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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.
<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>Regards to all
<p><tt>Ted Simpson</tt>
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