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On July 16, 2011 a number of descendants and their relatives gathered on Rocksprings Road near Bells Crossing at the rear of Elizabethtown Township. We were looking for the home of Reuben and Margaret Peer.
Direct descendants of Reuben and Margaret Peer standing in front of the old Peer House (from left to right): John Charlton, Pamela Vittorio, Miranda Beninger, Betty Britschgi, Julie Hinton, Gary Bushaw. We had a couple of pieces of information to go on. More before and after photos of Julie Hinton’s and Pamela Vittorio’s efforts to save family gravestones from ongoing destruction from lichen. These photos were taken by Julie at the North Watertown Cemetery in Watertown, New York. What is lichen? North Watertown Cemetery  Florence M Peer (before cleaning)  Florence M Peer (after cleaning)  Reuben Peer Jr. (before cleaning)  Reuben Peer Jr. (after cleaning) Photo courtesy The White Gate Inn, Ogdensburg, NY.  Pamela Vittorio, Julie Hinton, Ruth & John Charlton This past week, three descendants of Reuben Peer Sr. and his wife Margaret Keough (Chio) met in Ogdensburg, New York to visit the Ogdensburg cemetery and the graves of the Chio family, related to Margaret. Pamela is descended from Reuben Peer Jr, Julie from Clarissa Lovina Peer and myself from Lucy Adelaine Peer. Ruth shares our interest in genealogy and has done research with me on the Peer family. This was the first time we had met Pamela who had put two and two together and proved the connection between Margaret Keough of Elizabethtown Township in Ontario and the Chio family of Ogdensburg. She did this using census records and the information from Clarissa’s Lost But is Found journal entry. Peer Family 1880 Carte-de-Visite
Back Row – William James, Hannah Jane, Lucy Adeline, Margaret Anne Middle Row – Reuben Sr., Margaret, Reuben Jr., Mary Lilly Front Row – Katherine Matilda, Clarissa Photo courtesy: Julie Hinton
According to a letter written by Clarissa Peer (Lucy Adeline Peer’s sister) when Clarissa was 88 years of age, Peter Peer married an Irish girl named Graham. Source: Julie Hinton (Clarissa’s Grand-daughter) Margaret’s Gravestone
Like the previous entry, the following newspaper clipping was pulled from Gerald Connell’s suitcase. William Henry Richards died July 30th 1923 at 1:30 am at the age of 59 years. A life long resident of Bell’s Corners, eldest son of the late Richard Richards and his wife Eliza Hinton. 40 years ago, united in marriage to Lucy, third daughter of the late Reuen Peer, of Bel. One daughter Mrs. Delbert Connell – Newbliss. Three sons – Roy of Prescott, Howard of Roebuck, Harold on the homestead. One sister – Mrs James Garvin of Almonte. One brother – Edward of Rockspring. Funeral at Shiloh Methodist Church. Burial at Weir’s Cemetery. Julie Hinton sent these photos to me yesterday. They appear to be photos of William and Lillian Spicer at their home in Fairfield East. Julie says the inscription on the back of the second photo is “Uncle & Aunt Spicer, Wordshea? or perhaps workshed? Fairfield East. The first simply says, “Wm Spicer wife”.
I found this obituary for Lillian Spicer and the subsequent ones posted below in a suitcase passed down to me by my Uncle Gerald Carson Connell. Clipped tightly from various newspapers without dates or publication names, they place various Peer offspring in different places at different times. The first note reads:
A similar clipping had been saved for Reuben Peer with the following information.
Another one for Margaret (Mrs George Rowsom)
Click on photo to enlarge This photo comes to us courtesy of Pamela Vittorio. She says of the photo:
See also: Peer Family Reunion 1929 |
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