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Joyce,
The attached is original research on this line. From Candor Twsp, Tioga Co, NY to Monroe Twsp, Bradford Co in early 1840's.
John Mingos
Descendants of French Booice and Unknown Wife
Descendants of Abraham Boice and Anna (Amy) Surname
Unknown
Submitted by John Mingos May 2005 and September 2005
Descendants of John Marbletown Boyce(1st)
September 2005
1 John Marbletown Boyce(1st) 1734 - 1810
........... 2 Abraham Boice(Boyce) 1754 - 1825
............... +Unknown 1760 - 1785
......................... 3 Peter Boyce 1781 -
............................. +Mary Polly Yaple 1782 -
....................................... 4 Lewis Boice 1805 -
....................................... 4 Thomas Boice 1805 -
........... *2nd Wife of Abraham Boice(Boyce):
............... +Anna(Amy) 1767 - 1839
......................... 3 Margaret Boice 1787 - 1872
............................. +Sylvester White 1784 - 1882
....................................... 4 Abraham White 1807 -
....................................... 4 John White 1809 - 1898
........................................... +Sophia Mingos 1828 - 1852
...................................................... 5 Daniel
Miller White 1852 - 1927
.......................................................... +Emeline
Coursen 1846 - 1923
.................................................................... 6
Mamie Belle White 1880 - 1971
........................................................................
+Elmer Stillwell 1861 - 1925
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7 Nelson Stillwell 1912 -
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+Lucella Atwater 1912 -
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8 Patricia Elaine Stillwell 1948 -
....................................... 4 Six Others White 1812
-
....................................... 4 George White 1824 -
....................................... 4 G Elie White 1826 -
......................... 3 John A Boice 1791 - 1871
............................. +Elizabeth Knickerbocker 1797 - 1855
......................... 3 Abram(Jr) Boice 1794 - 1856
............................. +Lois Knickerbocker 1795 - 1870
......................... 3 Naoma Boice 1796 - 1875
............................. +Robert B Van Leuven 1792 - 1873
......................... 3 Stephen Bois(Boice) 1801 - 1885
............................. +Mary 1800 - 1849
....................................... 4 Edward E Bois 1821 -
1844
....................................... 4 Pursila Bois 1823 -
1863
........................................... +Alonzo Mingos 1818 - 1884
...................................................... 5 Edward
E. Mingos 1844 - 1916
.......................................................... +Francis L.
Bowman 1844 - 1892
.................................................................... 6
Markie Mingos 1867 - 1869
.................................................................... 6
Frederick E Mingos 1869 - 1936
........................................................................
+Leah Maud Snell 1876 - 1968
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7 Henry Edward Mingos 1900 - 1972
.....................................................................................
+Margaret Delphine Hart 1902 - 1976
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8 John Frederick Mingos 1933 -
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+Jeanine Lee Keener 1936 -
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7 Francis Carl Mingos 1918 - 2000
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+Vera Ruth Schrag 1920 -
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8 Vera Ann Mingos 1945 -
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+Charles Pattison Graham 1940 -
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9 Vera Michelle Graham 1969 -
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9 Katie McKoy Graham 1972 -
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9 Caroline Pattison Graham 1976 -
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9 Morey McLean Graham 1976 -
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8 Steven C Mingos 1950 -
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+Maria DeArmond 1954 -
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9 Steven C Taylor Mingos 1985 -
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9 Peter Jacob Mingos 1987 -
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9 Stephanie Maria Mingos 1988 -
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9 Kristina Jean Mingos 1990 -
...................................................... *2nd Wife of
Edward E. Mingos:
.......................................................... +SusannahH
1846 - 1920
...................................................... 5 Wells
Mingos 1847 - 1873
...................................................... 5 Mary
Ann Mingos 1848 -
.......................................................... +Frank
Piersall 1847 - 1891
...................................................... 5 Warren
Mingos 1852 - 1917
.......................................................... +DenaH 1852
-
...................................................... 5 Charles
Mingos 1856 - 1914
.......................................................... +Bella
Ackley 1859 - 1935
.................................................................... 6
Theodore A Mingos 1881 - 1930
........................................................................
+Ellen 1884 - 1940
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7 Beatrice Mingos 1908 -
...................................................... 5 Frank
Mingos 1859 - 1882
...................................................... 5 Abram
Mingos 1860 - 1883
....................................... 4 Almira Boise 1825 -
1918
....................................... 4 Margaret Bois 1827 -
1899
........................................... +Samuel Cole 1817 - 1892
....................................... 4 Peter Bois 1829 - 1864
....................................... 4 Abram E Bois 1832 -
1904
........................................... +Mary Jane Weigel 1834 -
1910
...................................................... 5 Ida
Bell Bois 1860 - 1916
.......................................................... +John S
Mingos 1859 - 1921
.................................................................... 6
Daisey Mingos 1885 - 1972
........................................................................
+Dewey Dennis 1880 - 1954
.................................................................... 6
Jay(Dr) D Mingos 1890 - 1944
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+Ethyl Boggs 1890 - 1934
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7 John(Jack) F Mingos 1922 - 1945
.................................................................... 6
Ruth Mildred Mingos 1892 - 1962
........................................................................
+Harry Decker Bull 1872 - 1957
...................................................... 5 Fred
Stanley Bois 1866 - 1915
.......................................................... +Blanche
Bubb 1866 - 1945
.................................................................... 6
Dean Abram Bois 1889 - 1972
.................................................................................
7 Blanche Adeline Bois 1914 - 1986
.....................................................................................
+John Brennan 1914 -
................................................................................................
8 Elaine Brennan 1947 -
.................................................................... 6
Ralph Stanley Bois 1891 - 1926
....................................... 4 Juliette Bois 1835 -
1844
....................................... 4 Hiram Bois 1837 - 1859
......................... *2nd Wife of Stephen Bois(Boice):
............................. +Catharine Bull Coolbaugh 1803 - 1896
......................... 3 Catharine Boice 1801 - 1830
............................. +Zopher McClosky 1800 - 1860
......................... 3 Eli Boice 1803 - 1885
............................. +Sarah 1813 - 1876
......................... 3 Emery Boice 1806 - 1889
............................. +Olive Penelope Krum 1814 - 1889
........... 2 John Jr Boise 1760 - 1846
............... +Anne Cantine 1756 - 1832
......................... 3 Hannah Boice 1791 -
......................... 3 Abraham Boice 1793 -
......................... 3 Mathew C Boice 1796 -
......................... 3 Peter Boice 1797 -
........... 2 Samuel Boise 1775 -
........... 2 Henry Boice 1783 -
............... +Abigail Lee 1783 - 1863
........... 2 Robert Boise 1784 -
Descendants of John Marbletown Boyce(1st)
September 1005 edition
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST) was born Abt. 1734 in Netherlands, and died Aft. 1810 in Marbletown, Ulster Co,NY census.
Notes for JOHN MARBLETOWN BOYCE(1ST):
1790 census of Marbletown Twp, Ulster Co John 1st Boyce 1 2 6 (the 2
boys show in 1810 census).
1790 John Boyce Jr 1 0 2 . So with the statements that Abraham is the
brother of the John who maried Ann Cantine,
this John Boyce 1st
(Senior)in Marbletown seems to be the godfather to my Boice line.
1800 census lots of Cantine's in Marbletown. FOUND THEM ! John Buys Sen Pg
198 Fam 7913 01101 10301 00
John Buys Jr Pg 196
Fam 7057 30010 11010 10. The people around John Sr are the
same as in 1810.
1810 census Ulster Co Marbletown John Boise same page as Abraham.
00001 00001 total 2
His boys together same page
Samuel Boise 30010(26-45 b 1780?) 10010 tot 6 Robert Boise
20100(16-26
b1784?) 10100
total 5. These are new - not on Lorraine Luke's list from Olive.
2004 From Sharon Scofield, "Beekman Patent pages". John Boice that m Ann
Cantine is a BROTHER of Abraham Boice.
2004,Jan there are two genealogies of Boice in the Ulster Co,NY
Genealogical Society. PO Box 536, 17 Main St, Hurley
NY 12443. Also
the Ulster Co Archives, Kingston, NY 845-340-3415
1. Boice James
Hillyer Boice,Jr 1996 2. Boice A tree grows in Ulster Robert
Haines 1983 3. Also a bible record
Henry Boice m Abigail
Lee 1815 (b abt 1783), son of John Boice b 1760?
From the
www.worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb Ulster & Albany Co, NY Ancestores &
Descendents I have about
41 Boice b & d's in
Shandaken, Boiceville, Olive, etc Ulster Co, NY.
2004 Feb I obtained a book NY in the Rev by James A Roberts pub 1897. It has
in the Albany Co Militia: Abraham Boice,
Abraham Buys & Abraham
Boyce. In the Ulster Co Militia : 14 duDubois, Buice, Buoy, Benony Mulks,
duBoies, etc.
In the Westchester Co
Militia: Boyce, Buice, Bruice, Buyse, Byse, Bice etc. 3 Boyce in Dutchess Co
2004, Sept I have 41 Boice search results from www.family
search.org/ENG/Search. About this time I grew tired of being
the only researcher
chasing Abraham Boice, and I did not followup to examine the above two
genealogies. then in
August 2005 I
received the below. Any future searching of local records should be in the
area of the Tongore
Cemetery. Rt 213, Ulster Co, NY. Marbletown Twsp, which was Stone Ridge.
2005,July a tel call to Judy Boice of Lansing,Mi . She says her family
history indicates Netherlands Dutch.Then I found
Abraham & John Boise in
1810 Marbletown,Ulster Co & then Abraham & John Boyce in 1790 Marbletown!! 1800
census - Whoa they are Buys. When
did they arrive in Tongore? They are not in the Ulster Revolutionary Militia
although Abraham is listed as a
soldier of the Rev. living in Caroline. I am interested in their
connection , if any, to
the other pre- 1790 Boyce/Boice
ie ships lists, European locations, etc.
2005 August I received 10 pages of Boice genealogy from Ulster Co
Gen.Soc, PO box 536, Hurley,NY 12443
The sequence of spelling of
the Dutch name by date is: Boyce, Byas, Buys, Boise, Boice, Bois
Other Boice Immigrants:
John WASH Co Boice b
Bet 1755-1775, 1800 census 40010 20010
John Otsego Boice b
abt 1760 1800 census Cherry Valley, NE of Cooperstown 00010 10100 26-45
1801 deeds of Delaware Co,NY Abraham Dubois of Phila silversmith bgt in Otsego
Co between Delaware &
Susquehanna rivers 422 acres Recorded July 17 1856
James Boice b abt
1761 enlisted NY Line, next to John Boice Pg3
Abraham Cayuga Boice
b abt 1775, Cayuga Co, NY 1800 census Cayuga Romulus John
Boyce,Jacob Boyce. So
another family in NY goes Boyce to Boice. 1810 Abraham Boice in Cayuga Co,
Locke,NY just N of Ithaca 2101
(26-45)0 200100
Abraham & Stephen Du
Bois b abt 1775 New Paltz This is the French settlement. 1840 census New
Paltz,NY
Stephen G DuBois pg 41 30-40 1 U5,F U5, F10-15 the rest not copied. This does
not checkout- an enormous
census reading effort went into this wild goose chase of DUBOIS
Children of JOHN MARBLETOWN BOYCE(1ST) are:
2. i. ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), b. 15 May 1754, Bible record (Ulster Co to
Tioga Co,NY); d. 6 August 1825, Mulks cem, 71 y 2 mo 21 da (bible).
3. ii. JOHN JR BOISE, b. Abt. 1760, 1790 Marbletown census 1 0 2 Pg 189; d.
15 May 1846, Ulster Co,NY.
iii. SAMUEL BOISE, b. Abt. 1775, 1810 census 30010 10010.
iv. HENRY BOICE, b. Abt. 1783, proof of his parents are in Hurly, LDS
record; m. ABIGAIL LEE; b. 17 September 1783, poss Wf - m 1815 Ulster Co
bible record; d. 6 April 1863.
v. ROBERT BOISE, b. Abt. 1784, 1810 census 20100 10100.
Generation No. 2
2. ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE) (JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) (Source: Bois Bible record with Elaine Heddle.) was born 15 May 1754 in Bible record (Ulster Co to Tioga Co,NY), and died 6 August 1825 in Mulks cem, 71 y 2 mo 21 da (bible). He married (1) UNKNOWN Abt. 1780. She was born Abt. 1760 in m abt 1780, and died Abt. 1785. He married (2) ANNA(AMY) Abt. 1786. She was born 9 April 1767 in unknown, m abt 1785, and died 19 January 1839 in Straits Corner,Tioga Co NY.
Notes for ABRAHAM BOICE(BOYCE):
1754 The supposition is that our Boyce,Buys,Boise,Boice are Netherlands into
Ulster Co,NY or a nearby county such as
Washington or Westchester. . The name means wood - a surname given those who
live in or near the woods, or who
handle wood. Is John Boyse
1st the immigrant? It's looking like there are Boice in Wash.Co North of Glen
Falls,NY
and in Westchester Co
before 1790.
1775-81 Rev. War Abraham Boice, Gen John Cantine & son John Jr. "
Soldiers who lived in the Town of Caroline,NY"
rootsweb.com/~nytompki/Military/tsold01.htm. The book
"NY in the Rev by James Roberts 1897", Albany Co, NY
Militia Col Abraham
Wemple's unit Pg 81- 2 possibles are Abraham Boice & James & Abraham Boyce
- enlisted.
Pg 224 in Westchester Co is
Abraham Boice. Since there are no Abraham's in Ulster Militia, our Abram must
be one of the above?
There is a story that 3 Boice men helped with the capture of Major John Andre
who was
involved with Benedict
Arnold. There are lots of Boice,Bice,Buice etc in the Westchester Co Militia.
You can
readily see how the Beekman
papers mixed up our Boice with Buys - all the different spellings.
1781 Eldest son Peter is b. Abraham's 1st wife ? - must die by mid
1780's.
1787 b. Margaret - if her mother is Anna (Amy), she would have been 20
yrs old.
1790 census Marbletown Twp, Ulster Co FOUND THEM ! Abraham BOYCE
11200 U16 Peter, Margaret is 3 yr old fem
Wow, so he is right
where Eli said - Tongore area is in Marbletown Twp. These name changes imply a
discomfort
level with the
English census takers. Now when did Abram & John arrive there, ie deeds and
where from?
1797,12 Feb John Byas & Ann Cantine b Mathew 1796 Marbletown
Reformed Dutch Church
1791-1807 7 more children
1794 Pg 295 Sylvester's History of Ulster Co mentions Abraham Boice as
inhabitant of Marbletown
1800 census I brut force scanned all of Marbletown & several other Ulster
Twps - nothing. Then FOUND THEM!
Abraham Buys Pg 197 bottom
of page 21110 11010 00 he & Wf are 26-45. U10 John & Abram Jr, 10-16
unknown,
16-26 Peter. Fem Naoma &
Margaret.
1810 census , Ulster Co Marbletown Pg 167,roll 37 series M252. FOUND HIM!
ABRAHAM BOISE 30201 11010 total 9
U10 Stephen,Eli,Emory
16-26 John A, Abram,Jr over 45 Abraham Sr U10 Catharine 10-16 Naoma
26-45 Anna(Amy). Peter Bise
is in Spencer Twp, Tioga Co. This spelling is unique to 1810 census. It sure
caused a
lot of extra time.
1810 census Sylvester White, m to Margaret Boice in 1805, is in Middletown
Township, SE corner Delaware Co, NY
near Shandaken
1812/14 Abraham Boice settled the hamlet of Boiceville, Tioga Co NY
which is the former name of West Slaterville (map
only shows
Slaterville Springs). It occurs to me now that this could be Jr. -
source Diary in Tioga Co Hist Soc.
Landmarks of
Thompkins Co - ABRAHAM BOICE, JR came in from Ulster county in 1816 and first
cleared
lands in the
town of Dryden. T/Caroline historian says Abram Jr came in 1812
1816 Sharon Scofield: "Abraham was an early settler of Caroline and
came over the turnpike from Tongue Gore
(Tongore Cemetery, Rt
213 near Olivebridge across the reservoir from Boiceville) about 6 miles from
Marbletown or
Stone Ridge, NY in 1816 and bought property from Capt.Robison". Source: CharlesF
Mulks
interview with
Eli Boice in 1879. Dewitt Historical Society-Ithaca.
1816 Landmarks of Tompkins Co - Caroline. Abraham,Sr bought out Capt
Robinson, who lived on the Smiley farm.
Henry Quick and Moses
& Simeon Schoonmaker were then living near.
1820 Tioga Co,NY 3x5 cards a Jacob Willsey Diary P61 shows Abm Boice,
and 1820 P67 Caroline the same three
that show as Boyce in
the 1820 census. Since the area is spelled Boiceville, I will go with that.
1820 census Caroline Twsp , Tioga Co (Co History must be studied
to figure out how Caroline is in Tioga , and
later in Tompkins, formed
in 1817) Abram BOYCE 45 & over 020201 01001 10-16 Emery
& Eli 16-26 Stephen &
unkown (no 4th son in
bible,same male as in 1810 census) Fem 10-16 Catharine.
Also Abram,Jr BOYCE and
John A BOYCE, both 26-45. Peter Boyce is in Danby. Naoma is in
Marbletown
1820 census Caroline Twp, Tioga Co Hugh Boyce 45 & over,b abt 1770 -
relation? 201301 20100 no wife, the children
are younger than Abram's.
1840 Hugh Bois Tioga Co, Owego Twp 1010101 00101 b 1790-1800
and H Bois Vestal, Broome
Co.
1825, died, hand written Bois bible record recorded after 1866, by Mary Jane
Weigel Bois - lady handwriting.
Patricia Mims,
Rochester,NY has a copy of his will from Ithaca . She is an officer of the
Rochester,NY
Genealogy
Society and has data on the Boice line.
1825 Mulks cem, Slaterville Springs,NY 73 years old
1839, d bible record says Wf Anna. Mulks cem
says Amy
2004 Web site of Ann Buckley does not validate - copied from Beekman
Papers,Samuel Buys father of Abraham Boice.
More About ABRAHAM BOICE(BOYCE) and UNKNOWN:
Marriage: Abt. 1780
Notes for ANNA(AMY):
1830 census after Abraham's death, where is she?
1839 Mulks cem age 72, bible 71y 9 mo 10 da possible misreading
of gravestone nn to m and a with tail to y. What
does the 1879 interview say
her name was? The 1860 census of Thompkins Co - an Elias Amy, head of
household.
More About ABRAHAM BOICE(BOYCE) and ANNA(AMY):
Marriage: Abt. 1786
Child of ABRAHAM BOICE(BOYCE) and UNKNOWN is:
4. i. PETER3 BOYCE, b. 1781, Marbletown, Ulster Co 1790 census; d. Ohio?.
Children of ABRAHAM BOICE(BOYCE) and ANNA(AMY) are:
5. ii. MARGARET3 BOICE, b. 4 February 1787, close to Tongore,NY m July 14
1805 where?; d. 17 March 1872, Caroline, NY.
iii. JOHN A BOICE, b. 25 May 1791, Tongore,NY; d. 19 January 1871, Mulks
cem, 79y 8 mo 25 da; m. ELIZABETH KNICKERBOCKER; b. 24 April 1797; d. 14 August
1855, Mulks cem 58y 3 mo 21 da.
Notes for JOHN A BOICE:
1812-14 War John A Boice #8,330 Soldiers who lived in the Town of
Caroline rootsweb.com/~nytompki/
1816,July 11 dau Annie H Boice d Jan 20, 1900 Mulks Cem, m
George William Bush
1820 Census b bet 1775-1794 000010 2010001 Wf is
16-26 John was b 1791
1840 John A Boice On same Pg358 as Emery, Tompkins Co, NY
Caroline Landmarks of Thompkins Co - John
Boice owns the farm
of Charles Mulks. The school house of Slaterville stood on this farm in 1818.
1840 Also John Bois Tompkins Co, Ithica pg 260, roll 345 11100001
1001001 b abt 1795
iv. ABRAM(JR) BOICE, b. 1794, Tongore, Ulster Co; d. 10 February 1856, Mulks cem, age 62y; m. LOIS KNICKERBOCKER; b. 1795, Ch:Eliz b1827,Cath b c1832, Wealthy C b c1836; d. 11 May 1870, Mulks cem, age 75.
Notes for ABRAM(JR) BOICE:
1812 According to T/Caroline historian Abram Jr came in 1812
1816 Landmarks of Thompkins Co Jr came in from Ulster Co in 1816
and first cleared lands in the town of Dryden,
and later on the farm
owned in recent years by Ed Thomas, east side of Dryden road. It was from the
Boice
family that
"Boiceville", a hamlet west of Slaterville, took its name.
1816 Boice's Inn built by Abraham Boice,Jr in 1816, he was from Ulster
Co. Taverns & Inns in the Town of Caroline
1820 census Candor Twsp, Tioga Co. 100010 20010 b between
1785 - 1794. mother b 1767 Wf is 26-45
1823 the T/Caroline move from Tioga Co to Thompkins Co
1830 census Candor Twsp Tioga Co Abram is Inn keeper in Caroline
1840 census Caroline Thompkins Co Abram Boice 0001101 1111101 age
40-50
1850 census record of Inn Keepers Abram Boice and 4 others. 1860
census now just one Inn keeper.
1856 Abram Boice, d.Feb 10,1856 ae 62 yrs. Unsure of years? rootsweb.com
1861 m Kate Boice to John R Ellis b 1826. She b abt 1832. Landmarks of
Tompkins Co, Part 3
v. NAOMA BOICE, b. Abt. 1796, Tongore, NY, there is a picture of her in old age; d. 12 May 1875, Straits Corners,Tioga Co,NY; m. ROBERT B VAN LEUVEN; b. Abt. 1792, Marbletown, Ulster Co,NY; d. 5 April 1873, Straits Corners,Tioga Co,NY.
Notes for NAOMA BOICE:
1820 census Marbletown, NY Robert B Vanleuven 00010 2001
and his father is on the next page 121
Robert 00001 0201.
So Naoma with 2 children must be at least 20 yrs old - Teri Dimmett says b abt
1796.
1860 census indexes no hits on given or surname
Notes for ROBERT B VAN LEUVEN:
2005 Middle name Beatty source TJDimmett@aol.com
6. vi. STEPHEN BOIS(BOICE), b. 22 February 1801, Tongore, Ulster Co,NY; d. 3
September 1885, Canton,Pa at son Abram's, buried Sept 5th unknown no gravestone.
vii. CATHARINE BOICE, b. 21 July 1801, Tongore, NY conflict with Stephen on
b date; d. 11 June 1830, Age 28 yrs 10 mos 20 da; m. ZOPHER MCCLOSKY; b. Abt.
1800; d. Bef. 1860.
Notes for CATHARINE BOICE:
1801 b all data source: bible record from Elaine Heddle. This date conflicts
with Stephens. From 1820 census
she shows as 10-16. That would b
abt 1805
1830 no cemetery data in Mulks cem for the McClosky
1860 No Zopher McClosky in census index
Notes for ZOPHER MCCLOSKY:
1823 Slaterville Post Office. Chapt 15, Caroline Landmarks of Tompkins Co.
The Slaterville House
was a hotel built
many years ago and kept at various periods by Zophar T MCLUSKY and
six or more others.
In 1971 when the springs began to be developed, and the reputation of the
waters became known, W J
Carns took this house, renamed it the Magnetic Springs House, enlarged
and improved it, beautified
the grounds, drilled for a supply of the water, and opened it to the public.
viii. ELI BOICE (Source: Charles Mulks Papers, Cornell Univ Library, History of Mulks in Caroline, NY publ 1899.), b. 1803, Tongore, Ulster Co; d. 1885, Mulks cem; m. SARAH; b. 1813, Ch:Nancy 1833-1907 m Daniel Miller Bowman, Charles 1837-1841,Sally A 1834-1979,George 1836-1879; d. 1876, Mulks cem.
Notes for ELI BOICE:
1840 Tompkins Co, NY Caroline census Pg 359
1879 interview with Charles F Mulks & Eli Boice. Eli came from Tongue Gore
when 13 years old with his father,
Abraham. Also source -
Landmarks of Tompkins Co, Caroline. Mulk's also mentions STEP SON PETER.
ix. EMERY BOICE, b. 3 March 1806, Tongore, Ulster Co; d. 13 August 1889, age 83 Mulks cem,Slaterville Springs; m. OLIVE PENELOPE KRUM; b. 1814, Ulster Co,NY m Jan 3 1836 New Paltz, NY; d. 30 January 1889, age 75,Mulks cem ch: William K 1836-1913, James 1843-1918.
Notes for EMERY BOICE:
1840 Tompkins Co Caroline Census Pg 358
1860 Census Dryden, NY age 54, b NY $8000 $1100 Nelly 49 William
23, James 17
3. JOHN JR2 BOISE (JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born Abt. 1760 in 1790 Marbletown census 1 0 2 Pg 189, and died 15 May 1846 in Ulster Co,NY. He married ANNE CANTINE. She was born 7 March 1756, and died 3 March 1832 in Ulster Co,NY.
Notes for JOHN JR BOISE:
1800 census John Buys Jr Pg 196 fam 7057 30010 11010 1 0 so the
3 boys in Rev Juliens pages likely
are Jr's. Not in Sr's
census.
1810 census look several pages beyond John Sr. This Jr is John Olive
Boice b 1760
Children of JOHN BOISE and ANNE CANTINE are:
i. HANNAH3 BOICE, b. 25 March 1791, Source Rev Julien.
ii. ABRAHAM BOICE, b. Bet. 1793 - 1796, Ulster Co,NY source:Rev
Julien.
iii. MATHEW C BOICE, b. 1796, 1840 census of Olive, Ulster Co Rev Julien
"son of Anne".
iv. PETER BOICE, b. Abt. 1797, Rev Julien "son of Anne".
Generation No. 3
4. PETER3 BOYCE (ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 1781 in Marbletown, Ulster Co 1790 census, and died in Ohio?. He married MARY POLLY YAPLE. She was born Abt. 1782 in Yaples in Mulks cem,Caroline Twp, and died in Ohio?.
Notes for PETER BOYCE:
1790 census Marbletown Twp, Ulster Co 11200. that is Peter U16
1800 census Marbletown Abraham Buys 21110 11010 Peter is the 3rd
position 16-26
1810 census of Abraham Boise he is not with his father. 1810 census
Tioga Co Spencer Twp. Today's town of
Spencer is 5 miles west of
Candor & 10 miles south of Danby. Peter Bise 20010 001000 he 26-45
she 16-26
The way I am finding these
guys is first to search on their Given name, because the last name varies.
2 boys U10 could be
Lewis & Thomas. Sooo he was the first to come from Ulster.
1820 census Tioga Co, Danby That he was the first Boyce to come from Ulster
Co to Tioga Co,NY, Caroline area
Pg 440 alphabetic Peter
Boyce 220010 2001 (26-45). Hert. Quest incorrectly
indexes this to Royce.
We know from the 1850's
letters that a farmhand came over to Caroline from Danby to help.
1830 census of Candor Twsp, Tioga Co Peter Boice 0211101 0011001
(40-50) Pg 238. Also John Boice maybe Peter's
son, 01001 00001
20-30 .
183X moved to Erie Co, Ohio If I knew location I could find him in the 1850
census.
1879 I have a lot of data from Sharon Scofield, Cal saying he is a
step son of Eli, Emory & John. From an
interview with
Charles F Mulks - publ in Landmarks of Thompkins Co.
Children of PETER BOYCE and MARY YAPLE are:
i. LEWIS4 BOICE, b. Abt. 1805, Tompkins Co, Caroline Twp.
Notes for LEWIS BOICE:
1840 census Caroline Twp Thompkins Co 202001 011001 age 30-40.-
attached here, Peter has 4 boys in 1820 census
These two Boice and 2 Boyce
are all near each other Pg 364-367. The same census taker distinguishes Lewis &
Thomas with Boice, while Augustus(60-70) & Thomas (40-50) are Boyce.
ii. THOMAS BOICE, b. Abt. 1805, Thompkins Co, Caroline Twp.
Notes for THOMAS BOICE:
1840 census Caroline Twp, Thomp Co Thomas Boice 111001
001101 age 30-40 Pg 365 who are his parents?
5. MARGARET3 BOICE (ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 4 February 1787 in close to Tongore,NY m July 14 1805 where?, and died 17 March 1872 in Caroline, NY. She married SYLVESTER WHITE. He was born 15 April 1784 in Ulster Co, moved many times, and died 16 July 1882 in Wisconsin, one of longest life in file.
Notes for MARGARET BOICE:
1810 census Sylvester White & Wf in Middletown,Twp Delaware Co, NY. Are
Abraham & Anna sponsors for the m?
1850 Census Wf of Sylvester in Monroe Twsp, Brad Co, Pa age 63
1870 census Town of Caroline, NY Tioga Co
1871,abt I now have a picture of Margaret at a middle age, source Pat
Mims, Rochester,NY
Notes for SYLVESTER WHITE:
1800 census Ulster Co Shawangunk Pg 253 Charles White 31010
0001000 Sylvester is 10-16
1810 Census Middletown,NY Delaware Co. This is a Township, SE corner of Del
Co includes Halcottsville.
20100 00100 00 this is
Margaret b 1887. Pg 203
1820 Census Dryden, Thompkins Co, NY
1824 moved again to Tioga Co, NY all the Boice are near town of
Caroline
1840 Census of Monroe Twsp Sylvester 00111101 0010200
Abram White (son) 000001 00001 b Jan 10, 1807
eldest ch. Their deed
1839 Margaret is 1st Boice into Brad Co.
1850 Census Monroe Twsp Sylvester 66, M (Margaret) 63, Eli
(E.E is a Vet?) age 23, Ellen age 18
1870 moved back to Caroline, NY with George White, his son. George White is
mentioned in the 1867 Boice
letter from Boiceville, NY.
He is running a mill.
Children of MARGARET BOICE and SYLVESTER WHITE are:
i. ABRAHAM4 WHITE, b. 10 January 1807.
7. ii. JOHN WHITE, b. 5 June 1809, 2nd wf Catherine M Ervine,1819-1841; d.
1898, New Albany, Pa.
iii. SIX OTHERS WHITE, b. Bet. 1812 - 1824.
iv. GEORGE WHITE, b. 21 April 1824, the 1867 Boiceville,NY letter, George
has a Mill.
v. G ELIE WHITE, b. 13 August 1826, GxE White is on 1858 Lake Ames map of
Monroe Twsp,Pa.
6. STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE) (ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 22 February 1801 in Tongore, Ulster Co,NY, and died 3 September 1885 in Canton,Pa at son Abram's, buried Sept 5th unknown no gravestone (Source: The Bradford Republican newspaper.). He married (1) MARY. She was born 23 January 1800 in unknown, m Caroline Twsp, Tioga Co NY, and died 23 February 1849 in Lib Corn cem 49yrs 2 mos. He married (2) CATHARINE BULL COOLBAUGH. She was born 11 January 1803 in Ire, m.10 Nov 1853 Towanda BCHS index cards, and died 19 July 1896 in Monroe Twsp- Wysox cem, wid.of Absalom Coolbaugh.
Notes for STEPHEN BOIS(BOICE):
1820 Census Caroline Twsp, NY Tioga Co. m. Mary abt now, their
1st child Sept 1821
1822 Litchfield Twsp, Brad Co John Boyce first constable in 1822
1825 Abraham Boice dies, but the boys show in 1840 Caroline, Tompkins Co.
formed in 1817
1826 David Boyce arrives in Troy twsp. His son Joseph b 1847 has a history
in Bradsby 1891 Hist of Brad Co
The Boyce of
Troy township are not related unless they were brothers in Herkimer Co, NY
in 1802.
The story goes:
David & Nancy (Keyser) Boyce b 1802 d. 1875 Kansas. Came to Troy at age
24, single,
in 1826
and cleared and improved the farm. He is stated as a native of Herkimer Co, NY
but the 1870
Census shows
him b. HESS (Hesse). Nancy Keyser was b. Pa, and lived in Troy. They had 8
children,
with one name
similiar - 'Hiram'. Their 6th child, Joseph G Boyce, b Aug 16,1847 in the
Civil War.
1830 Census Candor Twsp, Tioga Co,NY 11001 12001 Stephen may
have bgt this farm, moving apart from Abraham.
He is sited as an
heir to Abraham in a land record.
1840 Census of Monroe Twsp on Rootsweb No BOIS in township, but
a lot of BOYCE in Co.
1840 Census FOUND THEM - TIOGA Co, NY Roll 344 Pg 126
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 Stephen BOICE
U5 Hiram, 5-10
Abram, 10-15 Peter, 15-20 Edward, 5-10 Juliette, 10-15 Margaret
,15-20 Almira & Pursila
1840 Census Independence,NY A Sarah Boyce with 3 dau. She is the widow
of Stephen Boyce, who came
from New Hampshire in 1821. It is interesting they are 3 miles from the Mingus.
1842,abt Pursila Bois m Alonzo Mingos Monroe Twsp. We do not know exactly
when Stephen and family came
to Hollon Hill, but they like others they came from Southern NY, Tioga Co.
1844 Juliette d. 25 Aug 1844 Lib Corn Cem. Family bible record also
says d. Aug 25, 1844 9 yrs 6 mo 25 da
1845 A burial marker in Riverside Cemetery for Suryellon DuBois. b 16
Jan 1841 d 25 Jun 1845 4 yrs
Possibly child of Marie
DuBois, 1850 Census of Monroe Twsp but marker says son of Hiram & Fanny DuBois
1850 Census Monroe Twsp Stephen Bois 49 yrs no wife.widower $1,000
farmer b NY: sons Peter 21
- farmer, Abram 18
-farmer and Hiram 12 dau Margaret 23. Both Peter and Abram show as
farmers.
1850 Census Monroe Twsp, Pg 231 L T Boyce age 24, Wf Sarah, son
L J Boyce 1 yr ?!?
1850 Census Monroe Twsp Marie DUBOIS 30 NY, Sarah 16, Oliver 12,
D.(Delos) 11 all NY , M. 6 Martha 2
both Pa Pg 226 and 227 also A.B.Dubois (brother in law?)
24 NY farmer, Suryellon b 1841 fits in nicely
with
these children. Also it is DU v Stephen Bois. Who was her husband? Where are
burials?
1853,Nov 10-source B.C.H.S. card file m Catharine Coolbaugh. 1973
letter from Ed Hoagland "Catharine Bull, wf of
Absalom Coolbaugh of Lib
Corn m 2nd husband Stephen DUBOIS, but they put BOYCE on her tombstone".
1858 Lake Ames Map - NOT there. The farm shown as S BOIS in 1869 is MM
COOLBAUGH in 1858! That's Moses
Manley
Coolbaugh, son of Catharine Bull Coolbaugh. She is shown on another farm about a
mile away.
1860 Census Monroe Twsp Stephen Bois 59, Catharine 57 farmer $900
$300. Abraham & Mary are with them.
1867, July 26 We have a long hand written letter to Uncle Steven & Aunt Kate
(Coolbaugh) from George A Boice
in Caroline, NY (this
is Caroline Twsp now in Tompkins Co). It refers to the town of Danby, which is
5 miles West of
Boiceville. The letter is headed "Boiceville" which is the former name of West
Slaterville,NY.
It mentions the following:
Uncle John & Aunt Sarah, Becca,Eliz Martha, George White and George Boice of
Mobile,Alabama. So all
these years Elaine Heddle has had a pointer to Stephen's brothers /
sisters /
nephews etc in Tioga &
Tompkins Counties,NY.
1869 Atlas of Brad Co by Beers. I have an original large Atlas. S Bois
occupies the farm one mile from the
Monroeton bridge. MM
Coolbaugh moves a mile away to the farm of his mother. The deed should be
checked on the
Towanda Court house for date and maybe middle initial.
1870 Census Monroe Twsp, Dw # 161 age 69 farmer b NY
$3000 $2000 2nd wife Catharine age 67, Abram 36,
Mary Jane 34,
Ida Bell 7, Fred 5. Charles Mingos 14 & Warren Mingos 18 are working on the
farm.
1880 Census Monroe Twsp D# 58 F#60 Stephen Bois 80, Catharine 78
same dwelling #, F 59 is Abraham 49,
Mary J 47, Ida 18,
Fred 14 also farmer b NY
1885 The Bradford Republican , prob Sept 21, 1885. age 84 6 mos 11 da
The funeral was in Monroeton at his dau
Mrs Samuel Cole (Margaret Bois).
He should be buried in Lib. Corn- Lot #71, but it may be full - with wife Mary,
ch: Edward E, Hiram and dau Juliette.
Pictures of these markers are in the 1991 pub of Monroe Twsp Cem.
The compilation of the Wysox cem.
starts with the name BOYCE,Stephen then data on Catharine Bull his wife.
It is possible that even tho the
funeral was in Monroeton and he owned a plot in Lib Corn, that he is
buried
before Catharine in Wysox. Rev. Ed
Hoagland was a Coolbaugh, so in his papers at the BCHS should be
Stephens obit. An oddity is that
Stephen, Alonzo, Philip & Alverilla Mingos had no gravestone. Maybe there
was no engraver. With Mr. Sam Cole
there, he even could be buried in Coles cem.
Notes for CATHARINE BULL COOLBAUGH:
1858 Lake Ames Map MM Coolbaugh has the farm, one mile from Monroeton bridge
1896 Her tombstone in Wysox says Wf of Stephen BOYCE
1900 Monroeton Boro Dir. son Moses M Coolbaugh is proprietor of the Summers
House hotel, Main St.
Children of STEPHEN BOIS(BOICE) and MARY are:
i. EDWARD E4 BOIS, b. 2 September 1821, Boiceville, NY Aged 22 yrs 9 mos 5
da; d. 7 June 1844, Lib Corn cem, stone pictured 1991 pub Monroe Twp by Linda
English.
8. ii. PURSILA BOIS, b. 9 February 1823, Candor Twsp,Tioga Co; d. 4
September 1863, Coles cem, Towanda Twp.
iii. ALMIRA BOISE, b. Abt. 1825, m. S Wison Rogers; d. 1918, Coles cem.
iv. MARGARET BOIS, b. 1827, Tioga NY; d. Bef. 1899; m. SAMUEL COLE; b. 15
January 1817, Monroe twsp; d. 13 January 1892, Coles farm Cem.
Notes for MARGARET BOIS:
1870 census Monroe twsp b NY age 45 wife of Samuel Cole
1885 funeral of Stephen Bois was in Monroeton at dau Margarets
1900 census did not find her?
Notes for SAMUEL COLE:
1870 census Monroe Twsp farmer 5000 1000 b Pa age 53
v. PETER BOIS, b. 1829, NY; d. 20 February 1864, Richmond, Va.
Notes for PETER BOIS:
1885 Hist of Monroe by Heverly Peter BOICE , private, Co C, 57th P V
enlisted Oct 25, 1861; captured;
died at
Richmond,Va.
2003 Elaine Heddle has a letter from Peter Bois Jan 1863 ." He fought at
Fredericksburg, a lack of pay
for 10 months and the
lack of food".
9. vi. ABRAM E BOIS, b. 29 March 1832, Tioga Center, NY(5 miles SW of Owego);
d. 19 November 1904, Robert Packer Hosp, Sayre,Pa. bur. Monroeton cem..
vii. JULIETTE BOIS, b. 31 January 1835, Tioga Co NY; d. 25 August 1844, 9
yrs 6 mo 25 da , Lib Corn cem.
viii. HIRAM BOIS, b. 4 October 1837, Tioga Co NY; d. 23 August 1859, Lib
Corn cem. s/o Stephen & Mary 21 yrs 10 mos 19 da.
Generation No. 4
7. JOHN4 WHITE (MARGARET3 BOICE, ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 5 June 1809 in 2nd wf Catherine M Ervine,1819-1841, and died 1898 in New Albany, Pa. He married SOPHIA MINGOS, daughter of JOHN MINGOS and NANCY SHAVER. She was born 26 January 1828 in Allegany Co,NY, and died 16 April 1852 in Childbirth? age 24 y 2 mo 22 da Lib Corn.
Notes for JOHN WHITE:
I have a family
page on this White family. Patricia Stillwell Mims, 887 Fernwood Park,
Rochester,NY 14609
has data on this
line. John is the 2nd son of Sylvester White and Margaret Boice
1991 pub of Monroe Twsp cem - plot #76 of J W Irvine (Catharine R Irvine 2nd
w/o John White, Sophia Mingos 3rd
w/o John White, and EE
White - 4th NY Inf. GAR Std. monument leans forward, no dates evident), On
the 65B
page is plot 74 - White.
John White m 1st (...)Eastman, 4th Mary Larrabee - New Albany
1850 Census Monroe Twsp age 40 Sophia 21, E J male age
10(son of Catherine), S male age 2 (son of Sophia)
1858 Lake Ames map G x E White Monroe Twsp. G.Elie White b 1826 son of
Sylvester . Poss. EE White of civil war
1861,abt I have picture of John and Mary Larrabee with prob son Daniel
Miller White, source Pat Mims
1880 census no Whites in Monroe Boro or Twsp. Where is James White b 1852?
son Art b 1873
2004 It seems now that James White eldest in Monroeton cem may be an
Irish coal miner.
Child of JOHN WHITE and SOPHIA MINGOS is:
10. i. DANIEL MILLER5 WHITE, b. 29 March 1852, Evergreen, Pa just East of
New Albany; d. 28 April 1927, Ithaca,NY g-grandfather of Pat Mims.
8. PURSILA4 BOIS (STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 9 February 1823 in Candor Twsp,Tioga Co, and died 4 September 1863 in Coles cem, Towanda Twp. She married ALONZO MINGOS (Source: 1851 Tow Court House, Land grant application.), son of COONRAD MINGOS and SARAH. He was born 1 April 1818 in Thompkins Co,NY near Lansing, and died 27 June 1884 in Monroeton Boro, Coles cem, new marker 1984.
Notes for PURSILA BOIS:
1830 Tioga Co, NY an 8 year old girl with Stephen Boice Candor
Twsp
1840 Census she is 15-20 in Tioga Co, NY Candor Twsp. Stephen
Bois settled Liberty Corners very early 1840's.
1842 m abt to Alonzo, prob in Monroe Twsp
1857 Hand written letter by Alonzo, signoff including Pursila ! From
Monroe Tsp. Pursila's last child is Abram,1860
1863, Sept 4 Her field stone in Coles Cemetery says " Blessed are the
pure in heart for they shall see God".
150 feet
in from SW corner behind a grove of trees. The marker says age 40 yrs, 6 mos 25
da
1869 Whoa! After all these years. S Bois is in Dist 7, Monroe
Twsp, 1869 Atlas by Beers - one mile from the
Rockwell
jail and Towanda Creek bridge.
1870 Stephen Bois is in 1870 Census, with Alonzo's boys Charles and
Warren Mingos working at his farm.
I've had that
info for 30 years - couldn't make out the spelling of the farmer?
Notes for ALONZO MINGOS:
Alonzo Mingos(F4) Family
Knowledge: none, only research
1818 His obit says b Thompkins Co, NY on April 1.
Conrad(F3) has a Date of Deed sale on Oct 10,1817 with Date of
Record both Oct and Dec 1818. I
always presumed they moved to Lansing in about Oct 1817, but maybe there is
another scenario for Sarah who is
pregnant. Born in NJ on 1850 &1880 census. In logic the NJ entries are
odd.
I must believe the obit.
There are lots of Alonzo's in this period. There was a children's book in the
early 1800's
'Alonzo & Melissa' Pg 153
Bradsby, Hist of Brad Co.
1837,Dec He is the youngest of Conrad's children to come to Liberty
Corners (how long did it take to drag
lumber up the hill and build a
house? The family may not have arrived until spring 1838
1845,Oct 28 1st land action Bgt from Valentine Strouse
MonroeTwsp - $270, but 1867 sale says Durell. Alonzo -
no deeds in original Conrad, Joe
& John farms. Valentine's Bro Jonas Strouse m Sarah Mingos, dau of John
in 1843. Valentine bgt this 58
acres (560 x 500 yards, lengths = to a par 5 golf hole) from William Strouse on
30
Dec, 1843. It begins at a
white oak corner of a lot of land joining Joseph Mingos and Samuel Dimock. It
looks
like on the 1858 map that Joseph
is on the East side of the road, but his name is on the West side.
1848,Jan 31 Monroe Twp taxes Conrad, Alonzo and Philip
1850 Census value of real estate $1000 farmer Monroe twsp. Both
he & Pursilla b in NJ is odd. Alonzo is House # 30 !
Located him finally. Chris
Piatt 29 (Wf is Eliz, dau of Coonrad) is on the West side of the road, Coonrad &
Philip 28,
Joseph 27, and John
26. The 1867 sale says Durell, so that this 58 acres is on the East side of the
dirt road.
1852,Jan 29 before Justice of Peace Conrad's land application War of
1812
In the presence of
ALONZO MINGOS Justice Jared Goodenough
1853,Nov 12 28 acres from Conrad, East side of road.
" hand paid" $250. The land shows on the Lake Ames
map across from Coonrad's!
After all these years, finally located Alonzo's farm with Pursila & children.
1857,Jan 28 Letter from Alonzo (Monroe Tsp) & Pursila to Abram Bois
(where?), mentons Philo. Original with
Elaine Heddle.The letter is in
Alonzo's hand writing - same signature as 1851 land application
at Towanda Court House. He is
bargaining for farm land for Abram - 50 Acres from Philo Mingos in
Monroeton or the farm of Mr. Hale. Both
sellers want about $300 downpayment and a team (horses).
This is the only known artifact of the
1st 4 generations of Menges/Mingos.
1857,Dec Alonzo sold 20 acres unimproved Durell land to D O Holland
& Daniel Heman Jun 1858.
1858 taxes dated 26 Nov 1857 Mingus, Alonzo 10 acres imp $100, 15
acres ump $75, house $40, $50 2 horses,
$10 1 horse. These Mingos
were not dairy farmers - grain & products.
1858 Map Lake Ames - a J Mingos house was in the new Tow Twsp. South
Towanda Twsp came into existance
on Dec 15,1851! Subsequently
"South" was dropped for Towanda Township. In Durell is P Mengos &
B Mengos! In Monroe Twsp on the S
to N dirt road is A or P Mingos, J Mingos & J Mingos. The Oct 4, 1858 tax
assessment in sequence shows(S to
N) David ,Joseph, Alonzo and then Philip. Alonzo is 40 acres imp $360,
30 acres ump $150, house
now $100, $50 2 horses, $24 2 cows.
1860 tax assessment dated Oct 3, 1859 David(south), Joseph, Alonzo,
Philip and Philo. Alonzo's taxes are the same
as in 1859 except the two cows
are only $20.
1860 Census Monroe Tsp shows Conrad with Alonzo, value of land
increases to $2500. personal property $100.
1863 1st wife Pursila Bois dies. 1864 Remarries Cornelia S David at
residence of H S Hollon, Rev R L Stillwell
1867,April Monroe deed book, Alonzo to Eliza Benjamen. This must be
the farm across from Coonrad & Joe -
but I haven't checked the
deed. Also Tow Boro next deed book entry, Alonzo from David Pratt,
physician
1869 Map Atlas by Beers - WOW Alonzo Mingos on State St. Tow. His 1st move
after remariage - near Dr Pratt
at corner of State &
Main, and two houses East on State St from his office, I finally found
Pursila's parents,
one mile up the hill
from the Monroeton bridge. Oct 13,1869 Brad Co Tax Assessment(1870) - Mingos,
Alonzo
House & Lot $750, $40 1
horse, $40 Buggy
1870 After 30 years, I still can't find him in 1870 census? His sons
Charles & Warren are working on the Stephen
Bois farm one mile from
Monroeton bridge. It must be that Alonzo, Cornelia, Legrande, Abram and Wells
were
missed in the 1870 Census.
Wells is not in 1870 Renova, Clinton Co where he died in 1873. I have searched
Tow Boro Microfilm and
Quest Index CD of Brad Co - nothing. A search of 1871 Assessment books in BCHS
proves he was there - Oct
15,1870 House & Lot $750, $50 1 horse. The only thing I can think of is to
go to the
National Archives and
request to look at the original census pages for 1870.
1871,May Tow Boro Alonzo from Lewis Beach & to LL Beach. Lewis L Beach
57y is a farmer in Springfield Twsp.
Lewis B Beach( son)
age 29 is a physician in Tow Boro. Maybe using Dr Pratt's facilities?
Oct 11,1871 Towanda
Boro Tax assessment(1872) Alonzo Mingos $20. Mason
1873 Wells Mingos dies in Renova, Pa
1874,May South Towanda Alonzo to Elias Hale
1876,April Towanda Twsp Alonzo to/from William Patton - land on
West side of Creek. The J Bowman heirs had
ownership of land west of the
Monroe- Tow road and Edward Mingos had m Francis Bowman.
1880 Census Towanda Twsp, age 60 stone mason, unemployed 8 mos. b NJ
fa NJ mo NJ . Again this is strange.
(N.R.=not related) (Lydia)
Ayna May age 1 - border. Cornelia 43 b NY fa NY mo Ct, LeGrand B 10
attending
school, b Pa fa NJ mo NY.
Again the b NJ for Alonzo? Fam # 42 A son, Abraham is working
on Joe's farm.
Comparing the household #'s
to the 1869 Atlas, they are on the Tow-Monroe Rd north of Coles cem, probably on
the dirt road running west
up the creek bed.
1882,Jun Tow Alonzo from J G Patton
1884,Feb 15 Last will - identical signature as 1851 and 1857, so
he could write? witness O R Bowman and
Cynthia Bowman.
Admitted April 17,1884. Edward m. Francis L Bowman. Alonzo's house # in 1880
census is
near O R Bowman! on
the Tow Monroe road. Prob West along the creek about a mile north of Coles cem.
1884,June 27 OBITUARY, ALONZO MINGOS Bradford Republican
Newspaper, 7/10/1884
"DIED MINGOS AT MONROETON,June 27,Mr. Alonzo
Mingos ,aged 66 years.Mr.Mingos was born in Thompkins
Co,NY April 1,1818. He was of German
descent, his (g) grandfather having come from Germany. When about 19
years he come to Bradford Co where he
has resided till his death.He leaves a wife (Cornelia) and four children
to morn his death. (
Edward,Warren,Charles,Legrande)". Was he with Edward or at his home near
Coles cem?
1884,July see Cornelia " estate of Alonzo Mingos".
I now have 3 Monroeton funerals in the mid 1880's where
there is no gravestone? Stephen
Bois d 1885, Alonzo and Alverilla Mingos, Wf of William Mingos. Something
must be askew at Mr Richart's.
Alonzo is living 1 mile North of Coles cem, and likely was buried there. In 1880
census and 1885 Monroe History
Richart is listed as blacksmithing & wagonmaking, not undertaking.
1886,Jan deed book Cornelia S to Salamon Talady Tow Twsp. Property
near Coles cem?
1964 Brad Co map shows six houses on road T400 N&S. 2 houses on the West, 4
on the East.
1972 In family bible, I have an old man's picture which could be
Alonzo or Alonzo Bowman. It looks like
Edward in his younger
picture, but the jacket is very old style. Bible was kept by Francis Bowman.
1984 I placed a marker for Alonzo in Coles cemetery next to Pursila Mingos.
It's strange, Henry never knew about
Alonzo or the Liberty
Corn. families? And neither Edward or Cornelia put a marker on Alonzo's grave?
Children of PURSILA BOIS and ALONZO MINGOS are:
11. i. EDWARD E.5 MINGOS, b. March 1844, Hollon Hill, Liberty Corners; d. 15
August 1916, Monroeton cem.
ii. WELLS MINGOS (Source: History of Monroe Twsp & Boro by Heverly
1885.), b. 1847, Monroe Twsp, Pa; d. 9 August 1873, Renova,Clinton Co,Pa.
Notes for WELLS MINGOS:
1847 On the name. the Wells, Welles are all over Wyalusing.
Pioneer settler in 1774 James Wells.
His family came
back and settled Wyalusing. Then Charles Fischer Welles, 1st prothonatary and
clerk of courts in
Towanda, came to Wyalusing in 1812.They had 10 children. Also less than a mile
across the
river is Terrytown, Azilum Twsp. Samuel Wells had 400 acres there in 1800.
1860 census, with Alonzo age 14 Pa Pa Bradford Co, Monroe Twsp
1863,July 2 Wells served in the 35th Pa Militia.
1864,April 14 WELLES Mingos, enlisted private
Co I, 50th Regiment P.V. mustered out with Co-July 31,1865 -
History of
Monroe Twsp by Heverly. Company was Capt James Ingham(K) recruited in
Monroe
The 50th was
especially noted for its gallantry in the many battles in which it participated
and for its
intense sufferings.It
was near Petersburg,Va twice, where his brother Edward was wounded.
1870 I couldn't find him or Alonzo in the Bradford Co census? I
have scanned thru over 20 census pages of Clinton Co,
Renova, Pa! This town on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, 30 miles west
of Williamsport, Pa,must
have been a large Railroad Yard. Many laborers, RR men about 25 yrs old,
machinists, etc. If Wells went here
to
work, he was the 1st of many Mingos to go into the railway business. His
brothers Charles and Warren are
working on the farm of Stephen Boice(sp),Monroe Twsp.
1873 Death notice in Bradford Reporter 8/14/1873. He died Aug
9,1873 age 26 single
iii. MARY ANN MINGOS, b. 1848; d. unknown; m. FRANK PIERSALL; b. 4 December
1847, 1880 census Drayman; d. 26 August 1891, 43 yr 9 mo 22 da Riverside
cemetery, Towanda.
iv. WARREN MINGOS, b. 1852, Monroe Twsp, Pa; d. 9 August 1917, Towanda , Pa
age 66; m. DENAH; b. Abt. 1852.
Notes for WARREN MINGOS:
1860 census 9 yrs Maybe there is naming convention here.There is a
Warren Twsp in Brad Co
1870 Census Monroe Twsp Pg 20, Dwelling 161 age 18
working on the farm of Stephen Bois.
1880 census prob Towanda m to Dena any children?
1900 Brad Co dir Towanda Boro Warren H emp 3 Chestnut, h 15 N
Main
1913 Warren H Mingos was a member of the Towanda Boro Council in 1913.
He was engaged in the grocery
business in Towanda many years.
His home was N.Main St. He d.Aug 9,1917 same age as Alonzo. His will of
July 6,1916, entered on the dockets Aug
16,1917 leaves everything to his wf,Dena H, who is also to be Exx.
12. v. CHARLES MINGOS, b. 1856, Monroe Twsp, Pa; d. 1914, Athens, Coles
cemetery.
vi. FRANK MINGOS, b. 2 May 1859, Monroe Twsp, Pa; d. 2 March 1882, Towanda,
age 22 10 mo Riverside cem..
Notes for FRANK MINGOS:
1880 census 21 y boarder, laborer Towanda Boro Ward 2,
households 51-88
1880census living with sister Mary in Towanda age 21
1882, Mar 2 died Pillar, Riverside cemetery another
short liver. Mark Daly's notes: Bradford Argus newspaper
dated 16 March says died 23 Feb?
6 ft pillar, "May trials ordeds (that's the way I copied it) thy rest".The other
side has Frank Pearsall, Aug 26,1891 43
yrs 9 mo 22 da. Frank was the husband of Mary Mingos, dau of Alonzo
If they can buy a pillar for Frank
Mingos, why no marker for Alonzo just 2 years later?
vii. ABRAM MINGOS, b. 1860, Towanda Twsp, Pa; d. 25 February 1883, County Home,Burlington.Pa.
Notes for ABRAM MINGOS:
1870 Census where are these people?
1880 Census Abraham is laborer with Uncle Joseph, Fam 39 Monroe Twsp.
Alonzo again has his son working
on another's
farm. Source for below is BCHS card file. Another with no children & short
liver.
1881,Nov 17 Admission to county home from Towanda. Father Alonzo
Mingos of Towanda. age 21
9. ABRAM E4 BOIS (STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 29 March 1832 in Tioga Center, NY(5 miles SW of Owego), and died 19 November 1904 in Robert Packer Hosp, Sayre,Pa. bur. Monroeton cem.. He married MARY JANE WEIGEL. She was born 16 November 1834 in Pa. m 28 June 1854 at Lewis Weigel's, Isaah Hays,J.P., and died 3 November 1910 in Monroe Boro, Pa. Monroeton cemetery.
Notes for ABRAM E BOIS:
1850 Census Abram with Stephen Bois - who is a widower
age 18 Monroe Twsp
1855, Jun Abram is in Ottawa, Canada, from Elmira, working for 14
shillings /day. There is a census of NY in 1855.
1857, Jan Alonzo Mingos letter(Monroe Tsp). Abram was considering buying
either Philo's 50 acres or Mr Hales
farm in Monroe
twsp. Deeds can be checked at Towanda Court house. It would be interesting to
know
where Abram
was? Alonzo says " parted by hills and valleys". Since Abram is offering a team
(horses) in the
deal, he must be close to Monroe Twp (Elmira,but not 1857 Elmira Directory)
1858 Lake Ames Map no evidence of the Bois, but Stephen and family are
on the Coolbaugh farm,Monroe Tsp.
1860 Census Monroe Tsp pg 427 Stephen 59, Catharine 57,Abraham 28,Mary 27
only one listing, farmer $900 $300
1870 Census Monroe Twsp Roll 1311 Abram age 36 , Mary Jane age 34 farmer
b NY. Ch: Ida Bell 7,Fred 5
1880 Census still Monroe Abraham 49 Mary J 47 Ida 18, Fred 14 farmer b NY
1885 Stephen dies at Abram's farm in Canton, Pa . Why has he moved to
Canton?
1896 Catharine Bull Coolbaugh Bois dies - buried Wysox. Who gets the farm
one mile from Monroeton bridge?
1900 Monroeton Borough Directory Abram Bois farmer 80
(This is acres) h bridge street . He's back!
1905,April 20 DORec Register 2 , Brad Co Court House d. of bright's desease
1910 Census shows Mary Jane, age 76, in Monroeton
Children of ABRAM BOIS and MARY WEIGEL are:
13. i. IDA BELL5 BOIS, b. 10 October 1860, Monroe Twp; d. 5 October 1916,
Daily Review Oct 7,she was Eastern Star, Monroeton cem.
14. ii. FRED STANLEY BOIS, b. 29 January 1866, Monroe Twsp, Pa; d. 14
December 1915, Roswell, N.M..
Generation No. 5
10. DANIEL MILLER5 WHITE (JOHN4, MARGARET3 BOICE, ABRAHAM2
BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 29 March 1852 in Evergreen,
Pa just East of New Albany, and died 28 April 1927 in Ithaca,NY g-grandfather of
Pat Mims. He married EMELINE COURSEN. She was born 1846, and died
1923.
Child of DANIEL WHITE and EMELINE COURSEN is:
15. i. MAMIE BELLE6 WHITE, b. 11 March 1880; d. 1971, source of Boice, Nancy
Shaver & White pictures.
11. EDWARD E.5 MINGOS (PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) (Source: The Last Citadel-Petersburg by Noah Trudeau pub 1949, 317-322.) was born March 1844 in Hollon Hill, Liberty Corners, and died 15 August 1916 in Monroeton cem. He married (1) FRANCIS L. BOWMAN, daughter of ALONZO BOWMAN and SUSAN SWARTWOOD. She was born 9 September 1844 in East Canton, Pa, and died 2 September 1892 in Monroeton cem stone incorrect. He married (2) SUSANNAHH Abt. 1894. She was born November 1846 in 1900 day laborer, and died Aft. 1920 in Mt Holly Springs, Pa.
Notes for EDWARD E. MINGOS:
1844 b.- likely named after Pursila's older brother Edward E Bois who d in
Jun 1844.
1850 census Monroe twsp age 7. 1860 census Monroe twsp 16
yrs
1964,Sept 4 Hist of Monroe Edward E Mingos, private, Co
H,188 NY Vol; enlisted 9/4/1864; wounded in left
hand, with its loss,
almost , in front of Petersburg,Va 2/6/1865; discharged on surgeons's
certificate
The average soldiers
pay in the Civil War was $13.00 per month. Why George and Edward went to
Rochester is
a mystery. Bradsby's
history.pg 247, says the 207th Regiment was organized Sept 8th and there were
men
from Bradford Co in
Co's B,E and G. It certainly took Edward some time to get to Rochester,NY.
1864,Sept 19 State of NY,Albany ,NY Mingas, Edward E Age,
20 years. Enlisted, at Rochester, to serve one
year; mustered in as
private Co H, Oct 10,1864; wounded in action, Feb 7,1865, at Hatcher's Run,Va;
discharged, May
15,1865 at hospital as Mingos. The siege of Petersburg "Richmond Redeemed" by
Richard
Sommers,Pub 1981 thru
5th Offensive,Oct 1864
1864, Dec 9 George E Arnout enlisted with him and died 12/9/64! day 3 of the
Dec 7-11 final operations prior to winter
camps. Two engagements -
Hatcher's run & Hicksford 35 miles S of Petersburg. Where the 188thNY was
attached?. They made big
fires. It was awful cold, the wind went right through us. Hail and sleet which,
with
exerable roads and worn out
shoes made our cup of misery full.
1865,Feb 6/7 from the book 'Last Citadel' it is unclear where the
188th NY was attached. It was bitterly cold , and we
were soaked with rain,
which froze and stiffened our clothes.The rain changed to snow. Union losses in
the Feb
5-7 actions 'Confederate
and Union Lines near Hatcher's Run' were 171 killed, 1181 wounded and 187
captured
or missing.
1866, Jan EE Mingos to WW Decker July 1866 - arrived in
Monroeton.Cornelia left her house to a Nellie Decker
1866,Feb 22 m. to Francis L Bowman From the bible, I have hand
written names of Bowman's.
Seven children of Alonzo Bowman
and Susan Swartwood and reference to her grandparents
Jacob Bowman and Sally
Rockwell - another Rev War connection - Ephraim Rockwell was in Rev War.
1869 Beers maps E E Mingos near future Hinman Hotel in Monroeton Boro.
Returned from Civil War, married
and located in Monroe
Boro. Ed and his cousin Philo are 1st Mingos in Monroeton. His father Alonzo is
on
State St , Towanda - also
among the 1st to leave the farms.
1870 Census dwelling #52 , teamster - Lawrence & Charles Bowman,
boarders
1874,April EE Mingos to Lyman G Hollon April 1875 $782.
1878,July EE Mingos Sylvanus M White 6/1880 Monroe Boro
Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Ch, Monroeton
1880 Census age 36 Store clerk, prob working for cousin Philo.
b.(NY? - Hollon Hill)
1889,Jun assignment of all properties of Walter Bull, owing to
misfortunes & sundry losses, unable to
discharge his debt,
EE Mingos paid $1. for the purpose of making a just distribution
1892,Sept 2 Francis L Bowman died, buried in Monroeton. The stones of
she and Edward look alike.
Maybe purchased and placed
together. Her date is engraved wrong -1888. Markie's field stone is
3 feet high and on the left rear
of the plot. Alice Ellingsberg of North Dakota has done genealogies of
the Bowman's to Wilhelm Bauman b
abt 1550 Bacharach,Germ., and of the Rockwells to William Rockwell,
b 1590/91 Fitzhead,Somerset,
England.
1895 Tow-Monroeton Directory Edward was Burgess of Monroeton.He was
literate, prob grade school at
the one
room school house at Lib Corn
1900 Brad Co Dir Edward E - Burgess, h Main corner of New(St).
Burgess is an officer of a borough - an
incorporated village/town.
In Wyalusing the name was Mayor. So Edward was a well thought of guy!
1900 census Edward E, age 56 , day laborer , six yrs m
Susannah b 1846,age 53 shows home as
owned and free
of mortgage!! yes to read/write
1910 census b. Pa m to Susie E(H) ,age 60, m -16
years-no children, Dwelling next to Marcy Hotel! Both
yes to education, Edward
age 66 able to read/write
rented house!? D# 150, next to Hotel. This doesn't
compute, unless he sold
the home in order that Fred could buy his house outright? trade- own
income!
1916,Aug 18 Certificate of death, Pa signed by Carl Summers
undertaker C H Maryott-Monroeton
This funeral business was a
Mingos business earlier in the 1900's. Medical certificate signed by
O H Rockwell cause of death
Pneumonococcus Lobus . Fred witnessed the certificate
1916,Aug 22 Tuesday, Monroeton Enterprise Newspaper. I have a fading
page , maybe Margaret ,my
mother, got it for me with the death
notice. EDWARD E MINGOS, Well Known Citizen Passed Away Last
Tuesday Evening " Edward E Mingos, a veteran
of the civil war, died at his home on Main street at 7 o'clock
last Tuesday evening, following an illness of
about ten days. Deceased was born at Liberty Corners
seventy -two years ago and spent his entire life as
a resident of Monroe township and borough. He was a
member of Co H,188th NY Vol, having enlisted when
about (20) seventeen years old. At Petersburg he
received a wound that deprived him of the use of
the fingers on his left hand. Besides his widow he is
survived by one son - Fred E Mingos of Monroeton,
and one brother - W H Mingos of Towanda. Funeral
services were held at the Mingos home at 2:30
Friday afternoon. Internment was in the Monroeton cemetery.
1916,Aug 29 Mrs EE Mingos was having a household sale
Monroeton Enterprise newspaper
1920 census Suzie E Mingos age 73 Mt Holly Springs,
Cumberland Co, Pa
1972 I have a very good picture of Edward. A studio portrait at abt
age 30 . Vera Mingos in Lawrence,Ka
has the original. It
is strange that my father, Henry, didn't remember anything. He was 16 yrs old
when Edward died. The only
thing Henry said was there was a lady living with him in the 1900's.
Notes for SUSANNAHH:
2005 from Chemung web site: 1920 census, Susie E Mingos age 73 Pa Pa
Cumberland Co, Mt Holly Springs.
Middle initial doesn't
check, but age is right = b 1847, while 1900 census says Nov 1846.
Mt Holly Springs is 20
miles SW of Harrisburg.
More About EDWARD MINGOS and SUSANNAHH:
Marriage: Abt. 1894
Children of EDWARD MINGOS and FRANCIS BOWMAN are:
i. MARKIE6 MINGOS, b. 1 October 1867; d. 10 March 1869, Monroeton cemetery,
age 1 yr 5 mos 10 da.
Notes for MARKIE MINGOS:
There is a 3 foot field stone marker, left rear of Edward & Francis Mingos
plot. Where does name come from?
16. ii. FREDERICK E MINGOS, b. August 1869, Monroeton; d. 25 October 1936,
Tioga Gen Hosp, Waverly,NY & Monroeton cem.
12. CHARLES5 MINGOS (PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 1856 in Monroe Twsp, Pa, and died 1914 in Athens, Coles cemetery. He married BELLA ACKLEY. She was born 1859 in m 1880, and died 1935 in last 1930 census Chemung Coles cemetery.
Notes for CHARLES MINGOS:
1860 Census Charles 5 yrs
1870 Census Monroe Twsp! - pg 20, dwelling 161
Mingos, Charles 14 yrs, working on Boice farm
1880 Census 24 yrs boarder at Reuben A Owens - Monroe
stone mason. m Bella Ackley abt this time.
1895 Directory on Monroe Council, mason in Monroe
business Dir.
1900 Brad Co Dir Charles J mason h Maple Ave Monroeton
1907 Athens Boro directory C J Mingos mason
1910 Census of Athens Boro shows him age 53 m 30 yrs a mason, Belle a land
agent. Dwelling 396 next to GW Mingos
1914 d. at 55 yrs bur Coles (where Alonzo prob was ), The plot
is in front of Ackley plot, 100 ft in from SW corner
Notes for BELLA ACKLEY:
1910 census of Athens age 50. mother of 2 children, only 1 living.
1920 Bella Mingos was a land agent. She had been born in Pa like her
parents and had been married
for 40 years.
2 children, one living is Theo Mingos
1920 census Athens D#228 Mingos, Belle A age 60, Morton,
William boarder 56
1930 census Chemung, prob with Theo
Child of CHARLES MINGOS and BELLA ACKLEY is:
17. i. THEODORE A6 MINGOS, b. 26 March 1881, 1907 Athens Directory,
brakeman; d. 1930, Coles cemetery gravestone.
13. IDA BELL5 BOIS (ABRAM E4, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 10 October 1860 in Monroe Twp, and died 5 October 1916 in Daily Review Oct 7,she was Eastern Star, Monroeton cem. She married JOHN S MINGOS, son of DAVID MINGOS and MARTHA BENJAMIN. He was born 17 February 1859 in Monroe Twsp, and died 16 August 1921 in Monroeton cem.
Notes for JOHN S MINGOS:
1860 census John is a baby, and David S Mingos in Monroe Twsp value
$1000 per prop $400
1870 David Mingos is dwelling 10 in Monroe Twsp
1880 census age 21 wagonmaker with David & Martha in Monroe Twp house
#46
1889 letter from Elaine Heddle says" hotel owner" for Fred Bois
1890's John lived in Laceyville,Pa. Wyoming Co and ran a hotel.
Ida Bois' brother Fred ran it with him.
In a 1972 letter from
Madeleine Lynch she has a letter head of 'The Mingos Hotel' in
Laceyville,Pa.
A Mingos from
Laceyville visited her g-father, Melvin Mingos b 1844, in Hallsport, NY. The
above hotel
was at the corner in
Laceyville where you turn left to go to Wilkes-Barre. Linda English of
Laceyville
says the hotel burned
and that Route 6 no longer goes by the site.
1892 web search John Mingos. Under History of Braintrim Baptist
Church. J S Mingos bgt the old church and skid it
across Church St. The old
church was made into a dwelling and apartment house and later a factory. Later
razed.
Ref's to Kingston Twsp,
Plymouth and Braintrim, which was the name of the Laceyville,Pa newspaper.
1900 census Wyoming Co Braintrim Twsp John S Mingos age 41-
Proprietor Hotel, Ida B, Daisy,Jay D & Ruth M
1905 lived on South Main St, Towanda. This was on the SW corner of
Grant St. - today's Lutheran Church
1907 Moved to Monroeton - see 1907 article on Jay Mingos. Father David moved
to Monroeton in April, & died July 7
1910 Census age 51, Monroe Twsp! Ida B age 49, m 28 yrs, Ruth M dau
17, Bois, Mary mil 76 widow, Adney,Hattie
servant 34 - 2 living
children. Jay & Daisey have left home
1912 John S was Buick auto's dealership in Towanda. Then Ford auto's ,
and in Dec 5, 1913 Maxwells.
1913,Dec Purchased a lot at 611 South Main to build a 3 story building
, 50 x 100 feet, for a garage & apts.
1915 History of Lacyville. The Hotel Mingos was purchased in 1915 by David A
Michael.The hotel was very popular
during this prosperous time. It
was operated until 1961 when it was destroyed by fire. There is a picture of the
hotel
on the Laceyville web site.
1916, Jan he sold out the Maxwell agency to a Mr. Moore. 1916,
Oct Ida Bois, his wife died Monroeton cemetery
1920 census Towanda 1st Wd Dennis, Dewey age 38, Daisy M 34, John S
Mingos age 60, May Griggs age 56 servant
1921 "One of Towanda's best known citizens"- interned at Monroeton.
August 16, 1921. Letters of administration
on his estate were
granted to Harry D Bull and Dewey Z Dennis. This makes sense . His dau's : Ruth
m. Harry
Bull and Daisey m. Dewey
Dennis. Footstones in cem "Ida B,John S, mother, father". There was no will.
August 24, 1921 a
renunciation of heirs. Very noticable that there is no mention of Dr Jay D
Mingos, his only son.
2003 I have a copy of a picture of him by Geo. H Wood studio, Towanda Pa. He
looks abt 40 yrs old
The original is with Elaine
Heddle
Children of IDA BOIS and JOHN MINGOS are:
i. DAISEY6 MINGOS, b. 15 December 1885, Laceyville, Wyoming Co; d. 1972,
Monroeton cem.; m. DEWEY DENNIS; b. 1880, Operator/owner Passage Shoe store,Tow;
d. 1954, Monroeton cem-masonic emblem.
Notes for DAISEY MINGOS:
1898,July 28 Thur 5th annual Swartwood Reunion . LVRR arrives. The
celebrated Laceyville ice cream will be served.
source Tri Co
Scrapbook clippings Pg 215. VanEtten, NY is 20 miles N of Sayre,Pa and Swartwood
is 5 miles
further. A possible
connection is that her mother's family, Ida Belle Bois, came from Tioga Co
nearby?
Miss Daisy Mingos, of
Laceyville, Pa., arrived in Van Etten last Thursday and is visiting here for a
season.
1945 I remember being in the shoe store with my mother in Towanda
18. ii. JAY(DR) D MINGOS, b. 30 July 1890, Laceyville, Wyoming Co; d. 18
October 1944, AMA record, San Antonio,Tex.
iii. RUTH MILDRED MINGOS, b. September 1892, Laceyville, Pa, m
Wilkes-Barre 1918; d. 6 July 1962, Monroeton cem.; m. HARRY DECKER BULL; b.
1872, proprietor,Hotel Laquin; d. 7 December 1957, Riverside cem,Towanda, age
85.
Notes for RUTH MILDRED MINGOS:
1918, m Wilkes Barre BCHS cards Mrs Ruth Mildred Mingos -
S Main St . Harry Bull, now Towanda
192x From Laquin they came to Towanda where Mrs. Bull operated a
tea room in her home on York Ave.
1923,Oct 10 1st child Rebecca Ann m Robert Bowman of Tunkhannock
1929, July 10 b John Bull
1936 Operated the Graham Hotel in Tunkhannock, and later operated the
New England Kitchen in Elmira.
1950's Mrs Bull operated the Town Tavern in Towanda, and managed the David
Wilmot Hotel dining room. For $100/wk
she delivered lunch &
dinner to the jail for Specks O'keive - the Brinks robber
1958 returned to Wyalusing after Harry's death
1962 Monroeton Cem Ass records - Ruth died Tyler Mem Hosp Meshoppen .
Buried on North side of Abram E Bois
lot in Lenox
addition. Just west of her is her mother Ida Bois Mingos.
Notes for HARRY DECKER BULL:
1904 The S&NY 1939 book shows the 3 story Laquin Hotel in the very
early 1900's. A timetable from the railroad
dated Dec. 1904
has an ad for the hotel by Harry D Bull
1911 "opened a hotel in Laquin, selling it later to the Central Pa Lumber
Co."- source Ash Merrill's history
1921 Harry was Exec &Admin for the estate of John S Mingos
1940,abt Jay Mingos returned and visited the Bulls at the Prince Hotel in
Tunkhannock, which they operated
2004 John Bull son of Harry & Ruth, d March 2005. was cremated. John &
Judy Pennay Bull lived in South Towanda
As you cross the Towanda
Creek, towards Liberty Corners , theirs is the 2nd property, including the Grist
Mill.
14. FRED STANLEY5 BOIS (ABRAM E4, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 29 January 1866 in Monroe Twsp, Pa, and died 14 December 1915 in Roswell, N.M.. He married BLANCHE BUBB. She was born Abt. 1866, and died 1945 in Los Angeles.
Notes for FRED STANLEY BOIS:
Ran the hotel in Laceyville with John S Mingos, prior to 1912
Children of FRED BOIS and BLANCHE BUBB are:
19. i. DEAN ABRAM6 BOIS, b. 1889, Burlington Boro, Pa; d. 1972, Staten
Island, NY.
ii. RALPH STANLEY BOIS, b. 1891; d. 1926, Tucson,Ariz.
Generation No. 6
15. MAMIE BELLE6 WHITE (DANIEL MILLER5, JOHN4, MARGARET3 BOICE,
ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 11 March 1880, and
died 1971 in source of Boice, Nancy Shaver & White pictures. She married
ELMER STILLWELL. He was born 1861, and died 1925.
Child of MAMIE WHITE and ELMER STILLWELL is:
20. i. NELSON7 STILLWELL, b. 20 March 1912.
16. FREDERICK E6 MINGOS (EDWARD E.5, PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) (Source: Story of the Susquehanna & New York, 3rd Edition 1979, 1905 Picture of Monroeton station.) was born August 1869 in Monroeton, and died 25 October 1936 in Tioga Gen Hosp, Waverly,NY & Monroeton cem. He married LEAH MAUD SNELL, daughter of HENRY SNELL and ALICE WALKER. She was born 22 December 1876 in Chemung Co. NY, and died 5 April 1968 in Burlington, Pa, but Monroeton cem.
Notes for FREDERICK E MINGOS:
Fred Edward Mingos Family Knowledge: some
1869 born He must have gone to Monroeton grade school. The 1st
HS class didn't start until 1888.
1870 Census Fred 1 yr, 1880 Census Fred 10 yr
1891,May 5 Hugo Scrapbook BCHS F.E.Mingos is
proving himself a good hand at taxidermy. He recently
mounted in fine shape a loon for D Bullock which the latter shot on the Towanda
Creek.
1895 Fred was clerk of council, his father Edward was Burgess!
1897 Towanda Directories Frederick E telegrapher
1st time I've see Frederick spelled out
1898, Mar 15 Fred was working as an asst. agent for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, just South of Dushore at
Satterfield, Pa, when
he was offered the job of Agent in Monroeton!
1898,Sept 1 m in Chemung by Rev S B Kieney
1900 Census Fred b.Pa and Leah, station agent, Rented house.
dwelling 71 Edward was dwelling 59
1900 Brad Co Dir Fred E Mingos station agent LVRR and
Barclay RR manager
W U telegraph, agent
US Express Co, h main ( before he built 310 Main)
1905,July 25 the deed on the house, now 310 Main Street $500. to
Rockwell. The original house had yellow-beige
wood shingles. Pg 333
Heverly 1924. Making pine shingles became an important industry in Monroeton.
Settlers brought them in
with their teams for miles around, receiving goods in exchange. The banks of the
creek
at Monroeton was literally
lined with lumber and shingles.
1907 Past Master Evergreen Lodge # 163
1910 Census Frederick E Station Agent railroad
Owned Free of Mortgage!. Dwelling # 153
1914 Hoagland papers Fred and wife were residents of Monroeton
1917 I have 3 neat pictures of the Monroeton Railroad Station with egg
crates and Fred,Leah and Henry
The picture was
published in the Aug 18, 2003 Antique Week Newspaper
1920 Census telegraph operator railway station Alice Snell widow age
73 is with them.
1925 Added indoor bathroom to back of house! On the property was
a chicken coup, garage and an
outhouse. In a
1931 picture, there is a white trellis near the 2nd apple tree.
1927 F. E.Mingos Monroe Hose Co elects to Fire Police
1936 I was 3 years old, but faintly remember a dinner setting in
the dinning room of 310 Main St.
My parents
lived and owned (mortgage) the 3rd house from the feed store.
1936,Oct 26 Towanda Daily Review F.E.Mingos of Monroeton Dies
Veteran Station Agent Passes Away at
Hospital in Waverly Fred E Mingos
resident of Monroeton, passed away last evening at the Tioga General
Hospital in Waverly,NY. He had been a patient there
for the past two weeks and was thought to be recovering
nicely from the operation. Most of yesterday
members of his family were with him and were encouraged by
the progress he appeared to be making. Late in the
evening, however, Mr Mingos suffered a relapse, the end
coming quickly. ( He had an operation for ulcers.He
was flat on his back,medical practice at the time, and died
of a blood clot).
" Fred Mingos was born in Monroeton and
was considered one of the highly respected residents of that
community. For the past 30(38) years he was
Lehigh Station Agent at Monroeton, also serving the New Albany
station of late.The survivors are his wife, who was
injured in an auto accident in-route to the hospital to see
her husband soon after his admission ( Margaret hit
a narrow bridge on the way North) : two sons, Henry E,
who is employed at the Humphrey Lumber Yards here,
and Carl, who is a student at Mansfield State Teachers
College.The funeral arrangements will be announced
later".
My pencil notes from Vera -" Leah
was placed in hospital all banged up, broken arm.Margaret had a broken
finger. John had a bruise across his stomach. Margaret
got some insurance money."
1936-9 Leah was Exec & Admin for Fred Fred was a life
member of the Presbyterian Church in Monroeton.
As a result, Henry took Margaret there, and John went to Sunday school there for
a short while.
1936 Cemetery plot , the marker faces the Main Street, which was the
old direction of the cemetery.
The
burials are behind the markers
1939,April 8 will probated "He left his entire
estate to his wife Leah M, after which it was to go to his sons
Henry E
and Francis Carl equally". But Leah lived until 1968 and wrote a new will
in 1963.
1975 Margaret Mingos donated Fred's and Henry's masonic jewels to
Evergreen Lodge . In turn they were
on display at
the Brad Co Hist Soc exhibit.
2003 Fred broke the chain of family history. At age 15 he was at Alonzo's
funeral and knew where he was buried.
He also knew all the
Mingos deaths in the early 1900's. He did NOT pass this along to Henry?
Notes for LEAH MAUD SNELL:
Family Knowledge :
quite a bit, my paternal grandmother
1876 b. Chemung Co, NY 1880 Census says 3 yrs old. Included in this
e-file/booklet is a Snell history back to
Jacob Snell of Northampton
Co, Pa and new logical connection to his father Abraham Schnell.
1898,Sept 1 m.to Fred Mingos Bradford Reporter 9/8/1898
in Chemung, by Rev S B Kieney
1898,Oct 5 Mrs. Fred Mingos spent a few days at her home in Chemung,
NY - Bradford Republican
1905 Built and moved into what is now 310 Main St. Monroeton numbered
the houses after Margaret's
fire in 1976. The fire dept
went to 310 Main St first, before going to the apartment on North Main.
1920 Census Leah's mother, Alice W Snell - a widow, is in Monroeton.This 3
bedroom house is crowded.
1920's According to Vera , Leah would tie up Carl in a high chair and go
over to the railway station to
help Fred
. Henry was living at home and working as cashier at the Towanda station.
I have a copy of a
postcard
at the railway station with Fred,Leah and Henry in behind large stacks of egg
crates.
1933 Monroeton Bank closed. I presume Fred and Leah also
lost some money
1936 Leah broke her arm, and was banged up in the accident that
happened on the way to see Fred at the
Waverly
Hospital.
1936 After Fred died , there was a requirement that Leah co-sign Henry &
Margaret's mortgage on the
3rd house
from the feed mill. According to Vera, Leah wouldn't co-sign, and the house was
lost.
They
moved, with John, into 310 Main St . 1939 Leah was the executor of Fred's
estate.
1940's Leah occupied the front bedroom - she went away for
years at a time, being a personal, practical
nurse . I do remember playing casino cards in the front room, and sometimes she
was in the swing on
the front
porch , as we cared for MARGARET'S CARD SHOP after school. The SHOP was sold in
late
summer of
1949 to Jake Housenick. In that front room I acquired a shaped tobacco pipe of
Fred's.
1949,Aug On the front porch, Leah gave me for my birthday (Carl bought
it), a King cornet. In Sept in a
horn competition with Jamie McPherson I won 1st seat in the Towanda HS band. In
1968 in
Washington,DC I sold the horn for $50. to Dick Wilson for his son.
1949,Aug John was sick with that Phila disease later
called Legioneers. Leah was accused of something,
and we
moved to Towanda - for 16 years.
1950's Leah did a 6 month stay in Lawrence,Ka that didn't work out
well. By the 1950's she had a private
room on the top floor of the Jennings Nursing home. She was able to work
in the home, and
entertained in a rocking chair . I remember her giving me several little items
in an act of good will.
1963 Leah's will left everything to Henry!
1964 Jeanine took her for a ride to an antique shop in
Burlington. Apparently she was in good mental
condition
, and she bought Jeanine a small piece . I have no idea if she had any
income like a
railroad
pension. Probably not even SSI, or social security.
1965 There was a fire at 310 Main, which was occupied by
renters. It was bad enough that the kitchen,
which was
an addition to the original house, and sat 6" lower than the original building,
was
completely rebuilt. The exit to the southside yard was done away with. After the
rebuilding Margaret
and Henry
moved back to Monroeton!
1967,Aug 7 Admission to Brad Co Home
1968,April 5 Monroeton Woman Dies at 91 Towanda Daily Review "
Mrs Leah S Mingos died Friday following a
lingering illness. She was
b Dec 22,1876 at Chemung ,NY, the dau of Henry and Alice Snell. Her husband d.in
1936.She worked at Jennings
Nursing Home until 1962.She was a member of the Monroeton Presbyterian
Church. Funeral services will be
held Sunday at 3 o'clock at the Maryott Funeral Home. Rev Harry Porter
Farr
will officiate and the burial
will be Monday".
1968,April 7 Henry and Margaret came from Daytona Beach, Fla and stopped in
Potomac, Md
with son John and
Jeanine. They encouraged me not to come up to Monroeton for the funeral!
Apparently there was a
written document asking no one to be in the cemetery for the burial?
Carl ,Vera Margaret and
Henry stood on the front porch of 310 Main and watched from a distance.
1968,April 8 Certificate of Death natural causes 91 yrs Bradford
Co Home, Burlington.There were no assets.
Children of FREDERICK MINGOS and LEAH SNELL are:
21. i. HENRY EDWARD7 MINGOS, b. 17 May 1900, Monroeton, Pa; d. 11 September
1972, Towanda Hospital, and Monroeton cemetery.
22. ii. FRANCIS CARL MINGOS, b. 14 February 1918, Sayre Hosp, Bradford Co,
PA; d. 6 November 2000, Topeka,Ka Hospital, but Lawrence, Ka cemetery.
17. THEODORE A6 MINGOS (CHARLES5, PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 26 March 1881 in 1907 Athens Directory, brakeman, and died 1930 in Coles cemetery gravestone. He married ELLEN. She was born 1884 in 1910 census-age 24, Eleanor & ch, m 3 yrs b NY, and died 1940 in Coles cemetery gravestone.
Notes for THEODORE A MINGOS:
1910 census Athens age 29 m 3 yrs living in dwelling 397 with Charles Mingos
family, next to GW. Brakman for RR
1917 Dir. of Elmira, emp Willys - Morrrow Co h 216 Soper
1917-18 registration for WW1 draft Chemung Co, NY Theodore Alonzo
Mingos b 26 mar 1881
1920 census NY Minges,Theodore 38 12-Wd Elmira rents RR, Eleanor b NY
Ire Ire 35 , Beatrice 12
1930 census Chemung Co, NY Bella Mingos is also listed in
Chemung, prob with Theo
Child of THEODORE MINGOS and ELLEN is:
i. BEATRICE7 MINGOS, b. 1908, b Athens age 2 in 1910 census,
not in Coles cem.
18. JAY(DR) D6 MINGOS (IDA BELL5 BOIS, ABRAM E4, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 30 July 1890 in Laceyville, Wyoming Co, and died 18 October 1944 in AMA record, San Antonio,Tex. He married ETHYL BOGGS. She was born Abt. 1890 in m Waynesboro, Pa, father is a Reverend., and died 18 July 1934 in San Antonio, Tex.
Notes for JAY(DR) D MINGOS:
1889 The AMA card file says b 1889, but the Brad Co draft says July 1890
1900 He is in the Wyoming Co census, son of John & Ida
1905 John S Mingos living at South Main St, Towanda
1907 Jay Mingos in Monroeton. A letter from Elaine Heddle " Jay was a
childhood friend & cousin of Dean A Bois".
The AMA card file
says Monroeton H.S.
In reminiscing concerning the township, Supt. Morrow recalled the time back
in 1907 when as principal of Monroeton High School he decided to put on a home
talent show. It was his first attempt along that line and both he and the actors
were a little worried over just how it would go over. Consequently, when some
complications arose over getting the hall at Monroeton on the night desired, it
did not take long to decide to try the play at Laquin first. That would give
them a chance to see how it was before the home folks had a chance to criticise.
The actors and what paraphernalia was necessary were loaded on a train and taken to Laquin. The hall was packed. Men and women came from miles around on horseback and on donkeys. It was a big event up there for shows were few and far between. Many of those in the audience wore the big lumberjack shirts and some were seen to be carrying guns at various locations on their anatomy. There was no way for the actors and actresses to get out of town until the next day. The show had to be good and it was. Its title was "Among the Breakers" – a very appropriate name for a play in a coal mining township. All expenses were paid and there was a small profit. Besides that, the experience there helped greatly and the play was an unqualified success when it was repeated two weeks later at Monroeton.
Among those who took part in the production, a well balanced comedy-drama,
were Earl Hinman, now teaching in Sayre; Leon Crandell, Dr. Jay Mingos, Robert
Musselman, Lucy Drake and Mary Ward.
Source: Romance of Old Barclay,Chapter Eight Publ 1928 by Stanley N clark,
City editor of Towanda Daily Review.
1910 census nothing. He is in medical school Jefferson Medical College,
Phila Pa 4 years ! 1908 - 1912. An (H)
on the AMA card indicates
homeopath
1913,Jan 24 - July 1913 intern at Williamsport Hosp. Ethyl is in
Williamsport City and his 1st practice is Montgomey
which is only abt 25 miles East
of Williamsport. The AMA card has Towanda 7/10/13. He could have gone home
before opening an office in
Montgomery.
1913-15 Dr. Jay D Mingos practiced medicine in Montgomery, Pa 5
miles W of Muncy, Lycoming Co.
1915 He located in Towanda in March 1915, and m in Waynesboro,Pa Jun
1915
He opened an office in the
Foster block in Towanda at this time.
1915, June 24 marriage to Ethyl Boggs at Waynesboro, Pa
her father the Rev, George Franklin Boggs
This came from the BCHS
card file which got it from the Bradford Star Newspaper.
1915 He located at Laquin in July to practice medicine . "At home" card for
his wedding says after August 1st.
The AMA card says 6/3/1915
Laquin
1917 Brad Co draft registration Mingos, Jay Depue(ew). Includes his b
of 30 July 1890
1917 July commissioned Lt. US Army Medical Corp . The above is from
Hoagland's pages.
1920 Census Thru Brad Co Heritage Quest I did not find Mingos in
the 1920 census of Laquin, about 12 pages A & B
No hit on Mingus - 10
heads of family in Pa.
1920,March 1 AMA card Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Tex. This was Brooke
Gen. Hosp and even in the 1950's Brooke
was a large military
medical facility.
1921 No mention of him in the August 1921 administration of John S
Mingos, his father. Or the renunciation of heirs.
1922 Hoagland - Mrs Mingos was a resident of San Antonio,Tex. AMA card
10/1/1922 Camp Travis, Tx 1923 Major
1924 Major J D Mingos of San Antonio Tx "visits sisters". Denise Golden BCHS
says there is a photo negative with 3
poses of a J Mingos - Ott &
Hay studio Towanda.
1924 Sept 1 Pittsburgh, Pa AMA card 1925 AM Directory he shows
as University of Pittsburgh
1930 census, not there 1931 American Medical Directory Manila,P.I. Major
M.C. USA
1933,Dec 20 Note on AMA card - this must end his assignment in the
Philippines.
1937,July 31 Retired. Sometime in this period Jay returned and visited the
Bulls at the Prince Hotel in Tunkhannock, Pa
1942 AMA Directory Jay is not in practice Lt Col USA retired 327
Pershing Ave, San Anonio, Tx
1944,Oct 18 d Fort Sam Houston, Tx Burns,1st, 2nd and 3rd
degree,severe of face,scalp and neck,shoulder arm and leg
bilateral. Per postal from HA
Ferguson, Major, Brooke Gen Hosp Nov 23 1948 Ft Sam Houston,Tx
1944,Oct 24 Intered at Arlington Cemetery as a Lt. Col Secton 7, Grave
10103. Six days is really fast.
More About JAY(DR) D MINGOS:
Burial: 24 October 1944, Arlington National Cemetery, Va - Grave 10103
Notes for ETHYL BOGGS:
1910 census Lycoming Co 12 Wd Williamsport, Pa George F Boggs, 42, Isabella
40, Ethil 20 Pa Pa WVir,
Therry 18, Marguerite 14,
John W 6, George F 5.
1915 The wedding announcement is with Elaine Heddle. "Rev and Mrs
George Franklin Boggs announce the m
of their dau
Ethyl to Dr. Jay Depew Mingos June 24, 1915 , Waynesboro (10 miles NE of
Hagerstown, Md
in Franklin
Co,Pa) Also enclosed is an "at home" card for Jay and Ethyl "after the 1st of
August, Laquin,Pa".
This came from
Elaine Heddle, but the BCHS card file has the same announcement from Brad Star
Newspaper
1917, July 25 Tow Daily Rev. Mrs J D Mingos visited friends (maybe sisters
of Jay) in Towanda
1917 July Jay was commisioned a Lt somewhere?
1920 census Brad Co nothing on Jay D Mingos & Wf or Mingus,Minges.
Also nothing in USA indexes for 1920.
1920 George F Boggs 52 the wandering Rev., Blair Co 4-Wd Altoona.
Ethyl is not with her parents?
Isabel K
48 West Vir, Marguerite 24, John W 16, George F 14
1922 from Hoagland papers "Mrs Mingos was a resident of San
Antonio,Tex, in 1922"
1930 census not there They were in Manila, P.I. from 10/1/1930
to 12/20/1933 - source AMA card file. Either while there
or after their return, she
became blind, perhaps from something she encountered there, & d 1934.
Child of JAY(DR) MINGOS and ETHYL BOGGS is:
i. JOHN(JACK) F7 MINGOS, b. Abt. 1922, Tx; d. 26 January 1945, WW2 Battle
of the Bulge 1st Lt. USA.
Notes for JOHN(JACK) F MINGOS:
1925 Judy Pennay Bull of Towanda has a picture of Jack with his father
1945 Purple Heart 1st Lt USA 01825485, "died the1st day of the Battle of the
Bulge". The Germans broke through on
Dec 16,1944 and created a
bulge in the American line. St. Avold is 25 miles East of Metz,France. That he
is
buried Jan 26, 1945 does
not confirm when he died.
More About JOHN(JACK) F MINGOS:
Burial: 1945, Lorraine American Cem, St Avold,France, East of Metz
19. DEAN ABRAM6 BOIS (FRED STANLEY5, ABRAM E4, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 1889 in Burlington Boro, Pa, and died 1972 in Staten Island, NY.
More About DEAN ABRAM BOIS:
Burial: b cert. says father hotel owner
Child of DEAN ABRAM BOIS is:
23. i. BLANCHE ADELINE7 BOIS, b. 1914, Jersey City,NJ; d. 1986, Staten
Island, NY.
Generation No. 7
20. NELSON7 STILLWELL (MAMIE BELLE6 WHITE, DANIEL MILLER5, JOHN4,
MARGARET3 BOICE, ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 20
March 1912. He married LUCELLA ATWATER. She was born Abt. 1912.
Child of NELSON STILLWELL and LUCELLA ATWATER is:
i. PATRICIA ELAINE8 STILLWELL, b. 2 June 1948.
21. HENRY EDWARD7 MINGOS (FREDERICK E6, EDWARD E5, PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 17 May 1900 in Monroeton, Pa, and died 11 September 1972 in Towanda Hospital, and Monroeton cemetery. He married MARGARET DELPHINE HART, daughter of JOHN HART and LOVEDA CRAVER. She was born 23 March 1902 in Pleasant Mount, Wayne Co., PA, and died 1 December 1976 in Monroeton apartment & cemetery.
Notes for HENRY EDWARD MINGOS:
"My dad is gone now and I hope he is at peace for he worked long and hard for
his family"
" Your dad had a host of friends.We did not go around socially, because I didn't
belong to the
clubs. But I enjoyed talking to him. He always had a story - talked loudly. I
enjoyed him!"
David Gamzon 7/11/1984 age 69 working at Memorial Park
"I was so
impressed with him - how would you like to come down here with me and
learn the lumber
business?. I do not recall ever any unpleasant words passing between us. He
meant a great deal to
me in so
many ways - so many happy years with one of the finest persons I have ever
known".
Edward Overton Sept 15,1972
1914, April 12 joined the Monroeton Presbyterian Church
1916 Finished 11 grades at Monroeton red brick school house. One of
his teachers was Flora Woodruff
who lived three
houses South of 310 Main St
1917 Hurt his ankle while playing football at Towanda HS for his 12th
grade. The ankle gave him some
trouble all his
life. One of his teachers was Jean Holcombe, who I also had for Senior
English!
1918,Jun Grad Towanda HS. Started a life of work on May 1, 1918 for
the S&NY railroad (before grad).
WW1 ended Nov 11,
1918 Armistice. Towanda Consolidated Lehigh Valley Railroad & S&NY were
merged
on Nov 1,1918. Lehigh
Valley had Gov't control of S&NY until 1920. I have a history book of the
Susquehanna & NY Railroad.
3rd Edition Publ 1939. Henry ended up working for LVRR.
1920 - 1928 clerk and cashier at Washington St. Station,Towanda
LVRR - he is no longer with S&NY
1920 I heard he played drums at a local watering hole. He was
catcher for Monroeton baseball team.
He was
proud that he caught for Jake Northrop, a Pro pitcher who later in life hired
out for $50.game.
1923 Mr. & Mrs L C Marcy entertain at dinner party for the 24th
birthday of Prof.Walter Marcy. Guests
include (could
be Monroeton baseball team) Jake Northrop,Waldo Moulthrop,Richard Rice,Henry
Rockwell,Grover
Wheeler, Henry Mingos,Eugene Minier, Ralph Dunfee, Fred Smith, John Madden and
Leo Marcy (played
some pro ball for the NY Yankees).
1925, Dec There is a picture of a dinner-dance at Shores Inn, Rt 6
from the collection of J E Meredith in the January
11, 2005 Towanda paper that
says that Mr & Mrs Mingos are in the picture. An email from Steve Moore,
Moores
Auto, says on the
back of the picture - standing from left to right, 2nd & 3rd persons Henry &
Margaret Mingos.
Margaret must have
been visiting Monroeton for the holidays - they weren't m until August 1926.
1926,Mar 2 H E Mingos of Monroeton purchases a new car.
1926,Aug 17 m. Margaret Delphine Hart in
Wilkes-Barre. Best man was Harold Williams. Henry rode the
train to
Wilkes-Barre. He also visited with Peg in the summers at Lake George,NY and
Atlantic City.
On their
honeymoon they took a train trip to Buffalo and Chicago!
1927,April 30 Monroeton Dramatic Club is presenting
"Married Life". Members of the cast are Henry E
Mingos, Mrs.
Henry Mingos, plus eight others. To be presented in the new Wesly Hall.
1929 Sayre, Westbound yard of Lehigh Valley RR - billclerk
1929 Towanda , baggage master. Master of Evergreen Lodge No 163
1929 " Henry came into Ed Overton's office to collect the Lehigh
Valley RR freight bills. In a moment or so
he
accepted ( the job), and thus began a long business association". This was very
hard work. He opened the
yard at 7:00 am
and worked a 6 day week until after WW2. This may have been before the stock
market crash
of Oct 1929. In
1945 I would leave my bicycle at the yard while going to 10 cent Saturday
western movies.
1936,Oct 25 Fred dies - this is upsetting. Leah would not co-sign the
mortgage on the 3rd house from the feed mill.
Henry, Margaret &
John move into 310 Main St prob by xmas 1936. Carl coming home from Mansfield
would
have disrupted
sleeping arrangements. John was occupying his bedroom.
1940's Every summer he would take us to the Wheelerville camp, and we would
pick baskets of
huckleberries , some for resale (.15 cents /qt) at the grocery store. By the
late 1940's I don't remember
Henry going hunting at all, but he did take me trout fishing and bass fishing.
When I was about 14 yrs
old
we went to Canada for a week fishing. Later in the summer of 1952 Rueben
Cronshee invited me
to go with Tom Kohn on the same trip to Canada. He worked the Sunday
newspapers at Margaret's
Card Shop. Once on a windy day, he had to come save the day - I had papers
blowing everywhere.
He
was always squeezing out $ by projects, ie blueberries, Sun. papers, tax loss on
Margaret's Card
Shop, club Secretaries which he got paid a minimal amount.
1944 WW2 He was an airplane spotter on Sundays, his
only day off. And of course,he had a Victory Garden
On the
Aircraft Warning Observer Card he is listed as 6' 2" and 205 pds
1940's Reluctantly he drove us to a lot of Hart family gatherings,
North Lake, Dallas, and Wilkes-Barre.
1945 Summer Somehow Henry arranged for me to attend
Camp Brule as a Lone Scout. I had been doing
some scout work in Presbyterian Hall, Monroeton. Maybe it folded? Anyway I was
treated special!
1946,Nov Henry acquired 4 tickets for the Army-Navy football
game in Veterans Stadium , Phila. He invited
my cousin Paul Beers to join us, and WOW!, what a game. 21-18 Blanchard and
Davis for Army and
Pistol Pete Williams for Navy. It is listed now as one of the greatest college
games ever! Navy ran
out
of time on the one foot line? As I write this on Jan 19,2003 the last game ever
was played
today in that stadium-Tampa Bay wins over Phila Eagles.
1948, summer Henry coached (managed) our junior Monroeton
baseball team. We were very good. One year
our record was 22-4. John pitched- won 11 games. He drove Chuck Rubert and
I to Bloomsburg for a major
league tryout with the Phil. Athletics.
1948,Dec He took the first vacation I remember and drove us all
the way to Key West,Fla. I think it was a
1946 Chevrolet, and we got back in time for me to start as center on the JV
basketball team.
I
never remember my Dad letting my mother drive.
1949, sum He co--managed with Earl Brown and we entered a baseball
team in the Tri-County league.
Halfway to Powell they leveled a woods area and made a ballfield where my Dad
said there used
to
be one years before. Whatever happened, I played again for the
Browns the summer of 1953 on
Browns Hill -my last baseball game in August versus Towanda.The game was
forfeited - Earl
Brown gave the umpire a concusion. I hitchhiked to Wallingford, Vt afterward to
work as a
lifeguard at Shawnee Leadership Institute
1949,Sept They moved to York Ave ,Towanda then to Chestnut St
second floor apt. by 1950. As late as 1956
they were still there. After that they moved to a house on River St.
1950,Feb Humphrey Lumber Yards sold to Valley Lumber Company. (Ed
Flynn, William Fitzgerald and Henry
had
two shares (tiebreaker). Ed Overton, owner, retired to Cal. I worked as a
hand there in summer of 1951.
It
just about did me in. He hired my classmates. Ruth Remsnyder was a
bookkeeper, Jim Ross did a
summer
tour in 1952, and later Chuck Rubert worked there full time! What a guy my dad
was!
1950, April 18 William Fitzgerald ,Sr is killed in an auto accident at
a bridge in Waverly . Dorothy continued as co-
owner of the Lumber Yards.
As an aside Billy told me he and his mother joined the Presbyterian church.
1953, Dec 11 he became a Shriner.
1951-1955 He and Margaret paid for my college education, which was about
$1000/yr! I worked summers
and got
paid for ROTC in addition to occaisional jobs at State College. On May
8th, 1955 they came to
Beaver House
for mother's day. Little did they know what would happen next.
1955,May 10 Henry left Valley Lumber. In a vote Dorothy & Henry elected
Henry as Director of Valley Lumber.
Apparently Ed Flynn
was livid, and did not offer Dorothy the full value her share of the yards, so
she either took him
to Towanda Court or
this was tied up in the estate of William FitzGerald Sr. Jerry Fox (a
partner of Flynn) must
have then operated the
Towanda Yard for a while. Clyde Bennett in Waverly did not get his $Bonus & ask
Henry to
be a witness in court for
him. During the next few months Henry was looking for a business to buy,
and Dorothy
was willing to back him for
$20,000 to buy the Ulster Yard, since my Dad's shares were tied up in the legal
action.
1955, July 2 Sat.night. As an aside, I was home for the long weekend
from Phila, and Billy Fitz & I hooked up
somehow and went to
the Keystone Inn & Thompsons in Waverly. Neither one of us seemed to know much
about what was going
on. On Monday Henry drove us to Reading for a Hart gathering, and then took me
to
Phila. They had
breakfast with me on Tues & I went into work at the Frankfort Arsenal at 2:00
pm.
1955, Aug 15 He joins with Robert E Lee, the son-in law of a
contractor, to form Wysox Lumber Co. I have a letter
from my mother
describing the opening, including flowers from Dorothy Fitzgerald and the 1st
Nat'l Bank. It is
very possible that
Dorothy Fitzgerald backed my father or co-signed a note for the Wysox Lumber
Yard.
1950's Both Henry and Margaret went bowling once a week at the Towanda
alleys and later at the top
of the
hill in North Towanda. They both played a lot of cards. 500 parties, Hi Lo Jack
in the game,
pinochle,
pitch, hearts , etc.
1956,Jan They came to State College & stayed at the Nittany Lion
Inn for my graduation. Johanna Pomeroy
said they
were so proud.
1956, March He arranged with Dorothy Fitzgerald for a loan of $400. so
I could buy my first car. They were still in a
legal court action
over either the estate of William Fitzgerald,Sr or the sellout price of
the Valley Lumber Yards.
1956,Dec He got someone on New Years day to replace an engine gasket
in my 1952 Plymouth so I could
go back
to USAF flying school at Marianna , Fla. Wow, again he was there for me
when needed.
1958 In an unfortunate incident involving Robert Lee, my Dad left
(sold out?) the partnership in Wysox Lumber.
1958-1966 Bookkeeper,clerk at Meredith Bottling Works. Margaret did the same
job during WW2 while
Jimmy Meredith was away.
1960's He drove to Dayton & Kettering 3 times- sum 1961, Aug
1962 and 1965. They loaned me $3500 to buy
the Skyline Mobile home, which we brought in through Indiana at night. It
exceeded the Ohio cab/trailer
length of 60'. I used their picture from my 1962 wedding for an article in
the Bradford Co History, publ 1995
1965,April They moved back to Monroeton to his childhood home - now
numbered 310 Main.
1967 - 1972 He was part-time bookkeeper at Gulf Oil Co, East Towanda,
Treasurer of Towanda Elks,
Secretary of Monroeton Masonic Lodge, Secretary/Treasurer of Monroeton
Borough Council and
Secretary for a long time of the Naiad-Linta Fire Co of Towanda.
1968,April Leah, his mother, passed away. It's odd, but I never
heard him mention Leah or Fred? In several mid
1950 's
letters from Leah to me, she said he called her on the phone
1972,April He cleaned up the basement after Hurricane Agnes. It
must have physically done him in. As
Secretary for the Monroe Council he applied for all the Federal aid - lots of
paperwork.
1972,April 29 Henry was on the building committee for renovating the
closed Pres.Church into a Lodge Hall.
He served as purchasing agent to secure needed materials, labored long and hard
insuring the
proper completion of all the planned renovation. At the Pa Grand Lodge for
the dedication he
received his 50 year Masonic service emblem. His masonic career included York
and Scottish Rites in
Towanda, Williamsport Consistory, Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre, and its
Bradford Co
Shrine Club. He was very helpful with Instruction, and served 25 years as Blue
Lodge Secretary!
1972 He was a lifetime member and maybe charter
member of the Monroeton Gun Club at the top of
the hill near Wheelerville,Pa, He was a member of the Presbyterian Church
for 56 years most of
the
time belonging to Monroeton, although he must have sent his letter to Towanda
after John &
Margaret joined there in 1951. He was active in the Towanda Gun Club at
Homet's Ferry and the
Monroeton Fire Co.
1972,Jun 11 Dr Tama said he was like a walking dead man. It must have
been extremely hard to keep
going. Yet in a letter he just planted his garden,which he did all his life.
Yellow corn,cucumbers,
salsify, asters, marygold, and zennias. Margaret and he were just out to a
bowling banquet at
Laceyville, and they danced once. When I joined them in late August in Atlantic
City, he could
barely
walk. How lucky I was to spend a few days with him just before the end.
1972,Sept 8 Henry was burning cornstalkes on the back of the lot and a
gasoline can exploded. He was
burned
in the face and upper body, but would have recovered in the Towanda Hospital.
Dr. Tama
said his
case was reviewed by a board. He had 100% blockage of the arteries -
arteriosclerocus,
He died
Sept 11,1972 of myocardial infarction, and is buried in Monroeton cemetery with
two
generations of his family.There were a record number of masons, over 70, at the
funeral service
at the
Maryott Funeral Home. Over 200 people signed the attendance book!
1980's The irony is that Henry, Margaret, Meredith Bottling Works and
Humphreys all ended by fire.
2003 I am reminded of dad every night on TV with Paul
Kangas, Business Report at 6:30 pm. He combed
his white
hair straight backwards. I'll always remember them. They'll always be in
my heart.
More About HENRY EDWARD MINGOS:
Cause of Death: blocked arteries
Medical Information: bifocals all his life;wore white socks to prevent color
leakage to his bad ankle; got winter head colds;had severe headaches after
parties (Cluster headaches?) He was very strong.
Notes for MARGARET DELPHINE HART:
" I really liked Margaret. She was so much fun, and she always had a story" -
Vera Mingos 2000
" always have an all time consuming indoor hobby , and an
all time consuming outdoor hobby". Margaret's files
1902 Raised in a family of 6 children. John Hart was a school teacher,
and part time minister in the
Firewood
Methodist church.
1921 A letter from Ruth Maury says that both Margaret and Lea worked a
(3) year, then went to school .
That they worked summers to
pay for their college. At age 18 she taught in1920-21 in Wilkes-Barre.
1921-3 Taught school in rural Terrytown,Pa. She attended a
teachers institute in Towanda. Through Bill Sullivan
( a fellow teacher)
she had a blind date with Henry. Later she introduced Lydia Pauly to Bill.There
were
train trips from
Terrytown to Wysox for weekends.She taught 5 years in this time period.
Only a HS
diploma and 1 summer
session at college were required to teach on a (partial) elementary certificate.
She taught
1920-21/1924-26 in Luz.Co, and 1921-23 in Brad Co. There are pictures of her in
Monroeton-1923.
1924,Feb 23 became engaged. Graduated from Bloomsburg State Normal School in
1924 - two yr certificate
Atlantic City
in the summer, so Lake George,NY maybe was summer 1925?
1926,Aug 17 Miss Margaret D Hart of Wilkes-Barre and Henry E Mingos of
Monroeton are married at the
brides home. Officiating is
the Rev Carl Councilman, pastor of the Firewood Methodist Church .
The bride is attended by her
sister ,Lenore Hart, and by Miss Dorothy Deatrick. Best man is Harold
Williams of Monroeton. The new
Mrs. Mingos has been teaching the past two years in the Wilkes -Barre
city schools. Her husband is
employed in the LVRR office at Towanda. They will live in Monroeton.
1927,Mar 3 Union Masonic Club of Towanda. In Progressive "500"
consolation prize for women
is taken by Mrs. Henry Mingos.
1929 Towanda Directory bookkeeper at White-
Bustin Chevolet Co, in Monroeton! She continued when
the
company moved to Towanda. 1932 same
1930's Past National Grand Master of Monroeton Rebekah Lodge. Member of
Order of Eastern Star,
1933 b John They lived in the 3rd house from the feed mill. I
have a picture in the back yard of the Morris
chair and the two yellow tabby cats. Some day I might check the deed in the
court house .
1933 The Monroeton bank closed. Henry & Margaret lost whatever
they had at the bank
1936 Fred died. Leah would not co-sign their mortgage, so
they gave up their home and moved into 310
Main St. Margaret was the outsider in Monroeton. Somehow they made this
work until 1949.
1940 She started MARGARET's CARD SHOP in the front room. A white sign(
3'x4') hangs outside off the
porch.
They sold magazines,cold drinks, candies, dry goods, and packaged
groceries.Sometimes after
grade
school I would open the store about 4:00pm.
1943 WW11 Employed by the Eclipse in Elmira and then Sylvania Electric
Co. This was really hard - she
worked nights at
Elmira, and slept during the day . At Sylvania she had a very dirty job in a
powder
area. My mother
worked very hard all her life, and the income allowed them to have a good life.
1944 When Jimmy Meredith went to war, she became bookkeeper at
Meredith Bottling Works.
1940's She was always a real trouper. Picking berries at the hunting
camp, going sunfish fishing at
Mountain Lake, ice skating on Dr Cooks pond - she broke her arm, etc
1945-48 In the summers we always went to NYC and Atlantic City with
Lea & Paul Beers. We saw a lot of
stage
shows in NYC, and I remember riding the Cyclone roller coaster at Coney Island
with Mom.
In
Atlantic City we always did Steel Pier and Capt Starn's restaurant.
1949 They sold the Shop to Jake House, who had bought Carl Summers
grocery store in the town center.
1949-51 She was teaching at Towanda HS and drove our baseball team to all
the away games
1950's In spite of having to prepare for school, she was an avid bidge player
and bowler during the week.
Past
President of Towanda Gun Club auxillary, Past President of Towanda Area
Education Asso.
1951,Mar 22 I went through class to join the Towanda Pres. Church.
Margaret stayed loyal to my father
and joined by
letter. She had been raised a Methodist..
1951 It was through my mothers encouragement that I went to college.
Being in the high school building
as a teacher
allowed her to follow my activities. In the fall of 1951 I brought Richard
Mercer to Chestnut St &
Mom hosted him
. I arranged a date for him with Shirley Page.
1955, May Mother wrote me often while I was in college. Her letter
after Henry left the Lumber Yard was a shocker.
She did say she was
happy I was almost finished with school, as they had enough money to allow me to
finish regardless of
what happens next.
1962 She entertained Jeanine and I at River St, even though she was
still working. She knew this was
finally the
one.She went to Bermuda the summer of 1960 on a cruise, and that is how Jeanine
and I came
to take
our honeymoon in Bermuda.
1964 Margaret taught special education in the Towanda Schools at the
First/ Third Wards and the High
School
from 1944 -1964. She retired in 1964 according to the obit, so that makes 20
years in Towanda.
She was
entitled to teachers retirement. She had high blood pressure most of
her life.
1972,April Suffered Hurricane Agnes .The basement of 310 Main flooded -
solid mud. I did not see how bad
my
dad was - I went to Kingston to help Aunt Arline Hart Brown.
1972,Aug We spent three wonderful days in Atlantic City, even eating
at Capt Starns. Henry brought the
Monroeton
History book - I had never seen it? There was Coonrad Mingos
1972,Sept 11 Henry dies. Margaret sells the house full of memories to Greg
McCloud and moves to an
apartment on
Main St towards Towanda.
1974,Sept 19 Meals -On -Wheels worker $2.15 Towanda Hospital.
She went on a Caribbean cruise with
3
lady friends. They had so much fun that she offered to send Jeanine and I on the
same cruise.
1972-75 Lived alone in N Monroeton apt. Spent her winters at Daytona
Beach,Fla. Went to the Daytona 500
and played bridge at the
Mather Bridge Club at Beach Restaurant. She almost attained a master ACBL
title without a regular
partner! In 1975, stopping in Potomac, Md , she went to Fla on the autotrain.
1976,Jun Lea and Margaret went on a 30 day trip to Alaska . Included being
evacuated from the Georgia
Hotel, Vancouver,
Canada on a fire alarm. Lincoln bus Lines,Hanover Pa .Returned July 29.
1976,Nov She had just returned from Las Vegas with Lea Beers
over Thanksgiving.There were coins
all over the
place, and the police had picked them up and saved them. I can just imagine her
in Las
Vegas playing
the slots and having a grand old time
1976,Nov 29 She had just bought a new red Dodge Aspen. I
returned it to Athens, Joe Maddox, sales mgr.
1976,Dec 1 Headline in Towanda Daily Review MONROETON WOMAN DIES
IN HOUSE FIRE
Mrs. Mingos
died Wednesday evening of smoke inhalation when her home caught fire .
The body was
removed to the Robert Packer Hospital, but I did not request on autopsy.
Clayton & Jane
Maryott handled the funeral. I gave a special hutch which Margaret had
made to them
for their dau. I ask for the Eastern Star to perform services, but I should have
had
the Rebekah's.
It was a closed casket. We had a family dinner at Jack McGuire's in Towanda
after
the burial on
Saturday. Lea Beers was with us for the whole time.
"Some 6200
Americans die in home fires each year, and at least two - thirds of the deaths
stem
from inhalation
of smoke and toxic gases."
1976,Dec 6 We spent six days in Towanda, three of which Jeanine sifted
through the ashes. The living room
was gutted and
the rest of the apt. was smoke and heat damaged. There were no utilities
and
the temperature
was 14 degrees? Needless to say, this was an ordeal. We stored some pieces of
furniture that
we choose to keep in James VanNess's barn ( alsoClass of 1951). Marshall Dawsey,
Polly Moore's (
also class of 1951) husband , was hired to do the probate.
2003 My mother had an immense influence on my life. She and I got
along really well, and we had a lot
of laughs. May
she find happyness and joy in her eternal life.
More About MARGARET DELPHINE HART:
Cause of Death: smoke inhalation
Medical Information: high blood pressure, reading glasses, maybe a bleeding
problem near the end, cancer in her sibblings.
Child of HENRY MINGOS and MARGARET HART is:
i. JOHN FREDERICK8 MINGOS, b. 30 August 1933, Mills Hospital ,S Towanda,
Bradford Co , Pa; m. JEANINE LEE KEENER; b. 2 July 1936, St. Anns Hosp, Dayton ,
Ohio.
Notes for JOHN FREDERICK MINGOS:
WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE
In order to move into the future one
needs to examine the past. "Honor thy father and mother that it may be well with
thee and that thou mayest live long upon the earth". 'People
shouldn't be forgotten' TV 9/28/03 Cold Case
Nov 1972, Pg 484 Genealogy Helper
Magazine "synamic search - reports what is known, solicits correction ,
explanation and announces results when informed. Preferable to long delays
awaiting perfection". A synthesizing work in process. The one thing
that makes my family history special is that it's mine.
I am starting Family Tree
Maker in Jan 2003. I plan to build a file on the immigrant J Conrad
Menges,
arrived Phila. Oct 1754, prob from the Erbach area of Germany. It will
include Bowmans, Bois(Boice), Snells(Schnell), Harts/Craver, Foxs and Rockwells.
Also all of the Mingos cousins from Coonrad(F3).
1945 1st class from Monroeton grade school to be bussed to Towanda.
9/1945 took up trumpet with Leonard Smith.
1948 sum I was the primary pitcher for the Championship Monroeton Jr
Legion baseball team. We went 22 -4 to beat
East Smithfield. I
won 11, lost 2. Junior Brown won 7 lost 1. Then in the fall I played 2nd string
varsity football
right end at 140 #s,
on the Championship RTL Towanda team.
1948/9 Jr. Varsity basketball, Towanda won the Roosevelt Trail League
Championship. I was high scorer for the
year with
147 points, 9 points in the championship game v Troy at Mansfield College - 25
-21. We were 16-5.
1949,May As a sophmore pitcher, I was called into the Troy game with
bases loaded, two outs, count 2 balls. I lofted
a slow pitch and it was
poped up to Jimmy Lenox at 1st base.
1949, sum I played right field for Monroeton, at the field towards Powell.
They may have played there for a few years
after that. On Aug 18th I
was sick in bed (we had been to Phila for a baseball game - later called
Legioneer's
desease), and I have a diary note
that the Dr. advised me not to go out for football. I don't remember Henry
encouraging me later to go back
out for football my Senior year. He had broke an ankle in his senior year at
Towanda. This 1948 -49 stretch may have
been the highlight of my athletics.
1950 sum This summer I played for Alex Eddy in East Towanda, not Monroeton .
1951,March 22 I went through class & joined the Towanda Pres. Church.
In Monroeton I had gone to the Methodist
Sunday school and many away
activities,a softball league and Forksville Camp. Mother joined by letter .
Both Sally Putnam and Sue
Ruggles were members.
1951,Mar 31 I had a Sr Play "open house" at 205 1/2 Chestnut St apt,
over 65 kids came . I have some pictures in
my high school album.
1951 Graduated with honors, TVJHS 6 letters in athletics 4
baseball, 1 basketball & 1 football, plus 4 band, 2
orchestra, 2 choir. I have
a complete box of memories from these years - includes several picture
albums,
oriole newspapers, letters,
dance programs, a sports scrapbook , any & all memorabilia. I doubt anyone in
the class of 1951 has more
. At age 70 I seem to spend a lot of time reliving the past and updating this
history.
1952, Jan I switched from the College of Business to Engineering, &
moved from Nittany Dorm to Hamilton Hall.
1952/3 summers Head life guard and swimming teacher for Towanda at the
SCI pool. Both summers I went
to Vermont in late
August as Waterfront Director at Shawnee Leadership Institute for two weeks. In
Aug
of 1953 I played my
last baseball game for Monroeton. It was forfeted when Earl Brown gave the
umpire
a concussion over our
catcher, Lloyd Kiefer from Canton, touching (or not) first base.
1954, Feb 10 Initiated into Beaver House Fraternity, which became
Delta Phi Fraternity in 1959.
1954,June I went to Greenville, Miss for AFROTC. Got a crew cut which
I wore for 18 years. Then worked as an
Industrial Eng for John
Docky, shirt mfg plant, Benton,Pa
1955,Xmas I became pinned with Johanna Sue Pomeroy. Beaver House sent her
red roses.
1956, Jan 28th Sat. CJ Roeger & Stan Kolodjeski came
to 205 Chestnut St for a graduation party at my parents
apartment. Nurses
from RPHos. I don't have his picture, but Jimmy Ross must have been at the
party.
1956,Jan 30 Monday graduated from Penn State Univ , BS in Industrial
Engineering. Mom ,Dad & Sue Pomeroy
stayed at the Nittany Lion
Inn for the Rec hall graduation & the AF Comissioning. I have a solid box
of
memories from these years -
including all letters I received, newspaper articles, a picture album and
so on.
I can almost relive all of
these times. I don't know anyone else who has such a collection.
1956, Feb 4 I ended up in New Castle,Pa at Stan's. Must have gone
with CJ? We did Son's of Italy?
1956,Feb 13 - Monday joined IBM at Endicott, NY. I have a calendar
note that says I finished my 1st week on
Feb 17 th. Somehow I
thought my aniversary date at IBM was Feb 1st. Rented a room from Diane Martin's
parents for $8 a week on
Roosevelt Ave, one block from the plant.
1956, Mar 10 Sat Bill Romania and I went to Allentown, Pa to visit Diane
Martin and Sue Pomeroy (nurses at Robert
Packard Hos). Hotel Americus &
dinner at Walps. About here I tried out for the IBM play Dulcy at the country
club and had a solid part in the
play - lot's of pictures in my AF album
1956, Mar 24 Sat I bought my 1st car, a blue 1952 Plymouth 4dr for
$800 at Wysox. Then I took off for Beaver
House & an unexplained pajama
party with a jam session at BH on Sunday. Why I did this after Sue Pomeroy
had just spent several days with me in
Endicott I'll probably never know.
1956, June I was called up by the Air Force and drove all the way to
San Antonio, Tex. Car caravaned with another
2nd Lt. Choose Marianna Air Station in
Fla panhandle and in Feb 1957 Webb AFB Big Spring Tex.
1956-59 Pilot training ,USAF. I flew T-34, T-28 and T-33 single engine
jet. June 1, 1957 became an Industrial
Engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB. Ohio
and traveled on inspection teams all over the US to Air Force bases. It
was my first trip West - my gosh those
Rockies! I traded cars in Fairborn for a 1954 Dodge 4dr, white & blue.
1958,Oct I went to Wiesbaden, Germ and a 3 week trip around Europe - USAF
MATS and trains to Wiesbaden,
Germ, Frankfurt, Lucerne,Switz,
Rome,Italy, Isle of Capri - Pompeii, train to Monte Carlo & Paris, where I spent
six days waiting for a MATS flight
back. I did not have enough $ to buy a comercial ticket.
1959,April Lt Charles Lear & I flew a T-34 to FT Lauderdale & then to
Havana,Cuba. I have 8 mm film showing
Castro's soldiers with machine guns standing
at my side. 3 people killed outside our hotel as they tried to shoot
down Major Diaz Lanz flying B-25's and
dropping anti Castro leaflets.
1959,May joined IBM marketing in Dayton, Ohio. Sent to a 2 month
school in Cincinnati. Learned to play craps at
Beverly Hills, Kty. Mafia operated. I
took Margaret & Henry there in about 1961- Mel Torme show.
1958/9 Championship bowling team, Fairborn,Ohio I averaged 170
for full season, several 600 series. Cliff Brady
& I had an apartment across the street
from the bowling alley at 368 Morris Drive, Fairborn, Ohio.
1960 Sum I bought a new 55' x 10' Skyline Mobile home, and located it at
Sunny Acres, off Needmore Rd.
1960/61 Assigned to install an IBM 7070 at GM datacenter. A number of trips
to Chicago and Cleveland for testing
1960/61,Feb Went on two wonderfull ski trips with the Dayton Ski Club. 1st
to Mount Tremblant, Canada and
then a week in Aspen,
Colorado-Feb 1961.
1960-63 Seven Wins/Places Miami Valley Touring Club, Ohio, Rallyes &
Gymkhana. 1960 Hillman Minx convertable
- pilot or navigator
mostly with Cliff Brady - my military roomate who had a Jaquar 120
1962,May drove to State College,Pa to be initiated into Delta Phi,
proposed to Jeanine.
1962, Aug 25 m Jeanine Keener Westminister Presbyterian Church, Dayton Ohio
- to Bermuda on honeymoon & we
stayed at the Bermudiana
Hotel which is no longer there in 2001. Jeanine had a 1956 Olds 88, white &
green.
Her father was the Olds
dealer in Brookville, Ohio which was why we drove Olds for 42 years.
1963-66 Attended the Kentucky Derby and 4 Indianapolis 500's. We had a
1959 black Olds 98 & a 1966 Cutlass.
The black Olds was like an
airplane, hugh tail wings - one of the nicest cars we ever owned. I joined
the Dayton
Chess club in 1963 and
played my 1st rated game in the fall of 1965. I was instrumental in the founding
of the
Wright Patterson AFB Chess
Club at the Civilian Club.
1967 Promoted to IBM Nat'l Fed Marketing Mgr, marketing to 4 of
the US Cabinet Agencies, Com, Labor, Hud
and Justice. We moved
to Potomac, Md on April 27, 1967
1968 We bought a really neat 1968 Olds Cutlass Supreme, white with
black interior
1969 Sept promoted to IBM Corporate Presentation Center - three years, 157
presentations.
1971 Started 6 years of serious genealogy research
1972 First President and Club Champion of Rockville JCC Chess Club.
Founder of the club on March 20th.
We had a blue
Olds 4dr, 1972 which I sold out of our garage. I was playing chess when my
Dad died, 9-11-1972.
1973, Jun Awarded title Intermediate (later changed to Senior)
Tournament Director of US Chess Fed.
1973-74 President Md Chess Asso., V-Pres US Chess Federation Region 3, and
in 1975 I incorporated the
MCA in the State of
Md - MCA,I and obtained 501c3 approval from the IRS.
1975, Feb 26 joined the SAR - Sons of the American
Revolution- based on Conrad Menges Sr & Jr
1976, Feb Captained a 4 man chess team at US Amateur Team in Atlantic
City to 1st Place, Class B.
Mother d Dec 1, 1976.
1977 Two more Olds, a 1974 Cutlass Sup.HT Coupe, Colonial Cream Vinyl
Roof, and a 1977 green 88 4dr
1973-1982 Eight Team 1st Places in DC Chess League 6 man
teams as Potomac A & B
1979 An electronic basketball scoreboard has been installed in the gym of
Orchard Road School, Montgomery Tsp .
N.J., in memory of Stephen
J. Jurnack Jr., who died Jan. 27, 1979. He was a former resident of Towanda and
married Miss Sally Putnam
of Towanda in 1958. He was employed by Mathematica Inc., of Princeton, N.J., and
was involved with the
Montgomery Basketball League. ©Daily and Sunday Review 2005, Feb 25
1980 I became a Master Mason, AF&AM of Maryland. Bob Custer,an IBMer,
spoke at my initiation.
1982 Two Man Team Champion, Falls Road Golf Course with Jerry Smagala.
My best golf score of 76.
1982 Assigned to Strategic Air Cmd account and traveled to Omaha about twice
a year thru 1990. Also traveled to
Eglin AFB in FLa and to
California on a proposal.
1983 1st Place Overall, Castle Chess Camp, City of Bradford, Pa .
After that I attended three more
camps - 1984, 1985
and 1990.
1985 Two more Olds, a 1980 88 blue 4dr and a 1985 light tan Cutlass Supreme
4 dr.
1987 Achieved US Chess Federation rating of 2024, Expert Title for Over the
Board chess.
1990 Life Member, Bradford Co, Pa Historical Society.
1991, Feb Had my 35 year Luncheon on IBM at the 4 Seasons Hotel in
Georgetown. My 30th was there also and my
25th was at Jur de
New in Georgetown.
1991 In March I went to New Orleans for my last Federal Club. Todd Morris &
Nora Burrows were on my team.
Omaha credited the TRI-Coms 3090
in 1990 business register and it sat at the truckers house for 6 months.
1991,July 31 Retired from IBM, 35.5 years, 15 of which were marketing to the
US Air Force plus 3 years in the AF.
23 Marketing Recognition
events, Two Golden Circles. Bought a Gen. Schwarzkoph parade car after 1st
Iraq war, a 1991 grey Olds
98 4dr. It goes with the 1988 blue Olds 88.
1991,August Played in my 2nd World Amatuer Golf tour. at Myrtle Beach.
Stayed at Holiday Inn West.
Later I played in
1992,93,94 and 1998 when I rented a condo at the Lupus silent auction.
1992, August 20 My first hole-in one at No 2, Redgate golf course. Harry
Keener, Bob Torgler and Bill Williams.
1993 4 of us(Doug Hall) spent a week in Aiken,SC and Augusta,Ga at the
Masters Golf Tour., Bernhardt Langer won.
1994 Champion of Senior Division, Rockville Open, Redgate Golf Course
1991-1996 Won three Senior Chess Team Titles at the US Amateur Team East in
Parsippany,NJ. 1992,1994,1995.
In 1993 we were
awarded the Top Md Team, being second place seniors on tiebreakers. Art Bisguier
IM played
1st Bd 1995 and in
1996 Anatoly Lein IM played 1st Bd
1995,early Don Grey started the "Rusty Blues" an IBM Nat Fed Mktg alumni
luncheon group at the US Naval
Hospital Officers Club. I attend
about 6 times/ year. It moved to Kenwood CC and then to Bethesda CC in 2003.
1996 colon cancer surgery - Georgetown Medical Ctr. pre-cancerous polp.Sold
the 1988 Olds for a 1995 Beige Olds98
1993 - 2000 Won three Maryland Correspondence Championships 1993-94,
1995-7, 1998-2000
1995-2000 Played top board for a ten man Maryland Team in CCLA
National Chess Team tournament.
Maryland won three
Team Championships, lX starting 1995, X - 1997 and Xl - 1999
1998 Senior Club Champion, low net Montgomery Village Golf Club
1998,August I had bid on a condo at last years Lupus tourn. Played in
my sixth World Amatuer Golf Tour. at Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina.
1985,1991-4 and 1998.
1998 Co Champion of Correspondence Chess League of America. Awarded
Senior Master title, rating 2370.
2000, Jan. Olds stop making big cars. Bought a white diamond Cadillac
Deville from Jim Coleman. My 15th car
2000/2001 Two years in a row, Best Correspondence Chess Game Award
from CCLA. Both games were
published in The
Chess Correspondent.
2001,Aug 4 Returned to my 50th high school reunion. 40 of 81 graduates
attended. I shared my memories collection
with Ruth Remsnyder Harrington
and saw Joyce Brown Richlin. Sunday morning I hosted breakfast at the
Williamston Inn in East Towanda
for 12 of us. This is the 6th reunion of 10 that I have attended. Sally Putnam
Jurnack is living with her mother
at 236 Popular Street. I stopped at the Country Club when I arrived and had a
beer with Joe Lenox and Marshal
Dawsey. The 5 Monroeton grade school gang had our picture taken again.
Sandy Dunfey Ross's 1956 class
arranged a walk thru of the high school. Jimmy Ross and I joined them and
shared a lot of memories and a
picture in the auditorium.
2002,May 9 Second hole-in-one, Montgomery Village Golf Club with Dick
Patterson - hole 13 with a 5 metal.
2002 I played 4 draws in email correspondence chess team matches versus
Portugal & Denmark masters.
2003 March, Published 7 booklets of the Decendants of J Conrad Menges -
Brad Co Hist Soc, Monroeton Public Lib,
Sons Amer Rev, PalatinesTo
Amer, Dau Amer Rev, Easton Pa Lib. (Marx room) and Allegany Co.NY Historian
2003,Dec Published the 2004 Revised Edition of Mingos history - Brad Co Hist
Soc, Monroeton Lib. & State Library
of Pa. Harrisburg. With
more edits I am working on a next Revised Edition.
2004,Feb Purchased a Cadillac Seville SLS with OnStar, XM satelite, Bose
radio/CD changer and a sunroof.
2004,Feb Received an IBM PC model A50p, 2.8Ghz and will add a HP 2410 All in
One PSC& Fax
2004, April 18 5mm tear in right leg calf, peroneus brevis muscle. MRI
. Ruptured while working out at YMCA
2004, May 30 3rd time to Emergency Hospital for uninary retention - an
enlarged prostrate. Scheduled June 18th
for heat microwave therapy
on the prostrate, an office proceedure that destroys some of the extra tissue.
2004, summer I have done extensive updating of my Snell ancestors.
2004,Sept 27 I volunteered at the 26th Lupus Golf fund raiser. Starting in
1979 I played in the first 14 events.
Then once each at Springfield,
Lakewood & Belmont CC's. I attended the others for the banquet and live
auctions.
2004, Nov Jeanine & I were invited by Penn State President Spanier to
come to State College for a 2 day PSU Today
Program. We stayed at
the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center.
2005.Jan 7 4:30 am. I passed out after taking a Hytrin pill that lowered my
blood pressure. I fell and fractured
4 ribs. It is very
painful, and over a month before I can swim or swing a golf club.
2005,Jan. I am assembling a booklet on the Snell family of
Athens, Pa and Northampton Co, Pa. The booklet
will be contributed to the
Tioga Point Museum, Athens, Pa. The content of this booklet will be updated into
the
2005 REVISED EDITION of the
booklet "Descendants of Conrad Menges". This revision has 623 individuals,
148 pages and 216
Menges/Minges/Mingus/Mingos entries. I have sent the 1st booklet to Steven
Mingos
of Shawnee Mission, Kansas.
I have sent a booklet to the Bradford Co Historical Society.
2005,Mar I have updated the Snell booklet,10 new pages, mostly from
Penna Archives research - online iarchives.com
and the Schnell Outline is
on the Tri Co web site. The new Menges/Mingos Outline is still not on the Tri Co
site.
2005,March I won 2 email chess games from my British Corr. Chess
Association opponent, Board 2 for CCLA
2005,April Finally after one year I have upgraded my internet provider to
MSN 9!
2005 Jun thru Bradford Co Library I now have access to the Heritage
Quest census indexes & search software.
2005,Jun 25 Dingman's Annual Family Bash. I have compiled a Catawissa Hart
booklet for Linda Hart Dingman
2005,July I have sent NY Mingus/Minges pages to Doris Donovan Mingus in
Wellsville, NY. I have sent Mingos
pages to Judy Pennay Bull
in S. Towanda.Pa
2005,August 12 I had a radical prostatectomy, Roterpubic at Georgetown Univ
Hosp.
More About JOHN FREDERICK MINGOS:
Medical Information: Wears reading glasses, colon cancer surgery in 1996,
enlarged prostrate, works out at YMCA,
Notes for JEANINE LEE KEENER:
1954 graduated Brookville HS .
1958 grad Bowling Green University, BS in Education teaching degree
59-62 taught 6th grade in Brookville
1961-63 passed first ice dance tests at Troy, Ohio Skating Club
1962, Aug 25 m, John Mingos Westminister Presbyterian Church,
Dayton ,Ohio. The Keeners held a reception
in Brookville, Ohio
and Jeanine & I drove 1st to Columbus, Ohio then to NYC for an airplane to
Bermuda -
a week at the Bermudiana
Hotel and Resort.
1963,Jun 1962, Oct 10 Maxie, our West Highland Terrior was b. We
bought him at 8 mos old from Mrs. Seagraves
kennel just around
the corner from Sunny Acres. The first night he was starving, and kept waking us
up.
He liked to sleep on
the marble at the ends of my Danish modern couch. He became diabetic, and for
six
years Jeanine had to
feed him on schedule and inject insulin every day - without fail.
1963 moved to Kettering ,Ohio - 1019 Sharewood Court. Water
heating in the floors. We went on a short vacation to
French Lick ,
Ind
1964/5 Worlds Fair, NYC Did 2 IBM Federal Conferences. A trip to
Williamsburg, Vir and another trip to Boston,
Plymouth Rock and
Cape Cod.
1967 Jeanine flew to Wash, DC and we did 3 days house hunting. and
then she moved us to Potomac, Md on April 27,
1967 . We became
active members in the Capitol Hill Club, the National Republican social club on
the hill in
DC. We met the Nixon
family, Sen Dirksen kissed her, and we had dinner with Jerry Ford.
1970,Aug We rented a cottage at Boothbay Harbor,Maine from our neighbors-
the Gen.Bill Evans. Harrry & Dorothy
drove from Ohio & met us
there for a week. The cottage was so cold, 33 degrees at night, that we burned
wood in
the kitchen stove. The
water temperature was 50 degrees . We bought fish in the late afternoon from the
fleet.
1971 Jeanine joined me and we did 3 weeks on the West Coast - Las
Vegas, San Fran, Hurst Castle, La & San Diego.
This was a perk
from the Presentation Center to go to the Fall Jt Computer Conf. Drove down Rt 1
in the fog.
Stopped at the
18th hole, Pebble Beach.
1972 Charter member, founder of Woman's Club of Potomac
1973 Jeanine met me in San Jose and we did an 8 day trip to four of
the Hawaiian Islands. Pig roast on the big
island. Picking
pinapple in Kauai and the Indian Center on Oahu.
1974 We did a number of days house hunting in the White Plains, NY
area - Conn, & NJ
1975 IBM 5th Club Trip to San Francisco.We did a 2 day trip to
Yosemite, and drove out in a fire. Stayed at the
prominent Hotel, and
had dinner with Jeanine's college friend.
1977 Jeanine helped her parents buy a condo in Largo, Fla. Thereafter we
drove or flew to Fla once or twice a year
for 25 years.
1979, Sept 24 Maxie had major organ failure, and Jeanine had to put
him away - 17 years old. We bought a
lot, marker and
funeral service at Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery
1980, Jun 21 We bought Tedi - a puppy, our second West Highland
Terrior. Jeanine went into a tough section
of the District and
got him from an Air Force couple I found out about at Defense Com. Agency.
Tedi loved to go for his
evening walk around Churchill High School. Near the end he had to be carried
home.
1980 We went on our first cruise to the Caribbean - out of Puerto Rico
to St Martin, Tortola, Martinique,Quadeloupe,
St Thomas etc. Harry
& Dorothy Keener were with us.
1980-87 Seven years President of the Lupus Foundation of Greater
Washington
1980 Jeanine had gall bladder surgery. Latter I won a trip to NYC for the
DCA 4331 win. We stayed at the Plaza
Hotel, did two shows -
Chorus Line & The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Sardies, Tavern in Central
Park,
the Village,Tiffanies and
Rodney Dangerfield's Comedy Club.
1981 10th IBM club San Francisco again. Alcatraz, Napa valley. Stopped in
Lawrence Kansas to visit Carl Mingos.
Breakfast in
Sausalito at the madams and to Santa Rosa ice rink to see Peanut's artist
Charles Schultz.
We stayed at the
SanFran Fairmont and had drinks at the Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill.
1983 Organized and Directed the National Lupus Convention here in
Northern Vir.
1883 First Golden Circle - we were at the Breakers, Palm Beach and to Largo,
Fla. Roy & Arlene Marsan also.
1985 We met her parents at Myrtle Beach for the 2nd World Amatuer Golf
tour. Jeanine rented a mobile home from
our mailman. We took
Harry & Dorothy on a week cruise to the Caribbean for their 50th anniversary. We
got
to Caracas, Venezuela
for drinks at the Officers club. Also Grenada & Curacao. Dot Lightner joined us.
1986 15th IBM Club Flew to SanDiego, zoo, water show and to
Tijuana,Mexico for 2nd time.
1987 4 day trip to Tarrytown, NY . I won a guest slot on Sr PGA tour.
Arnold Palmer was dinner guest. I was flying
back & forth to
Omaha, Neb and guessed Lee Elder would be -11 in a golf tour.
1990 2nd golden Circle . We did the Lupus Gala in LA then to Maui &
Honolulu. Dinner at Kapalua & the big flea
at the Hawaii football
stadium. This was the IDHS win. Todd Morris & wife joined us for the Napkin
dinner.
1994,Oct 10 Tedi also had major organ failure, and was put away after
many tests at the Rt 28 Rockville Animal
Hospital. He was cremated
and still is with us, although we put a marker for him at Aspin Hill Pet
Cemetery.
1996 We did a 4 day trip to New Orleans - Pete Fountain, Preservation
Hall - hotels were bought at two Lupus golf
Tourn auctions
1998-2003 President of Woman's Club of Potomac
2001 Bid on and won 3 trips to New Zealand - Sydney, Australia , Monaco and
Bermuda. Flew business class from
LA to Auckland. Jeanine was still
in foot pain from a crushed nerve in her right foot, auto accident.
2002, May 3 Offered the eulogy for her father, Harry Keener, in Palm
Harbor, Fla. He was the 3rd longest life in this
FTM file - 97 yrs 13 days.
In June we went to Las Vegas for 5 days. 4 evening shows, and Hoover Dam.
2003, Feb passed Foxtrot ice dance certification- pre-silver level. 25
year award from Avon Corp.
She ice skates-
dance. President of Woman's Club of Potomac and on the advisory board of the
Lupus
Foundation of
Greater Washington. Active at Mont. Co Thrift Shop and WCP wine club. She
has
Systemic Lupus
Erythematous and is an avid collector of antiques.
2004,Mar 24 Jeanine went into Shady Grove hospital for surgery, 2
ruptured tendons in her outside lower right foot.
4 weeks in a fiberglass cast with
no use of right foot at all, then 16 more weeks in a removable cast/elastic
bandage. It is now 6 months and
she is still under the specialized care of the Wound Care Center at Shady Grove
Hospital. The surgery hole under
her ankle is closing way too slowly - maybe the Lupus.
2004,Aug 12 returns to Brookville, Ohio for her 50th HS reunion
2004, Dec 20 We drove to Largo,Fla for an eleven day trip. Stopped at
Walterboro,SC on the 940 mile trip south,
and stopped at Florence,SC
on the way back. We hauled the IBM Aptiva 1997 233MHz computer system to
Dorothy Keener's condo, but
could not get Win 95 connected to MSN 7. Donated it to Methodist Church school
and bought a new 2.93 Ghz
Emachine computer with Win XP .
2005,Jan 1 Had dinner for New Years at the Johnsons.
2205,April Jeanine is flying to Largo, Fla - her mother fell and has a
concussion.
22. FRANCIS CARL7 MINGOS (FREDERICK E6, EDWARD E5, PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 14 February 1918 in Sayre Hosp, Bradford Co, PA, and died 6 November 2000 in Topeka,Ka Hospital, but Lawrence, Ka cemetery. He married VERA RUTH SCHRAG, daughter of PETER SCHRAG and KATIE STUCKY. She was born 23 May 1920 in Kingman, Kansas.
Notes for FRANCIS CARL MINGOS:
Family Knowledge: a lot always went by Carl
1918 b - probably an unplanned child. An awkward age spread between
these male Mingos. 15 - 18 yrs difference
between us - down to
cousins John and Steven. Leah named her 1st son after her father, Henry Clay
Snell.
Where the name Carl
came from is a mystery. Francis was his grandmothers name.
1923,Aug I have a picture from Henry/Leah's scrapebook showing Carl ,
a dog and the antique wooden wagon in
front of the Main St house
on a cement sidewalk. The back of a car is in the driveway. The wagon survived
until
the 1940's when I was a
child. The sides folded up to form a flat top? My guess is this was a luggage
wagon
Fred got for Henry from the
railroad station.
1930,Dec 25th Doris White of Monroeton gave Carl a book - Catamount
Camp publ 1910 by Edward Ellis. I, John F
Mingos, have this childs
book, a story of boys on a trip to the mountains
1931,Sept Monroeton HS is still open. I have a 1931 picture of
Fred, Carl and Henry in the Monroeton back yard.
Carl is the same height as Fred, ca
5'11". He later became 6' 4". He played tennis at Rice's court in N Monroeton,
and apparently played basketball,
although not for Towanda HS. Once he and John Haines set off the Monroeton
fire alarm. Henry was really mad. Frank
Rice bought the Mingos farm in 1912 .
1934 Carl went 11 grades to Monroeton School and went to Towanda for a 12th
grade, as did Henry. Check Towanda
newspaper in late May/June
for Monroeton HS graduates. In his Monroeton class were Mason Smith (
lives in
Monroeton on Canton Ave in
2005), Helene Rice, John Haynes and Carl.
1935,Jun 7 Towanda HS graduation. 52nd annual commencement. While the 2nd
episode of a presentation was
prepared, Carl Mingos played two
trumpet solos. There is a long article on microfilm at the BCHS from the
Towanda Daily Review. College Prep
graduates did not include Carl. Other grad's Helene Rice (Monroeton) ,
Herbert (Bud) Yanofsky and David
Turner.
1936,Oct 26 Fred dies. Carl was a Sophomore at Mansfield. So Leah with no
pension from Fred had to pay for Carl's
college. That was a good enough
reason for having Henry,Margaret & John to move into 310 Main St. But as Vera
said, Leah would not co-sign
Henry's mortgage after Fred died. Citizens Bk in Towanda assumed the Monroeton
assets & presumably the mortgage
on the third house from the feed mill. The 1910 census says the 1905 house
was mortagage free. At 19
yrs old, Fred's passing must have been upsetting for Carl. Also with Henry's
family in
the house, Carl would have been
an extra guest when he was home from Mansfield - somehow they would have
had to shift sleeping arrangements.
Thus Carl's saying " he did not have a home".
1938,June 27 Monroeton High School closed (9,10 & 11th grades). Students now
bussed to Towanda by Russell
White. Source: 1995
Brad Co History, Pg 156
1939 Graduated 4 yr college with a BA degree in music . A search of
Penn State Alumni index - Carl did not show up.
His marriage article
refers to Mansfield State Teachers college and Pennsylvania State Teachers
college.
The marriage article more
correctly should say " a Pa State Teachers college" rather than "and". Mansfield
Univ
is still noted for its
music education!
1939/40-40/41-41/? Taught music in Tunkhannock - boarded at
Wilber & Helen Welch's. Taught Jimmy Welch to play
the trumpet in Monroeton on
visits home from Mansfield College, which he is still doing in 2005.The Welch's
lived
two houses south of the Marcy
Hotel. It was prob not required that he have a teaching degree. Enlisted in Army
Air
Corp ( likely after Pearl Harbor-
during school year?). He flew for a short while, became Lt,
then downgraded to Sgt.
and was a band leader for the rest of
the war - 5 yrs.
1944,Nov 12 Schrag - Mingos Vows Exchanged Sunday
" In the Zion Mennonite Church,
Kingman, Ka Sgt. F Carl Mingos and Vera Ruth Schrag. Sgt Mingos, a music
major, is a graduate of Mansfield
State Teachers College & Penn. State Teachers College. He was a member of
Phi Mu Alpha Sino Fonia and
was a music instructor before entering the army". No one attended from
Monroeton.
1945, Dec 1st Carl was discharged from the 698th Army Band in
Washington, DC. I have pictures in my high school
album of Mom & Dad, me, Ruth &
Wilson Maury & Carl at Mt Vernon, at the Capitol and at Bowling Air Base
1948 Vera / Carl on the front porch of Monroeton. He
bought a King cornet for me as a birthday gift from Leah.
1950's Earned Masters degree at Kansas University. At some time here, Leah
stayed with Carl and Vera
when they lived
at Tennessee Ave. I have 2 min. of 8 mm film taken in 1957 on my way to WPAFB.
1955 Carl and family returned to Towanda. Steven.age 5,
remembers going to the mountain camp.
1960 - 1967 Investment broker, a partner, in Barrett,Fitch and North
Investments
1960's He was an active member of Trinity Lutheran ch.& was choir director
10 years. He was an avid golfer (8 hdcp).
He was a
President of the Lawrence Country Club & President of the KU Football Quaterback
Club.
1968,April Carl and Vera came back for Leah's funeral .They stood on the
porch of the homestead and looked over to
the graveyard for the burial.
Something to do with a request of Leah?
1972,Sept 14 Vera and Carl come to Towanda/Monroeton for Henry's
funeral . They had been in the
Carolina's
visiting Vickie and Charles.
1980's Parkinson's Disease began to affect his life.
1968-1998 Became Vice President and Manager of Paine Webber, Topeka,
Ka
2000,Nov 6 passed through death to life with Christ at
Select Specialty Hospital in Topeka, age 82 9 mos.
He was the 7th longest life
male Mingos in this file, and the longest in Alonzo's line.
2000,Nov 10 A one hour service at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial at
Memorial Park Cemetery.
Vera hosted family and friends at home afterward.
Children of FRANCIS MINGOS and VERA SCHRAG are:
24. i. VERA ANN8 MINGOS, b. 2 October 1945, Kingman, Kansas.
25. ii. STEVEN C MINGOS, b. 19 April 1950, Lawrence, Ka.
23. BLANCHE ADELINE7 BOIS (DEAN ABRAM6, FRED STANLEY5, ABRAM E4,
STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was
born 1914 in Jersey City,NJ, and died 1986 in Staten Island, NY. She
married JOHN BRENNAN. He was born Abt. 1914.
Child of BLANCHE BOIS and JOHN BRENNAN is:
i. ELAINE8 BRENNAN, b. 1947, m Mr Heddle, 16 Brusk St, Hopewell Jct, NY
12533.
Generation No. 8
24. VERA ANN8 MINGOS (FRANCIS CARL7, FREDERICK E6, EDWARD E.5, PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 2 October 1945 in Kingman, Kansas. She married CHARLES PATTISON GRAHAM. He was born 24 June 1940 in Wilmington, NC.
Notes for VERA ANN MINGOS:
1965 attended Stephens College, Mo., and also Kansas Univ - Gamma Phi
Beta social sorority
1967 senior in School of Nursing at Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Kansas
City
1967,Dec 30 married Dr Charles Graham in Lawrence, Kansas
1980's worked for medical Dr.Charles in his office. Moved into a new house
in Topeka and a house on Hilton Head
1994 Arranged for John & Jeanine to come to Kansas for her parents
50th anniversary
1995 Submitted a DAR application. Later also a Colonial Dames application
1998 Occaisonally communicates by email
2001 Brought the twins to D.C. for their job with a construction
company
2002 moved to a new house in Topeka
2003 Moved from Topeka to Gastonia, NC
Children of VERA MINGOS and CHARLES GRAHAM are:
i. VERA MICHELLE9 GRAHAM, b. 11 July 1969, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee.
ii. KATIE MCKOY GRAHAM, b. 12 February 1972, Fort Rucker, Dale, Alabama.
iii. CAROLINE PATTISON GRAHAM, b. 18 December 1976, Topeka, Shawnee,
Kansas.
iv. MOREY MCLEAN GRAHAM, b. 18 December 1976, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas.
25. STEVEN C8 MINGOS (FRANCIS CARL7, FREDERICK E6, EDWARD E.5, PURSILA4 BOIS, STEPHEN3 BOIS(BOICE), ABRAHAM2 BOICE(BOYCE), JOHN MARBLETOWN1 BOYCE(1ST)) was born 19 April 1950 in Lawrence, Ka. He married MARIA DEARMOND. She was born 12 January 1954 in St Louis, Mo.
Notes for STEVEN C MINGOS:
1968 graduated Lawrence HS, Played #1 on golf team. Lost by one stroke to
now PGA pro Tom Watson!
He played HS
basketball
1972 grad Kansas University, and in 1976 got Dr. of Dentistry.
1978,Jan 7 m Maria DeArmond. Maria does his payroll for 27 employees.
2003 Belongs to Indian Hills Country Club, and has 3 dogs. The Alonzo Mingos
name goes on through
Steven's two boys. They
live in Shawnee Mission,Kansas
2005 Maria Mingos is on the prayer list for Trinity Lutheran Church -
Shawnee Mission, Ka
2005 Dr. Steven C Mingos has a web site for his dental practice.
Children of STEVEN MINGOS and MARIA DEARMOND are:
i. STEVEN C TAYLOR9 MINGOS, b. 14 January 1985.
Notes for STEVEN C TAYLOR MINGOS:
2003 attending Duke Univ. 1st in nation prize in chemistry. His
brother is attending Penbrook Private School
His sisters are very
athletic
ii. PETER JACOB MINGOS, b. 9 January 1987.
iii. STEPHANIE MARIA MINGOS, b. 9 November 1988.
Notes for STEPHANIE MARIA MINGOS:
2004,Oct at the MSHSAA Cl 1 golf finals at Deerlake GC Stephanie, Sophmore
89 99 177 Pembroke Hill team was 1st
iv. KRISTINA JEAN MINGOS, b. 2 March 1990.
Notes for KRISTINA JEAN MINGOS:
2004, Oct in the MSHSAA Cl 1 finals golf at DeerLake GC, Kristina,freshman
100 91 191