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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Barbour again

This newspaper article is new to me. It helps solve some problems caused by a defective page in Herald of the Morning. It is from the Rochester, New York, Evening Express of August 30, 1881. I know it's drudge work, but I need basic biographies of everyone on this list. Anyone? Can you do one or maybe two?

So far;


M. Connell, Norwak, Ohio, appears to be Margaret Connell, wife of a well-to-do Blacksmith. She was 41 in 1881.

S. Buvinger, Pittsburgh, was the young son of William Buvinger. A very young child in 1881.

Mary A. Belding, South Windsor, Connecticut. Born about 1821. Died 1912. Married to well off farmer. In 1910 she is widowed living of a private income.

Orville S. Ensign, Eire, Pennsylvania. Born 22 Dec 1827. Died 12 Dec 1911. The 1880 Census lists him as a farmer, supporting his aged parents and sister. A Civil War Veteran. Later married.

Mary Jane Munsee, [Born Wright] Dansville, New York. Born about 1838. Wife of Henry Munsee, a Civil War veteran with the rank of Captian and a teamster in 1880. In 1870 he was a boatman. He died December 1886. She was born in New York. In 1863 they were Methodists. In 1882 Henry [May have been the father of same name] was in charge of track laying for the Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Mary died in 1905.

D. H. Higgins and Wife, Norwalk, Ohio. No information at this time.

Mrs. P. J. Hibbard, Pembroke, New York was Phebe J. Hibbard. She was born about 1830. The 1880 Census lists her husband Charles as engaged in “farming and gardening.”


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