This next one is owned by Walter B. Smith who was first married
to Rosa Welker, then later to her younger sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) Welker, after Rosa died (just in case you didn't follow
the family line online yet...) It later became Smith & Welker
Hardware after Great Great Grandfather Welker was out of the Hotel Business.
quips from other copies
and some I hand wrote : George Welker (Sr.) visited
Sheffield yesterday. Miss Maggie Sullivan
of Sheffield who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. George Welker,
returned home yesterday. Thurs. Aug, 20,1885 -
Miss Emma Welker, who has been visiting friends in Buffalo, NY,
returns. Sept. 17, 1885 - Mrs.
W. B. Smith is in Corry this week visiting friends and relatives. July 3, 1885 - Fred Drummer
, of Buffalo , is visiting George Welker Jr. for a few days. Thurs. Aug 20, 1885 -
The addition to the Kane House is completed and now is occupied
as a bar-room. Mr. Welker has furnished it in first-class style.
It is one of the finest rooms in town. Aug 27, 1885 - Geo Welker
has placed a new and handsome refrigerator in his bar-room. same page: Geo Welker
Jr. visited warren Tuesday to take in the Fireman's parade. same page: - I think
this is Patrick Sullivan - brother to G. G. Grandma Mary - :
and another section -
George Welker Jr. and Fred Drummer spent last week at Sulpher
Springs, Warren County. They took in the excursion to Chautaqua
Lake Sunday.
Mr. P. J. Sullivan had the misfortune to have his hand badly hurt
last Wednesday, at Holgate Bros. brush block works, where he is
an employee.
- (remember a Patrick Sullivan was a witness/surety to Henry Welker's
will.
There was also L. W. Dolan and I find him as a Physician - Surgeon
with Offices in the Kane Trust & Savings Co., Bldg - Rooms
4 & 5. Don't know yet if he is family but he sure is Irish...)
They sure did a lot in those days - they did not sit still. I
love it.......... Horses and Trains for travel - how exciting
to me - though I suppose not so much to them at all times. I do
remember that I either went to Texas on the train with Aunt Helen
or came back from there on one. Went through Chicago and had my
first experience with an escalator.
Also, you can't imagine how I wish I had been able to share all of this with Mom, Dad, and all the family I actually knew. I hope they are watching from Heaven and enjoying it. This is giving us such an insight to our ancestor's lives and feels to me as if I know them all.