In 1681, King Charles II issued a portion of his land holdings in America to William Penn--the William Penn--to pay the debts he owed to Penn's father, including present-day Pennsylvania and Delaware. William Penn immediately set sail aboard the Welcome with a group English Quakers, arriving at the mouth of the Delaware River on October 27, [...]
Sisters Myrtle Fae, Alta Melvina & Wilma Ruby Koons, 1908
Serafin Zielinski, according to my grandmother, was quite the catch. He was born in 1909 in Dunkirk, New York to John Michael Zielinski and Pauline Louise Gostomski, two Polish immigrants who arrived in America at the turn-of-the-century and purchased land in nearby Springville, New York. John worked as a machinist at Brooks Locomotive Works--a profession [...]
Marcella (Mintkiewicz) Witkowski is my great-great-great-grandmother, and we're related solely on my maternal line; if you trace back from my mother to my grandmother to Grandma Hattie to Grandma Mary, you'll find Marcella at the top. She was born on January 2, 1855 in Poland, the daughter of Joseph and Maryanna (Mielcarski) Mintkiewicz. Marcella married [...]
In Memory of Susan Katherine (Koerner) Wright 1831-1889
