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Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
Diaries & Letters of Tri-Counties
1905
Burt Strange, Gravedigger, of Sylvania and Sullivan Township

 
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905
Diary of Burt Strange
Township: Sylvania, Columbia Township, Bradford County PA
Year: 1905
Transcribed (Extracts only) by Fay TILLER Morgan
Introduced and Annotated by Joyce M Tice 
from her Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project
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Excerpts from Burt Strange diary Sylvania Pa - Burt Strange was born in Sullivan Township, Tioga County PA 1866, son of Laura Mosher and Ezekial Strange. He married Sophia Stock and they lived in Sylvania, Columbia Township, Bradford County PA. He died 1940 and is buried in the Gray Valley Cemetery in Sullivan Township. During his working life he was a gravedigger employed by the funeral buisiness of Waldo and Soper in Sylvania. Later this became Soper and Mosher. Because of his business, Bert's diaries are particularly valuable. They record more deaths and burials than most. Bert tells us who he buried but rarely the cemetery. However, we know a lot of that from other records. Since many of the "customers" were from the adjacent Sullivan and Columbia townships  we have information about many of them in my Sullivan-Rutland Genealolgy Project. I have annotated the diary entries with some of that information. Fay has extracted birth, death, marriage, and burial information form diaries that she once had available. We do not have the originals, nor do we have access to them at this time.
1905    
Events
  
Commentary by Joyce M .Tice - Incomplete 
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1905 Jan 1 went to Savella Pierce funeral    
1905 Jan 10 I and Rex Soper buried Hiram Chase    
1905 Jan 21 I and Rex Soper went to Mosherville for John Luckey to bury to Troy    
1905 Jan  22 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs James Earley to Austinville    
1905 Feb 6 I and Rex Soper buried Effie Longwell    
1905 Feb 13 to Sylvania and buried Morris Card    
1905 Feb 19 went to Mrs Sidney Boughton funeral    
1905 March 26 went to Mrs Evans funeral    
1905 April 16 I and Rex Soper buried D Eaton    
1905 May 1 Went to Fred Fuls baby funeral    
1905 May 6 went to Alta Richmond funeral    
1905 May 11 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs Justin Watkins    
1905 May 20 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs Eaton    
1905 May 25 went to Mansfield to L E Shadduck funeral    
1905 May 29 I and Rex buried Mr Seymor's baby to Gillett    
1905 June  6 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs Horace Watkins    
1905 June 9 I and Rex buried Mial Watkins    
1905 June  10 I and Rex Soper buried Obey Smith   Obadiah Smith of Elk Run-Gray Valley 
1905 June 17 to Ashly Kenan to a Barn Raising    
1905 June  20 big flood in Troy    
1905 July 4 I and Rex Soper buried Albert Trask to Big Pond    
1905 July 19 I and C E Waldo buried Mrs Roy Soper    
1905 Aug  9 went to Fred Mosher's Wedding    
1905 Sept 14 Troy Fair    
1905 Sept 21 I and Will Waldo buried Mrs Jane Russel at Covert    
1905 Sept  22 Mansfield Fair    
1905 Nov 23 wemt to Baptist Hill to Mrs Cook's funeral    
1905 Nov 30 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs Hannah Smith to Baptist Hill    
1905 Dec 5 I and Rex Soper buried Geo Squires    
1905 Dec 12 A Lee and Kinney had a law suit    
1905 Dec 29 went to Troy in afternoon to A Lee and Cowan's suit    
1905 Dec 29 I and Rex Soper buried Dr Roger's wife    
           
1905    
Births
    
1905 April 25 a girl to Walter Mosher    
1905 Oct 18 first girl to Mrs C P Mosher    
           
1905    
Married
    
1905 March 15 Will Sherman and Jennie Wheeler married    
1905 April  5 P A Slade and Florence McCelland    
1905 June 8 Fred Sutton and Jennie Squires    
1905 Aug 9 Fred Mosher and Sastora Deforest    
1905 Aug 15 Harey Hulslander and Blanch Dewey    
1905 Sept  2 Milo Blackman and Jo Monroe    
1905 Dec 25 Edsal Hammond and Mat Monroe    
1905          
1905    
Deaths
    
1905 Jan 7 Hiram Chase died    
1905 Jan 18 John Luckey and Mrs James Earley died    
1905 Jan 22 Mame Black died    
1905 Feb 13 Morris Card died    
1905 Feg 17 Mrs Sidney Boughton died    
1905 March 24 Mrs John Evans died    
1905 May 4 Alta Richmond     
1905 May 23 L E Shattuck died    
1905 June 4 Mrs Jim Comfort shot her self    
1905 June  7 Mial Watkins died    
1905 June 7 Obey Smith died    
1905 July 8 Albert Trask died    
1905 July  28 David Wheeler died    
1905 Sept  15 Victor Rockwell died    
1905 Dec 2 Geo Squires died    
           
1905    
Burials
    
1905 Jan 1 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs Savilla Pierce 3.00  
1905 Jan 10 I and Rex Soper buried Hiram Chase 3.00  
1905   21 I and Rex Soper buried John Luckey 3.00  
1905   22 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs James Earley 3.00  
1905 Feb 6 I and Rex Soper buried Effie longwell 3.00  
1905 Feb 13 I and Rex Soper buried Morris Card 3.00  
1905 Feb 19 Will Sherman and Rex Soper buried Mrs Sidney Boughton 3.00  
1905 March 26 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs John Evans 3.00  
1905 April  16 I and Rex Soper buried Dry Eaton 3.00  
1905 May 1 I and Rex Soper buried Fred Fuls' baby 3.00  
1905 May  6 I and Rex Soper buried Alta Richmond 3.00  
1905 May 11 I and Rex Soper buried Mrs Justus Watkins 3.00  
1905 July  20 he buried Mrs D Eaton 3.00  
1905 May 29 I and Rex Soper buried Milton Seymour's child 3.00  
1905 June 6 I and Rex Buried Mrs Horace Watkins 3.00  
1905 June  9 I and Rex buried Mial Watkins 3.00  
1905 June 10 I and Rex Soper buried Obey Smith 3.00  
1905 July 4 I and Rex Soper buried Albert Trask 3.00  
1905 July 19 I and C E Waldo buried Mrs Roy Soper 3.00  
1905 Sept 21 I and Will Waldo buried Jane Russell 3.00  
1905 Nov 30 I and Rex buried Mrs Hannah Smith 3.00  
1905 Dec 5 I and Rex buried George Squires 3.00  
1905 Dec 31 I and Rex buried Mrs Doc Rogers 3.00  
           
1905     Accounts with:    
1905     Miss Rutan    
1905     Eugene Wood    
1905     Sam Fuller    
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 5/24/2002
By Joyce M. Tice
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