Webb Sivers and Alice Grow House now. It also belonged to
his parents Perley and Elma Ann Sturdevant Sivers who are the people shown
on the porch.
I wanted to make you aware of one correction. I noticed
the Silvara section pictures my Grandparents home on Clapper Hill. It correctly
states at the time was home of Alice and Webb Sivers. It looks very different
today. I asked them about this and early in their marriage they made changes to
exterior. It states that Alice and
Webb are on the front porch, it is not them, or anyone I readily recognize from
our family. I believe it was the previous owners, and pictured when the house
sat back from the road ( it was moved in the early 1900’s to it’s current
location). You site Carol Brotzman for the photo: she was a good friend of My
Grandmothers and had probably originally given her photo ( I never saw this
picture in my Grandmothers pictures- I went through very regularly as a child).
I think Carol mistakenly thought this was my Grandparents in their younger
years, a logical conclusion ( but I have many pictures of each from childhood
up, neither resemble couple on porch). My grandfather purchased the house from
his father, Perley Sivers soon after
marrying my grandmother Alice Grow, 19 and 18 years old at the time
retrospectively. Perley was a widower, remarried and moved back to Rush, PA,
home of his second wife. Perley’s first wife ( Alma Sturdevant), passed from an
aneurism when my Grandfather was a young man. I have pictures of Alma and Perley
also and do not think this is them either. Originally from Rush, they bought the
farm in the early 1900’s moving to Clapper Hill. from Sandy Corson
January 2020
|
|