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A love of the seasons: It is a gift from her grandfather By Sharon Whitehurst My grandfather was McKenzie Lewis. He was born 1886 in the Adirondack hamlet of West Hague, NY. His father, William Lewis was born in upstate NY just after his family arrived from England in 1848. G-grandfather William Lewis headed west in his late teens to work on the Union Pacific RR and was present when the Gold Spike was driven in Promontory, UT, 10 May 1869. He returned to Hague, NY and married my g-grandmother, Sophia Davis. He became a foreman at the local graphite mines -a job which cost him [and many others of his generation] their health. By the time my Grampa Mac was in 6th grade his father's disability due to "black lung" meant that Mac had to leave school and help to make a living for the family. Many Hague, NY families moved "across the lake" [Lake Champlain] to Orwell, VT in the second decade of the 1900's. Grampa Mac's fiancee, Helene Ross, moved with her family. When they married a year later, Grampa Mac entered into partnership with his father-in-law and the enterprise was known as Ross and Lewis. The farm was named Elm Row Farm for the stately elms which lined the road and made up the hedge rows, all since gone due to Dutch Elm disease. My grandmother, died age 44, and her father died 5 years later. Grampa Mac and his mother in law raised the children and he worked the farm until his late 80's when the dairy herd was sold. He died in 1978. I credit him with my love of seasons and country lore. -Sharon Whitehurst This story was posted on 2011-03-27 15:44:14
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