Message from Sally Farnsworth

[Allan Farnsworth]

It is with the greatest regret that I wish to advise you that my dad - Allan Farnsworth - passed away yesterday after suffering a massive stroke last Thursday.  

I am currently contacting all friends and colleagues who have sent recent e/mails to my dad, to let them know.

Thank you.

Sally Farnsworth

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Simpson 
  To: history at farnsworth.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:32 AM
  Subject: Re: My Farnsworth Family Connection


   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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