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Hello aitch
My dad's grandparents on his father's side were both from the Tuscarora Township area of PA. The families were there for several generations and they all had a lot of kids, so I have a lot of family all over that area. (I think I could find at least one distant cousin in just about every cemetery in that area!)   

I found these posts last night and looked though some of my paperwork this morning.  So far, I only found one little tid-bit for you, but will keep my eye out for more.   I have a copy of a newspaper article that mentions social news of the day.  It is from the summer of 1917, dated July 30th:  L. M. Magee and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Wooton at Clapper Hill

I have 3rd great grandparents buried at Beaver Meadows (their last name was Bennett).   I noticed  the write up on Beaver Meadows Church said that your Wootton had some descendants with the name Bennett.  There's a book on the Bennett family in my local library.  I have been working on copying it, starting with pages of my lines.  According to the index, your H. Olin Wooton is mentioned in there with his wife Ina Beeman, but I have not copied those pages yet and the library is closed weekends for the summer     I will get there when I can and see if there is any information to help you.

The tri-counties site Sandra sent you the link to is a wonderful site (as I am sure you already discovered) 

 
Lisa

Hi
I found an address for you, but was not able to find a website for the cemetery to find out their policies regarding what they charge for copies of burial records.  

Gate of Heaven Cemetery
10 West Stevens Ave
Hawthorne NY 10532
914-769-3672

I looked at a map of Hawthorne, and the cemetery is quite large.  It does appear to be Gate not Gates.  I found a couple sites that list well known people buried there.

The Weschester GenWeb site:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/index.htm
I didn't see information about the cemetery, but maybe if you try posting on the county message board, maybe you will get lucky and someone in the area that can give you more information.

Good Luck,
Lisa

I think that sometimes the deaths, and other negative things we find, often overshadow the positive and happy things we learn. 

I think of my great grandmother.   She left England for the US in 1891 at the age of 19.  I think of her leaving home with just her one piece of luggage.   One of her brothers was in the US, but she must have left knowing  she would most likely never see her parents, siblings or other relatives again.   I can’t imagine having that amount of courage. 

lmsfam

Hi Courtneys Gram,

Here is a link to the 1900 census
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home

1900 census does have widowed for Joseph.  I wondered the same thing merjones did.   The other thing I wondered about was they said they were married 20 years.  That would mean they were married in 1880.  He was still in England with wife Mary then. 

If I found the correct Thomas in 1900, he was with wife Mary, children Thomas, Berthia, Mary L. & Leonard, and mother Mary L. (hint: when searching on the site above for Thomas - use  Tomnes for the 1st name)

If I have the right Thomas, in 1910, he seems to have moved to Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  Thomas & Joseph have year of immigration 1882. Both are naturalized.
Thomas C., head,   40yrs   married 20 yrs 
Mary J,. wife,  45yrs   She has had 9 children, 7 still  living 
Thomas C. Jr , son,  18yrs
Berthana, daughter, 15yrs
Elizabeth M., daughter, 12yrs
Leonard M., son, 10yrs
Florence C., daughter,   7yrs
John J., son,   6yrs
Joseph, son,   6yrs
Joseph D  brother  40yrs.  Single


I have been trying to find a immigration record with no luck so far.  Do you need census information or do you have all of this already?

Lisa

Hi
You may also want to have a look at  fultonhistory.com   They have searchable PDF files of NY Newspapers.    I have found wedding announcements, obituaries and all kinds of society type articles on my family in NY. 
Good luck searching,
Lisa