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1971

year of graduation from Gateway

Train at the Wenonah Station

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Bought the photo below from eBay.com.

Images of front and part of the back shown below. Click on the links below to get the highest resolution of my scans of the photo.



Deb

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Hi From Deb

Barnes -- King Families of Chenango County, New York

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My wife's grandmother was Ethel May Barnes of Norwich, Chenango County, New York.

A book was compiled by R. C. (Raymond Curtis) Barnes about the families. He had the book printed in 1964. He once lived in Norwich, but joined the US Army and chose to live in San Antonio, Texas in his retirement.

I can't find it in print anywhere. I have scanned a copy that I got from a local historical society.

Here's the title page

BARNES -KING
FAMILIES
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Gant Flexon Thomas Genealogy and Ganttown Gant Genealogy

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These are in PDF format.

Gant Flexon Thomas Genealogy by Kenneth Cooper Thomas, 1993

Ganttown Gant Genealogy by Karen Gant Heiser, 2003

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

Dr. William Yates and Judge Arthur Yates

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Looking in

http://books.google.com

for

"William Yates" Sapperton -

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

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

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

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

Why the Town of Morris should not allow high volume hydraulic slick water fracturing natural gas drilling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Found some more information.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Shannon Brandreth - a place named Brandreth

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Hi Shannon,

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

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

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

All the best,

Bob Thomas



VanLeer - Van Leer - Finley - Finley - Estilow - Thomas - and a photo of the home of one of my third great grandfathers

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Finding some of the places that my ancestors lived.

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

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

Here's an image the lays it all out.

Woodstock - 1969 - two of my three tickets

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They never collected the tickets at Woodstock. I bought mine in advance and brought them home with me.

Bob Harvey drove a station wagon, Alan Stahl, Jack Papovich, and I went along. Astronauts had just walked on the moon and come home. The world was changing.

Bob Thomas

Going A Long Long Ways to Find A Surprising Song Coming At Me

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

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

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

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

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

Remember Your First Days Without Training Wheels?

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

The Hits of 1965 - Youtube keeps them accessible - Listen!!

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

http://jackwiler.blogspot.com

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

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

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

A little info on the ancestors of Bob Thomas in Gloucester County - Ganttown Rd - near Turnersville, NJ

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

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

Gant Genealogy

Photos of Favorite Places - Beaver River, NY

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

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

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What Do You Mean by the Site Name GatewayFirstFourYears.com

A visitor to the site wrote:

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

My answer is:

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Two Short Videos of the Class of 1970 Reunion - 7/5/2008

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

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

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

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A Tandem Bicycle Without A Chain?

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A PLAYER'S CIGARETTES card. At one time such cards were collected like baseball cards. They produced series for sports, cars, and other topics. The cards are quite small by today's standards measuring 1 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches.

Watch some cyclists try to ride the beast.

https://www.unicycle.co.uk/blog/tandem_penny_farthing/

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