE John I.
150	Died at 8 years.	CROUNSE Lorenzo