Grace Church

[chris]

Grace Church was organized as a parish in 1838. The first church was a frame building located at the corner of Broadway and Columbia streets. About twenty years later, the current site was purchased by Alfred Munson and given to the parish for “the new church.” With Mr. Munson’s financial backing, Richard Upjohn, architect of Trinity Church, NYC, was engaged to design the present building.

This is a parish of the Diocese of Central New York of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. Episcopalians are part of the world-wide Anglican Communion, a family of self-governing national churches historically related to the Church of England

It wa on the corner of Broadway and Columbia according to this article. Go here for the rest of article

www.gracechurchutica.org/index_files/Page364.htm

[dgriffin]

Oct 11, 2009 20:22:13 GMT -5 Clipper said:

Were the sisters of St Margaret Episcopal nuns? I remember seeing Episcopal nuns at Grace Church when I was a kid. There is also a convent or retirement home or something for Episcopal nuns in Greenwich NY. My first wife was from nearby Cambridge NY in Washinton County, East of Troy. I saw the nuns from Greenwich a couple of times at the fair in Greenwich or Salem. I can't remember which little town had the fairgrounds.

Clipper, yes they are Episcopal nuns. We spoke about them earlier this year as they were packing up to leave New Hartford. They had some sort of ministry at the Olbiston also, I think, to do with children. Here's the bye-bye story from your favorite newspaper.

www.uticaod.com/homepage/x955249106/After-almost-a-century-nuns-to-leave-New-Hartford

[dgriffin]

Oct 11, 2009 20:40:37 GMT -5 fiona said:

The Sullivan thread is currently for the bios which are slow going, but moving in the right direction , and I will post it in the OGH ques and comments. I have mary B.'s bio ready to go, I just needed to tweak it a little and back check my facts. The post about the Woods at Grace Church helped me tremendously. I have been searching all over for any info on the father for several months and now I have something to go on.

I've been searching on fultonhistory using the argument "John B. Wood." It goes slowly, since I got almost 1,000 hits, because of someone popular had the same name in Carthage, NY and a John B. Woodruff, who was a general of sorts. Plus similar names in the Brooklyn Eagle.

I'll post what I find.

Jon, did you ever put all the Fire articles in one file so you can scan all at once for hits on names, etc.?

[jon hynes]

Oct 11, 2009 19:31:25 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

Jon, don't know. When searching for "No. 11 Court St.," from the 1913 Grace Church 75th Anniversary closing remarks, where the Rector mentioned the Sisters of St. Margaret had come to stay, Bing put me down in this vicinity. And the only likely building appeared to be the one in the middle of this shot, at the intersection of Court and Varick Streets.

Faxton Hall was the name of the building on the 1883 map.
It's on the even side of the street.

[jon hynes]

Here's 11 Court Street designated as Estate of H. Baker in 1883.

[dgriffin]

Thanks, Jon. That makes more sense, closer to Genesee St., near the corner at the top of Broadway. Must be the difference in street numbering between now and the late 1800's.

[jon hynes]

Oct 11, 2009 22:39:35 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

Jon, did you ever put all the Fire articles in one file so you can scan all at once for hits on names, etc.?

Probably not the way you would expect. If you give me a name or an idea what you are looking for I'll see what I can find.

[dgriffin]

I had begun to put together such a file. A list of the articles from a variety of papers (by first few words of each title) would be the following. Can you think of any I've missed?

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Cliff Dwellers

Flats A Mass

Fire Horror Watertown Daily Times

Search For Bodies

Box been Pulled

Body of Noble

Four Lives Lost

Beyond A Doubt

Holocaust/Summary

Globe Fine Issue

[Clipper]

Thanks for the reminder Dave. I had forgotten about the house on Jordan Road. Must be getting senile, haha.

Go back to your posting. I am enjoying reading it so far.

[fiona]

Clipper: Thanks much for jumping in on this. You too, Chris. We need all the help we can get. I too have the whole file hardcopied and hope to soon begin hard copying the OGH file. I can't think of a better way to save it. Blessings, Fiona

[fiona]

To All: Dave&Jon&Clipper: I don't know if anyone noticed, but there is a special message just for us on the side of the Grace Church postcard. Take a good look at it. It comes to us from across time and space and boundaries to offer us hope for a better future and succes with the book. It was written in the long long ago and signed by a girl who has become very precious to us. I have written in the past that there are no "accidents" in life, everything is interelated from the beginning to the end and synchronisity rules the known universe. Blessings, Fiona

[dgriffin]

Fiona, I'm reading:

Dear Sister, Mary is here with me
and we are having a fine time xxx you
was with us. Toss is coming xxx Tuesday
what a time we will have here. Annie.

[jon hynes]

Oct 15, 2009 0:24:23 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

Fiona, I'm reading:

Dear Sister, Mary is here with me
and we are having a fine time xxx you
was with us. Toss is coming xxx Tuesday
what a time we will have here. Annie.

Dear Sister, Mary is here with me
and we are having a fine time wish you
were with us Tess is coming here Tuesday
what a time we will have love Annie

[dgriffin]

I wonder if instead of Toss, it's Tom. See how her m's lean forward in "time" and "coming."
Her "e's" vary. E.g., "dear" and "we" versus "here" and "fine."

[fiona]

Thank you Dave: that message was meant for us. It's beautiful and gives me strength to go on.