Re: orphanage papers

[Lou & Gail Mottola <lfghm@ibm.net>]

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> Laurie, about 5 years ago my parents sold their home and moved to a Mobile
> Home in a park to be closer to my brother Gary. That is when I came across THE
> TRUNK' My sister-in-law and I looked through it and was surprise by the things
> we saw such as a diploma from Kentucky Orphan school.  also Papers sent to a
> maternal reletive stating he would no longer as her guardien receive a pitiful
> little check sent to him monthly.There is a Sinclair adoption Page on the Web
>  which list guardianships as well, but I can't seem to get into it ,.there was
> also part of a letter and newspaper article about a sinclair burning in a
> fire,it said something to the effect, that (it appears there is another one of
> us) in the trunk. We were so busy trying to clean out and sell things that we
> didn't really get into everything. Now that I have this computer and with my
> Dad dying and Mom isn"t doing great, I feel the urgency. Does this make sense
> to you? Since it seems  another Sinclair child died in a fire,maybe someone
> has this info.
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In, 1894, Virginia Sinclair Shurter died in Samsonville, NY of what the
family, then, called a "burning." Virginia was an adult, mother of five
children: Joseph, Caroline (called Cad), Guy, Eva, and Virginia (often
called Virge), who is my materal grandmother. The event was reported,
and then recalled in the "Kingston (NY) Freeman" newspaper in the
1950's.  The burning occurred with an iron and dry cleaning solvent. Her
clothes caught fire. 

My maternal grandmother "Virge" was adopted by her cousin, Virginia
Sinclair Boice Seeley, and her husband Frank Barrows Seeley of Kingston,
NY.  Their mothers, Virginia Sinclair Shurter and Virginia Sinclair
Boice were sisters.  It is the sisters' father, whom I believe to be
named Joseph, who I am seeking. I'll be happy to fax you a copy of the
article if you think there might be a connection. 

Regarding the children of Virginia Sinclair Shurter and Pratt Shurter:

Joseph died at young age without issue.
Caroline (Cad) I do not know much about, or whom she lived with after  
her mother's death.
Guy served as Postmaster in Samsonville after serving in World War I.
Eva lived and worked for some time in NYC.
Virginia, the youngest, was adopted as stated above.

Good luck. Wouldn't it be something if...   G.
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