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1 NAME Earl S. Cory
1 ADDR 563 Wesley Avenue
2 CONT Oakland, CA 94606-1062
1 PHON (510) 663-2466
1 _EMAIL earlcory@aol.com
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Vibeke Marie /Cory/
2 GIVN Vibeke Marie
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 SEP 1971
2 PLAC Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, CA
2 NOTE Birth Certificate in the possesion of parents.
1 FAMC @F1@
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1 NAME Earl Sayer /Cory/
2 GIVN Earl Sayer
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Earl Sayer Cory was born at 5:00 Monday, March 17, 1941.   After
2 CONC leaving the hospitial, Phyllis, Earl's mother, and the baby went to
2 CONC her folks for a few weeks and then stayed at Cory's farm for the next
2 CONC year.
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT When Earl was fourteen months old, his parents rented half of a double
2 CONC house in Black River.  It was on LeRay Street and belonged to May and
2 CONC Nettie Cory.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1946 they moved to 1002 Harrison Street, the other side of the
2 CONC house and started working on it. Earl started school at Thompson
2 CONC Avenue School.
2 CONT
2 CONT By the fall of 1947, when his brother Philip started kindergarten,
2 CONC Claude's asthma was getting very bad. Phyllis would call the shop to
2 CONC see if he gotten to work. He would go to the shop in the night because
2 CONC he could breath better. The doctor told him that he would give him ten
2 CONC years to live if he stayed in that part of the country. He recommended
2 CONC that they go to Arizona. They put their home up for sale, it was half
2 CONC paid for, and prepared to move.
2 CONT
2 CONT His parents had decided that they would not go west without a place to
2 CONC live. They had heard that living quarters were hard to find out there
2 CONC after the war. While the house was up for sale, they saw an
2 CONC advertisement in the paper for a house trailer. They went to Adams to
2 CONC see about the trailer. It was 27 feet long and had a living room,
2 CONC kitchen, bedroom, and was in very good condition. The trailer cost $2,
2 CONC 000 and the owner, an old friend Howard Phinney, said he would get
2 CONC them a Ford to haul it for $1,300. Due to the war, getting a good car
2 CONC was difficult. Unable to find a Ford, he found a low mileage, 1946
2 CONC four door Dodge.
2 CONT
2 CONT While they were getting ready to leave, the boys came down with
2 CONC chickenpox. Claude had never had them, he also came down with them.
2 CONC They stayed with Claude's mother and her brother until after Christmas
2 CONC when he was better. On Wednesday, January 21, 1948, the Cory family
2 CONC left for the west.
2 CONT
2 CONT The entire trip took eighteen days. They visited friends in New Paris,
2 CONC Ohio, spent four days in St. Louis visiting Phyllis' cousin and the
2 CONC zoo. At that time, the St. Louis Zoo owned a giant Panda. The trip was
2 CONC in the winter and not without mishap. In Ephingham Ill., as they were
2 CONC coming down an ice covered hill, Claude was unable to stop and
2 CONC rear-ended a truck. Very little damage was done to the car. Along
2 CONC their route, Route 66, they passed Rattlesnake Air Force Base. The
2 CONC base was covered for miles with B 29s left over from the war.
2 CONT
2 CONT When they arrived in Phoenix, they looked around the city, looked for
2 CONC jobs in the paper, and decided to continue on to Claude's cousin in
2 CONC Los Angeles. They arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 8, 1948.
2 CONC The next week they settled into a front row space at the Mercury
2 CONC Trailer Park at 4826 Otis Ave in Bell. Being next to major street, the
2 CONC space was small and noisy, but it was all that was available. They put
2 CONC their names on a list for a larger space. The rent was $30 a month
2 CONC plus electricity, each space had it own meter.
2 CONT
2 CONT The boys were enrolled in the first and second grades at nearby
2 CONC Elizabeth Avenue School and Phyllis joined the PTA.
2 CONT
2 CONT After several months they were able to move their trailer to a double
2 CONC space,  #44, in the back corner. This allowed them to have a lawn on
2 CONC one side of the trailer and a patio on the other. The trailer park had
2 CONC all the conveniences of modern living, large public toilets and
2 CONC showers, laundry room, plenty of cloths lines (right next to the
2 CONC Cory's space), and the ice man delivered ice twice a week.  There was
2 CONC plenty of space in the back for tenants to have gardens.  A man would
2 CONC come once a week and erect a large screen in the back and show movies
2 CONC from a van.  This was the start of outdoor movies, except here you did
2 CONC not drive-in you walked over and brought your own chair.
2 CONT
2 CONT As the boys got older, more room was needed. Being a one bedroom
2 CONC trailer, the living room had to be changed into a bedroom every night.
2 CONC Claude purchased a 10 foot house trailer and parked it across the
2 CONC driveway in the parking area. The boys now had a room of their own.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl heard about the Cub Scouts in school and wanted to join. Phyllis
2 CONC had been active in the Girl Scouts as a child and a leader when she
2 CONC was first married, she thought that is was a good idea. It was a
2 CONC relationship that lasted for twenty years. Claude became Assistant Cub
2 CONC and Boy Scout Masters, Explorer Leader, and served on the Los Angeles
2 CONC Area Council in the '50s. Phyllis was a Den Mother and became a Girl
2 CONC Scout Leader when their daughter joined the Brownies.
2 CONT
2 CONT Cecil Ian Cory was born Friday July 15, 1949 and Iva Marie Cory was
2 CONC born Friday August 25, 1950, both in Huntington Park. Earl and Phil
2 CONC were getting bigger and the trailer was becoming too small for a
2 CONC family of six. With all the people migrating to California after the
2 CONC War, housing was still scarce. In October of 1950, the Cory family
2 CONC were able to locate a small, two bedroom, white wood frame house at
2 CONC 9546 Elizabeth Avenue in nearby South Gate. The house cost $6,800.
2 CONT
2 CONT The boys were enrolled in nearby Victoria Avenue School and Phyllis
2 CONC joined the PTA.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Corys have always enjoyed camping. In New York, they would go tent
2 CONC camping at various lakes. While living in the trailer park, they would
2 CONC use the small trailer for camping in California. Almost every weekend
2 CONC during the summer they would visit their investment property in
2 CONC Palmdale. They kept a small trailer to use for camping until 1970.
2 CONC Each year the family would go on a two week vacation someplace. They
2 CONC made several trips back to New York, Lake Tahoe, the redwoods, and
2 CONC Yellowstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1964, after taking several couses, Earl's father decided that he
2 CONC could repair a T.V. as well as anyone.  His parents decided to open a
2 CONC T.V. store and looked at a place in Oxnard, CA. Some friends, the
2 CONC Smiths, who had owned the trailer park in Bell, owned and managed a
2 CONC motel in Pacific Grove. The Smiths ask the Corys to come and visit
2 CONC them for Thanksgiving. After seeing Pacific Grove, Claude and Phyllis
2 CONC decided that this would be a good place to start a T.V. repair
2 CONC business. They spent the next few weekends looking at store fronts and
2 CONC talking to Realtors. They found out that the Diridonis were going to
2 CONC retire and that Diridoni T.V. & Radio at 541 Lighthouse was for sale.
2 CONT
2 CONT They sold their home in South Gate for $18,000, bought the Victorian
2 CONC house at 781 Pine Avenue they live in today for $24,500, quit their
2 CONC jobs, and moved to Pacific Grove between semesters in January of 1965.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT By this time Earl was studying Physics in graduate school in Los
2 CONC Angeles.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl married Chirtina Lynn Correa in 1967. Their Daughter, Vibeké
2 CONC Marie was  born September 1, 1971.
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 MAR 1941
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
2 SOUR @S192@
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1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Christina Lynn /Correa/
2 GIVN Christina Lynn
2 SURN Correa
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 DEC 1946
2 PLAC Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, CA
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1 NAME Claude James /Cory/
2 GIVN Claude James
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Claude James Cory was born Monday, November 8, 1915, to Perley and
2 CONC Carrie (Reviere) Cory on the Cory family farm. The farm was located at
2 CONC Five Corners, Pearl Street Road, about four miles from Watertown, New
2 CONC York. It was near what was then called Sanford's Corners. He was their
2 CONC third and last child. His Sister Viva was born Tuesday March 15, 1904
2 CONC and his brother Earl, Monday April 2, 1906.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis Rebecca Sayer was born on a cold stormy Wednesday, February
2 CONC 13, 1918, to Howard and Olive (O'Shea) Sayer in a farm house on the
2 CONC South Edwards Road in Edwards New York. She was their only child of a
2 CONC strick Irish Catholic mother and a Methodist father. She moved several
2 CONC times during her younger years. The first time was in the fall of 1924
2 CONC at the age of six when a doctor told her father to quit  farming. At
2 CONC that time they moved to the village of Edwards.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude has a scar on his cheek that he received when his brother Earl,
2 CONC threw a license plate at him.  He recieved his first hair cut when  he
2 CONC was five years old.  When he was ten, his brother was kicked by a cow.
2 CONC His leg was broken and developed gangrene. He died from the resulting
2 CONC infection on Friday April 19, 1929.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis moved again in May 1929, when she was in the fourth grade.
2 CONC This time to Black River. After the move, her father took instructions
2 CONC and joined the Catholic Church.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude developed an interest in music. He obtained a guitar from a
2 CONC traveling salesman and taught himself to play. At Claude's suggestion,
2 CONC a band was started at Black High School and the boys on the Pearl
2 CONC Street Road formed a band.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis started dating in 1932 when she was fourteen. Her first date
2 CONC was with Francis Phinney. They went to dances at the Granges in Great
2 CONC Bend, Champlain, Barn's Corners, Calcium, and Permelia. The Pearl
2 CONC Street Band played for the dances.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Phyllis was fourteen and Claude sixteen, they meet at Black River
2 CONC High School. They had to sit together in a double seat in study hall.
2 CONC Not much interest was shown in each other at the time.
2 CONT
2 CONT One day Claude's friend, René Cooper, borrowed a touring car to go out
2 CONC with Edith Page. After picking up Edith and Phyllis, he proceeded to
2 CONC Francis Phinney's.  Francis was not home, so the three continued to
2 CONC the Cory farm.  Claude had just finished milking the cows when they
2 CONC arrived. He went into the house, cleaned up, and they went out on
2 CONC their first date. Phyllis and Claude do not remember where they
2 CONC went... maybe to a show.
2 CONT
2 CONT After this meeting, there was more interest and they started going
2 CONC together. It was about three miles between their homes and Phyllis
2 CONC would walk to the Cory farm often.  Upstate New York consists of farms
2 CONC and villages in a forested area.  There were often fires from
2 CONC electrical storms and spontaneous combustion of hay in barns. When
2 CONC going out, they would stop to look at the fires from Claude's Model T
2 CONC Ford truck. At least that was the excuse they would give Phyllis'
2 CONC parents when they came home late. Her mother would not always except
2 CONC it. Phyllis was always in trouble.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude and Phyllis went together for about six years. Claude and his
2 CONC family were active in the Pine Grove Grange in Calcium. Phyllis'
2 CONC mother would not let her join. The two families got to know each other
2 CONC well and become good friends.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude and Phyllis announced their engagement in 1936 on her
2 CONC eighteenth birthday. The Sayers could not accept this since the Cory
2 CONC family was not Catholic.  Phyllis' father later told her that her
2 CONC mother said, "If she is married outside of the Catholic Church, she is
2 CONC never to come home again."
2 CONT
2 CONT During the next two summers, Phyllis worked away from home as a house
2 CONC keeper.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude started taking a correspondence course in Automotive
2 CONC Electronics.
2 CONT
2 CONT Since Claude was more interested in automobiles than farming. In 1938,
2 CONC his father suggested that he run a gas station in Henderson. The lease
2 CONC was $8.00 a month for the gas station and $5.00 a month for an
2 CONC apartment. Phyllis had saved $75 and Claude's mother lent him some
2 CONC money to use for the lease.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Phyllis was twenty and Claude twenty-two, they decided to be
2 CONC married in Black River by a Catholic priest. Dorothy Cooper, René's
2 CONC wife, and Geneva Kinney gave her a weeding shower. Her neighbors in
2 CONC Black River made a box of linens and gave them to her.  They did not
2 CONC want to upset her mother by having a shower.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude's family was as much against his being married in the Catholic
2 CONC Church as Phyllis' were for it.  The priest would not marry them since
2 CONC Claude was not Catholic.  They then went to a young minister at the
2 CONC Baptist Church and made arrangements to be married. Phyllis' mother
2 CONC made such a fuss about it, that they decided not to get married in
2 CONC Black River. Phyllis left home.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis and Claude moved all of her things from Black River to
2 CONC Henderson. They asked a woman in a store if she knew a minister. She
2 CONC said she did, called him, and made the arrangements. Claude bought
2 CONC Phyllis a new dress, blue with a white collar and cuffs, and a wedding
2 CONC ring.
2 CONT
2 CONT René and Dorothy Cooper, Barbara Crowley, and Helen Mathews meet them
2 CONC at the parsonage. They were married by Mr. Brow, the Baptist minister
2 CONC in Adams on Wednesday, April 27, 1938. René and Barbara stood up with
2 CONC them.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Corys had a Chrysler Sedan and the Coopers had a Chrysler Coupé.
2 CONC The witnesses riding in the Coupé attempted to follow the newly weds.
2 CONC But Claude, having lived in the area, knew his way around better. They
2 CONC went down the road for some distance and took a country road back to
2 CONC Adams.  After losing the bridal party, they stayed all night in their
2 CONC apartment.
2 CONT
2 CONT The next day they left for their honeymoon in Rochester.  They stayed
2 CONC with Claudes's relatives, Dave and May Walker. The honeymoon lasted
2 CONC less than a week.  They went bowling one night and to the Sea Breeze
2 CONC Amusement park at the beach.
2 CONT
2 CONT The apartment was in the upstairs of a house that was up a hill and a
2 CONC block away from the gas station. It had three rooms, a living room,
2 CONC bedroom, and kitchen, no running water. The toilet was outside. They
2 CONC got their water from the barber shop next door to the station.
2 CONT
2 CONT They lived in the apartment one winter, about six months. They had an
2 CONC oil burner in a round oak stove for heat and a kerosene stove to cook
2 CONC on. Phyllis' Uncle Tom and Aunt Leota give them a dropleaf table and
2 CONC four matching chairs. They had a breakfast set that Claude's brother,
2 CONC Earl and his fiancee Marion, had bought before he died. They bought a
2 CONC new mattress to use on the oak bedroom set Phyllis brought from home.
2 CONC Her grandmother give her a day bed. Claude made arms for it out of
2 CONC pipe and faced them with wood. They had a spool rocker. They still use
2 CONC the rocker and the oak table.
2 CONT
2 CONT A couple of months pasted. Then one night, with out warning, the
2 CONC Sayers came over and brought a pair of new rugs and a dresser. It
2 CONC turns out that Howard was having trouble with his car and needed it
2 CONC fixed. Claude fixed it.
2 CONT
2 CONT In the spring of 1939, before the snow melted, they rented an upstairs
2 CONC apartment in back of the station for $5.00 a month. This new place had
2 CONC three bedrooms and a nice living room, dining room, and kitchen. It
2 CONC was nice in summer, much nicer that the first one, the ventilation had
2 CONC been poor in that. There still was no water, it had to be carried from
2 CONC across the street. Claude put a barrel in the back room and they
2 CONC filled it with a hose from the station. Neither place could be heated
2 CONC to be comfortable.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude finished his correspondence course in Auto Electronics and
2 CONC received a diploma.  Also, that winter Phyllis was asked by the local
2 CONC school to start a Girl Scout Troop. Some of the girls had never been
2 CONC to Watertown.
2 CONT
2 CONT At that time gas was 15˘ a gallon, oil 25˘ a quart, and cigarettes
2 CONC $1.25 a carton. They made 4˘ a gallon on gas. The gas station business
2 CONC is slow in the winter. They had to go into debt to make it through the
2 CONC winter and then pay off the debt with the money they made the next
2 CONC summer. Claude decided that they were not going to go through that
2 CONC again. In the fall of 1939, after harvesting the garden, they moved to
2 CONC the Cory farm. Claude's father had been sick and needed some help.
2 CONC They were there a couple of months.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis went to work at the Mohegan Market. She earned $18.00 a week
2 CONC as an extra. The regular girls were earning $15.00. She also got a
2 CONC full time job as a "live-in" taking care of a one year old girl on a
2 CONC nearby farm. They moved over there and she got $5.00 a week and Claude
2 CONC helped with the chores for his room and board.
2 CONT
2 CONT In the spring of 1940, they decided to try the gas station business
2 CONC again. This time they rented an ESSO gas station and garage in
2 CONC Permelia that belonged to Phyllis' mother's cousin. The house that
2 CONC they rented next to the station also belonged to them. The house was
2 CONC over two-hundred years old.
2 CONT
2 CONT These were the days just before World War II, Pine Camp (On December
2 CONC 3, 1951 Pine Camp had its name changed to Camp Drum, after Lt. General
2 CONC Hugh A. Drum, a First U.S. Army commander of World War II.  On
2 CONC September 30, 1974, Camp Drum was redesignated Fort Drum.) had started
2 CONC to expand and there was lots of work. Claude went to take an exam to
2 CONC be a electrician. It was his first employment exam and he was so
2 CONC nervous that he failed. A week and a half latter he received
2 CONC notification from Buffalo Electric to report for work and bring his
2 CONC tools. He did not know what tools to bring, but he put some in a tool
2 CONC box, closed up the station, and went to work.
2 CONT
2 CONT His job was to put a nail in the floor under a plumb bob to indicate
2 CONC where a light was to be placed on the ceiling. He received 60˘ an hour
2 CONC ($24 a week).  They used the money to pay the bills that had
2 CONC accumulated during the winter at the gas station.
2 CONT
2 CONT After planting potatoes on Saturday, June 8, 1940, Phyllis became
2 CONC pregnant. Their parents did not want her to be alone so they moved
2 CONC back to the Cory's farm.
2 CONT
2 CONT The girls in the Mohegan Store give Phyllis a shower when she quit.
2 CONC There was a great deal of snow that year. They decided that Phyllis
2 CONC had better go to her mother's the week before the baby was born. The
2 CONC roads would be better to get to the hospital in Watertown from there.
2 CONC It was also easier for Claude to get to work.
2 CONT
2 CONT She started in labor on Friday night and went to the hospital Sunday
2 CONC evening.  Earl Sayer Cory was not born until 5:00 Monday, March 17,
2 CONC 1941.  She was in the hospital ten days.
2 CONT
2 CONT Her mother had a boarder that worked at Pine Camp, he, Claude and the
2 CONC other boarders had a bottle of wine to celebrate. It was the first
2 CONC glass of wine Claude had ever drank.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis and the baby went to her folks for a few weeks and then stayed
2 CONC at Cory's farm for the next year. When Earl was about five months old
2 CONC he became fussy. He had been a good natured, happy baby. Phyllis went
2 CONC to the doctor to find out the problem.  After testing her milk, he
2 CONC said that he did not handle maternity cases; Phyllis was pregnant
2 CONC again.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude worked for Buffalo Electric until early summer. After working
2 CONC at Pine Camp, he and his father continued doing contract electrical
2 CONC work. Many of the local farms needed to be wired for electricity.
2 CONT
2 CONT Between Christmas and New Years, Claude answered a newspaper
2 CONC advertisement in the Watertown Times. He got a job at North Country
2 CONC Battery for $20 a week. In those days, he was required to ware a brown
2 CONC uniform and black tie to work.
2 CONT
2 CONT Philip was born Saturday March 7, 1942 at 5:30 in the morning. He was
2 CONC not quite as long in coming. There was about six inches of snow on the
2 CONC ground when Phyllis walked the two miles up to the Kinney's and back
2 CONC the night before. At about 10:00, she decided to go to the hospital.
2 CONC The next morning Philip was born. It was snowing when they went to the
2 CONC hospital, so Claude stayed with his cousin all night. There was
2 CONC another bad storm the next day and Claude got stuck trying to get back
2 CONC to the farm.  He was longer and slimmer than Earl and had dark hair.
2 CONC Earl had been a toe head. At birth, they weighted within a few ounces
2 CONC of each other.  She was in the hospital fourteen days.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Philip was two months old, they rented half of a double house in
2 CONC Black River.  It was on LeRay Street and belonged to May and Nettie
2 CONC Cory.
2 CONT
2 CONT Gerwood, Claude's brother-in-law, wanted them to buy a house of their
2 CONC own. In 1943, he found one at the corner of Hamilton and Harrison
2 CONC Street in Watertown, but they did not have enough money for the down
2 CONC payment. It was a double house with seven rooms on each side and cost
2 CONC $4800.00. At Gerwood's suggestion, they borrowed the down payment from
2 CONC Claude's mother and father. They found out later that Gerwood had
2 CONC given the money to the Cory's to lend them. They moved into the
2 CONC Hamilton street side and started fixing the house up.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1944 Claude's father became to ill to farm. They sold the farm that
2 CONC had been in the Cory family since it was homesteaded in 1815 by
2 CONC Claude's great grandfather Elijah Cory. Elijah purchased the original
2 CONC land from LeRay de Chaumont,  cleared it, and added to it over the
2 CONC years. Perley and Carrie moved to Watertown to live with Carrie's
2 CONC brother Milton. Perley Cory died May 6, 1945.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude got his draft notice January 2, 1945 and had to go to Syracuse
2 CONC for his exam. Because he had asthma he was classified 4-F. Since he
2 CONC repaired batteries for Pine Camp his work in the garage was considered
2 CONC "Essential to the war effort".
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1946 they moved to 1002 Harrison Street, the other side of the
2 CONC house and started working on it. Earl started school at Thompson
2 CONC Avenue School and Phyllis joined the PTA. Over the years she was
2 CONC active in PTA organization in every school her children entered.
2 CONC Serving as an officier many times, she has earned her "Lifetime
2 CONC Membership Pin".
2 CONT
2 CONT A lot next door was up for tax sale, they bought it and build a garage
2 CONC on it with the lumber from Pine Camp.
2 CONT
2 CONT By the fall of 1947, when Philip started kindergarten, Claude's asthma
2 CONC was getting very bad. Phyllis would call the shop to see if he gotten
2 CONC to work. He would go to the shop in the night because he could breath
2 CONC better. The doctor told him that he would give him ten years to live
2 CONC if he stayed in that part of the country. He recommended that they go
2 CONC to Arizona. They put their home up for sale, it was half paid for, and
2 CONC prepared to move.
2 CONT
2 CONT They had decided that they would not go west without a place to live.
2 CONC They had heard that living quarters were hard to find out there after
2 CONC the war. While the house was up for sale, they saw an advertisement in
2 CONC the paper for a house trailer. They went to Adams to see about the
2 CONC trailer. It was 27 feet long and had a living room, kitchen, bedroom,
2 CONC and was in very good condition. The trailer cost $2,000 and the owner,
2 CONC an old friend Howard Phinney, said he would get them a Ford to haul it
2 CONC for $1,300. Due to the war, getting a good car was difficult.  Unable
2 CONC to find a Ford, he found a low mileage, 1946 four door Dodge. In their
2 CONC discussions, Howard mentioned that he needed a house in Watertown.
2 CONC During a phone call later, he agreed to buy theirs for $8,000.00.
2 CONC After all the swapping,
2 CONT trading, and buying, he paid the remaining in cash for the house. They
2 CONC used some of the money to pay off their debts to Gerwood, Claude's
2 CONC mother, and the bank.
2 CONT
2 CONT It was not easy to move and leave all of their friends.  There were
2 CONC seven couples that would meet each month and have pot luck suppers
2 CONC with the hostess furnishing the meat.  They also went to dances and
2 CONC had card parties.
2 CONT
2 CONT While they were getting ready to leave, the boys came down with
2 CONC chickenpox.  Claude had never had them, he also came down with them.
2 CONC They stayed with Claude's mother and her brother until after Christmas
2 CONC when he was better. On Wednesday, January 21, 1948, the Cory family
2 CONC left for the west.
2 CONT
2 CONT The entire trip took eighteen days. They visited friends in New Paris,
2 CONC Ohio, spent four days in St. Louis visiting Phyllis' cousin and the
2 CONC zoo. At that time, the St. Louis Zoo owned a giant Panda. The trip was
2 CONC in the winter and not without mishap. In Ephingham Ill., as they were
2 CONC coming down an ice covered hill, Claude was unable to stop and
2 CONC rear-ended a truck. Very little damage was done to the car. Along
2 CONC their route, Route 66, they passed Rattlesnake Air Force Base.  The
2 CONC base was covered for miles with B 29s left over from the war.
2 CONT
2 CONT When they arrived in Phoenix, they looked around the city, looked for
2 CONC jobs in the paper, and decided to continue on to Claude's cousin,
2 CONC Vernon, in Los Angeles.  They arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday,
2 CONC February 8, 1948. The next week they settled into a front row space at
2 CONC the Mercury Trailer Park at 4826 Otis Ave in Bell. The space was small
2 CONC and noisy being next to major street, but it was all that was
2 CONC available. They put their names on a list for a larger space. The rent
2 CONC was $30 a month plus electricity, each space had it own meter.
2 CONT
2 CONT The boys were enrolled in the first and second grades at nearby
2 CONC Elizabeth Avenue School and Phyllis joined the PTA.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude immediately started looking for work. Jobs were hard to find
2 CONC now that the war was over and many people were coming to Southern
2 CONC California. A fellow resident of the trailer park, Ray Pratt,
2 CONC recommend him for a position where he worked at Crown Coach
2 CONC Corporation, a bus manufacture. He interviewed for the position in Los
2 CONC Angeles, but after a couple of months heard nothing. In March he was
2 CONC finally able to get a job in a tune-up shop in Long Beach, but it only
2 CONC lasted two weeks.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude asked Ray to check into why he had heard nothing from Crown. It
2 CONC turned out that the plant supervisor, who did all the interviewing and
2 CONC hiring, had forgotten about it. After Ray reminded him, Claude was
2 CONC hired and started to work in March at $1.50 an hour for a 48 hour
2 CONC week. His weekly salary of $72 was a noticeable difference from his
2 CONC final salary of $45 a week when he left the east. He stayed for
2 CONC seventeen years.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis' parents came to California to visit while they were living in
2 CONC the trailer park.  Howard said that they had a fast trip, he "drove
2 CONC 45, 50 all the way".
2 CONT
2 CONT After several months they were able to move their trailer to a double
2 CONC space, #44, in the back corner. This allowed them to have a lawn on
2 CONC one side of the trailer and a patio on the other. The trailer park had
2 CONC all the conveniences of modern living, large public toilets and
2 CONC showers, laundry room, plenty of cloths lines (right next to the
2 CONC Cory's space), and the ice man delivered ice twice a week.  There was
2 CONC plenty of space in the back for tenants to have gardens.  A man would
2 CONC come once a week and erect a large screen in the back and show movies
2 CONC from a van.  This was the start of outdoor movies, except here you did
2 CONC not drive-in you walked over and brought your own chair.
2 CONT
2 CONT As the boys got older, more room was needed. Being a one bedroom
2 CONC trailer, the living room had to be changed into a bedroom every night.
2 CONC Claude purchased a 10 foot house trailer and parked it across the
2 CONC driveway in the parking area. The boys now had a room of their own.
2 CONT
2 CONT While living in the trailer, the Corys bought their first television,
2 CONC a seven inch used  Admiral with a "bubble".  The set came with a
2 CONC connector in the back for color when it became available.  The family
2 CONC used it to watch their favorite shows, "Time For Beenie", "Howdy
2 CONC Dowdy", and "Texico Star Theater".
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl heard about the Cub Scouts in school and wanted to join. Phyllis
2 CONC had been active in the Girl Scouts as a child and a leader when she
2 CONC was first married, she thought that is was a good idea. It was a
2 CONC relationship that lasted for twenty years. Claude became Assistant Cub
2 CONC and Boy Scout Masters, Explorer Leader, and served on the Los Angeles
2 CONC Area Council in the '50s. Phyllis was a Den Mother and became a Girl
2 CONC Scout Leader when their daughter joined the Brownies.
2 CONT
2 CONT Cecil Ian Cory was born Friday July 15, 1949 and Iva Marie Cory was
2 CONC born Friday August 25, 1950, both in Huntington Park. Earl and Phil
2 CONC were getting bigger and the trailer was becoming too small for a
2 CONC family of six. With all the people migrating to California after the
2 CONC War, housing was still scarce. In October of 1950, the Cory family
2 CONC were able to locate a small, two bedroom, white wood frame house at
2 CONC 9546 Elizabeth Avenue in nearby South Gate. The house cost $6,800.
2 CONT
2 CONT The boys were enrolled in nearby Victoria Avenue School and Phyllis
2 CONC joined the PTA.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude's mother passed away Monday afternoon, July 2, 1951. She had
2 CONC been ill for about a year with cancer.
2 CONT
2 CONT With four children and two bedrooms, it was not long before
2 CONC construction began.  Over the next fifteen years, two rooms were
2 CONC added, the living room became a dinning room, the dinning room became
2 CONC a living room, the kitchen became a bedroom with its own private sink,
2 CONC and a bedroom was expanded into a kitchen. A concrete driveway and new
2 CONC porches were added.
2 CONT
2 CONT The small, dirt floor, one stall garage was torn down and a two stall
2 CONC garage and work shop built.  Claude would spend most of his spare time
2 CONC in the garage "building something".  One of his major purchases was
2 CONC wood working tools.   As Phil got older, his interest turned to cars
2 CONC and he used the garage as a auto repair and body shop.
2 CONT
2 CONT After Cecil and Iva started school, Phyllis started to work in the
2 CONC school cafeteria. She later became a Stanly Home Products dealer and
2 CONC give parties.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Corys have always enjoyed camping. In New York, they would go tent
2 CONC camping at various lakes. While living in the trailer park, they would
2 CONC use the small trailer for camping in California. Almost every weekend
2 CONC during the summer they would visit their investment property in
2 CONC Palmdale. They kept a small trailer to use for camping until 1970.
2 CONC Each year the family would go on a two week vacation someplace. They
2 CONC made several trips back to New York, Lake Tahoe, the redwoods, and
2 CONC Yellowstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Sayers came twice more for visits. After three visits to
2 CONC California, they decided that the winters were more agreeable and they
2 CONC wanted to be near their child and grand children. They sold their
2 CONC house in Black River in September 1957 and moved into a small house at
2 CONC 9543 Elizabeth, across the street, in South Gate. The house was owned
2 CONC by Mrs. Francis Smith, a women with whom they had stayed on their
2 CONC previous visits. They later purchased the house. In November, after
2 CONC the move, they celebrated their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude's job was going well at Crown, he became the leadman and
2 CONC president of the Credit Union. His work was varied, as time went by he
2 CONC was required to do more and more special installations of radios, wire
2 CONC and later tape recorders for tour busses, and public address systems.
2 CONC He later worked on mobile television studios for RCA. These studios
2 CONC contained some of the first video tape recorders. These two inch tape
2 CONC units required almost the whole truck.
2 CONT
2 CONT On Saturday April 27, 1963 their children gave them a 25th Wedding
2 CONC Anniversary at their home in South Gate.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude, although an automotive electrician, had always had an interest
2 CONC in electronics. That new device, which became popular in the '50s,
2 CONC television, fascinated him. He decided to learn more about it and
2 CONC started to go to night school. Pretty soon the laundry room that
2 CONC Phyllis was using for Stanly Products Inventory, was converted into an
2 CONC electronics repair shop.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1964, he had decided that he could repair a T.V. as well as anyone.
2 CONC They decided to open a T.V. store and looked at a place in Oxnard, CA.
2 CONC Some friends, the Smiths, who had owned the trailer park in Bell,
2 CONC owned and managed a motel in Pacific Grove. The Smiths ask the Corys
2 CONC to come and visit them for Thanksgiving.  After seeing Pacific Grove,
2 CONC Claude and Phyllis decided that this would be a good place to start a
2 CONC T.V. repair business. They spent the next few weekends looking at
2 CONC store fronts and talking to Realtors. They found out that the
2 CONC Diridonis were going to retire and that Diridoni T.V. & Radio at 541
2 CONC Lighthouse was for sale.
2 CONT
2 CONT They sold their home in South Gate for $18,000, bought the Victorian
2 CONC house at 781 Pine Avenue they live in today for $24,500, quit their
2 CONC jobs, and moved to Pacific Grove between semesters in January of 1965.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT At the same time the Sayers sold their home in South Gate and moved in
2 CONC with the Corys. They occupied three downstairs rooms, a living room,
2 CONC bedroom, and bath. With the kitchen, it was a larger living area than
2 CONC they had had in South Gate.
2 CONT
2 CONT By this time Earl was studying Physics in graduate school in Los
2 CONC Angeles. Phil was working at Otis Elevator.  He married three years
2 CONC earlier, October 6, 1962 and had a son, Richard, Claude and Phyllis
2 CONC first grandchild, on New Year's Day, 1964. Cecil had just started High
2 CONC School and Iva was in Junior High. The move was very traumatic for the
2 CONC teenagers, leaving ones friends is always a problem.
2 CONT
2 CONT It took time to arrange the loans and close the deal on the store.
2 CONC Vasco Diridoni had wanted cash for the business, but Claude was able
2 CONC to convince him that it would be better to take a note and spread the
2 CONC income out over a number of years. In the mean time, Claude worked for
2 CONC the Smiths rebuilding mmotel units and at Diridoni's learning the
2 CONC business. On May 29, 1965 they officially purchased Diridoni T.V. &
2 CONC Radio at the corner of Lighthouse and Fountain for $24,000.
2 CONT
2 CONT About this time, Claude injured a finger on his left hand while making
2 CONC a cabinet for the upstairs bathroon in the new house. He looked
2 CONC strange with his finger sowed to the palm of his left hand. It left
2 CONC him with no feeling in the finger tip so he was unable to continue to
2 CONC play the guitar. He took up the organ and became a member of the local
2 CONC Organ Buffs Club.
2 CONT
2 CONT After a couple of years they renamed the store Grove T.V. and Radio.
2 CONC Business was good, especially rentals, due too the transient Army and
2 CONC Navy officers at Fort Ord, the Navel Post Graduate School, and The
2 CONC Foreign Language Institute.  They sold, repaired, and rented sets from
2 CONC Carmel to Seaside. They became active in several civic organization
2 CONC and became friends with many people in the community. Cecil worked in
2 CONC the store as a repair man during High School and while he attended
2 CONC college and helped Claude repair their 1949 Admiral Television.  It
2 CONC was placed on display in the window of their store.
2 CONT
2 CONT Earl married in 1967, Iva in 1969 and Cecil in 1971, 1976, and 1983.
2 CONC All of their children were now married and living away from home. More
2 CONC grandchildren were soon to come, Sherry was born to Iva and Paul
2 CONC Heitz, December 20, 1970, Vibeké to Earl and Chris, September 1, 1971,
2 CONC and Cory to Iva and Paul, December 26, 1974.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phil was working as a prop man while learning special effects at
2 CONC various studios.
2 CONT
2 CONT They were always looking for ways to make their business grow. When
2 CONC their lease expired, they moved to property that Iva and Paul
2 CONC purchased at 160 Eighteenth Street. In 1975, they purchased Cypress
2 CONC Sight and Sound and moved to the larger quarters at 215 Forest Avenue.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT From 1965 to 1979, the store did well enough for them to win several
2 CONC trips around the country and to Europe.  They won trips to Reno, Las
2 CONC Vegas, Spain, Italy, England, and Ireland.  This made them world
2 CONC travelers.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude did not like the looks of an old oak tree across the street
2 CONC from the store.  He called the city to come and trim it several times;
2 CONC nothing was done.  He decided to do the trimming himself.  After
2 CONC climbing up a ladder, he cut off a large branch.  When the branch
2 CONC snapped off, it swang arround and knocked the ladder out from under
2 CONC him.  He landed on the ground, breaking his back.  This injury kept
2 CONC him layed up for several months.
2 CONT
2 CONT Olive Sayer, at the age of 90, finally got her way. On September 19,
2 CONC 1976, Claude and Phyllis were married in St. Angela's Catholic Church
2 CONC in Pacific Grove. Olive attended the wedding this time. Howard had
2 CONC passed away Friday August 29, 1969. Olive died the following year on
2 CONC Friday June 10, 1977.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1980, T.V. technology had advanced to the point that television
2 CONC repair was becoming module swapping, the national economy was
2 CONC suffering from the Carter administration, the Television
2 CONC retailbusiness was being taken over by large chain stores selling
2 CONC below retail prices, American produced consumer electronics was
2 CONC turning Japanese, and Claude was 65. In October of 1980, they decided
2 CONC to sell the business. Unable to find a buyer, they closed the business
2 CONC after a Christmas sale in December 1980 and retired.
2 CONT
2 CONT They traded their repair Van for a new truck and a Camper.  Later that
2 CONC was traded for a "fifth wheel". They have spent their retirement years
2 CONC traveling through out the United States, with a trip to Mexico. They
2 CONC visit Claude's sister in Watertown and their children and their
2 CONC children and grand children in Southern California. They have
2 CONC occasionally been seen helping out in their daughter and son-in-law's
2 CONC store, Paul's Drapery, in Pacific Grove. For several years they shared
2 CONC their home with Japanese business men who have come to
2 CONT the United States to learn about American business and way of life.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 NOV 1915
2 PLAC Leray, Jefferson Co, NY
2 NOTE Born on the Cory Family farm, Pearl Street Road.  The family moved to
3 CONC California, 21 Jan 1948, arrived 8 Feb 1948.
2 SOUR @S192@
3 PAGE in possesion of person.
1 CHR
2 DATE ABT 1958
2 PLAC La Harbra, Orange Co, CA
1 RESI 1002 Harrison Street
2 DATE 1947
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 RESI 9546 Elizabeth Street
2 DATE BET 1952 AND 1965
2 PLAC South Gate, Los Angerles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F2@
0 @I5@ INDI
1 NAME Phyllis Rebecca /Sayer/
2 GIVN Phyllis Rebecca
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 FEB 1918
2 PLAC Edwards, St. Lawrence Co, NY
2 SOUR @S192@
1 FAMS @F2@
1 FAMC @F3@
0 @I6@ INDI
1 NAME Howard Leon /Sayer/
2 GIVN Howard Leon
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE He attented schools in Fine and Edwards.  He went to work on a farm at
2 CONC the age of 16.
2 CONT
2 CONT Howard and Olive met at a birthday party in 1905 in Edwards, NY.  Two
2 CONC years latter they were married on her 22 birthday.  After their
2 CONC marriage, they made their home at Edwards until May, 1909, when they
2 CONC moved to Black River.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mr. Sayer worked in the chair factory in their early days residence in
2 CONC Black River at the weekly wage of $8.  Mrs. Sayer worked at sewing.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1911, the couple moved back to Edwards where they operated a farm.
2 CONC When Mr. Sayer gave up farming because of ill health, he went to work
2 CONC for the National Paper Products company, Edwards.
2 CONT
2 CONT In May 1929, the couple again moved to Black River.  They continued
2 CONC their residence there until September 1957.  While in Black River,
2 CONC Howard continued working for the paper company until 1932.
2 CONT
2 CONT In February, 1933, Mr. Sayer's back was broken while at work as a
2 CONC member of the Black River volunteer fire department.  He was unable to
2 CONC work for eight years.
2 CONT
2 CONT When he was able to do so, Mr. Sayer took emplolyment at Pine Camp,
2 CONC now Camp Drum.  He also worked at odd jobs around the village until he
2 CONC retired at the age of 65 in 1951.
2 CONT
2 CONT He was employeed as a reforestration man in the latter part of his
2 CONC life.
2 CONT
2 CONT In September of 1957, Mr. and Mrs. Sayer sold their Black River home
2 CONC and moved to California, their fourth trip west.  They lived with Mrs.
2 CONC Frances Smith until they bought her house at 9543 Elizabeth Street,
2 CONC South Gate, CA.
2 CONT
2 CONT When their daughter's family moved north to Pacific Grove, CA in Feb
2 CONC 1965, they sold there house and moved too.  They occupied the three
2 CONC rooms on the ground floor of their daugther's Victorian home.  It
2 CONC comprised a living room, bath room, and bedroom. Both Howard and Olive
2 CONC livied their until their deaths in 1969 and 1977.
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JUL 1886
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 AUG 1969
2 PLAC Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
2 NOTE Friday night of a heart attack.
1 BURI
2 DATE 3 SEP 1969
2 PLAC El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
1 RESI 9543 Elizabeth Street
2 DATE BET 1957 AND 1965
2 PLAC South Gate, Los Angerles Co, CA
1 RESI
2 DATE BEF 1957
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
1 EVEN The Paul Mortuary
2 TYPE Funeral
2 DATE 2 SEP 1969
2 PLAC Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
1 FAMS @F3@
1 FAMC @F99@
0 @I7@ INDI
1 NAME Olive Cecelia /O'Shea/
2 GIVN Olive Cecelia
2 SURN O'Shea
1 SEX F
1 NOTE She attended Edwards Free school.  On completion of her schooling, she
2 CONC worked as a dressmaker.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 NOV 1886
2 PLAC Edwards, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 JUN 1977
2 PLAC Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
1 BURI
2 DATE JUN 1977
2 PLAC El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
1 FAMS @F3@
0 @I8@ INDI
1 NAME Philip Cyril /Cory/
2 GIVN Philip Cyril
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Philip was born Saturday March 7, 1942 at 5:30 in the morning.  There
2 CONC was about six inches of snow on the ground when Phyllis walked the two
2 CONC miles up to the Kinney's and back the night before. At about 10:00,
2 CONC she decided to go to the hospital. The next morning Philip was born.
2 CONC It was snowing when they went to the hospital, so Claude stayed with
2 CONC his cousin all night. There was another bad storm the next day and
2 CONC Claude got stuck trying to get back to the farm.  He was longer and
2 CONC slimmer than Earl and had dark hair. Earl had been a toe head. At
2 CONC birth, they weighted within a few ounces of each other.  She was in
2 CONC the hospital fourteen days.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Philip was two months old, they rented half of a double house in
2 CONC Black River.  It was on LeRay Street and belonged to May and Nettie
2 CONC Cory.
2 CONT
2 CONT By the fall of 1947, when Philip started kindergarten, Claude's asthma
2 CONC was getting very bad. Phyllis would call the shop to see if he gotten
2 CONC to work. He would go to the shop in the night because he could breath
2 CONC better. The doctor told him that he would give him ten years to live
2 CONC if he stayed in that part of the country. He recommended that they go
2 CONC to Arizona. They put their home up for sale, it was half paid for, and
2 CONC prepared to move.
2 CONT
2 CONT They had decided that they would not go west without a place to live.
2 CONC They had heard that living quarters were hard to find out there after
2 CONC the war. While the house was up for sale, they saw an advertisement in
2 CONC the paper for a house trailer. They went to Adams to see about the
2 CONC trailer. It was 27 feet long and had a living room, kitchen, bedroom,
2 CONC and was in very good condition. The trailer cost $2,000 and the owner,
2 CONC an old friend Howard Phinney, said he would get them a Ford to haul it
2 CONC for $1,300. Due to the war, getting a good car was difficult. Unable
2 CONC to find a Ford, he found a low mileage, 1946 four door Dodge.
2 CONT
2 CONT While they were getting ready to leave, the boys came down with
2 CONC chickenpox. Claude had never had them, he also came down with them.
2 CONC They stayed with Claude's mother and her brother until after Christmas
2 CONC when he was better. On Wednesday, January 21, 1948, the Cory family
2 CONC left for the west.
2 CONT
2 CONT The entire trip took eighteen days. They visited friends in New Paris,
2 CONC Ohio, spent four days in St. Louis visiting Phyllis' cousin and the
2 CONC zoo. At that time, the St. Louis Zoo owned a giant Panda. The trip was
2 CONC in the winter and not without mishap. In Ephingham Ill., as they were
2 CONC coming down an ice covered hill, Claude was unable to stop and
2 CONC rear-ended a truck. Very little damage was done to the car. Along
2 CONC their route, Route 66, they passed Rattlesnake Air Force Base. The
2 CONC base was covered for miles with B 29s left over from the war.
2 CONT
2 CONT When they arrived in Phoenix, they looked around the city, looked for
2 CONC jobs in the paper, and decided to continue on to Claude's cousin in
2 CONC Los Angeles. They arrived in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 8, 1948.
2 CONC The next week they settled into a front row space at the Mercury
2 CONC Trailer Park at 4826 Otis Ave in Bell. The space was small and noisy
2 CONC being next to major street, but it was all that was available. They
2 CONC put their names on a list for a larger space. The rent was $30 a month
2 CONC plus electricity, each space had it own meter.
2 CONT
2 CONT The boys were enrolled in the first and second grades at nearby
2 CONC Elizabeth Avenue School and Phyllis joined the PTA.
2 CONT
2 CONT After several months they were able to move their trailer to a double
2 CONC space,  #44, in the back corner. This allowed them to have a lawn on
2 CONC one side of the trailer and a patio on the other. The trailer park had
2 CONC all the conveniences of modern living, large public toilets and
2 CONC showers, laundry room, plenty of cloths lines (right next to the
2 CONC Cory's space), and the ice man delivered ice twice a week.  There was
2 CONC plenty of space in the back for tenants to have gardens.  A man would
2 CONC come once a week and erect a large screen in the back and show movies
2 CONC from a van.  This was the start of outdoor movies, except here you did
2 CONC not drive-in you walked over and brought your own chair.
2 CONT
2 CONT As the boys got older, more room was needed. Being a one bedroom
2 CONC trailer, the living room had to be changed into a bedroom every night.
2 CONC Claude purchased a 10 foot house trailer and parked it across the
2 CONC driveway in the parking area. The boys now had a room of their own.
2 CONT
2 CONT Cecil Ian Cory was born Friday July 15, 1949 and Iva Marie Cory was
2 CONC born Friday August 25, 1950, both in Huntington Park. Earl and Phil
2 CONC were getting bigger and the trailer was becoming too small for a
2 CONC family of six. With all the people migrating to California after the
2 CONC War, housing was still scarce. In October of 1950, the Cory family
2 CONC were able to locate a small, two bedroom, white wood frame house at
2 CONC 9546 Elizabeth Avenue in nearby South Gate. The house cost $6,800.
2 CONT
2 CONT The boys were enrolled in nearby Victoria Avenue School and Phyllis
2 CONC joined the PTA.
2 CONT
2 CONT The small, dirt floor, one stall garage was torn down and a two stall
2 CONC garage and work shop built.  Claude would spend most of his spare time
2 CONC in the garage "building something".  One of his major purchases was
2 CONC wood working tools. As Phil got older, his interest turned to cars and
2 CONC he used the garage as a auto repair and body shop.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Corys have always enjoyed camping. In New York, they would go tent
2 CONC camping at various lakes. While living in the trailer park, they would
2 CONC use the small trailer for camping in California. Almost every weekend
2 CONC during the summer they would visit their investment property in
2 CONC Palmdale. They kept a small trailer to use for camping until 1970.
2 CONC Each year the family would go on a two week vacation someplace. They
2 CONC made several trips back to New York, Lake Tahoe, the redwoods, and
2 CONC Yellowstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1964, after taking several couses, Phil's father decided that he
2 CONC could repair a T.V. as well as anyone.  They decided to open a T.V.
2 CONC store and looked at a place in Oxnard, CA. Some friends, the Smiths,
2 CONC who had owned the trailer park in Bell, owned and managed a motel in
2 CONC Pacific Grove. The Smiths ask the Corys to come and visit them for
2 CONC Thanksgiving. After seeing Pacific Grove, Claude and Phyllis decided
2 CONC that this would be a good place to start a T.V. repair business. They
2 CONC spent the next few weekends looking at store fronts and talking to
2 CONC Realtors. They found out that the Diridonis were going to retire and
2 CONC that Diridoni T.V. & Radio at 541 Lighthouse was for sale.
2 CONT
2 CONT They sold their home in South Gate for $18,000, bought the Victorian
2 CONC house at 781 Pine Avenue they live in today for $24,500, quit their
2 CONC jobs, and moved to Pacific Grove between semesters in January of 1965.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT By this time Phil was working at Otis Elevator.  He had married three
2 CONC years earlier on October 6, 1962 and had a son, Richard, Claude and
2 CONC Phyllis first grandchild, on New Year's Day, 1964.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phil worked as a prop man while learning special effects at various
2 CONC studios.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 MAR 1942
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 FAMS @F7@
1 FAMS @F8@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I9@ INDI
1 NAME Cecil Ian /Cory/
2 GIVN Cecil Ian
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Cecil Ian Cory was born Friday July 15, 1949 in Huntington Park, CA.
2 CONC At the time the family was living in a trailer in Bell, CA.  After his
2 CONC sister Iva was born, the trailer the Corys were living in was too
2 CONC small for a family of six. With all the people migrating to California
2 CONC after the War, housing was still scarce. In October of 1950, the Cory
2 CONC family were able to locate a small, two bedroom, white wood frame
2 CONC house at 9546 Elizabeth Avenue in nearby South Gate. The house cost
2 CONC $6,800.
2 CONT
2 CONT After Cecil and Iva started school, Phyllis started to work in the
2 CONC school cafeteria.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Corys have always enjoyed camping. In New York, they would go tent
2 CONC camping at various lakes. While living in the trailer park, they would
2 CONC use the small trailer for camping in California. Almost every weekend
2 CONC during the summer they would visit their investment property in
2 CONC Palmdale. They kept a small trailer to use for camping until 1970.
2 CONC Each year the family would go on a two week vacation someplace. They
2 CONC made several trips back to New York, Lake Tahoe, the redwoods, and
2 CONC Yellowstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1964, after taking several courses, Cecil's father decided that he
2 CONC could repair a TV as well as anyone.  They decided to open a TV store
2 CONC and looked at a place in Oxnard, CA. Some friends, the Smiths, who had
2 CONC owned the trailer park in Bell, owned and managed a motel in Pacific
2 CONC Grove. The Smiths ask the Corys to come and visit them for
2 CONC Thanksgiving. After seeing Pacific Grove, Claude and Phyllis decided
2 CONC that this would be a good place to start a TV repair business. They
2 CONC spent the next few weekends looking at store fronts and talking to
2 CONC Realtors. They found out that the Diridonis were going to retire and
2 CONC that Diridoni TV & Radio at 541 Lighthouse was for sale.
2 CONT
2 CONT They sold their home in South Gate for $18,000, bought the Victorian
2 CONC house at 781 Pine Avenue they live in today for $24,500, quit their
2 CONC jobs, and moved to Pacific Grove between semesters in January of 1965.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT By this time Cecil had just started High School and Iva was in Junior
2 CONC High. The move was very traumatic for the teenagers, leaving ones
2 CONC friends is always a problem.
2 CONT
2 CONT After a couple of years they renamed the store Grove TV and Radio.
2 CONC Business was good, especially rentals, due too the transient Army and
2 CONC Navy officers at Fort Ord, the Navel Post Graduate School, and The
2 CONC Foreign Language Institute. They sold, repaired, and rented sets from
2 CONC Carmel to Seaside. . Cecil worked in the store as a repair man during
2 CONC High School and while he attended college and helped Claude repair
2 CONC their 1949 Admiral Television.  It was placed on display in the window
2 CONC of their store.
2 CONT
2 CONT Cecil married in 1971 and 1976, but each ended in divorce.
2 CONT
2 CONT After junior college, he moved to Camarillo, CA and stayed with Earl
2 CONC and Chris while looking for work.  He started to work as a contractor
2 CONC to Point Mugu Navel Air Station as an electronics technician and later
2 CONC engineer.
2 CONT
2 CONT During this time, he renewed his acquaintance with Karen Enderich, an
2 CONC old family friend, and they were married in 1983.  They purchased a
2 CONC house in Camarillo and Karen went to work for a State Farm Insurance
2 CONC Agent.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1996, Cecil was reduced to part-time work at Pt. Mugu.  In the mean
2 CONC time he started to work on several electronic projects with his
2 CONC brother Philip to be used as special effects in movies.  Late in 1997,
2 CONC he was again working full time as a contractor at Pt. Mugu.
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S764@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JUL 1949
2 PLAC Huntington Park, Los Angeles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F13@
1 FAMS @F14@
1 FAMS @F15@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I10@ INDI
1 NAME Iva Marie /Cory/
2 GIVN Iva Marie
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Iva Marie Cory was born Friday August 25, 1950 in Huntington Park.
2 CONC Earl and Phil were getting bigger and the trailer was becoming too
2 CONC small for a family of six. With all the people migrating to California
2 CONC after the War, housing was still scarce. In October of 1950, the Cory
2 CONC family were able to locate a small, two bedroom, white wood frame
2 CONC house at 9546 Elizabeth Avenue in nearby South Gate. The house cost
2 CONC $6,800.
2 CONT
2 CONT After Iva started school, Phyllis started to work in the school
2 CONC cafeteria.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Corys have always enjoyed camping. In New York, they would go tent
2 CONC camping at various lakes. While living in the trailer park, they would
2 CONC use the small trailer for camping in California. Almost every weekend
2 CONC during the summer they would visit their investment property in
2 CONC Palmdale. They kept a small trailer to use for camping until 1970.
2 CONC Each year the family would go on a two week vacation someplace. They
2 CONC made several trips back to New York, Lake Tahoe, the redwoods, and
2 CONC Yellowstone.
2 CONT
2 CONT By 1964, after taking several couses, Iva's father decided that he
2 CONC could could repair a T.V. as well as anyone.  They decided to open a
2 CONC T.V. store and looked at a place in Oxnard, CA. Some friends, the
2 CONC Smiths, who had owned the trailer park in Bell, owned and managed a
2 CONC motel in Pacific Grove. The Smiths ask the Corys to come and visit
2 CONC them for Thanksgiving. After seeing Pacific Grove, Claude and Phyllis
2 CONC decided that this would be a good place to start a T.V. repair
2 CONC business. They spent the next few weekends looking at store fronts and
2 CONC talking to Realtors. They found out that the Diridonis were going to
2 CONC retire and that Diridoni T.V. & Radio at 541 Lighthouse was for sale.
2 CONT
2 CONT They sold their home in South Gate for $18,000, bought the Victorian
2 CONC house at 781 Pine Avenue they live in today for $24,500, quit their
2 CONC jobs, and moved to Pacific Grove between semesters in January of 1965.
2 CONC
2 CONT
2 CONT Iva was in Junior High. The move was very traumatic for the teenagers,
2 CONC leaving ones friends is always a problem.
2 CONT
2 CONT After High School, Iva married Paul Edward Heitz in 1969.  Their
2 CONC daughter Sherry was born December 20, 1970 and their son, Cory,
2 CONC December 26, 1974.
2 CONT
2 CONT They opened a business, Paul's Drapery, in Pacific Grove.
2 CONT
2 CONT Tragedy struck the family on 14-Apr-1996 when their son Cory was
2 CONC killed in a single car traffic accident.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 AUG 1950
2 PLAC Huntington Park, Los Angeles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F4@
1 FAMC @F2@
0 @I11@ INDI
1 NAME Paul Edward /Heitz/
2 GIVN Paul Edward
2 SURN Heitz
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 MAY 1947
2 PLAC Carmel, Monterey Co, CA
1 FAMS @F4@
0 @I12@ INDI
1 NAME Sherry Ann /Heitz/
2 GIVN Sherry Ann
2 SURN Heitz
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Sherry was born 20-Dec-1970, in Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA. She
2 CONC has lived her entire life on the Monterey Peninsula.  She is an easy
2 CONC going kid, naturally very messy.
2 CONT
2 CONT She enjoys politics and became president of the Pacific Grove Kiwanis
2 CONC Club at age 20.  She married a high school friend, Larry Sands, who is
2 CONC employed as a firefighter in the Pacific Grove Fire Department.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 DEC 1970
2 PLAC Monterey Pennisula Hospital, Monterey, Monterey Co, CA
1 FAMS @F5@
1 FAMC @F4@
0 @I13@ INDI
1 NAME Cory James /Heitz/
2 GIVN Cory James
2 SURN Heitz
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT He livied his entire life on the Monterey Peninsula. Everyone expected
2 CONC his mother, Iva, to give birth during Christmas dinner.  He was an
2 CONC easy going kid, naturally very neat and fastidious.  He enjoyed
2 CONC cooking and eating, fixing machinery and computer equipment.  For a
2 CONC young person, Cory was responsible, trustworthy, kept an obligation,
2 CONC and knew the importance of family.
2 CONT
2 CONT He was a very generous person.   For example, while a child, he once
2 CONC took his mothers Christmas money and bought about a hundred dollars
2 CONC worth of candy and handed it out with $20 bills to all the kids.
2 CONT
2 CONT He was graduated from Pacific Grove High School in 1994.  As a high
2 CONC school student and afterwards as a college student, he was a drapery
2 CONC installer in his parents store, Paul's Drapery in Pacific Grove.  An
2 CONC avid water sportsman, he enjoyed skiing, swimming, fishing, and
2 CONC jet-skiing.  Active in the community, he helped with Sober Grad Night
2 CONC at Pacific Grove High School after he graduatedand was associated with
2 CONC several Kiwanis Club fund-raisers.
2 CONT
2 CONT Cory loved to bike ride and Pete, his dog, loved to chase him or
2 CONC vis-a-versa.  He also enjoyed 4-wheeling in his Jeep.  His speciality
2 CONC was baking cheesecakes.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following are notes that Cory wrote in College.  These were found
2 CONC after his death and describe how he felt about certain things that
2 CONC were important in his life.
2 CONT
2 CONT Donating:
2 CONT   If I had a spare part in my body that someone else needed I would be
2 CONC more than happy
2 CONT   to help out, especially it saved their life.
2 CONT
2 CONT Love:
2 CONT   Love needs constant nurishment but hatred feeds on itself.  Love is
2 CONC feeling of good and
2 CONT   happiness.  Hatred is a feeling of evil and aggression.  I believe
2 CONC that if you are loved
2 CONT   you will be nicer and more lovable person because you are more
2 CONC relaxed and like being
2 CONT   loved.  If you stop being loved you want more attention and there
2 CONC are some people who     are not lovable no matter what!
2 CONT
2 CONT Water Skiing:
2 CONT   My favorite activity is water skiing. Its a rush of adrenaline when
2 CONC you are being pulled
2 CONT   behind a boat which feels like faster than you have ever gone
2 CONC before.
2 CONT
2 CONT Education:
2 CONT   An education that you learn from is worth having.  It is not very
2 CONC risky in Elementary
2 CONT   School, but we learned a lot while being there.  In Middle School
2 CONC there was a little risk,
2 CONT   but in High School there was a lot of risk but we didn't learn as
2 CONC much
2 CONT   as we did in Elementary where we learned the basics in math,
2 CONC English, and art.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Mind:
2 CONT   The mind is a thing that can be wasted with the easiest of ease.
2 CONC The worst way to
2 CONT   waste your mind is taking drugs.  I have some friends that used to
2 CONC take drugs, they were
2 CONT   smart before they used drugs and now they are not that smart.The
2 CONC only smart thing they     have done is stopped using drugs.
2 CONT
2 CONT Holidays:
2 CONT   It means food, lots of it and a time when my family gets together
2 CONC into one large mob and     grub down lots and lots of food.
2 CONT
2 CONT In a letter to her brother, his sister Sherry describes their final
2 CONC lunch on the day of his
2 CONT death:
2 CONT   Last Friday, up at McDonalds, you told me you finally had everything
2 CONC you wanted.  Your
2 CONT   hot-rod, which is your jet-boat, your awesome 4 wheel drive Jeep,
2 CONC your Jet-Ski.  I told
2 CONT   you that your Jet-Ski was like a bullet bike and your mountain bike
2 CONC was like your dirt
2 CONT   bike, but you said you Jet-Ski was really your dirt bike, because
2 CONC that's what you could
2 CONT   do spins and donuts on.  Lucky you!
2 CONT
2 CONT She goes on to say:
2 CONT   The other thing I want to say to you is that you are the most
2 CONC generous person I've ever
2 CONT   known.  You always offered to give me anything I thought was really
2 CONC cool.  And money!
2 CONT   I can't think of money without thinking of you.  You could spot a
2 CONC $20 bill under the
2 CONT   wheel of a parked car.  Could you smell it?
2 CONT
2 CONT Cory died Saturday, 13-Apr-1996, at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
2 CONC frommassive head injuries suffered in a single car auto accident that
2 CONC occured at 3:30 p.m. Friday on south-bound Highway 101 near Solidad,
2 CONC CA.  He was on the way to Lake San Antonio with his dog, Pete, his
2 CONC best friend, John, and his new Jet-Ski.He had intended to teach John
2 CONC how to Jet-Ski.  While driving on Highway 101 at Front Street he
2 CONC slamed on the breaks of his father's van for an unknown reason. The
2 CONC van fish-tailed accross the center divider, launched itself into the
2 CONC air, overturned, landing on the drivers side. The van came to rest
2 CONC up-right in the north-bound lanes. He suffered massive head injuries
2 CONC while John was only brused.
2 CONT
2 CONT A group of firemen were following him when the accident occured and
2 CONC offered assistance. The 911 call was taken by his Aunt Linda Olmstead,
2 CONC the first wife of his Uncle Cecil Cory.  He was air lifted to Salinas
2 CONC Valley Memorial Hospital,where he underwent surgery to remove a skull
2 CONC fragment from his brain.  After a day in intensive care, he was
2 CONC pronounced brain dead by the attending physicans.
2 CONT
2 CONT Because of his belief in what he called "The Gift' of donating to save
2 CONC another's life, his organs were donated.  California Transplant Donor
2 CONC Network informed the family that Cory's heart went to a 35-year-old
2 CONC Colorado man who is married and has a son.  His liver went to a
2 CONC 58-year-old South Bay businessman who has two daughters.  A kidney
2 CONC went to a 54-year-old New York man.  His other kidney, two corneas and
2 CONC ten other tissues were also transplanted.
2 CONT
2 CONT Memorial services were held on Wednesday, 17-Apr-1996 at 4 p.m. at the
2 CONC Paul Mortuary.  Officiating was Rev. Joe Watt.  Cremation was at the
2 CONC Little Chapel by-the-Sea, Pacific Grove, CA.   The chapel was
2 CONC overflowing and two fire rigs stood vigil outside as a service full of
2 CONC prepared and spontaneous eulogies gave praise of a youth whose life
2 CONC started the third generation of a Pacific Grove family. Prepared
2 CONC eulogies were delivered by his sister Sherry, his Aunt Dorothy (Heitz)
2 CONC Proctor, his uncle Earl Cory, and his cousin Vibeke Cory for her
2 CONC mother. Impromptu eulogies were given by his cousans Henry and
2 CONC Chistopher Proctor and several friends.  Music was provided by the
2 CONC Pacific Grove High School Jazz Combo.
2 CONT
2 CONT A second memorial service was held on the following Memorial Day at
2 CONC Lake San Antono, where his parents scarttered his ashes on the lake.
2 CONT
2 CONT The following is from "Beacon, Vol. 3, No. 3, April 12, 1996", a
2 CONC newspaper distributed in Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, and New
2 CONC Monterey, California.  The paper is dated April 12, but reports events
2 CONC that happened on April 13.
2 CONT
2 CONT                                         A eulogy for Cory Heitz
2 CONT by Rich Campbell
2 CONT
2 CONT Surely, the ultimate gift of the universe is life.  Yet it is a
2 CONC fragile commodity.  Our club was rocked by the news, late Friday, of
2 CONC the terrible accident that took the life, the next day, of Cory Heitz.
2 CONC In the middle of last minute preparations for the Pancake Breakfast,
2 CONC we were reminded how uncertain and vulnerable our lives really are.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Heitz family is our family.  We have shared years of community
2 CONC service, good times, and now twice, loss with them.
2 CONT
2 CONT Many of our members watched Cory and Sherry grow up.  Clearly, the
2 CONC honest, sense of community, hard work and joy that Paul and Iva
2 CONC embrace in their lives were passed down to their children.
2 CONT
2 CONT We will miss the one, yet we'll always feel his presense when we are
2 CONC with the rest.
2 CONT
2 CONT There are two funds that have been se up.  One is to help pay the
2 CONC bills.  The other is a memorial scholarship fund.
2 CONT
2 CONT Contributions can be made in care of PG Kiwanis.  Even in tragedy
2 CONC there is somejoy, as it was announced at the Memorial Service on
2 CONC Wednesday afternoon that Larry had found Cory's dog Pete, who had been
2 CONC missing from the scene for threedays, and brought him home.
2 CONT
2 CONT Cory Heitz's dog, Pete was the subject of local television's evening
2 CONC news following his master's death in a car accident on April 13.
2 CONC Cory's sleeping bag was placed at the scene of the accident with hope
2 CONC that Pete would return.  The dog repeatedly returned to (the) scene of
2 CONC accident, refusing to leave until Cory's father, Paul Heitz, managed
2 CONC to cox him to come home following a two-day vigil at the scene.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1974
2 PLAC Monterey, Monterey Co, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 APR 1996
2 PLAC Salinas, Monterey Co, CA
1 EVEN The Paul Mortuary Chapel
2 TYPE Funeral
2 DATE 17 APR 1996
2 PLAC Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
1 FAMC @F4@
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Larry Allen /Sands/
2 GIVN Larry Allen
2 SURN Sands
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S780@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 OCT 1969
2 PLAC Elmendolf Hospital, Anchorage, , AL
1 FAMS @F5@
0 @I15@ INDI
1 NAME Matthew Aarron /Sands/
2 GIVN Matthew Aarron
2 SURN Sands
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 JUN 1994
2 PLAC Monterey, Monterey Co, CA
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 JUN 1994
2 PLAC Monterey, Monterey Co, CA
1 BURI
2 PLAC El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Monterey Co, CA
1 FAMC @F5@
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME Katherine Louise /McCuen/
2 GIVN Katherine Louise
2 SURN McCuen
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 JAN 1944
2 PLAC Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F7@
0 @I19@ INDI
1 NAME Judith Ann /Stage/
2 GIVN Judith Ann
2 SURN Stage
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 OCT 1941
2 PLAC Glendale, Los Angeles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F8@
0 @I29@ INDI
1 NAME Linda Jean /Olmstead/
2 GIVN Linda Jean
2 SURN Olmstead
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 AUG 1953
2 PLAC St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Marin Co, CA
1 FAMS @F13@
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Bernadette Aoyssia /Moran/
2 GIVN Bernadette Aoyssia
2 SURN Moran
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 APR 1953
2 PLAC Fort Ord, Monterey CO, CA
1 FAMS @F14@
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Karen May /Enderich/
2 GIVN Karen May
2 SURN Enderich
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Raised in South Gate, Los Angeles Co., California.  Attended Victoria
2 CONC Avenue Elementary School, South Gate Junior High School, and was
2 CONC Graduated from South Gate High School in 1968.
2 CONT
2 CONT Karen started Kindergarten with Iva Marie (Cory) Heitz in 1955 at
2 CONC Victoria Avenue Elementary School, South Gate, CA.  Her brother Delmar
2 CONC was in the same grade as Cecil Cory, Victoria Avenue Elementary
2 CONC School.  Delmar was graduated in 1967 from South Gate High School.
2 CONT
2 CONT Phyllis (Sayer) Cory and Dorothy May Enderich were Iva and Karen's
2 CONC Brownie and Girl Scout leaders.  Phyllis also worked in the cafeteria
2 CONC at Victoria Avenue Elementary School.
2 CONT
2 CONT Karen was a Brownie, Girl Scout and Jobs Daughter.  She was very
2 CONC active in GAA (Girls Athletic Assoc.) and South Gate Sweethearts Drill
2 CONC Team.  She also served as Camp Counselor during the summer months at
2 CONC South Gate Park and Recreation.
2 CONT
2 CONT In Sept. 1968 Karen started her first full time job working for
2 CONC Preferred Risk Insurance Co., Downey, CA.  After working a little over
2 CONC 5 years for them, she went to work for several different State Farm
2 CONC Insurance Agents.  During that time she obtained her California
2 CONC Insurance Agents License.  She has been in the business now over 25
2 CONC years.
2 CONT
2 CONT Karen traveled to Hawaii, Mexico, Canada and a great deal of the USA.
2 CONC She loves to camp and fish.
2 CONT
2 CONT Although the Corys moved to Pacific Grove in (1965) Karen's family
2 CONC kept in touch through the years.  Claude and Phyllis's older son's
2 CONC (Earl & Philip) still lived in the Los Angeles area and they would
2 CONC visit often.  She can remember many visits to Pacific Grove sleeping
2 CONC in Iva's room along with Zorro (a large black cat that took up most of
2 CONC the bed.)  She remembers Cecil's grandparents very well, Olive and
2 CONC Howard Sayer.  Actually her maternal grandmother, Audry Olive Gehre,
2 CONC once visited with them and had a good visit with Cecil's grandmother
2 CONC in Pacific Grove, CA.  The parents played cards and the kids (Cecil,
2 CONC Iva, Delmar, Karen) popped corn and played games in the kitchen.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1982 Cecil Cory was in South Gate to visit some friends.  He
2 CONC stopped at Billy and Dorothy Enderich house and found Karen at home
2 CONC cat sitting for her parents.  On January 22, 1983 they were married in
2 CONC Downey, CA.  Cecil and Karen purchased a home and have lived in
2 CONC Camarillo, CA since 1983.
2 CONT
2 CONT She says that she has been a part of the Cory Family for along time.
2 CONC But on January 22, 1983 she gained a great father-in-law,
2 CONC mother-in-law, a sister, brothers, and lots of nephews and nieces.
2 CONC What a great family to be a part of.
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S763@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 JUL 1950
2 PLAC Maywood, Los Angeles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F15@
0 @I34@ INDI
1 NAME Richard James /Cory/
2 GIVN Richard James
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 JAN 1964
2 PLAC Saint Francis Hospital, Lynwood, Los Angeles Co, CA
1 FAMS @F17@
1 FAMC @F7@
0 @I35@ INDI
1 NAME Annetta "De De" Genevieve /Crane/
2 GIVN Annetta "De De" Genevieve
2 SURN Crane
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUL 1964
2 PLAC Anaheim, Orange Co, CA
1 FAMS @F17@
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME Michael James /Cory/
2 GIVN Michael James
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 OCT 1989
2 PLAC Los Alamitos Medical Center, Los Alamitos, , CA
1 FAMC @F17@
0 @I37@ INDI
1 NAME Philip John /Cory/
2 GIVN Philip John
2 SURN Cory
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 JUL 1993
2 PLAC Los Alamitos Medical Center, Los Alamitos, , CA
1 FAMC @F17@
0 @I241@ INDI
1 NAME William H. /Sayer/
2 GIVN William H.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT Mr. Sayer, a lumberman, was wood superintendent of the National Papaer
2 CONC Products company at Carthage for 20 years.  He was active in civic and
2 CONC fraternal organization in the village, and March 20, 1929, was elected
2 CONC the mayor of Black River, defeating William E. Brown in a close
2 CONC election.  Two years later, in 1931, he was re-elected to the office
2 CONC after a contest with Hugh Pugh.
2 CONT
2 CONT The couple resided at Fine, Edwards and Star Lake for many years prior
2 CONC to coming to Black River in 1918.  He was the supervisor of the
2 CONC National Paper Products company timberlands at Star Lake for a number
2 CONC of years.
2 CONT
2 CONT The William H. and Hettie Melissa (Waters) Sayer Family
2 CONT
2 CONT by: Phyllis Rebecca (Sayer) Cory
2 CONT
2 CONT William H. Sayer was born in Fine, New York on February 2, 1860.  He
2 CONC met Hettie Melissa Waters in Fine while she was teaching school. She
2 CONC was a tall attractive young lady, about five foot eight, and William
2 CONC was five foot three.   Melissa was born March 25, 1860.  They were
2 CONC married in Fine on August 8, 1880.  William always called his wife
2 CONC Melissa. I suppose it was because of he had a half-sister by the name
2 CONC of Hettie.
2 CONT
2 CONT William worked in the sawmill at Scott's Bridge for Mr. Scott.  The
2 CONC hardwood was not as plentiful as it had been. The paper companies were
2 CONC interested in softwood for the paper mills along the Black River.
2 CONC William took a job spotting softwood for the paper companies.
2 CONT
2 CONT The first baby, Della M. Sayer, was born on August 7, 1881. She lived
2 CONC two years, then died of diphtheria on February 15, 1884.  She was
2 CONC buried at Scott's Bridge Cemetery.  The loss was a great shock to
2 CONC Melissa and William.  Melissa returned to teaching.
2 CONT
2 CONT The wood business was a prosperous business and of course, seasonal.
2 CONC They cut wood in the winter, in the summer there was always farm work
2 CONC to be done.
2 CONT
2 CONT The Colton family had a store in Oswegatchie as well as a farm. There
2 CONC was always work for William at the store or farm.  Teaching at that
2 CONC time was paying $3.75 a month with room and board. William was getting
2 CONC about $.25 a day when they were married. The paper company asked him
2 CONC to spot wood for them at $.50 a day which was good wages.
2 CONT
2 CONT Their first son, Howard Leon Sayer, was born July 14, 1886 in Fine.
2 CONC He attended a rural school there to the eight grade.  Their second
2 CONC son, Edgar Byon Sayer, was born in Fine, October 22, 1890.  He also
2 CONC attended Fine Elementary School.  At fourteen, Howard started at the
2 CONC Union Free School in Edwards.  It was a cold bleak walk in the winter.
2 CONC Sometimes the only way to school was to down the river since the road
2 CONC was closed due to snow.
2 CONT
2 CONT William heard of a grocery store in Edwards for sale.  It was on the
2 CONC east side of the river, on the main street to Gouverneur.  A new
2 CONC cheese factory was being built on that side of the river near the
2 CONC railroad. This meant that the farmers would be in each day to bring
2 CONC milk to the plant.  The zinc mine in Edwards were working full-swing,
2 CONC and St. Regis Mining Company was interested in the mine.  The talc
2 CONC mines at Talcville were working at their full capacity.  This meant
2 CONC that there would be good traffic by the store and the grocery business
2 CONC should be good. Moving to Edwards would mean a better education for
2 CONC the boys than William and Melissa had received.
2 CONT
2 CONT In about 1898 William decided to take the store.  It was a building
2 CONC with a stoop across the front and living quarters above.  The river
2 CONC ran behind the buildings across the street and the railroad was behind
2 CONC the store.  On September 6, 1899 Thomas William Sayer was born.  He
2 CONC was a lovely, plump baby unlike Howard and Edward who had been slender
2 CONC children.
2 CONT
2 CONT While Howard attended the Edwards Union Free School, he worked in the
2 CONC store and for Mr. Woodcock on a farm.  He graduated and found work in
2 CONC the mines.  The wages were about $.75 a day.
2 CONT
2 CONT The store was doing quite well. William saved cigar coupons for a
2 CONC grandfathers clock and gave it to Howard for his twenty first
2 CONC birthday.  I have the clock in my home.
2 CONT
2 CONT Edgar finished school in Edwards and went to barber school in
2 CONC Carthage.
2 CONT
2 CONT Howard meet Olive O'Shea at Miss Ruth Babcock's birthday party.  Olive
2 CONC was born in Edwards on November 9, 1886.  They courted for two years
2 CONC and were married on her twenty first
2 CONT birthday November 9, 1907 in the Catholic church at Harrisville.
2 CONC Olive was the daughter of James Henry O'Shea who ran a plumbing shop
2 CONC on Main Street.  Olive and her sister were seamstresses.  They had
2 CONC attended dressmaking school in Governeur, also she had taught school
2 CONC for a couple years.  The interesting thing about that is that she
2 CONC earned $18.00 a month with room and board.
2 CONT
2 CONT They moved to Black River in May 1909.  Howard worked in a chair
2 CONC factory.  Olive did dressmaking.  They lived in the Tynick block
2 CONC building across the hall from Dr. Sylvester.  Ed lived with them part
2 CONC of the time.  Howard earned $8.00 a week in the chair factory.
2 CONT
2 CONT In 1910 there was an epidemic of rheumatic fever.  Melissa came down
2 CONC with it and became desperately ill.  She was so sick for weeks that
2 CONC she had to be turned on a sheet.  Olive took care of her.
2 CONT
2 CONT James O'Shea, Olive's father, had the former Harmond Farm on the South
2 CONC Edwards Road.  It was about two miles out of town and he had been
2 CONC renting it out.  He wanted to sell it to Howard and Olive.  They
2 CONC bought it and moved on it in 1911.
2 CONT
2 CONT William's business was not doing well.  His only alternative was to go
2 CONC through bankruptcy.  Later he was able to pay off all of his old
2 CONC debts.  The National Paper Product Company contacted him to take over
2 CONC a logging camp in Canada.  He worked for them for four or five years.
2 CONC He lived at Star Lake until about 1920.
2 CONT
2 CONT Edgar married Colice Caulfield on June 23, 1914 in Watertown, New York
2 CONC at the Holy Family Church.  Their first child was Colin B. Sayer, who
2 CONC was born August 10, 1915 in Watertown.  On September l5, 1917 they had
2 CONC a daughter Julia Hettie Sayer.  She was born in Carthage.  Ed was
2 CONC working in Carthage in a barber shop at the time.  On August 13, 1919
2 CONC Dorothy S. Sayer was born in Carthage.
2 CONT
2 CONT Howard and Olive had a daughter, Phyllis Rebecca on February l3, 1918.
2 CONC I am their only child.  Olive was in labor three days and nearly died.
2 CONC There was a very bad snow storm and Dr. Taylor had a very difficult
2 CONC time getting to the farm. Olive was nursed by Ruth Paterson whose
2 CONC mother ran a hotel at Star Lake.  She was a very good friend of
2 CONC William and Melissa. Ruth was with Olive about two months.  Melissa
2 CONC was afraid I would never see, the instruments had cut my face badly.
2 CONC William bought a home in Black River on Maple Street for his family.
2 CONC International Paper Product Company had given him a permanent
2 CONC reforestation camp at Streater Lake.  During the warm months he lived
2 CONC at the camp.  At the camp he started seedlings, which were raised for
2 CONC four or five years.  Spring and fall he would hire a crew to
2 CONC transplant the young trees to the woods.  The camp has very pleasant
2 CONC memories for the grandchildren.
2 CONT Howard's farm became quite prosperous.  He had rotated the stock and
2 CONC crops so they were productive.  Edgar had a Star auto and would visit
2 CONC the farm.  Colin would come with them and stay a couple weeks. I
2 CONC remember one time when Aunt Corly and the girls came, Julia did
2 CONC something that annoyed Aunt Corly. She chased Julia until she was
2 CONC exhausted.  When she caught Julia she punished her but never told her
2 CONC why.  I was very upset over that.  My mother never punished me with
2 CONC out an explanation.
2 CONT
2 CONT Howard bought his first auto in 1924, a Overland four door roadster.
2 CONC I think it Cost $400.  William had had an auto for sometime.  The
2 CONC first one I remember was a Buick Roadster.  Uncle Ed had a problem
2 CONC with women and Aunt Corly was jealous.  She would go to grandmother
2 CONC crying because Ed had girlfriends.  William thought if Ed worked in
2 CONC the woods with him, it would help the tension.  So he went to work in
2 CONC the woods.
2 CONT
2 CONT William and Melissa bought the house across the street from theirs.  I
2 CONC went there when Mr. St. Louis was painting it for them, I always
2 CONC managed to get into paint no matter how careful I was, and of course I
2 CONC got plastered with it.  Mr. St. Louis said I was a hazard.
2 CONT
2 CONT Thomas William Sayer married Leota May Kepler, born December28, 1897
2 CONC in Black River, New York, on September 24, 1921.  Aunt Leota and Uncle
2 CONC Tom bought William's old house across the street.  They lived there
2 CONC until 1934 at which time they bought a house on North Main Street.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ed and Colice bought a home on LeRay Street and moved there.  I
2 CONC suppose it was about 192l.  It had two large crabapple trees in the
2 CONC yard.  The river run behind the barn at the back of the lot.  It was
2 CONC always fun to go there to explore.
2 CONT
2 CONT Streaters Lake is about eight miles from Star Lake and we had to go to
2 CONC the lake by horse and wagon. There were three bodies of water about a
2 CONC quarter a mile apart, Streater Lake, Crystal Pond, and Pansy Pond. The
2 CONC paper company had a hunting lodge about five miles from the camp at
2 CONC the other end of Pansy Pond. Streater Lake was about one and a half
2 CONC mile long and a mile wide.  There were deer, bear, bobcats,
2 CONT beaver, and many other small animals. There was a domestic cat that
2 CONC had gone wild that we could see from the cottage but never could get
2 CONC to come to us. The lake had its inlet and outlet next to each other
2 CONC where the beaver built dams.  So the men had to keep the outlet open.
2 CONC We would go fishing and the beaver would slap the water with their
2 CONC tails to try to scare us away. There were trout and bullheads in the
2 CONC lake. The loons would scream at us when we were fishing and the deer
2 CONC would come to the edge of the water.  On the shore was a sand beach
2 CONC with a dock, boathouse, and motor room that held the gasoline motor to
2 CONC pump water for the cottage and water the trees.  A path lead up a hill
2 CONC from there to the camp.  Along the steps were huckleberry bushes.  At
2 CONC the left were some trees that had been planted the year Julia and I
2 CONC were born.  It was interesting to watch them grow.  The last time I
2 CONC saw them they were about thirty years old.
2 CONT
2 CONT On the lawn at the right was a summer house that was a fun place to
2 CONC play.  The yard was quite large.  There was a croquet game that we
2 CONC enjoyed.  The back porch had a rain barrel, that the fish were keep in
2 CONC if we had more than we could eat at a meal, and a washstand with a
2 CONC wash basin to wash in.  A roller towel hung beside it.  There were all
2 CONC sorts of large pans with wash tubs hanging on the wall.
2 CONT
2 CONT There was a large clearing behind the cottage where the little trees
2 CONC were grown, from seed to about five years old, before they were set in
2 CONC the woods.  Also there was a big vegetable garden.  Grandpa would
2 CONC always have poppies planted between the trees.  They were pretty,
2 CONC shading the seedlings from the hot sun.  The deer did not like them to
2 CONC eat.  The berries we had were plentiful but wild.  There were red
2 CONC raspberries, blackberries, and huckleberries.  We went across the lake
2 CONC in a rowboat, to where the railroad had been and the timber had been
2 CONC cut, to collect them.  As you reached the road the store house was at
2 CONC your right.  There was everything one could want in this building.  It
2 CONC had boots, gloves, shirts, pants, pails, buckets, lamps, lanterns,
2 CONC canned goods, hundred pound bags of sugar and floor, and plumbing
2 CONC fixtures, Etc.  One year there was a box of old things sent to camp
2 CONC from the paper mill's head office , "the plant".  In it was a lot of
2 CONC old shoes with French heels.  We children had a good time dressing up
2 CONC in them.
2 CONT
2 CONT The next building on the road was the wood shed and ice house, after
2 CONC that was the barn where Old Dan, their horse was kept.  The barn had
2 CONC the chickens hay, feed, and harnesses in it.  Outside there was a shed
2 CONC with the wagon and farm tools.
2 CONT
2 CONT Down the road about a half mile was the sugar house. In February or
2 CONC March each year Ed or Howard would take Old Dan back to the woods from
2 CONC William's home, were he had been keep all winter, to do the sugaring.
2 CONT
2 CONT The cottage was run by Mrs. Scott or Lucy Muir.  Mrs. Scott was a
2 CONC widow.  Her husband had an accident and left her with her two youngest
2 CONC children in high school, a boy and girl.  Linn, the boy, worked for
2 CONC William at the camp in the summer and continued after he graduated.
2 CONC The older children were Ed and Howard's age.  Ivan was Howard's
2 CONC friend.  Mrs. Scott lived with him in San Diego in later years and
2 CONC died there.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mrs. Muir also was a friend, her husband died in 1927 or 1928.  She
2 CONC stayed with Melissa when she had a heart attack.
2 CONT
2 CONT On September 26, 1926 Edgar William Sayer "Billy" was born to Ed and
2 CONC Colice in Black River.  He was a lovely little child.  In the summer
2 CONC it was always nice to go to camp for a couple weeks.  The children
2 CONC would help weed the seed beds.  I remember one time when quite a few
2 CONC were there and Grandmother made a red raspberry short cake.  When she
2 CONC was putting it together to serve, Grandpa  slipped a pot holder in the
2 CONC center so when she went to cut it she could not get the knife through
2 CONC it.  He was always doing some thing to heckle some one.
2 CONT
2 CONT There was always lots to eat, ham, bacon, fish, berries, and venison.
2 CONC Venison was something we did not talk about because it was not always
2 CONC in season.
2 CONT
2 CONT In the fall and summer the people from "the plant" had to be
2 CONC entertained.  If they were there, we didn't go.  Grandpa was always
2 CONC worried when they came during hunting season.  He was afraid they
2 CONC might shoot everything but deer.
2 CONT
2 CONT One of William's jobs was to keep fire watch.  The telephone line was
2 CONC hooked in to the ranger station.  The Ranger was Mr. Farris.
2 CONT
2 CONT The thunder storms would start fires.  It would cause lighting to jump
2 CONC around on the pans on the back porch.  Sometimes it would come in the
2 CONC cottage and run around the room.
2 CONT
2 CONT After hunting season but before Thanksgiving, Ed or Howard would bring
2 CONC the horse and chickens to Black River to be put in grandpa's barn for
2 CONC the winter and close camp.  It was a two or three day trip to Black
2 CONC River.
2 CONT
2 CONT William and Melissa were very active in the community.  They belonged
2 CONC to the Methodist Church and to the Masons, Odd Fellows, Stars, and
2 CONC Rebecca lodges.  He was Master and had worked his way up all the
2 CONC chairs.  She had done the same.  He was mayor of Black River for eight
2 CONC years.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jim Simpser was the welfare officer.  Ina Carey-Scott was Jim's wife's
2 CONC niece.  When Linn Scott and his wife Ina's first baby was born,
2 CONC William sent Jim to see about the little boy that had no shoes for
2 CONC school.  They had not heard of the birth.
2 CONT
2 CONT Tom was treasurer of the village for a long time.
2 CONT
2 CONT Ed was tired of working in the woods and Colice wanted him home.  He
2 CONC went back to barbering in Watertown.
2 CONT
2 CONT Howard had an allergy to the grain and was not able to work in the
2 CONC grain fields at harvest time.  Jim O'Shea was very ill in the fall of
2 CONC 1925.  In November Howard rented the farm and went in town to take
2 CONC care of him.  Howard worked in the mines that winter.  The following
2 CONC February he went to work for The National Paper Co. at the camp.
2 CONT
2 CONT I went to school at a county school.  Mrs. Golde Curtis was my first
2 CONC teacher.  After moving to the village, I attended Edwards School.
2 CONC Miss Mary Colton was my teacher in first grade.  Mary was from
2 CONC Oswegatchie Village.  Her father ran a store there.  He was a friend
2 CONC of the Sayer family.  She now lives in Buffalo, New York.
2 CONT
2 CONT Jim O'Shea died April 1926.  The estate was sold and his widow went to
2 CONC live with her daughter Eva.  Olive went back to the farm and cleaned
2 CONC things up so that the farm could be rented to new tenants.  In the
2 CONC fall they moved into Edwards into Jeanny Kerrs double house, they
2 CONC lived there until 1928.
2 CONT
2 CONT I have some very pleasant memories of that time. My mother had
2 CONC boarders and my grandmother O'Shea lived with us some of the time. The
2 CONC boy next door and I were great pals. He had a cocker spaniel dog that
2 CONC was our companion. Julia came one year and spent a time with us. The
2 CONC Catholic church was built in Edwards at that time. My mother got her
2 CONC first vacuum cleaner and her first and only washing machine.  Dad
2 CONC bought a new car in 1927, a 1928 Whippet. Grandmother O'Shea died
2 CONC April 11, 1929. My mother and father bought the Radigan house in Black
2 CONC River at 105 Union Street.
2 CONT
2 CONT When Melissa was at home, Leota always had lunch with her.  Leota
2 CONC never returned the courtesy.  I don't think Uncle Ed's family ever was
2 CONC asked to her home.  She was a very different person.
2 CONT
2 CONT In the winter of 29 to 30 Tom, Leota, William, and Melissa  went to
2 CONC Florida.  William had asthma so bad that he could not stay.  The only
2 CONC time in his life he had had it.  They brought back the first kumquat I
2 CONC ever saw.
2 CONT
2 CONT Willam was a very short man with a very large abdomen, he made an
2 CONC excellent Santa Claus.  He always took the part in the churches at
2 CONC Christmas.  He was a happy, witty person.
2 CONT
2 CONT He was taken sick in 1931.  He had a stroke and lived only a few
2 CONC months.  The house was so full of flowers there was hardly room to
2 CONC hold the funeral.  After that Melissa lived alone most of the time.
2 CONC Mrs. Muir stayed with her later on.
2 CONT
2 CONT The company had been talking of closing the camp and Howard had been
2 CONC offered a job in Oregon managing a reforestation camp.  In February he
2 CONC went on a fire call.  He was a volunteer fireman and broke his back
2 CONC when he fell from a roof.  I will never forget Colin meeting me at the
2 CONC corner of Union St. and Maple when I was going home for lunch.  He
2 CONC told me my father was hurt and to come to grandma's for lunch.
2 CONT
2 CONT My father could never get a good job after that because of insurance,
2 CONC he could not pass the exams.
2 CONT
2 CONT When William was mayor he had the village insure the firemen, but
2 CONC because the fire whistle had not blown they would not pay Howard
2 CONC compensation.  Dr. Farmer, the insurance company doctor would not give
2 CONC him total disability.
2 CONT
2 CONT Howard and Olive's home on Union St. was paid for and they were
2 CONC renting the farm.  The banks closed and the one in which Howard had
2 CONC money to payoff the mortgage on the farm never reopened.  The man that
2 CONC held the mortgage died and it was foreclosed.  Howard lost the farm.
2 CONT
2 CONT Colice had been taken with a mental illness and had to be put in the
2 CONC hospital.  So Uncle Ed's children were at grandma's.
2 CONT
2 CONT That year was not a good one for the Sayer family.
2 CONT
2 CONT For some time Ed kept his home in Black River and the children with
2 CONC Grandmother. Julia graduated at the head of her class and went to
2 CONC Albany State on a scholarship.  Ed found it to hard to live in Black
2 CONC River so he moved to Watertown to an apartment.  Dorothy graduated
2 CONC from there.  Colin graduated from Black River and joined the CCC.
2 CONT
2 CONT Billy was put on a forester farm.  Dorothy married Francis Victor
2 CONC McKinley on October 6, 1935.  Francis was born June 29, 1917 in
2 CONC Watertown, NY.
2 CONT
2 CONT I had to help make my way because it was eight years before may father
2 CONC could work at all.  Mother took roomers and boarders.  I worked for
2 CONC the National Youth Administration (NYA) in the school library, washed
2 CONC dishes, cleaned eggs, plucked chickens, cleaned houses, and baby sat
2 CONC for $.10 an hour to keep my self.  I worked one summer and took care
2 CONC of a cottage and a town house for $3.75 a week with room and
2 CONT board.  The next summer I worked at Great Bend for John Pennock and
2 CONC took care of his niece and nephew. I went to school and worked
2 CONC afterwards and on weekends. I was not as smart as Julia, as you can
2 CONC see, I could not spell, therefore the school would not let me take the
2 CONC reagents exam in English.  The rest of my marks were not bad.  I had
2 CONC had a time leaning to read and had tutors.  Julia and Anita Schoffield
2 CONC would make fun of me in Girl Scouts when I did not read well.  That
2 CONC always made me feel bad.
2 CONT
2 CONT Claude Cory and I went together for six years.  Claude James Cory was
2 CONC born Monday, November 8, 1915, to Perley and Carrie Reviere Cory on
2 CONC the Cory family farm. The farm was located at Five Corners, Pearl
2 CONC Street Road, about four miles from Watertown, New York.  It was near
2 CONC what was then called Sanford Corners.  Claude and I were married on
2 CONC April 27, 1938.
2 CONT
2 CONT Colin came one day to tell me he and Peggy, Ruth Ella Lenox, were
2 CONC getting married.  I asked him if he did not think she was a little
2 CONC young, she born Feburary 18, 1921 and was only 16.  His reply was
2 CONC <quote>(She is very mature).  They were married on June 9, 1937 at St.
2 CONC Pauls in Black River.  They have been married a long time and have
2 CONC three beautiful children so I guess it was a success.
2 CONT
2 CONT Grandmother Sayer still lived in her own home when we were married and
2 CONC stayed there until she lost her eye sight to the point that she could
2 CONC not keep house.  She sold her home and lived with Tom and Leota.  Of
2 CONC course she would stay with my folks some and would come to visit me
2 CONC for a few
2 CONT days.
2 CONT
2 CONT We lived in Henderson for a year and a half then moved back to the
2 CONC Cory farm. Claude was taking a correspondence course in Auto
2 CONC Electronics and he needed time to study.  I took a job in the Mohegan
2 CONC Market.  I also took care of Betty Allen and Claude worked for his
2 CONC room and board that winter on their farm.  In April we rented a garage
2 CONC and service station in Permelia.  In the spring of 194l we moved back
2 CONC to the Cory farm.  Earl was born March l7, 194l.  We lived there a
2 CONC year.  Philip was born March 7, 1942.  We moved to Black River in half
2 CONC of May Cory's double house on LeRay Street.  Later we moved to
2 CONC Watertown to the corner of Harrison Street and Hamilton Street. We
2 CONC lived there five years.
2 CONT
2 CONT While we lived there grandmother came to visit us several times.
2 CONC Julia finished college and married Vincent Alan Sherrod on September
2 CONC 8, 1942 in Robinson, Il.  He was born there on June 26, 1916.  Alan
2 CONC was drafted into the service where they found he had TB.  He came up
2 CONC north to recuperate one summer and they were at our house several
2 CONC times.  Peter (Patty) and Danny were about the same age as our boys.
2 CONC We enjoyed their company that year.  In 1947 Claude had asthma so bad
2 CONC that the doctor told him that he could not do much more for him and
2 CONC that the only thing was to change climates.
2 CONT
2 CONT May 6, 1945 Claude lost his father.  Grandmother Sayer passed away on
2 CONC September 15, 1946 and was buried in Black River Cemetery.
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 FEB 1860
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 DEC 1931
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
1 FAMS @F99@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I242@ INDI
1 NAME Hettie Melissa /Waters/
2 GIVN Hettie Melissa
2 SURN Waters
1 SEX F
1 NOTE
2 CONT She moved to Black River in 1918 with her husband and resided there
2 CONC since that time.
2 CONT
2 CONT Mrs. Sayer was a member of the Baptist church and Bethany chapter,
2 CONC Order of Eastern Star.  She was also a memberof Crescent lodge,
2 CONC Daughters of Rebekah.
2 CONT
2 CONT She was one of the most promient residents of this community, suffered
2 CONC a heart attack on Friday and succumbed two days later.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 MAR 1860
2 PLAC Theresia, , NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 SEP 1946
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
2 NOTE at 8:30 pm Sunday at the home of her son, Thomas.
1 BURI
2 DATE SEP 1946
2 PLAC Black River Cemetery, Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Funeral
2 DATE Wednesday at 2:00pm.
2 PLAC at the home of her son, Thomas.
1 FAMS @F99@
0 @I243@ INDI
1 NAME Della M. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Della M.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 AUG 1881
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 FEB 1884
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
2 NOTE of Diphtheria
1 BURI
2 DATE AFT 15 FEB 1884
2 PLAC Scott's Bridge Cemetery, Scott's Bridge, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMC @F99@
0 @I244@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar Byron /Sayer/
2 GIVN Edgar Byron
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE He was a barber in Watertown and vicinity and later a state inspector
2 CONC for barbers.  Before his retirement, he sold beauty and barber
2 CONC supplies for the Mohawk Barber and Beauty Supply Company, Utica.
2 CONT
2 CONT He was a member of Watertown Elks, Lodge 496, and has been a member of
2 CONC the Journeymen's Barber union since 1938.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 OCT 1890
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 NOV 1965
2 PLAC Cato, , NY
2 NOTE at home of his daughter Dorothy.
1 BURI
2 DATE NOV 1965
2 PLAC Monumental Cemetery, Meridian, , NY
1 OCCU Barber
1 EVEN Jewel Funeral Home
2 TYPE Funeral
2 DATE Saturday @9am
2 PLAC Cato, , NY
2 NOTE also at St. Patrick's Church at 9:30am, Rev. Elmer Heindle, pastor,
3 CONC officiating.
1 FAMS @F100@
1 FAMC @F99@
0 @I245@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas William /Sayer/
2 GIVN Thomas William
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE He was an employee of the St. Regis Paper Company.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 SEP 1899
2 PLAC Edwards, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 SEP 1950
1 FAMS @F101@
1 FAMC @F99@
0 @I246@ INDI
1 NAME Collice Frances /Caulfield/
2 GIVN Collice Frances
2 SURN Caulfield
1 SEX F
1 NOTE She resided in Watertown, where she graduated from High School.  She
2 CONC was a member of the St. Paul's Church, Black River.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 JAN 1890
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 JUL 1977
2 PLAC Ogdensburg Hospital, Ogdensburg, , NY
2 NOTE at 6:30 in the morning.
1 BURI
2 DATE JUL 1977
2 PLAC Glenwood Cemetery, Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 EVEN Schere Funeral Home
2 TYPE Funeral
2 PLAC Carthage, Jefferson Co, NY
2 NOTE Rev. Alfred Ellis, Pastor of St. James Church, Cartage officiated.
1 FAMS @F100@
0 @I247@ INDI
1 NAME Colin Byron /Sayer/
2 GIVN Colin Byron
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE On 19 Apr 1956, Colin was installed as commander of Lionne-Rumble Post
2 CONC 7227, V.F.W., and Mrs. Sayer, president of the Auxiliary.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 AUG 1915
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 RESI 259 State Street
2 DATE 1966
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 FAMS @F103@
1 FAMC @F100@
0 @I248@ INDI
1 NAME Julia Hettie /Sayer/
2 GIVN Julia Hettie
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 SEP 1917
2 PLAC Carthage, Jefferson Co, NY
1 GRAD
2 DATE 1939
2 PLAC Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, ,
1 FAMS @F104@
1 FAMC @F100@
0 @I249@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy Mary /Sayer/
2 GIVN Dorothy Mary
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1919
2 PLAC Carthage, Jefferson Co, NY
1 FAMS @F102@
1 FAMS @F105@
1 FAMC @F100@
0 @I250@ INDI
1 NAME Leota May "Tote" /Kepler/
2 GIVN Leota May "Tote"
2 SURN Kepler
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 DEC 1897
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 SEP 1958
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
2 NOTE Thursday at 12:30pm at her home.  She had been in failing health since
3 CONC December.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Black River Cemetery, Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Funeral
2 DATE Sunday at 2:00pm
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
2 NOTE at her home. Rev. Vernon C. Nichols, pastor of the First Methodist
3 CONC church, officiated.
1 FAMS @F101@
0 @I251@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar William "Billy" /Sayer/
2 GIVN Edgar William "Billy"
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Pharmacist Mate Billy Sayer was born  in Black River and made it his
2 CONC home for a few years with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson, Chaumont.  He
2 CONC attended Chaumont High School and a year at Carthage High school, form
2 CONC which he received his diploma after his enlistment in the navy in
2 CONC April, 1944.
2 CONT
2 CONT The couple made their home at Glenwood Springs, CO, while he was
2 CONC stationed at the Glenwood Springs Naval Hospital.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 SEP 1926
2 PLAC Black River, Jefferson Co, NY
1 EVEN U.S. Navy
2 TYPE Enlisted
2 DATE APR 1944
1 FAMS @F106@
1 FAMC @F100@
0 @I252@ INDI
1 NAME Francis Victor /McKinley/
2 GIVN Francis Victor
2 SURN McKinley
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 JUN 1917
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 MAY 1964
2 PLAC Cato, , NY
1 FAMS @F102@
0 @I253@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth "Peggy" Ella /Lenox/
2 GIVN Ruth "Peggy" Ella
2 SURN Lenox
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 FEB 1921
2 PLAC Pyrites, , NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 AUG 2000
2 PLAC FL
1 FAMS @F103@
0 @I254@ INDI
1 NAME Vincent Alan /Sherrod/
2 NPFX Dr.
2 GIVN Vincent Alan
2 SURN Sherrod
2 NSFX MD
1 SEX M
1 TITL MD
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 JUN 1916
2 PLAC Robinson, , IL
1 FAMS @F104@
0 @I255@ INDI
1 NAME Warren Warren /Foltz/
2 GIVN Warren Warren
2 SURN Foltz
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 DEC 1928
2 PLAC Benton Ridge, , OH
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1980
1 FAMS @F105@
0 @I256@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Jacqueline "Jackie" /McKinley/
2 GIVN Mary Jacqueline "Jackie"
2 SURN McKinley
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 AUG 1937
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 FAMS @F1953@
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I257@ INDI
1 NAME Kathleen Ann /McKinley/
2 GIVN Kathleen Ann
2 SURN McKinley
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUL 1938
2 PLAC Syracuse, Onondaga Co, NY
1 FAMS @F1956@
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I258@ INDI
1 NAME Ronald Francis /McKinley/
2 GIVN Ronald Francis
2 SURN McKinley
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 JAN 1941
2 PLAC Syracuse, Onondaga Co, NY
1 FAMS @F1957@
1 FAMS @F2438@
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I259@ INDI
1 NAME Julia Agness /McKinley/
2 GIVN Julia Agness
2 SURN McKinley
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 SEP 1942
2 PLAC Syracuse, Onondaga Co, NY
1 FAMS @F1958@
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I260@ INDI
1 NAME Suzanne Leone /McKinley/
2 GIVN Suzanne Leone
2 SURN McKinley
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 OCT 1951
2 PLAC Syracuse, Onondaga Co, NY
1 FAMS @F1960@
1 FAMS @F1961@
1 FAMC @F102@
0 @I261@ INDI
1 NAME Sharon Marie /Sayer/
2 GIVN Sharon Marie
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUL 1939
2 PLAC Watertown, Jefferson Co, NY
1 FAMS @F424@
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I262@ INDI
1 NAME Gary "Bud", "Buddy" William /Sayer/
2 GIVN Gary "Bud", "Buddy" William
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JAN 1941
2 PLAC Syracuse, Onondaga Co, NY
1 FAMS @F1936@
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I263@ INDI
1 NAME Patrick Colin /Sayer/
2 GIVN Patrick Colin
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 JAN 1947
2 PLAC Carthage, Jefferson Co, NY
1 EVEN
2 TYPE Enlisted
2 DATE 26 APR 1966
2 PLAC U.S. Navy
1 FAMS @F1940@
1 FAMS @F1941@
1 FAMS @F1942@
1 FAMC @F103@
0 @I264@ INDI
1 NAME Daniel Alan /Sherrod/
2 GIVN Daniel Alan
2 SURN Sherrod
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 JUN 1943
2 PLAC Robinson, , IL
1 FAMS @F1943@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I265@ INDI
1 NAME Peter Stuwart /Sherrod/
2 GIVN Peter Stuwart
2 SURN Sherrod
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 OCT 1944
1 FAMS @F1944@
1 FAMS @F1945@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I266@ INDI
1 NAME Colice Kathryn "Katie" /Sherrod/
2 GIVN Colice Kathryn "Katie"
2 SURN Sherrod
1 SEX F
1 NOTE She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 by her paper.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 DEC 1946
2 PLAC St. Louis, , MO
1 FAMS @F1947@
1 FAMS @F1948@
1 FAMC @F104@
0 @I267@ INDI
1 NAME Jean Darlene /Litsey/
2 GIVN Jean Darlene
2 SURN Litsey
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Jean is a graduate of Grand Junction High School and was also
2 CONC graduated from Mesa College in January 1946.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 JUL 1928
2 PLAC Grand Junction, , CO
1 FAMS @F106@
0 @I268@ INDI
1 NAME Viki Lynn /Sayer/
2 GIVN Viki Lynn
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 AUG 1946
2 PLAC Grand Junction, , CO
1 FAMS @F1962@
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I269@ INDI
1 NAME Steven Douglas /Sayer/
2 GIVN Steven Douglas
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 MAR 1951
2 PLAC Oakland, Alameda Co, CA
1 FAMS @F1963@
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I270@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas Kim /Sayer/
2 GIVN Thomas Kim
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 APR 1954
2 PLAC La Junta, , CO
1 FAMS @F1964@
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I271@ INDI
1 NAME Gail Rosann /Sayer/
2 GIVN Gail Rosann
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAR 1956
2 PLAC La Junta, , CO
1 FAMS @F1965@
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I272@ INDI
1 NAME Karen Marie /Sayer/
2 GIVN Karen Marie
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 NOV 1959
2 PLAC Florence, , CO
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I273@ INDI
1 NAME Michael Colin /Sayer/
2 GIVN Michael Colin
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 MAR 1970
2 PLAC Denver, Denver Co, CO
1 FAMC @F106@
0 @I281@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Sayer/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S858@
2 PAGE St. Lawrence Co, Naturalization Records: Thomas Sayer from England to
3 CONC Macomb 1836; saild from England; date of report 1842, age 27; admitted
3 CONC 17 Feb 1846
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 AUG 1813
2 PLAC Barnumbroom, Norfolk, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 FEB 1885
2 PLAC Scott's Bridge, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F108@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I282@ INDI
1 NAME Abigail /Westover/
2 GIVN Abigail
2 SURN Westover
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1826
2 PLAC VT
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 JUN 1884
2 PLAC Scott's Bridge, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F108@
0 @I288@ INDI
1 NAME Jane Elizabeth /Sayer/
2 GIVN Jane Elizabeth
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1858
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1901
1 FAMS @F112@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I289@ INDI
1 NAME John Calvin /Sayer/
2 GIVN John Calvin
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT John lived most of his life in Crockery, MI.  He married three times.
2 CONC All together, he 13 children.  There is a newspaer acticle about his
2 CONC death that states that he had 14 children, but I only have record of
2 CONC thirteen.
2 CONT
2 CONT The story goes that he got mad about something in Old DeKalb, NY and
2 CONC suddenly disappeared.  He was not heard of for many years.  Finaly he
2 CONC turned up Michigan, but never came home again.  He was a real
2 CONC maverick.  By 1960, his single linage was 142.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 SEP 1854
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 MAY 1939
2 PLAC at the home of his daugther, Millie, in Bristol Lake, , MI
1 BURI
2 DATE 21 MAY 1939
2 PLAC Antioch twp Cemetery, Antioch, Wexford, MI
1 OCCU Lumberman and Farmer
1 RESI
2 DATE 1880
2 PLAC Copperville, , MI
1 RESI
2 DATE 1885
2 PLAC Mesick, Wexford Co, MI
1 FAMS @F2363@
1 FAMS @F2365@
1 FAMS @F2366@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I290@ INDI
1 NAME Silas A. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Silas A.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE He moved to Michigan with his brother John Calvin.  Silas occupation
2 CONC is listed as a farmer on his marrage certificate and as a junk dealer
2 CONC on his death certificate.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 MAR 1856
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
2 NOTE His age at death was 61 years, 12 days, as listed on his death
3 CONC certificate, this implys he was born in 1857.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 APR 1918
2 PLAC Suite St. Marie, , MI
1 BURI
2 DATE APR 1918
2 PLAC Chippewa Cemetery, Chippewa Co, MI
1 FAMS @F114@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I291@ INDI
1 NAME Sylvia /Sayer/
2 GIVN Sylvia
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1858
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1933
2 PLAC Bangor, , NY
1 FAMS @F115@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I292@ INDI
1 NAME Lillian A. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Lillian A.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1859
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1931
1 FAMS @F116@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I293@ INDI
1 NAME Harriet or Hettie S. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Harriet or Hettie S.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1864
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1890
1 FAMS @F120@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I294@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Sayer/
2 GIVN Mary
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S750@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 JAN 1867
2 PLAC Fine, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 APR 1902
2 PLAC Underhill, Chittenden Co, VT
1 FAMS @F121@
1 FAMS @F122@
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I295@ INDI
1 NAME  /Sayer/
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I296@ INDI
1 NAME  /Sayer/
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
1 FAMC @F108@
0 @I297@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar /Williams/
2 GIVN Edgar
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1837
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1900
1 FAMS @F112@
0 @I298@ INDI
1 NAME Belle /Williams/
2 GIVN Belle
2 SURN Williams
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 DEC 1966
2 PLAC Buffalo, , NY
1 FAMS @F113@
1 FAMC @F112@
0 @I299@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Leary/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Leary
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F113@
0 @I300@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Elizabeth /Ferguson/
2 GIVN Mary Elizabeth
2 SURN Ferguson
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 AUG 1860
2 PLAC Dunbar, , CND
2 NOTE Her age is listed as 21 on their marrage certificate, this implys that
3 CONC she was born in 1858 or lied on her marrage certificate.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 MAR 1928
2 PLAC Sault Ste. Marie, , MI
1 FAMS @F114@
0 @I301@ INDI
1 NAME Bryon /Fort/
2 GIVN Bryon
2 SURN Fort
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1851
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1926
2 PLAC Scott's Bridge, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F115@
0 @I302@ INDI
1 NAME Charles E. /Quinn/
2 GIVN Charles E.
2 SURN Quinn
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1858
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1908
1 FAMS @F116@
0 @I303@ INDI
1 NAME Eugene /Quinn/
2 GIVN Eugene
2 SURN Quinn
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 NOV 1899
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 DEC 1977
1 FAMS @F117@
1 FAMC @F116@
0 @I304@ INDI
1 NAME Helen /Morongo/
2 GIVN Helen
2 SURN Morongo
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 JUL 1892
1 DEAT
2 DATE JUN 1960
1 FAMS @F117@
0 @I305@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth /Quinn/
2 GIVN Ruth
2 SURN Quinn
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 JUN 1916
1 FAMS @F118@
1 FAMC @F117@
0 @I306@ INDI
1 NAME Mary H. /Quinn/
2 GIVN Mary H.
2 SURN Quinn
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 MAY 1922
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAR 1974
1 FAMS @F400@
1 FAMC @F117@
0 @I307@ INDI
1 NAME Armas A. /Mount/
2 GIVN Armas A.
2 SURN Mount
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F118@
0 @I308@ INDI
1 NAME David /Mount/
2 GIVN David
2 SURN Mount
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 MAY 1945
1 FAMS @F119@
1 FAMC @F118@
0 @I309@ INDI
1 NAME Sally /Knowitong/
2 GIVN Sally
2 SURN Knowitong
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F119@
0 @I310@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Kathern /Mount/
2 GIVN Sarah Kathern
2 SURN Mount
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 JUN 1976
1 FAMC @F119@
0 @I311@ INDI
1 NAME Amanda A. /Mount/
2 GIVN Amanda A.
2 SURN Mount
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 APR 1978
1 FAMC @F119@
0 @I312@ INDI
1 NAME Orliss /McDonald/
2 GIVN Orliss
2 SURN McDonald
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F120@
0 @I313@ INDI
1 NAME Walter /Silsby/
2 GIVN Walter
2 SURN Silsby
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 NOV 1861
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 MAY 1891
2 PLAC Scott's Bridge, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F121@
0 @I314@ INDI
1 NAME Eugene W. /Quinn/
2 GIVN Eugene W.
2 SURN Quinn
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1861
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1919
1 FAMS @F122@
0 @I316@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Raper/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Raper
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 SEP 1779
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolk, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 APR 1862
2 PLAC Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 CHR
2 DATE 3 OCT 1779
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolk, England
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F123@
0 @I317@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Sayer/
2 GIVN Charles
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S852@
1 SOUR @S853@
1 SOUR @S854@
2 PAGE Carbrooke
3 CONT Name	Relationship	Mar	Age 	Sex	Occupation 	Birthplace
3 CONT Charles  SAYER	Head	M	45	M	Machineman	Carbrooke-Nfk
3 CONT Mary  SAYER	Wife	M	35	F	---	Watton-Nfk
3 CONT James  WARD	Lodg	U	30	M	Ag Lab	Carbrooke-Nfk
3 CONT Frances  HUNTON	Lodg	-	4	M	---	Carbrooke-Nfk
3 CONT 	Address:	---, Wayland
3 CONT 	Census Place:	Carbrooke Wayland, Norfolk
3 CONT 	PRO Reference:	HO/107/1823	Folio:	416	Page:	21	FHL Film:	0207477
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1805
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 JAN 1878
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 CHR
2 DATE 10 JUN 1805
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 BURI
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolk, England
1 FAMS @F124@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I318@ INDI
1 NAME Fortunatus /Sayer/
2 GIVN Fortunatus
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT The information on this section is based on the book "History of the
2 CONC North Country" about Doctor Stanley W. Sayer.  Additional information
2 CONC was furnished by Edward Eugene Sayer.
2 CONT
2 CONT Fortunatus Sayer and his wife, Alice Stacey were both natives of
2 CONC Burnumbroom, England.  They were early settlers of Macomb, where they
2 CONC are buried.
2 CONT
1 SOUR @S852@
1 SOUR @S864@
2 PAGE F#1019017 St. Lawrence Co Records: to US 1848 Macomb from England,
3 CONC report 2-16-1852, admitted 10-15-1856
1 SOUR @S853@
2 PAGE Barham Broom, Norfolk, England F#438856, page 19/20
3 CONT
3 CONT Fortunatus Sayer     age 35      Gardener        yes
3 CONT Alice        "           30                       "
3 CONT Samuel       "            8                       "
3 CONT Mary         "            6                       "
3 CONT Elizabeth    "            5                       "
3 CONT Martha       "            3                       "
3 CONT Thomas       "            3 days                  "
1 SOUR @S863@
2 PAGE Macomb,St.Lawrence,NY #77
3 CONT Fortune   Sayer      age 44      farmer           Eng.
3 CONT Alice       "            40                        "
3 CONT Samuel      "            17                        "
3 CONT Elizabeth   "            15                        "
3 CONT Martha      "            12                        "
1 SOUR @S863@
2 PAGE #69 Macomb
3 CONT John Johnson             36                        "
3 CONT Mary     "               35                        "
3 CONT Martha   "               11                        NY
3 CONT William  "                9                        "
3 CONT Emeline  "                8                        "
3 CONT John     "                7                        "
3 CONT Cornelia "                5                        "
3 CONT Royal    "                4M                       "
3 CONT Mary Ann "                4                        "
3 CONT Blanche  "                1                        "
3 CONT Walter   "               13                     Canada
3 CONT Thomas  Sayer             9                        Eng.
3 CONT James     "               7                         "
3 CONT John      "               5                         "
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1806
2 PLAC Burnumbroom, Norfolkshire, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 SEP 1888
2 PLAC Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
2 NOTE at the home of his son James F. Sayer
1 CHR
2 DATE 9 NOV 1806
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 IMMI
2 DATE 15 OCT 1856
2 NOTE St.Lawrence County Records: to US 1848 Macom b from England;report
3 CONC 2-16-1852;Admitted 10-15 1856.
1 FAMS @F130@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I319@ INDI
1 NAME James Charter /Sayer/
2 GIVN James Charter
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Two of his children, Charles W., and Caroline, and a grandson Ira are
2 CONC listed in the 1860 Census as living with Thomas and Mary Sayer in
2 CONC DeKalb, NY.  The Census lists Carloine as 14 (abt 1846) and Ira 10
2 CONC (abt 1850).
1 SOUR @S861@
2 PAGE Mrs. Mary Biondi, St. Lawrence Co, Historian, Canton, NY 1966
3 CONT She gave date as 1801, all other is 1809.
1 SOUR @S858@
2 PAGE St. Lawrence Co, NY; 1818- ; James Sayer @33 to Macomb 1836; date of
3 CONC report 1842
1 SOUR @S863@
1 SOUR @S768@
1 SOUR @S751@
1 SOUR @S932@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 JAN 1809
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 nov 19868
2 PLAC St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 CHR
2 DATE 22 JAN 1809
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F131@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I320@ INDI
1 NAME William W. /Sayer/
2 GIVN William W.
2 SURN Sayer
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1811
2 PLAC London, Middlesex, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 JAN 1865
2 PLAC NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F132@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I322@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Sayer/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1815
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 FEB 1842
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F126@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I323@ INDI
1 NAME Martha /Sayer/
2 GIVN Martha
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S853@
2 PAGE Norwich, Norfokl, Eng, page 12a
3 CONT
3 CONT !1841 census Norwich,Norfolk,Eng. page 12a F#438871:
3 CONT Robert Johnson            age 20     weaver       yes
3 CONT Robert    "                    1                   "
3 CONT Martha    "                   20                   "
3 CONT
3 CONT Jane     Hewett               35     Indep.        "
3 CONT William     "                  2                   "
3 CONT
3 CONT John     Wright               70     Indep.        "
3 CONT Rebecca   Sayer               15     Dressmaker    "
3 CONT Ann     Hood                  17     F.S.          "
1 SOUR @S863@
2 PAGE 1850 census Macomb,St.Lwarence,NY #66
3 CONT Robert   Johnson          age 32     farmer   800    Eng.
3 CONT Martha      "                 32                      "
3 CONT Adeline     "                  2                     NY
3 CONT Elisabeth Thompson             9                      "
1 SOUR @S768@
2 PAGE 1860 census Oswegatchie,St.Lawrence,NY page 264 #1892
3 CONT Robert   Johnson              42                     Eng.
3 CONT Martha      "                 42                     "
3 CONT Adeline     "                 12                     NY
3 CONT Julian      "                  8F                     "
3 CONT Orrilla     "                  4                      "
3 CONT Albert      "                  11/12                  "
1 SOUR @S869@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1818
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 APR 1912
2 PLAC Heuvelton, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F127@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I324@ INDI
1 NAME Rebecca /Sayer/
2 GIVN Rebecca
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1821
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMS @F128@
1 FAMC @F123@
0 @I325@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Jolly/
2 GIVN Mary Ann
2 SURN Jolly
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1816
2 PLAC Watton, Norfolk, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 AUG 1864
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolk, England
1 BURI
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolkshire, England
1 FAMS @F124@
0 @I327@ INDI
1 NAME  /Knight/
2 SURN Knight
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F126@
0 @I328@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Johnson/
2 GIVN Robert
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S869@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1818
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1905
1 FAMS @F127@
0 @I329@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Johnson/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1824
1 FAMS @F128@
0 @I330@ INDI
1 NAME Ellis /Knight/
2 GIVN Ellis
2 SURN Knight
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F126@
0 @I331@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Knight/
2 GIVN Alice
2 SURN Knight
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S922@
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT FEB 1842
1 FAMS @F4119@
1 FAMC @F126@
0 @I333@ INDI
1 NAME Martha /Johnson/
2 GIVN Martha
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S923@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1839
2 PLAC NY
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1839
1 FAMC @F4121@
0 @I334@ INDI
1 NAME William /Johnson/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S923@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1841
2 PLAC NY
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1841
1 FAMC @F4121@
0 @I335@ INDI
1 NAME Emiline /Johnson/
2 GIVN Emiline
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S923@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1842
2 PLAC NY
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1842
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMC @F4121@
0 @I336@ INDI
1 NAME John /Johnson/
2 GIVN John
2 SURN Johnson
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 SOUR @S923@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1843
2 PLAC NY
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1843
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMC @F4121@
0 @I339@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /Johnson/
2 GIVN Mary Ann
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S923@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1848
2 PLAC NY
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1846
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMC @F4121@
0 @I340@ INDI
1 NAME Blanche /Johnson/
2 GIVN Blanche
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S923@
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1849
2 PLAC NY
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1849
2 PLAC NY
1 FAMC @F4121@
0 @I341@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Stacey/
2 GIVN Alice
2 SURN Stacey
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1809
2 PLAC Carbrooke, Norfolk, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 9 JUN 1885
2 PLAC Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F130@
0 @I342@ INDI
1 NAME Jane /Thuring/
2 GIVN Jane
2 SURN Thuring
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 FEB 1811
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 FEB 1893
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F131@
0 @I344@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Sayer/
2 GIVN Thomas
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Civil War Vet.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 DEC 1837
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 SEP 1868
2 PLAC Port Huron, , MI
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I346@ INDI
1 NAME Benjamin /Sayer/
2 GIVN Benjamin
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Civil War Vet, killed in battle.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1839
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 31 DEC 1863
2 PLAC Murfreesboro, , MO
2 NOTE Shot to death in action during the Civil War.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 EVEN 36th Volunteers, US Infantry
2 TYPE Enlisted
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I347@ INDI
1 NAME Mary E. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Mary E.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 SOUR @S829@
2 PAGE Morristown, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 SOUR @S751@
2 PAGE 1880 census Morristown,NY p.18
3 CONT Charles Breckenridge           age 40   farmer       NY   VT  NY
3 CONT Mary E.      "                                40                     "
3 CONC   Eng Eng
3 CONT Frank E.     "                                16 son              "
3 CONC NY  NY
3 CONT Ida M.        "                                   9 dau.            "
3 CONC    "   "
3 CONT Minnie A.    "                                  8 dau.             "
3 CONC   "   "
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 MAY 1840
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 27 JUL 1922
1 FAMS @F2343@
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I348@ INDI
1 NAME Muriel /Sayer/
2 GIVN Muriel
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE AUG 1842
1 DEAT
2 DATE MAR 1843
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I349@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah or Sarra M. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Sarah or Sarra M.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1844
2 PLAC England
1 FAMS @F2344@
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I351@ INDI
1 NAME James /Sayer/
2 GIVN James
2 SURN Sayer
2 NSFX Jr.
1 SEX M
1 TITL Jr.
1 NOTE Civil War Vetern.
1 SOUR @S904@
1 SOUR @S905@
2 PAGE Birth, marriage, death, burial: 971.374 Vol.3 Ontario Cemetery Records
3 CONC #205/84 Mainsville Cemetery, Edwardsburgh.
3 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1846
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1911
1 BURI
2 PLAC Edwardsburgh, Grenville, Ontario, CND
1 EVEN Co. H, 1st Light Artillery
2 TYPE Enlisted
2 DATE SEP 1864
1 EVEN mustered out
2 TYPE Discharged
2 DATE JUN 1865
1 FAMS @F4110@
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I352@ INDI
1 NAME Marill /Sayer/
2 GIVN Marill
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1848
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1848
2 NOTE age 8 months
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I353@ INDI
1 NAME Caroline Jane /Sayer/
2 GIVN Caroline Jane
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1851
2 PLAC Macomb, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F2345@
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I354@ INDI
1 NAME Soloman S. /Sayer/
2 GIVN Soloman S.
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S829@
2 PAGE St. Lawrence Co, NY 1864-1902
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 JUL 1850
2 PLAC Macomb or Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 SEP 1850
2 PLAC Macomb or Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I355@ INDI
1 NAME Mathew /Sayer/
2 GIVN Mathew
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 SOUR @S753@
2 PAGE MORRISTOWN, ST. LAWRENCE, NY
1 SOUR @S907@
2 PAGE ST. LAWRENCE CO, NY WILL INDEX;#11351; PROBATED 30 AP R 1928;
3 CONT WILL BK.27/161;66/381; MINUTE BK.51/671; 55/514; 56/66; ORDER
3 CONC BK.53/353
1 SOUR @S861@
2 PAGE 1966; MRS.MARY BIONDI, ST.LAWRENCE CO. HISTORIAN, CANTON, NY
1 SOUR @S932@
1 BIRT
2 DATE FEB 1854
2 PLAC NY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 JAN 1928
2 PLAC Morristown, Pine Hill, , NY
1 FAMS @F2346@
1 FAMC @F131@
0 @I356@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Johnson/
2 GIVN Elizabeth
2 SURN Johnson
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1813
2 PLAC England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1876
2 PLAC NY
1 BURI
2 PLAC Oldsville Cemetery, Popes Mill, St. Lawrence Co, NY
1 FAMS @F132@
0 @I358@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Sayer/
2 GIVN Charles
2 SURN Sayer
1 SEX M
1 SOUR