Fannie Louise Snow

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Francis (Frank) spent his entire life in Caroline Center. He attendedrural school in Carolin e Center and the Homer Academy. His favoritestudy was mathematics and he was known for his k een sense of humor. Hewas Town of Caroline Supervisor for five years, justice of the peace f or12 years, and was a member of the Caroline Center Methodist Church for 74years and treasure r of the church for 50 years.

He ran the farm of his aunt, Nancy Charlotte Taft, and inherited it fromher upon her death i n 1896. (Charlotte had inherited the property fromher father, John Taft.) He and his famil y remained there for many yearsuntil he sold the farm and moved over the hill (Taft Hill) t o the hamletof Caroline Center.

A story about Frank Snow from his grandson, Robert Clark Snow:
"Grandpa Snow had a beautiful dog, an English mastif, that he used tohelp him make butter eve ry Thursday. Grandpa had set up a treadmill thatwas attached to a churn, and the dog would r un on the treadmill for hoursat a time. By the time the butter was done, the dog would be ex hausted.One Wednesday evening when I was at his home, Grandpa told me he had togo tie up th e dog, because if it saw the butter-making equipment comeout, it would run into the woods an d hide!" (The butter was taken tomarket and traded for vegetables and other essentials.)

1880 Census - Place: Caroline, Tompkins, New York
Source: FHL Film 1254938 National Archives Film T9-0938 - Page 6C
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Frank SNOW Self M M W 31 NY
Occ: Farmer Fa: NY Mo: NY
Anna SNOW Wife F M W 33 NY
Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: NY
Lamant SNOW Son M S W 6 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
Fannie L. SNOW Dau F S W 2 NY
Fa: NY Mo: NY
Scharlette TAFT Other F S W 52 NY
Fa: MA Mo: MA

Francis married Anna Sophia Clark on 1 Feb 1872 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA. Anna (daughter of Calvin Clark, Jr. and Sarah Eliza Fitch) was born on 8 Jan 1846 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; died on 27 Nov 1936 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; was buried in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA (Caroline Center Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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Photo: http://picasaweb.google.com/Ancestors101/AnnaSophiaClark/photo?authkey=tZeZNPkX5mU#5020947773169915394

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Anna Sophia Clark attended rural school and Ithaca Academy. Her favoritestudy was mathmatics . She lived in Caroline Center her whole life and atone time taught in the rural school ther e. She worked very hard as ahousewife, raising her three children, cooking for hiredsmen, an d doingher part in milking cows. She made her husband's shirts and socks aswell as her own a nd her children's clothes. She wove and braided rugsfor the home, made her own soap, and of course canned meat, vegetables,and fruit for the winter, as well as making butter, the surp lus of whichthey sold.
In temper she was very social and industrious. She was black-haired, thin, of small stature , but full of boundless energy.
Notes by Helen Snow Weil.


Home Sweet Home in the Nineteenth Century
by Karen Frisch
Copyright 2003 MyFamily.com Inc. All rights reserved.

Few of us picture the comforts of home without a TV, a well-stockedrefrigerator, and a comfor table sofa with an afghan for chilly evenings.Our ancestors' homes reflected a different life style. Their home sweethome often wasn't even theirs. Those in cities often rented space in a boardinghouse or tenement.

They would have loved it if food were as easily available as it is for ustoday. If they wer e lucky, summer's harvest of fruits and vegetableswould last through winter. Many women spen t hours preserving and canningin oppressive kitchens at summer's end without air conditioning .

A simple afghan wouldn't do. Their fireplace or stove had to be stokedcontinuously so the fam ily wouldn't be without heat on cold winternights. Wood or coal had to be hauled indoors fo r the stove. During thesecond half of the century the coal furnace in the cellar had to beten ded regularly for heat to be maintained.

Great-great-great-grandma didn't linger over her cold bath with thepitcher and washbasin sh e kept in her bedroom. The set included a cup tobrush her teeth and chamber pot to relieve he rself if she woke during thenight. It wasn't until a generation later or more that her daught er wasable to enjoy the luxury of a bathtub in her home.

Average families who had to be careful how much water they used, woulddrag a large tin tub in to the kitchen. The tub would be filled with waterheated on the stove or fireplace. All famil y members would take turnsbathing in it.

Late in the century many updated homes had a gaslight. Most had kerosenelamps, which were wel comed because they were so much safer than candles.It wasn't until the last decades of the 19 th century that people in someareas began to enjoy the conveniences like the telephone, the p honograph,and electricity.

Families had to economize on space. Before the days of walk-in closetsclothes were hung i n a wardrobe. Often, the walls of the home weredecorated with women's handiwork. From needlep oint to embroidery,hangings featured mottoes or floral designs stitched with desirablevirtues . The sentimental Victorian woman wove the hair of family membersinto framed pictures as wel l as jewelry.

Life for the pioneers who chose the frontier was far more rugged. Thesehardy, self-reliant in dividuals lived in more rustic conditions thantheir Eastern counterparts. The new towns of th e West had none of thecomforts of established Eastern cities. Homes had dirt floors or planki ngif they had any money. Sometimes the family slept together on a mattressof straw.

Many Western mothers were not only preserving fruits and vegetables butalso smoking and dryin g meat their husbands brought home. The store inrural Oklahoma where Great-great-great-grandm a shopped probably did notsell ready-made clothing but rather cotton and other fabrics she co uldpurchase to sew her family's wardrobe.

Unless the family was wealthy enough to hire outside help, children wereexpected to help wit h the household chores that were so plentiful duringtheir childhood. Boys were given the dirt y, more physical tasks such ascleaning ash from the wood stove, stoking the coal furnace, o r pumpingwater outdoors.

Girls were expected to perform the typically domestic tasks such astrimming the wicks and cle aning the chimneys of lamps. They also madebeds, aired the sheets, and cared for younger chil dren--tasks thatprepared them for their future roles as mothers.

James married Sarah Jane Taft on 23 Mar 1847 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Located in Caroline, Tompkins County, NY at the time of the 1850 Census.

Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=754522&GRid=23828464&

Calvin married Sarah Eliza Fitch on 2 Jan 1845. Sarah was born on 3 Sep 1814 in Richford, Tioga Co, New York, USA; died on 25 Sep 1902 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; was buried in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA (Caroline Center Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Obituary:
Ithaca NY Daily News 1902 Grayscale - 1069.pdf http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2012/Ithaca%20NY%20Daily%20%20News/Ithaca%20NY%20Daily%20News%201902%20Grayscale/Ithaca%20NY%20Daily%20News%201902%20Grayscale%20-%201069.pdf?xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=367520f0&DocId=6857936&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=8&hits=17c0+17cb+17cc+1843+1877+18de+18e9+190f+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf

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At the time of the 1892 Caroline, Tompkins Co., NY Census, Sarah Eliza Fitch Clark was 77 and living with her son, Robert C. Clark; his wife,Jessie D. Snow Clark; her daughter, Sabra Clark; and her brother, Oramel Fitch. [May 2004 Bill Gawne gedcom.FTW]

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Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=754522&GRid=23823614&

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Family notes: "Calvin Clark, Sr. was born in Lisle, Broome County, NY.He settled in the Town of Caroline in 1817, and died at the home of his son, Mason Clark, on November 12, 1869.

In his obituary in the Ithaca Journal, it said "About 21 years ago, (probably 1848) Sister (wife - Judith Hathaway) Clark died, leaving him a lonely pilgrim. The loss to him was great, but sinking to the will of God, he toiled on to wait his turn."

According to his tombstone in Caroline Center, NY, Calvin Sr. died Nov.12, 1869 at age 85 yrs. 5 months. This would put his birth at June 1784.

According to the State of New York, County of Tompkins Surrogate Court, the remaining blood relatives at the time of his death were the following: Henry Clark, Richard H. Clark, Calvin Patch, (Harriet) Albertine (Patch) Sanders (Saunders), Charley Patch, Harlen Patch, Delphine (Clark) Olmstead, Anna Clark, Robert C. Clark, Sabra Clark, Franklin Curtis, Harriet Curtis, John A. Curtis, Emma (Clark) Curtis.

At the time of the 1860 Cenus, Calvin was listed as being 76, and he was living In Caroline, Tompkins County, NY with son Mason, daughter-in-law Julia, grandsons Lafayette and Hathaway, and great-grandson Mason Jenks, whose mother, Electa Clark Jenks, had died soon after his birth.


Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York
by John H. Selkreg, 1894; D. Mason & Co., Publisher
Chapter XV - The Town of Caroline

CAROLINE CENTER.--This hamlet is situated near the center of the town, which fact gives it its name. It was in that vicinity that the pioneers Augustin and Hugh BOYER, William JACKSON, Calvin CLARK, Jonathan SNOW, James LIVERMORE, Alexander STOWELL, John TAFT, Abel GATES, Ezekiel JEWETT, John GROUT, Joel RICH (brother of Capt. David RICH), Jeremiah KINNEY, Israel PAINE, and others settled and lived; many of them have descendants still living in the town and county.

Speedsville Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M., was instituted June 11, 1851, and worked under a dispensation until June 19, 1852, when its charter was issued and thirteen members enrolled. The first W. M. was Robert H. S. HYDE; S. W., Thomas Band; J. W., Lyman KINGMAN; secretary, Leonard LEGG; treasurer, Robert E. MUIR. The present chief officers are: Nelson SLATER,W. M.; R. F.A BBEY, S. W.; G. H. NIXON, J. W.; S. H. BOYER, treasurer; H.S. AKINS, secretary; W. L. KEENY , S. D; J. I. FORD, J. D.; A. BOSTWICK, chaplain; Collins CARTRIGHT, S. M. C.; F. M. BAKER, J . M. C.; C. A.CLARK, marshal; Mildan MEAD, tyler.

Calvin married Judith Hathaway about 1806. Judith (daughter of (Possible Husband) Isaac Hathaway and (Possible Wife) Judith Hoar) was born on 3 Jan 1786 in Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Jun 1848 in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA; was buried in Caroline Center, Tompkins Co, New York, USA (Caroline Center Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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The LDS Ancestral File shows the husband of Judith Hathaway to be Mason Clark, whereas other sources show her spouse as ___?__ Clark. The first son of Calvin Clark and (my) Judith Hathaway was Mason Clark. In the absence of other evidence, and for the following reasons, I surmise that Judith Hathaway, daughter of Isaac Hathaway and Judith Hoar, was the wife of Calvin Clark. 1) Judith was an uncommon name in that era, 2) several references, including a book entitled "Genealogy of Jones, Hathaway, Richards, Gooding" show that Judith, the daughter of Isaac H athaway of Middleboro, MA, married a man with the last name of Clark (granted, Clark is a fairly common name, but the combination of Judith and a differet man named Clark would be quite a coincidence), 3) this Judith Hathaway was born a year and a half after Calvin Clark, making the timing appropriate for marriage, and 4) one reference gives the first name of her husband as Mason, a mistake that could easily occur when Calvin's and Judith's first son's name was Mason, and given that Calvin and Judith lived hundreds of miles west of Bristol County, MA , where family records were kept. Clearly, the nagging question with this theory is how Calvin and Judith met when they apparently were born and raised so far apart. However, we don't know where Calvin was born (his father was born in western Massachusetts), only that he spent a considerable amount of his life in Lisle, Tioga County, NY and the surrounding area. This was an era when many people from Massachusetts emigrated to Central New York State. I haven't had any luck finding Hathaway families in Tioga County, NY or surrounding counties, but that's not to say that there weren't some there in the first decade of the 1800s.