Brewers:
(Charles Greer, Bertha Deischel/Lamberson, Truman Purdy, Maida Frakes)
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| Chronicle Express (Penn Yan, New York), 3 December 1884 |
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| Santa Fe New Mexican and Live Stock Journal, 26 August 1886 |
(1887 Rio Arriba County lost land creating San Juan County.)
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| The Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, 8 Oct 1890 |
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| The Weekly New Mexican Review, 24 August 1893 |
("Crops under the Model Ditch are in florishing condition large fields of corn interspersed with ripened grain and stubble and the darker green alfalfa are seen from Bloomfield to Largo. Among those deserving mention are Cornelius Sullivan, D. F. Daniels, C. G. Brewer, J. R. Curles, Jose Armenta and J. B. Valdez. The most corn grown in San Juan county and that means a good deal will deal will be found along this ditch, the young orchards only two to four years old are looking well and in another year will add their numbers to the fruit output of the county."
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| The Weekly New Mexican Review, 1 February 1894 |
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| The Eagle, 21 November 1894 |
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| The Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, 5 December 1894 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 6 September 1895 | | |
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| San Juan Times, 4 October 1895 |
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| Las Vegas Daily Optic, 13 March 1896 |
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| Las Vegas Daily, 1 August 1896 |
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| Las Vegas Daily, 13 January 1897 |
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| Las Vegas Daily Optic, 10 March 1897 |
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| Las Vegas Daily, 22 May 1897 |
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| Las Vegas Daily Optic, 23 June 1897 |
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| The San Juan Times, 6 January 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 27 Jan 1899 |
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| San Juan Co., Index, 17 February 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 17 February 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 11 August 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 21 July 1899 |
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| Las Vegas Daily Optic, 10 October 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 5 January 1900 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 19 January 1900 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 9 March 1900 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 23 March 1900 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 18 May 1900 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 5 July 1901 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 6 Sept 1901 |
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| Sn Juan Co. Index 11 Oct 1901 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 15 November 1901 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 16 May 1902 |
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| Albuquerque Journal, 21 May 1902 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 19 September 1902 |
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| Albuquerque Weekly Citizen, 20 December 1902 |
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| Albuquerque Weekly Citizen, 1 June 1903 |
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| Albuquerque Weekly Citizen, 22 August 1903 |
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| Santa Fe New Mexican, 11 August 1903 |
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| San Juan Co. Index. 1 February 1904 |
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| Wedding Notice, June 1904 |
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| San Juan Index, 22 July 1904 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 16 March 1906 |
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| San Juan Index, 20 April 1906 |
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| San Juan Index, 11 May 1906 |
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| San Juan Index, 15 June 1906 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 15 June 1906 |
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| San Juan Index, 15 June 1906 |
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| San Juan Index, 1 January 1910 |
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| Albuquerque Journal, 30 July 1911 |
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| The Deming Highlight, 28 December 1923 |
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| The Fort Collins Express Courier, 20 February 1935 |
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| The Fort Collins Express Courier,21 February | 1935 |
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| The Fort Collins Express Courier, 11 June 1935 |
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| Farmington Daily News, 12 October 1980 |
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| Farmington Daily News, 12 October 1980 |
Charles Greer Brewer:
"Charles,
Hannah and his children Maida, Truman, and Bertha moved to New Mexico
in 1884 to homestead land. They build a two story brick home and barns.
They grew fields of grain, hay and a wonderful garden. When the Blanco
River kept overflowing the family decided to move to the town of Aztec.
They dismantled the house, hauled the brick into town and built a nice
store with living quarters. This became C. G. Brewer's General Store.
Hannah and her daughters ran the store while Truman and Charles built
houses in Aztec." (Written by Maida Brewer, granddaughter to Charles)
Truman Purdy Brewer:
"I
was born in the house my father build when he married my mother June 8,
1914, on his birthday. Paul, Harold, Bertha, Clara, and I were born
during their first ten years of marriage. We had a happy childhood. The
house was ample for a big family, our yard had grass and big tall trees
to swing in. There was a garden in back and Grandma and Grandpa Thomas
lived across the alley.
My
father was the owner of the blacksmith shop since before 1910. I
remember when visiting the shop, picking up wood shavings and putting
them in my hair. In 1920 we had the brick store on Main Street Grandpa
Brewer and Dad had built from their farmhouse. I think Dad enjoyed the
store routine. We had a good stock of hardware items. Our house adjoined
the store with a living room, dining room, kitchen, and Mom and Dad's
bedroom with a front porch. We had a big garden with fruit trees.
Dad
bought an old car which Harold and Paul said was junk but Dad rebuilt
it. Everett and Almeda went with us on country jaunts.
We had two or three cows which we drove to the river pasture each day and went after them late in the afternoon each day.
Dad traded our store to Everett Dial (a cousin) and sold gasoline from a pickup truck to gasoline stations" (Written by Maida Brewer, daughter to Truman)
Maida Estella Brewer Deischel Lamberson:
"Aunt
Minn moved to California when I was a little girl. She worked for rich
people who gave her outgrown clothes. She sent us many boxes. I remember
an orange two piece that had an embroidered elephant on the front. The
first time it was washed, it went to Hannah Rose, next time to Mary. We
all remembered it.
Aunt Minn's Christmas boxes were
something else! She chose every gift carefully. She told me she started
buying at after Christmas clearances. She added all through the year.
Dad got a beautiful warm coat sweater. One box had a black velvet tam
for my sister Bertha and berets for we other three girls - mine was red,
Hannah's was blue and Mary's yellow. One Christmas Mother pieced a
quilt and set it up on quilting frames in the dining room and we all
took turns with the quilting. I remember embroidering pillow cases for
her.
She came to Aztec to visit us. In her last years,
when Mom and Dad were gone, she returned to Aztec and lived with Uncle
Everett. She is buried there." (Written by Maida Brewer, niece to Maida (Minn) Brewer/Deichel/Lambertson)
Thomas:
(Jacob D. Thomas, Maud Thomas, Rosa Linda Fancher Thomas, Jerry Thomas)
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| White Oaks Eagle, 21 February 1901 |
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| White Oaks Eagle, 2 October 1902 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 23 May 1902 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 4 July 1902 |
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| Albuquerque Citizen, 22 October 1902 |
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| San Juan Co. Index,5 Dec 1902 |
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| San Juan County Index, 16 October 1903 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 20 November 1903 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 13 November 1903 |
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| Albuquerque Morning Journal 11 January 1904 |
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| Albuquerque Citizen, 5 September 1905 |
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| Las Vegas Optic, 11 October 1905 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 2 March 1906 |
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| San Juan Co. Index 15 June 1906 |
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| San Juan Co. Index 16 March 1906 |
DALTON:
(Wilson S. Dalton, Ella Kutz Dalton
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| San Juan Co. Index, 3 February 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 3 March 1899 |
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| The San Juan Times, 5 May 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 28 July 1899 |
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| San Juan Index, 4 August 1899 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 28 1901 |
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| San Juan Co, 9 May 1906 |
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| San Juan Co. Index, 1 January 1910 |
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KUTZ:
New Mexico:
(George W. Kutz)
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| Weekly New Mexican Review, 20 Sept 1883 |
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| Weekly New Mexican Review, 4 October 1883 |
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| Santa Fe New Mexico, 15 June 1904 |
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| Albuquerque Journal, 30 July 1911 |
Pennsylvania:
(Daniel Kutz, Ira Clinton Kutz, George Nelson Kutz, Charles EverSarah Kutz, Fannie Kutz,
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| The Sunbury Americian, 18 August 1855 |
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| The Sunbury Gazette,25 Decembeer 1891 |
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| The Sunbury Gazette, 8 January 1892 |
The following is a memoriam written by a son or daughter of Daniel G. Kutz:
Daniel George Kutz
Born: 19 June 1825 Pine Grove, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 21 Dec 1891 Sunbury, Northumberlannd, Pennsylvania, USA
The
home of the early boyhood days of Daniel G. Kutz was in Pottsville, the
center of the vast anthracite coal mining district of middle
Pennsylvania. He was an only child. His father died when he was one
year old. After some time his mother married George Gobble, and the
boy's first work was with his step father in the coal mines. The next
adventure was as apprentice to a blacksmith, where he learned the trades
of carriage smith and car-builder. Not content with a superficial
knowledge he spent some time in traveling from shop to shop, studying
mechanics. Later he became apprenticed to Rev. Partridge, a
shoeing-smith who shod horses for the mines and preached to the people.
This good man taught by example as well as by precept. Whenever the
peaceful mule sent him on a swift journey through the air he indulged
not in epithets vile, his strongest language being, "Those wicked
animals." After learning the lessons in shoeing Mr. Kutz removed with
his mother to Llewellyn, a village ten miles distant, and here worked
for one of the colliers, having charge of the machinery repairs and
shoeing for the mines. While here he met Miss Mary Evart, of Snydertown,
but then at Pottsville, learning the millinery business, The
acquaintance led to their marriage in 1848. They moved to Mt. Laffu,
where for several years Mr. Kutz was engaged in one of the collieries
and where the author of this sketch was born.
A
year later, tired of life in the mines, they removed to a farm at Mt.
Pleasant, four miles east of Sunbury, near Shickalamy's old trail. This
beautiful place, with its green woodland, rich rolling fields and clear
hillside stream, so satisfied their home longings that they never moved
again until the Eternal Father called them to the mansion beautiful
beyond.
From
the hands of the Red Men, going to our ancestors, it is no wonder that
fond memories cluster round the spot. John Houser, grandfather of Mary
Evart Kutz, was the first owner.
The
home he build was a marvel in its day and is a structure of note at
present. It is fifty feet long and forty feet wide, built of hewed
logs,with two stories, cellar and attic. The floors were planned and
over the best rooms beaded on the underside; the joice were also planed
and beaded, all the work being done by hand. The front door opened into a
wide hall extending through the house. At the right was a room forty
feet long and eighteen wide, with a fire-place. The windows were neither
open nor filled with oiled paper but proudly transmitted the sunbeams
through panes of real glass, held in place by sash and frame, beaded and
moulded in the highest style of the art. The log shed no discredit on
the house, being of like ample proportions and substantial build. The
roof was quaint in construction. Round poles formed rafters. Across
these were tied with hickory withes other small round poles, on which
was tied the shingle. This thatch consisted of little bunches of straw,
lapped compactly after the fashion of shingle roofs of the present. The
writer's earliest recollection begins, naturally enough, at the building
of the new bank barn in1856. Hannah, Ella and George were then young
members of the family circle.
From
the old walnut tree, could be seen wide fields , a church, the Campbell
farm, the river bluffs, behind which rolled the Susquehanna, and beyond
the wide foot-hills leading to the misty mountain top of Buffalo
Mountain, ten miles away. Where could a more inviting spot be found for
rest after the day's work was done and for those delightful talks by
Father and his boys on Mechanics. So interesting did he make these
discussions, that no time was left for gossip or frivolous chatter. On
rainy days and at odd times these theories were tested by the boys down
in the old shop where Father had brought his smithing outfit in all its
various branches. Using every educational means possible the children
were sent regularly to the school a mile distant, until at a later date,
a house was built on a corner of the farm.
The
family now numbered nine children, Richard having died when six months
old. The home was made more desolate when in 1867 the mother was taken,
with an infant sister. Her life was one of devotion to her children,
being equally zealous with the father in having them appear well among
their neighbors, and in securing a good education. It was her beautiful
custom to gather the children about her knee she taught them to repeat
their evening prayer, and early in life they received the sacred rite of
baptism.
The
older members of the family keenly remember the sad time of home
without a mother. Hannah and Ella did all they could to keep up the home
and at times were aided by the two grandmothers, who took turns in
paying long visits. Grandmother Sophia Houser Evart's delightful
company was enjoyed by the family as she entertained us with storied of
her early life on the farm, the river and hills near by; of how the
women carried the bag for the catch while the men speared fish in the
streams, sometimes all night long. Grandmother Bubb Gobble lived with us
a long time, lighting up the home with her smiles and wise sayings.
The
family scattered. Hannah married Charles Brewer, and is now near Largo,
New Mexico, Ella became Mrs Dalton, and resides near her sister. George
W. is at Chama, New Mexico. Charles E. is at Goshan, Ind. Clinton lives
in Sunbury, Pa., and John D. is at Warsaw, all being married. William
F. is at Fort Wayne, Ind., Sara and Fannie are in Sunbury, Pa.
Father
was highly esteemed by his neighbors as a friend and patriot. During
the was he drilled the boys of the neighborhood in the field movements
near the old chestnut tree, a mere snag which stands now. This tree is
also memorable for being the pedestal of a burning tar barrel after the
electioon of William Henry arrison. In '64 he presented himself with
apron and hammer at Washington, and was at once given a responsible
position in the government repair shop.
He
was an honored member of the German Reform church and encouraged his
children in reading the Bible at home. In 1870 Father was married to
Miss Mary Eckelman, who still survives him. He engaged actively in
agricultural pursuits; was government statistician for Northumberland
county, and was district lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry. In
December of 1891 he was sent as district delegate to the state
convention at Harrisburg, and there contracted a cold which developed
into pneumonia, From the first it was evident that he could not recover.
Clinton left his engine at Sunbury, in the midst of his run, and with
his wife and baby boy, hurried to the old homestead. Sara and Fannie
closed their shop and gave every attention He would sometimes remark,
"You are making it too easy for me." The Indiana members of the family
had written that they might spend Christmas at home and he was anxious
to live until that time. Death came on the Monday previous at 11 o'clock
in the evening. On Friday, Christmas Day, his remains were laid to rest
in Snydertown cemetery. Through gone from us, yet the influence of his
life rolls on, a legacy more precious than gold.
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| The Courier, August 1912 |
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| Harrisburg Daily Independent, 12 August 1912 |
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| Harrisburg Telegraph, 15 August 1912 |
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| The Courier, 3 November 1912 |
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| Harrisburg Telegraph, 24 June 1914 |
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| The Daily Item, 21 Aug 1933 |
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| The Daily Item, 20 Nov 1934 |
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| The Daily Item, 27 February 1941 |
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| The Daily Item, 31 March 1941 |
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| The Daily Item, 2 August 1943 |
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| The Daily Item, 11 December 1969 |
EVERT:
(John Evert, Obderdorf (Overdorf?), John Kutz, William Kutz, Hannah Brewer, Ellen Dalton, George Kutz, Charles Kutz, Clint Kutz, Fannie Kutz, Sarah Kutz, Daniel Kutz
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| The Weekly Franklin Repository, 29 May 1827 |
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| The Sunbury Gazette, 14 September 1839 |
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| The Sunbury Gazette, 9 November 1844 |
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| The Sunbury American, 30 July 1886 |
