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 | 285 North Street, East Aurora, NY .. Llewellyn and Thelma Smith Deitz purchased and moved into this house in October 1941. They lived in the house until their deaths. Both their children were raised there. At the time they moved in, there were no other houses on the same side of the street for the entire block, and only a few on the other side. |
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 | 50 Durham Ave., Buffalo, NY .. Llewellyn and Fanny Basford Bancroft lived in this house from about 1920 until their deaths. |
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 | 50th Wedding Anniversary: Benjamin and Flora Potter Smith .. this video contains clips of a home movie taken 1 July 1957 of a family celebration for Ben & Flora's 50th wedding anniversary. It is about four minutes long (an about 20.4 mb WMV file). The original film was of poor to fair quality; the clips included are of a better quality than most of the film. Most of the then living siblings of Flora… |
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 | 674 Northumberland Ave., Buffalo, NY, about 1940 .. where Llewellyn and Thelma Smith Deitz lived first after they were married, until they bought the home in East Aurora, NY |
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 | Abraham Lord gravestone Status: Located. |
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 | Alfred Williams Gravestone Status: Not yet located. .. one of several markers at the Williams family plot. |
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 | Almera Williams Gravestone Status: Located. .. one of several markers at the Williams Family plot |
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 | Annis Williams Gravestone Status: Located. .. one of several markers at the Williams Family plot |
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 | B. J. Smith on lumber bobsled, 1907 .. probably Main street, Allegany, NY |
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 | Bancroft Family left to right, back: Margaret, William, Wilhelmina (Winnie)
front: Fanny Basford, Henrietta (Etta), Llewellyn |
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 | Benjamin J. Smith family and house .. Late Summer 1916.
From Left: Howard Ernest, Thelma Elaine, Norma Irene, Flora Potter Smith, Benjamin J. Smith with Elsie Ruth on his lap. Margaret Esther is not yet born.
House is on N. Second St. (then First St.), Allegany, NY |
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 | Benjamin Joseph Smith |
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 | Beulah E. Williams gravestone Status: Located. .. one of several markers at the Williams Family plot |
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 | Beulah P. Williams Gravestone Status: Located. .. one of several markers at the Williams Family plot. |
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 | Catherine (Kate) Wolfle Deitz and family Back: Leslie Deitz (my grandfather) - Margaret Bancroft Deitz (my grandmother) - Arthur Deitz? - Bessie Olver? - Margaret Deitz? - Charles Faller - Alice Deitz Faller
Middle: ? - ?
Front: Bessie Reed Dietz - Catherine Wolfie Deitz - George Dietz, Jr.
Probably taken around 1909 (my grandparents marriage date) or 1910 (my father's birth);… |
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 | Catherine Wolfle Deitz |
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 | Cheadle (St. Mary's Church), Stockport, Greater Manchester (Chesire), England It is in this church the Oliver Bancroft and Sarah Green were married. St Mary's Church, Cheadle is in High Street, Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Cheadle. Its benefice is united with that… |
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 | Clarence & Mildred Reed Smith House, Summer 2000 .. North Second Street, Allegany, NY |
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 | Deitz Family -- Margaret Bancroft, Llewellyn Bancroft, Leslie E. |
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 | Deitz monument Status: Located. |
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 | Deitz plot at the Oakwood Cemetery Status: Located. |
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 | Doris K. Williams gravestone Status: Located. .. one of several markers at the Williams Family plot. |
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 | Edna Langley Baxter |
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 | Edward Baxter |
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 | Edward F. Smith Grocery Store .. Ed Smith owned a grocery store, near the corner of Second (formerly First) and Main Streets, Allegany, NY, (picture c. 1916). Ed Smith later moved his grocery store from Second Street to the Willard and Fred Smith building on Main Street. Upon his retirement, Howard Schultz and Clarence Smith purchased the store, and the business continued into… |
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 | Edward F. Smith House, Summer 2000 .. North Second Street, near Main Street (opposite old Methodist Church, now Allegany Area Historical Society building). |
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 | Edwin Hallock Status: Located. |
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 | Edwin Hallock and Lena Potter |
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 | Elbert and June Williams Ryerson .."Bert and June at Bert's 90th Birthday Party and their 62nd Wedding Anniversary, July 14, 2001.
(from Christmas Message, December 2001) |
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 | Elsie Smith Murrin .. 1995 |
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 | Elsie Smith Murrin .. About 1950. |
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 | Elsie Smith Murrin About 2003 |
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 | Emmanuel Owen Scott Bancroft Caroli and father, Jay (to left) |
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 | Emmanuel Owen Scott Bancroft Caroli and his father, Jay |
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 | Emmanuel Owen Scott Bancroft Caroli and his mother, Sharon. |
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 | Emmanuel Owen Scott Bancroft Caroli.
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 | Fanny Basford as a young woman. |
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 | Fanny Basford Bancroft |
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 | Flora Potter and Benjamin Smith with their Grandchildren .. Front: Flora Potter Smith & Benjamin Joseph Smith.
Back, l. to r.: Gerry Smith, Thomas Murrin, James Smith, John Deitz, Charles Murrin, Phillip Smith, Mary Deitz.
Taken mid-1950s. (perhaps before 1954 as Nancy Griffin does not appear, b. July 1954) |
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 | Flora Potter Smith About 1945. |
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 | Flora Potter Smith and Benjamin Joseph Smith, with grandchildren .. taken 29 Jun 1957, at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration at their home in Allegany, NY.
Grandchildren LR: Thomas (Tom) Murrin, Mary Deitz, John (Jack) Deitz, Gerald (Jerry) Smith, James (Jim) Smith, Phillip Smith, Charles (Chuck) Murrin, Martha Griffin (being held by her mother Norma).
In front: Standing Nancy Griffin. Being held by… |
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 | Fred Dietz Family Perhaps taken during a visit by George and Bessie Reed Dietz to Oklahoma, about 1922.
Back Row, LR: Minnie Dietz Edgar (baby Chester?), Fred Dietz, George Edgar, George Anton Dietz, Frank Dietz, Ruth Dietz,
Front Row, LR: Bessie Reed Deitz, George Deitz Jr., Ed Dietz, Geneva Dietz, Mary Riester Dietz, Fred Dietz.
George Jr. and Fred are… |
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 | Fred Dietz family .. probably taken about 1922, at the same sitting as the other Oklahoma Dietz family photograph. This photograph is of the immediate family and does not include the in-laws or grandchildren. While captioned using the "Deitz" spelling of their surname, they seem to have most frequently used "Dietz."
Individuals are identified on the back of the… |
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 | George and Kate gravestone inscription Status: Located. .. on one face of the family monument |
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 | George Dietz (Deitz) Jr. family .. This photograph was likely taken at the family residence in Buffalo, NY. |
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 | George J. Deitz, Sr. |
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| 47 | | Henrietta Bancroft Aspinall Gravestone Status: Not yet located. |
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 | Hepsebah Lord Kellogg Status: Located. |
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 | Howard & Blanche Chase Smith House, Summer 2000 .. North Second Street, Allegany, NY. This house was directly across the street from that of his parents. |
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 | James Aspinall |
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