My Farnsworth Family Connection

[Ted Simpson]

 My maternal grandmother was born Hazel Farnsworth in 1895 in upstate NY
in or around Massena. At 18 years of age, she crossed the border at
Ogdensburg,NY to work in Brockville,Ontario,Canada at the Psychiatric
Hospital as a nurse. She married Harry Nicholson  who had moved from
Leeds in England to Montreal and then to Brockville at the age of 16.
They both died within months of each other. She was just weeks shy of
her 100th birthday. He was about 6 months into his 100th year.

Apparently  her ancestors moved originally from New Hampshire to Vermont
and then to New York  State. Her father's name, I believe, was Richard
and he married a Gladding. Her grandfather's name was Amos Farnsworth
and legend has it that he was a very big man. She had an Aunt Ida,
Richard's sister, who travelled by covered wagon across the country,
lived for a time in a sod hut on the prairie before ending up in Los
Angeles. She outlived about four husbands and died childless but quite
wealthy at the age of about 104  in the 1960's. I don't recall what her
last married surname was.

The Farnsworth side of my family is quite large. There is still a heavy
concentration of them in the Massena area; but they are also scattered
throughout the U.S. The Farnsworths that I grew up knowing well were my
grandmother's siblings and my cousins. I am still in contact with one
cousin; but have lost track of the younger generations.

Regards to all

Ted Simpson


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