Individual Details

Birth: 30 Jan., 1903 at Bolton, Warren Co., New York; birth certif. in poss.
of M. M. Havens.

Marriage: 1)Ara Gundy a/k/a Harry VanGundy 25 Dec. 1929 at Bolton, Warren Co.,
NY at home of bride's parents, by rector of St. Sacrement Episcopal Church,
Bolton Landing, NY; copy of church record of marr. in poss. of M. M. Havens;
marr. license in Warren Co., NY Clerk's office; divorced 1941, Saratoga Co., NY.
2) Albert Croan Mayham 25 Nov. 1943, St. Sacrement Episcopal Church, Bolton
Landing, NY by Rev. Hugh Crosby; husband died 19 Dec. 1949.
3) Earle B. Elmore, Aug., 1965 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Hoosick
Falls, Rensselaer Co., NY by Rev. Joel B. MIller; husband died about 1972.

Description: 5'3", 115 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, glasses.

Health: excellent until developed heart trouble at about age 68; died of
leukemia 2 weeks before 83rd birthday.

Education: Bolton Central School, Bolton, Warren Co., NY, 1920; B.A. Albany
State Teachers College, Albany, NY, 1924, English major, French minor; Library
Science degree Albany State Teachers College, 1952.

Occupation: English and French teacher, part time school librarian; taught at
West Winfield, Utica, Bolton, Rensselaer, New York and St. Augustine Junior
College, St. Augustine, Florida.

Hobbies: writing, mostly fiction, some nonfiction, much poetry; oil painting.

Religion: Episcopalian; member of vestry of St. Sacrement Episcopal Church,
Bolton Landing, NY several years.

Residence: Primarily in Bolton Landing, NY, but in 1930s lived in Kennewick,
Wash.; also lived about a year in San Jose, Calif., and spent last ten winters
of her life in St. Augustine, Fl.

Death: Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls, Warren Co., NY, 14 Jan. 1986,
following long illness from leukemia.

Burial: Bolton Rural Cem., Bolton Landing, Warren Co., NY, spring committal;
funeral services 16 Jan. 1986, St. Sacrement Episcopal Church, Bolton Ldg.

Sources: Birth, marriage, and death certificates; West, Edith Willoughby
Goodman, THE GOODMANS OF BOLTON, NEW YORK, Glens Falls, NY, Bullard Press,
1930, p. 73.

Obituary: Glens Falls,(NY) Post Star, 15 January 1986

Nellie M. Elmore, a former correspondent for the Post Star, died Tuesday
(Jan. 14, 1986) at Glens Falls Hospital following a long illness. She was 82.
Born Jan. 30, 1903 in Bolton Landing, she was the daughter of Charles and
Clara (Goodman) Maxim. Mrs. Elmore resided at Maple Street and lived most of
her life in Bolton.
She was a graduate of Bolton Central School and the New York State College
for Teachers at Albany. She taught English and French for approximately 40
years, including 15 years at Bolton Central School.
She retired in 1965 as head of the English Department of VanRensselaer High
School in Rensselaer.
After retiring, she taught various subjects at St. Augustine Junior College
in St. Augustine, Fla.
She was a feature writer for the Warrensburg-Lake George News and author of
several nationally published poems and articles.
She was a member of St. Sacrement Episcopal Church in Bolton Landing and was
a member of the Church Vestry. She also was a member of the Bolton Senior
Citizens and the Bolton Book Club.
She was a lifetime member of the Bolton Chamber of Commerce and the Florida
State Mental Health Association.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Mary Martha) Havens of Glens
Falls; a granddaughter, Mrs. Jefferson (Kathleen) Davis of North Highlands,
Calif., a grandson, Michael Varnum of Phoenix, Ariz., and several cousins.
The burial office will be read and a Requiem Eucharist celebrated at St.
Sacrement Episcopal Church, at 11 a.m. Thursday, Lake Shore Drive. The rector,
the Rev. Fred-Munro Ferguson, will officiate and will be assisted by the Rev.
Joel Miller of Hoosick Falls. Spring burial will be in Bolton Rural Cemetery.
Bearers will be William Stark, John Duggan, Daniel Havron, Fred Lethbridge,
Sr., Ross French, and Gary Eysinger.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Maynard D. Baker
Funeral Home, 114 Main St., Warrensburg.
The family has suggested that memorials take the form of donations to the
American Cancer Association.

Excerpts from "Grandma's Silly Tale," by Nellie G. Elmore, 1976
(relevant to Prichard house and occupants)

Great-Grandfather Prichard and his twin brother David were born (I believe)
on shipboard, coming from Wales. How they got to Bolton, I have no idea, but
they both owned farms somewhere around North Bolton. Walter lived past eighty
and was standing up on a buckboard wagon, spreading manure on a field, when the
wheel hit a rock, he fell off, struck his head on another rock, and died. That
is absolutely all I ever heard about him.
Walter built a blacksmith shop in what was later the Gates lot across from
my later house on Maple Street. I believe, with no proof, that his dwelling
was then still at North Bolton. Much later, after 1868, he moved the shop
across the dirt road to the only spot there where a cellar could be dug (the
rest being all rock). This building became in time my house, which I will
describe later.
Walter married Elizabeth, thus foredooming her to be my great-grandmother.
Although there is somewhere a detailed genealogy of the Coolidges, going back
to the 1500s in England, this is all I know about her.
The great-grandparents' pictures hang in oval walnut frames in the house on
Maple Street. I have often studied them and sometimes wondered indiscreetly
about their private and personal lives. Grandfather has a lovable face,
serious and yet mild, a mouth that I am sure had many smiles, and a ghost of a
twinkle in his eyes. Sometimes I have thought, "I could tell you anything and
you'd understand." Grandmother is the essence of primness, and I don't think
it is just the pose of the period. Her face is severe, unflinching, and her
mouth is pressed firmly in a very straight line. I imagine they were happy; I
think he needed his kindly humor to live with her; I think his tolerant good
nature sometimes softened her. (I hope so).
There is a window in the entrace of the Bolton Landing Emmanuel United
Methodist Church in memory of Walter Powel Prichard.
Walter and Elizabeth had two daughters, Mary and Eunice. Mary became my
grandmother. But let's trace Eunice first (she died before I was born). She
had a fall and a serious head injury as a child and was just slighly retarded
afterward, although she grew up and married. The interesting about her is that
she had a remarkable singing voice. This was in the days of Jennie Lind, and a
"city visitor" said seriously that Eunice's voice was equally beautiful. She
led the singing in church, but sometimes pitched the tunes so high that no one
else could sing them.
Mary, my grandmother, Mary Jeffreys Prichard, was petite (4'10") with very
black hair and very bright black eyes. Eunice's hair, she said, was auburn,
and Mary couldn't sign a tune or even recognize one. Her hair was curly, but
this was "sinful" and she drew it back very tightly. Even as an old lady, her
cheeks were pink and when all the rest of her hair was white, there was a black
streak in the back. She must have been a very pretty girl. She always moved
very quickly, even when old, and was alert and busy every minute. Also, she
was extremely bossy.
When she was seventeen, she taught school and "boarded round." She had been
brought up very strictly (by Elizabeth), and she still told with horror about
one place where she had to board while teaching. At breakfast, the man of the
family would serve her and each of the children, pancakes --- by flipping them
with his fingers onto each one's plate. She never stopped being shocked by
this. When she was twenty-one, in 1859, she married Allen Graves Goodman of
Goodman Corners, Bolton. He was 18 years older than she. They had five
children, of whom only two survived. Clara Elizabeth, my mother, was two years
older than her brother, Horatio. She was born November 25, 1864, and Horatio
on November 23, 1866.
Grandma and Grandpa were Spiritualists in a religios sense that I do not
clearly understand. Grandpa is said to have said that he would "come back."
In my house I have often told him that he is most welcome, but I have never
been aware of his presence.
In the 1870's - I am a little vague here - Allen Goodman owned, perhaps
built, a large building in the village, which many people today think of as
Galea's Inn; it was destroyed by fire in 1972 (site now, 1997, occupied by the
Ryefield Restaurant). At that time, or at least a litte earlier, he owned
one-third of the real property of the village of Bolton Landing. The north
third, bounded by Horicon Avenue and including the Sagamore Road and Green
Island (no bridge then) belonged to Jake VanDenburgh; the middle strip, from
Horicon Avenue south to Goodman Avenue and including all of the lake property,
later Lamb Brothers, going way back as far as what is now Howard Barnes' home
on Brook Street, belonged to Allen Goodman. The south third, below Goodman
Avenue, belonged to John VanDenburgh. Allen Goodman first had a store in the
building that became Galea's and lived upstairs. Later, when my mother was a
girl - before 1880 - he made it a boarding house, The Goodman House. Grandpa
had a business partner who was dishonest; I don't even know his name because
Mother wouldn't talk about it, but I feel it was Stanton. The boarding house
did well for a time; then through a combination of a dishonest partner and, I
believe his own poor business sense, Grandpa lost almost everything, boarding
house and much of his property. He was fairly old then and not well. He sold
the lake property very cheaply, because "it wasn't good for farming." (That's
why the family's not millionaires today). I have a deed still which gives me
and my descendants the right to drive a team of horses down to the shore "and
room to turn them around."
There remained the "tenant house," a shabby little house that had been
Great-Grandfather's blacksmith shop, and into that my grandparents and my
mother, were forced to move. It was an extreme humiliation to my mother.

Birth	30 Jan 1903	Bolton, Warren Co., NY
Baptism	30 Jan 1903	Bolton, Warren Co., NY
Marriage	25 Dec 1929	Bolton, Warren Co., NY - Ara Van GRUNDY
Marriage	25 Nov 1943	Bolton, Warren Co., NY -
Marriage	Aug 1965	Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer Co., NY -
Death	14 Jan 1986	Glens Falls, Warren Co., NY
Burial	16 Jan 1986	Bolton Rural Cemetery, Warren Co., NY
Divorce		Ara Van GRUNDY

Spouse	Ara Van GRUNDY (1899 - 1991)
Child	Living