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13 April - Mary (Dahm) makes candy of variouys kinds almost every day and
sells to the "Pre" boys who bring at least 5 different dogs with them.
12 May -= Hamilton moves to Lebanon.
23 May - Eldress Caroline and Lucy went to the airport. Saw 10 buses loaded
with children come to see the airplanes.
22 June - Lucy paid $10for a ride in an airplane.
9 Aug - Hugo took Eldress Anna, Eldress Caroline and Lucy to Lake George. They
arrived at 10:30 a.m., had a two hour boat trip, dined at 1:30 and started home at
5:30. The next day they went to Albany and bought a new Buick, the Enfield people
paying $800, Hugo $400, trade-in $400.
26 Sept. - Caroline and Lucy went to Albany and were "fortunate in seeing the
first ocean freighter come to the Albany Port to unload and reload."
new Mohawk Trail and new Taconic Trail, both beautiful. Start 8:15 a.m., home 6:30."
From their tombstones, we know that Lucy Bowers died in 1935, aged 75; Anna
Goeppers in 1937, aged 67; Caroline Tate in 1937, aged 78; Abby Bartlett in 1927,
aged 70; Barbara Hooper in 1930, aged 83; Adelaide Ingham in 1927, aged 94; Byron
Coburn in 1935, aged 61; Hamilton DeGraw was buried in the Watervliet Cemetery in
1937, aged 84 (the only cremation).
When Eldress Anna died in 1938, the only sisters left were Mary and Grace Dahm
and Freida Sipple and they moved in the New Lebanon North Family.