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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am currently contacting all friends and
colleagues who have sent recent e/mails to my dad, to let them
know.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sally Farnsworth</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:tetley@sympatico.ca" title=tetley@sympatico.ca>Ted Simpson</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:history@farnsworth.org"
title=history@farnsworth.org>history@farnsworth.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: My Farnsworth Family
Connection</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV> 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> <BR> <BR> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>