Still more pictures

These are more pictures found loose in that same box as the previous pictures.  They cover a wide variety of years and subjects.  Some are identified while others are not.  If you can help with the identifications of the unknowns, please leave a comment.

Della Cole Owens Young

Della was my maternal grandfather's aunt.  She and her first husband had a farm in Milford.  My grandfather stayed with them for a short time when he was growing up.  When she and her second husband got to an age that they could not run the farm, they sold it to my grandfather but continued to live in the house which was divided to suit two families.  

 Thelma Ferguson Pidgeon

Thelma was my maternal 1st cousin 2x removed.  She lived her entire life in Oneonta, Otsego County, New York.

 Elmer again!  He's posing, on 5 March 1945, with three unknowns at the Griffith Park Observatory.  You can see the Hollywoodland sign in the hills behind his head.

 Beatrice May Rose Camp with Clarence Darling.

Leonard George and Beatrice May Rose Camp.

Beatrice May Rose Camp, Florence Alice Rose Lawler, Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Beatrice May Rose Camp

Beatrice May Rose Camp and Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Beatrice May Rose Camp

 The people in the background look like Jack and Florence Rose Lawler.

 Above and below is Beatrice May Rose Camp with unknown fellow nursing students.

Beatrice May Rose Camp 1937

 Beatrice May Rose Camp with Seward Hager Burgett 1937

 Beatrice May Rose Camp, Elbert Rose, Olive Letha Rose Schnack

Sisters Olive, Florence, and Beatrice Rose with maternal grandmother, Alice Clayton More.

Children of Obed and Luella Cure.  Obed bought Elbert's farm in Pine Hill.  From left to right are Pearl, Everett, and Frasier Cure.

Doris is in the three pictures above, possibly the fourth picture as well.  Who Doris is, I don't know.  Do you?

Gladys on the boat dock.  No, I do not know who Gladys is or if she is family or friend.  This photo, and the one below, was made at Caroga Lake, in Fulton County, at New York State's Adirondack State Park.

1933 1 15 George Shutts to Olive Schnack

Spelling and grammar may change as I transcribe.  This letter originates in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.

'Geo', George Liberty Shutts, wrote this letter to his cousin, my grandmother, 'Olive' Letha Rose Schnack.  'Harriet' More Burgett was  the daughter of 'Aunt Alice', Alice Estelle Clayton More.  'Seward' Hager Burgett was Harriet's husband.  'Uncle Owen' Wickes More was Olive's grand uncle.  'J.P. More', I believe, was John Person More, my 3rd great grandfather, and father of Owen Wickes More, and grandfather of George Liberty Shutts, the author of this letter.  'Lucy' Cook Shutts was George's wife. 

The 'Strauss Co.' that George writes about, I believe, is S.W. Straus & Co, which was a well known and respected real estate bond broker.  The financing of large construction projects by these means was fairly new and not regulated.  By the late 1920s these means were being scrutinized.  And, by the mid-1930s, S.W. Straus & Co. had defaulted on $214 million in bonds. An estimated 60,000 people lost their investments.  http://nexus.som.yale.edu/qn/content/what-used-be-new-capital  Perhaps George and his potential heirs were among those unfortunate investors.

Owen Wickes More died 15 November 1931.
Seward Hager Burgett died 17 January 1932.
Lucy A. Cook Shutts died 21 September 1932.
Alice Estelle Clayton More died 16 December 1932.

31 Newhall St.
Springfield, mass.

Jan. 15, 1933

Dear Cousin Olive,

Thanks for your good letter containing receipt for the Irish quilt bequeathed you by our dear departed Uncle.  How fortunate for him that he did not live to know that the years of saving he enjoyed so much with the Strauss Co. was a colossal failure.  There doesn't seem to be anything that can be done to settle the estate, for many of the bonds are valueless and no one wants to purchase any Strauss Bonds at any price.  There is too much risk.

 How the ranks of our dear ones who were together at Harriet's home in 1931 have decreased.  Uncle Owen, Seward, Lucy, and Aunt Alice have all joined the ranks of the departed.  Such is life.  I attended the funeral of the husband of one of Lucy's dear friends here in Springfield today.  Two weeks after Lucy's going, her only living sister passed on, so that all her family are gone.  Aunt Alice was the last of that generation of the J.P. More family.  So, we are all going

on to the journey's end.

I am well and very comfortably located in my own house, which is occupied by a family who rent the house and care for me.  I hear from Amanda and Mary Miller frequently, and a goodly number of relatives and friends.  I appreciate your expression of sympathy and very kind invitation to visit you.  I might get out in that part of the world again some time, but can't make any promises.  I am glad to be employed and able to do my daily stint.

I hope you and your growing, active, and interesting family keep in good health and have a comfortable degree of prosperity.

As ever yours,
Geo L Shutts

P.S.
Dear Cousin Harriet has my heartfelt sympathy.

1918 10 12 Alice More to Florence Rose

I will correct some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.

Pine Hill and Kingston are in Ulster County, New York.  Roxbury is in Delaware County, New York. The letter is written by Alice Estelle Clayton More to her granddaughter Florence Rose.  The 'Father' and 'Dad' and 'he' referred to is Elbert Rose, father of Florence Rose.  Lin is Elbert's sister Malinda Rose Townsend.  The Helen on page 3 might be Lin's daughter and Arthur might be Elbert's brother.  Adda is Elbert's sister, Ada Rose Woolheater.  Hattie is Harriet More Burgett, a daughter of Alice's.  Seward is Hattie's husband.

Pine Hill
Oct 12, 1918

Dear Florence,

I have been waiting to see what your father was going to do.  He went over to Lin's to get her to take the girls. He came back from there feeling pretty good.  He said she was glad to do it for him.  That was Friday.  Saturday, she came over to get dad to

not break up his family; to stay on the farm.  I see where the shoe pinched.  She had lots of reasons why she didn't see how she could take them.  Your Dad is bent on going to Kingston.  You can't talk him out of it.

 Well, Lin stayed all night and today Dad took her home and the girls.  I felt awful sorry to see the little girls go

 bag and baggage.  Lin says they can stay till she gets her sewing done and the Influenza is subdued.  Then, she and Helen will go to Arthur's and then to Bertha's.  Then, the girls will go to Aunt Ada's in Kingston.  I think that is awful for those poor little girls to be toted around.  And, Dad will get a job in Kingston.  It is awful lonesome tonight without them.  Well, I

have lots of work to do.  Wish you were here to help me pack.  Then you could take some things back with you.  I have packed all the best bedding in trunks and have burned all the paper rags and all the girls trunk.  He is going to pack every thing in the room where we slept.  I have the parlor and the bedroom all straight.  He is going to draw writings Monday and wants to let Obed

move in the fifteenth.  I don't see how I can get it all done.

Well, I must get to bed.  You must let Hattie see this.

He hasn't sold the bull.  I haven't seen _____ and the cider apples are still on the ground.  I wish Seward would come down and let you come, too.

Hastily,  Grandma

PS
He will have to put the date the 20th before he lets them in.  I think I will go to Roxbury before I come up.

1916 11 19 Beatrice Rose to Florence Rose

I got to thinking; why not put the images of the letters on the posts as I create them?  I'll give it a try!  As before, I'll correct some spelling and some grammar as I transcribe.

The locations mentioned are in Ulster and Otsego Counties, New York.  Beatrice Rose was 10-years old when she wrote this.  I believe the Sister that this letter is addressed to is Florence Rose.  Uncle Seward (Burgett) is the husband of Hattie (Harriet More Burgett).  Grandma is Alice Estelle Clayton More.  Grandpa Burgett is Peter Burgett, the father of Seward.  I believe Peter died 9 November 1916.

 Pine Hill, NY
Nov 19, 1916

Dear Sister,

How are you getting along in school?  I am getting along pretty good.

Are you lonesome yet?  Don't you think that Uncle Seward is getting fatter every day?

My, how he worked down

here.  He fixed the chicken coop lovely and helped Papa butcher and get some wood the next day after he fixed the chicken coop.  We found an egg.

We are doing fine in school.  I hope you are, too.

Why did Clara Griffon stay out of school so long; and, why did they think she wasn't coming back again?

Grandma received the

package all OK.

Wasn't it too bad about poor Grandpa Burgett?

Grandma looked all over for Aunt Hattie's ring.  Do you know where she put it?

Mrs. Ioninan (?) found the letter you wrote to Ronald (Ioninan ?) when you first went up there.  He left it in his bedroom on the stand when he went away.

We want to go up to Oneonta for Christmas and take our presents up with us and have a Christmas tree.

I can't write very good because I have an old pen.

Are you coming home Thanksgiving and then going up to Oneonta for Christmas?

Well, I must close and change my clothes.

Beatrice