More Fred

I see that Mordechai Vanunu came upon as a match here with Fred as it does with our suspected Fred Kirby, below.

More Kirby Family Celebrity Lookalikes

There's still doubt as to whether this is Charles Fred Kirby, or another brother; however, with those eyes, we're definitely close!

Transformin' Freddie

Fred Kirby's Celebrity Look-alikes

Gramp Miles on Myspace

Cousins, I've created a new myspace page for anyone else from the old days of the Forge and Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company to come and visit. Right now I'm uploading all of the old photos but maybe I can create a blog. I'm also trying to remember what the music was that Settie and I used to listen to, as there should be a playlist.

See you there!

Here is the link:

myspace.com/grampmiles

Sylvester Kirby

Kirby.--At his residence in Bellmont on Jan. 17, of pneumonia, Mr. Sylvster Kirby, aged 48 yrs.

The Franklin Gazette
Jan. 26, 1883

Tinette Kirby Roberts

Premiums Awarded by the Franklin County Agricultural Society!

At the Twenty-Sixth Annual Fair, Held at Malone
September 25, 26, and 27.

Class 15--Flowers.

Best and largest variety of Flower, Miss Tinette Kirby, Bellmont.
Best and most beautiful Bouquet for center table, Miss Tinette Kirby, Bellmont.
Best exhibition Pansies, Miss Tinette Kirby.
Best exhibition Verbense, Miss Tinette Kirby.
Best exhibition Phloxes, Miss Tinette Kirby.

Class 17--Household Manufactures

Second Department.

Best Sample Netting, Miss Tinette Kirby, Bellmont.

Class 18--Fancy Work.

Second Department.

Best Specimen Oriental Shell Work, Miss Tinette Kirby.
Best Worsted Wreath, Miss Tinette Kirby.

Class 19--Fancy Work and Paintings

Best Specifiment Oriental Painting, Miss Tinette Kirby, Bellmont.

The Franklin Gazette
October 12, 1877

Family History, by Charles Kirby Sr.

The following family history was given to Tinette Kirby, also to John S. Kirby by Charles Kirby, the first.

Susanna Rogers was descended from John Rogers, who edited a translation of the Bible by Tyndale and Coverdale about 1531 of such excellence that Archbishop Crammer requested that the King's Liense (Henry VIII) be given it--"that the same be sold and read of every person without danger of any act or proclamation."

The Kirby family, originally spelled "Kirk by", came from England quite some time before the Revolutionary War, and settled in Massachusetts. There was a Silas Kirby the 1st and a Silas Kirby the 2nd. Silas Kirby, Jr. and Susanna Rogers were married July 13, 1777. Silas Kirby's sister, Judeth, was married at the same time to a man by the name of Mosier. Kirby and Mosier took up a piece of land in New Bedford, Mass. and paid ofr part of it. After the war broke out and the British were nearing the place, the two men, Kirby and Mosier, took their wives, children, and household goods with two yoke of oxen and started for safer quarters but were met by the British and their goods and oxen confiscated. This so enraged the young men that they at once enlisted and fought for their oxen, their country and their independence. For one whole year Kirby's wife did not hear from him and when he did return his health was ruined and his land lost by not keeping up his payments.

The children of Silas and Susanna Rogers as given by Charles Kirby were as follows: John, Rhoda, Chloe, Silas, william, Daniel, Charles and Barnabas

The children of John were: Alden, Louisa, Deborah and John.

The children of William were: Deborah, William, Adam, Thankful, and Chloe.

The children of Silas (III) were: (Charles forgot to listem or maybe Silas III died early)

The children of Charles were: Charles, Cynthia, Isaac, Lydia, Daniel, Waity, Titus, Sylvester, John and Tinette

The children of Daniel were Susanna, Waity, Silas and Frank.

The children of Barnabus were: Zanna, Charles, Harriet and Thomas.

Charles Kirby Sr., son of Silas Kirby and Susanna Rogers was born in Dartmouth, Mass. May 15 1798. At the time of his father's death, he was bound out to Stephen Barker, where he stayed four or five years. After Stephen Barker died, he lived with the son, Alden Barker. In October, after he was nineteen, he started for Peru, Clinton Co., New York, walking all the way with a pack containing all of his wordly possessions weighing about twenty-eight pounds, and twenty dollars in silver in his pocket. He was seven days on the road and had about thirteen dollars left when he arrived in Peru.

Here he found he brothers, William, Daniel and Barnabus, who had some time before emigrated from Mass. and settled on farms in this locality.

He was married in Peru by Rev. Ferris on July 8, 1820, to Philena Wilber when he was twenty-two and his wife nineteen.

The moved to the town of Bellmont, Franklin Co., New York, near the village of Brainardsville May 9 1835. Here he bought onehundred and fourteen acres of land of Abram Reynolds, paid partly down for it and received deed of the same March 14 1854. The land was purchased for one shilling (12 1/2 cents) per acres.

The first known resident of the Kirby Homestead was a full-blooded Indian called "Louie". His little house stood by the spring, where he lived all alone. After the Indian, a man by the name of Sprague lived in the little hut. He was succeeded by Welch who vacated for Charles Kirby. Probably none of these men owned the land, as Charles purchased it of Mr. Reynolds, who owned a large tract of land in that locality.

He built a house just south of the old homestead where his wife came with two or three children.

Kirby Family History, 1920-25, compiled by Maren Dodge Miles

1920

A Pleasant Birthday Party

Editor of The Record: On the afternoon of Sept. 8th about fifty friends and neighbors came to congratulate me as it was my 75th birthday, bringing a birthday and many other cakes and ice cream and a very substantial sum of money. I was so surprised I could not thank them. I had nothing to say, but I do want to thank them all and wish you to do it for me, not only to those who were here, but to all who had any part in it and the good wishes sent. May God Bless them all.

TINETTE ROBERTS

Brainardsville

Cards were received this week announcing the marriage of Harriet Hudson and Guy Kirby, which occurred last September.

Brainardsville

Game Protector C. J. Kirby has been "navigating" about for a few days with the aid of a crutch, an injury to one of his knees making this necessary. Mr. Kirby was breaking a piece of board, when the end of the stick from which a nail protruded struck him on the knee, inflicting a painful wound.

Brainardsville

The annual meeting of the W. C. T. U. for the election of officers will be held at the home of Mrs. Cora Kirby on Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 13th. A large attendance is desired.

The annual meetings of the W. C. T. U. was held at the home of Mrs. C. J. Kirby Tuesday p.m. Sept. 13, 1921.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. A. M. Chase; 1st VicePresident, E. W. Miller; Secretary, M. J. Chase; Treasurer, James Hoy.

Oct. 7, 1921

Brainardsville

Mrs. Tinette Roberts is ailing at this writing, being confined to her bed.

July 25, 1922

South Chateaugay

Mrs. Mary Kirby is the guest of Mrs. D. A. Nolan.

Ellenburgh West Hill

Farmers are busy with haying and killing potato bugs.

Brainardsville

The annual picnic of Brainardsville W. C. T. U., held at the Taubenheimer camp on lower Chateaugay Lake, July 25, was an entire success. Those present incuded: Mrs. A. M. Chase, Mrs. C. J. Kirby, Mrs. John Miles, C. J. Kirby, Cecil Kirby, children, Marjorie LaPoint, Oscar and Adams Chase.

Sept. 29, 1922

Brainardsville

Dr. Kirby has very attractive dental parlors over Hoy's store and is receiving a large patronage.

Twenty-five years ago

Week of October 8, 1897

Births - In Belmont, Oct. 6, 1897, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirby.

Dec. 15, 1922

Brainardsville

Dr. Guy Kirby made a business trip to Pulaski Monday, with the prospect of locating there.

Dec. 29, 1922

Brainardsville

Our community was deeply saddened on Christmas day upon learning of the passing of Mrs. Tinette Roberts at her home in this village after many months of wearying illness. An obituary of the life and activities of this estimable lady is being prepared and will be printed in next week's issue of the Record.

Jan. 26, 1923

Brainardsville

Brainardsville basketball team: G. Kirby, rf; H. Kirby, lf; Roberts, center; Evans, Capt. rg; Smith, lg.

Feb. 9, 1923

Brainardsville

"Rosebrook Farm", a rural comedy in three acts will be presented in Hoy's Hall on Saturday evening of this week. Part of the cast includes Guy Kirby and Harriet Kirby.

Feb. 9, 1923

Chateaugay Lake

NOLAN--In Chateaugay, Feb. 9, 1923, a daughter (Jennie Louise) to Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Nolan.

March 23, 1923

Brainardsville

Rev. Mr. Grant and Charles Kirby were in Malone Monday.

April 6, 1923

Ellenburgh Depot

Surveyor Carpenter went to Chateaugay Lake to make survey of lots William Barrow sold Sarah L. Kirby. The Dwyer Real Estate Co. of Saranac Lake, are making record search survey etc. for a possible sale of property for Miss Kirby.

Friday, May 18, 1923

Chateaugay Lake

Raymond Blow and Cecil Kirby planted 6,000 pine trees on the Kirby Bros., place near Brainardsville in two days last week.

June 22, 1923

Brainardsville

Mrs. Anna Kirby, who has been sick for the past twelve weeks is able to sit up.

June 29, 1923

Brainardsville

C. L. Kirby was a caller at Ellenburgh Depot last Friday.

July 20, 1923

Brainardsville

G. W. Soper spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Anna Kirby.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kirby were Sunday visitors at C. J. Kirby's.

There was quite a little excitement in town Sunday forenoon when an airplane went over here going west.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Soper and two children Wilbur and Doris and Miss Gladys Willet were Sunday visitors at Mrs. Anna Kirby's, also Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Soper.

August 17, 1923

Brainardsville

Mrs. G. W. Soper is helping care for Mrs. Anna Kirby for a few days who has been very low the past week.

R. L. Hoy is riding in a new Maxwell car. A. R. Cook is riding in a new Ford car, and C. J. Kirby has made his car into a new one by a coat of paint.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Kirby spent Monday and Tuesday at Saranac Lake.

Adams M. Chase

Chateaugay Lake — Adams M. Chase, 81, formerly of Chateaugay Lake, who was residing at the Mitchell House at Burke Adult Center Housing, died on Friday, May 26, 2000, at Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone.

Born in Chateaugay on April 25, 1919, he was the son of A. Millar and Louise (Adams) Chase.

He was married to the former Jean Scott on March 8, 1952, in the Methodist Church in Plattsburgh. She predeceased him on Oct. 14, 1990.

Mr. Chase is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Stewart and Murri Chase of Chateaugay Lake and Stephen and Terri Chase of Essex Junction, Vt.; three grandchildren, Andrew Chase and Megan and Meredith Chase; and a sister-in-law, Betty Chase of Chateaugay Lake.

Those that preceded in death, besides his wife, were his twin brother, Oscar Chase, on Sept. 20, 1989 and a sister, Pauline Chase, on April 4, 1996.

The Chase family moved from "Chase Hollow" in Chateaugay to the Banner House in Chateaugay Lake, which is now in the fourth generation, operated by Adams’ son Stewart and Murri his daughter-in-law.

Adams’ first job was at the Lake Placid Club. He was then employed by Republic Steel for four years. He was also employed by Chateaugay High School for two years. Adams then went to work for Montgomery Ward in Plattsburgh, where he became manager of the plumbing department. Moving into the new store, he was a salesman in the lawn and garden department.

A long time Democrat, Mr. Chase was elected supervisor in the town of Bellmont in the late 1940’s. His memberships included the Brainardsville United Methodist Church and Frontier Lodge 517 F & A Masons in Chateaugay. He was a past Master.

Funeral services will be on Monday, May 29 at 2 p.m. in Brainardsville United Methodist Church, with Rev. Eleanor Bellows officiating. Burial will take place at Brainardsville Cemetery in Brainardsville.

Donations in his memory may be made to Burke Adult Center or Brainardsville United Methodist Church.

Arrangements are with the Chateaugay Funeral Home in Chateaugay.