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PROBATE RECORD LOOKUP REQUESTED
I am looking for a will or probate records for Gustof Hagen (he was German).
He died at the Geneva City Hospital on December 2, 1917 and his obituary said
that his wife lived two miles east of the town on Lake Road. I am not sure if
that would be in Ontario or Seneca Co. I have been told that they lived in
Border City and in Waterloo. I am looking to see if there is someone who can
check the records at the Seneca County Surgate's Court to see if a will or
probate record exists there. I would be happy to pay any copying charges.
Thanks, Paul Carter, pacarter@rmi.net, Arvada, CO.
EARLY STONECUTTERS OF THE FINGER LAKES AREA Laura Moore, ljm11@cornell.edu May 3, 1999
I am interested in early stonecutters of the Finger Lakes area--
specifically, a distinctive style of work done between 1800 and about
1847. I have found these specific kinds of gravestone all over the
Tricounties. Up until yesterday, I had found only a few stones actually
signed by the cutter, an "E.B. Smith". I found those stones in three
Seneca County Cemeteries: a) the old Townsendville Cemetery on Co. Rd 146,
b) an abandoned cemetery in a pine forest on Co. Rd. 143, and c) a cemetery
just off Route 96, near Interlaken. Yesterday, I discovered 2 more signed
stones in the same style, or a style that clearly imitates the same cutter.
They were signed, "J. Sutton",(dated 1825,West Lodi Cemetery) and "N.
Ellis" (dated 1833,Cemetery near Interlaken).
I am guessing that these cutters were apprenticing together under the
direction of a master cutter. The work is fine and beautiful, done on
local stone, and clearly all of them strive to emulate a specific style--
but I can't seem to come up with any information about stonecutters from
that time period in the Seneca/Cayuga/Tompkins area.