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Having failed to make the pilgrimage home to Boston in 2006, we made up for it by driving all the way back once and flying once, the next year. On our way, in May, we paid a first extended visit to our remote “Treasure City” at Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York, located and decorated the grave of Fourth Great-Grandpa Oliver Wheeler III (Granny Hepzibah’s son and
Granny Harriet’s father) and made the acquaintance of
Wade and Kristie Holmes and of our family shrine of which they were then (and may be still) the proprietors.
In a thank-you note for their gracious hospitality to a pair of senescing and peripatetic family-researching strangers, we enclosed a ten-dollar bill with a request that they put flowers on Grandpa Oliver’s grave on the occasion of his 225th birthday, the 12th of the coming month. Also noted that we’d neglected to get pictures of the exposed beams in the house, almost certainly his handiwork as housewright around 1827. |
They very sweetly carried out both our requests. Three days after Grandpa’s birthday, Kristie wrote: Date: June 15, 2007 |
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