women 18 or over; together with 8 young girls. At the time the
1905 census was taken, Elder Isaac and Peter Smith (now 78) were
still there and one more man aged 74; Eldress Rachel, Harriet
Jones, and Deborah Knight. The rest were those who were there
for a few months or few years--such as the three Relyea sisters,
five Shaw children, two Marlie women, and May Weingarten, who
later tried to collect money for caring for Eldress Rachel.
Eldress Rachel died in 1913, Hugo Stroebel who was their farm
manager in 1910 moved to the SF and was manager there until it
closed in 1938. At some time Harriet Jones moved to the CF and
was there when it closed in 1926, but it is not known what hap-
pened to her then and she is not in the Shaker Cemetery.
For the last days of the WF we must read the journals of Anna
Goepper at the SF which she started keeping April 5, 1915 for
Eldress Anna Case. Her first entry tells us that the Ministry
Eldresses Sarah Berger and Catherine Allen returned to Mt. Leb-
anon after having come to attend Elder Isaac's funeral and staying
a week to transact other business.
Deborah Knight is now a resident of the SF. They fumigate the
room where Elder Isaac died and repaint and paper it. On May 4
they cut in half the house Hugo Stroebel lived in at the WF and
are going to move 1/2 of it to the SF for him. Expect it to
take about 15 days to move. On May 13, three ladies come by car
"to see if they could get a place up at the WF for some young
people to camp out a while this summer - they to furnish
everything except the house." A sister took them up to the WF
to look it over and "they were well pleased." On May 18th the
ladies came again about the camp. "This is a summer's outing
given poor but worthy young working women by the wealthy and
influential women of Albany. They intend to have a dance at
Loudonville sometime in the near future to raise money enough to
help bear expenses,"
On May 20th Anna reports that they have to wait for the power
company to cut wires to move Hugo's house. On the 29th it had
come down the lane to the SF and was ready to be moved to its
final resting place "near the fountain."
On June 17th Eldress Anna and Elder Josiah went to Schenectady
about the law suit brought by May Winegarten, a girl raised by
the WF, for the services rendered Eldress Rachel. May had been
married and was living in Schenectady when Eldress Rachel sent
for her.
When the SF celebrated the 4th of July in the evening with
Japanese lanterns hung around the trees and a "grand display of
fireworks", the girls from the summer camp at the WF came down.
On July 9th, Hugo's house was put on its foundation, his wife
began cleaning it and getting ready to move in.
On Aug. 28th the girls' camp broke up. On Sept. 29th, Anna says
the Winegarten case will go to court soon; May and her husband


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