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Notes for Minerva Brisco: Minerva was a Seventh Day Adventist. The story was told in the familythat she used to wash and hang clothes out on Sunday. Truman cut herclothesline and - no more housework on Sunday.
1893-4 County Directory: Minerva Beecher, widow of Truman G., runninga boarding house, owning a 70-acre farm, and 5 acres of woodland innearby Hornby with an acre of raspberries and 1,000 apple and peartrees. Her son Mark A. ran the farm wit her, on shares. He alsoworked for a hay presser.
Watkins Express, September 26, 1907: " The death of Mrs. MinervaBrisco Beecher, widow of the late Truman G. Beecher of Dix occurred onSaturday September 21, 1907 at her home in Beaver Dams, her age at 75years. She was a woman of excellant character...and her funeral waslargely attended by sincere mourners. It was held at the home onTuesday, the Reverund Mr.Sessions conducted the service." Was born in Catherine, Tioga County ( later changed to ChemungCounty, and then later became part of Schuyler County.)
More About Minerva Brisco: Burial: Unknown, Beaver Dams Cemetery, Beaver Dams, NY.
More About Minerva Brisco and Truman Grove Beecher: Marriage 1: 77 Marriage 2: 29 Sep 1858, Montour, NY.
Marriage Notes for Minerva Brisco and Truman Grove Beecher: From the Havana Journal: Truman G. Beecher of Dix m. Minerva Brisco of Catharine, Sept.29, 1858 Marriage Certificate in Bible of Minerva Brisco: Truman G. Beecher andMinerva Brisco married at her father's home in Montour of the 29th ofSeptember, 1858, in the presence of her father's family, Rev. Milo M.Ransom officiating.
Children of Minerva Brisco and Truman Grove Beecher are:
+Elmer L. Beecher, b. 05 Dec 1859, Beaver Dams, Dix, Schuyler Co., NY78, 79, 80, d. 07 Jan 1923, Elizabeth, NJ.
+Mark Almon Beecher, b. 01 Mar 1863, Dix, Schuyler Co., NY, d. 03 Aug 1941, Beaver Dams, NY81.
+Nathan Jay Beecher, b. 27 Jan 1865, Beaver Dams, Dix, Schuyler Co., NY, d. 30 Dec 1899, Virginia City.
Clara Jane Beecher, b. 26 Jun 1870, Dix, Schuyler Co., NY, d. 04 Jan 1911, Oneida Hospital, NY.