German Flatts East - Southside of Mohawk Valley

 

Photos 12/17/2020 shot 0700-0715, Nor'easter Gail hits Central New York State-- average snowfall about 18 inches and still snowing, 3-4 more inches to come this morning.  OBTW -- this ain't 4-8 inches that local weather gurus had predicted! 

At F150 east side

At Lighthouse - eastern driveway

At truck door closeup

Outside walkout basement door

Behind Terri's Jeep

Mid-driveway toward east

Center driveway westward, Terri with snowthrower near the garage.

Center Driveway  

Western mid-driveway toward the garage

Driveway toward the west.

   Western side deck.

Citizens United Amicus Brief Is Exactly On Point.

The November 3, 2020, corrupted "election" of former Vice President Joe Biden as the potential POTUS is clearly unconstitutional.  

A friend of the court amicus brief dated 12/11/2020 by Citizens United, et.al. as filed with the Supreme Court of the United States is exactly on point.  The 19-page document is presented by the below-cited link.  Pages 1-6 amount to the paper front-matter, and as a time saver skip right to and begin reading with at page 7.  The amicus document is highly rational and a fairly easy read.  Every citizen of this republic needs to understand what procedurally went wrong outside the United States Constitution in our 2020 American presidential election.  

Want to understand why the 2020 election was conducted under unconstitutional conditions by some states?   

Click on Amicus Brief to read this 13-page classic argument.  The choice of U.S. Presidential Electors in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin must be referred to these individual state legislatures.   

SAD UPDATE:  

As suspected, Chief John Roberts in a majority court opinion found the way to kick TX v PA, citing Texas has no authority (or lacks standing) to file the TX v PA SCOTUS original jurisdiction case.  In tossing the case, the SCOTUS makes no judgment on the merits of this case.  Justice Thomas and Justice Alito disagree in this fundamental opinion -- wherein citing, the U.S. Supreme Court must take any case that involves original jurisdiction. Our blind Chief Justice John Roberts wins again by sitting on his hands and does nothing.  Way Hey and up she rises -- Roberts -- a passive champion and inert lump of coal who unfortunately wears that inglorious black robe.  A guy who obviously looks to CNN for a mindless legal opinion.  Roberts and his minions win again.  VERY SAD: Hail To The Chief!  

A Fine and Happy Day To All USA Military Veterans

 

Have A Wonderfully Happy Veterans Day To All You Guys And Gals Who At Multiple Times During Worldwide Military Adventures Would Have Given Everything To Support

 The United States Of America

Many Thanks For Your Gallant Service! 

  

Awash In Big Bucks For Small Services

 

Halloween Update -- October 31, 2020  

Please take a look at this National Legal and Policy Center news article cited in the associated link.  Donations of $70 million+ from the Chinese Communist Party entities to the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) and to UPENN's recent invention named the "Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement." Communist Chinese dollars to fund the Biden Center... allegedly part of the "Anonymous" Money Laundering 101 scheme to pay-off Joe Biden? So ask yourself honestly – where did the nearly One Million Dollars to pay Joe Biden's UPENN salary come from? That old Brooklyn Bridge remains for sale for those who think that Biden's UPENN salary funding is not tied to the Chinese ruling party.  

The content link to this National Legal and Policy Center disclosure is now removed; whereas, the original discussion was found at https://nlpc.org/2020/05/21/complaint-filed-against-university-of-pennsylvania-and-biden-center-for-undisclosed-china-mega-donations/

This Post Originally Published On August 31, 2020

Back in 2016, several thousand dollars were sent from accounts at Fidelity Investments to other financial organizations after discovering Fidelity paid Mrs. Clinton over a quarter million $$ for a  2015/2016 Florida public appearance and 90-minute speech to the Fidelity unwashed upper managers.  My question, just what sage financial advice is it that Clinton could or might convey to top professional Fidelity Money Managers?  A complaining message on this was sent to Fidelity's CEO, and a form reply was received back from some middle-level PR functionary that stated this business practice was none of my business.  Well, Fidelity in large part lost one customer... but sadly seems Fidelity continues well without me and other disgusted investors... we the customers.  Welcome to a new college course in under-the-table corrupt business practices... call it Money-Laundering 101.  It is past time to see precisely how doner contributions are divided up among various public and private university accounts and just what percentage of the aggregate donations are paid out in these not-so-obvious (aka "under-the-table") political contributions.     

And finding stuff conveyed in the link below on Joe Biden's grossly over-paid association with the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) is equally disgusting.  Very surprised to read that "Slow Joe B" (and his buddy Jeb Bush, et al) are similarily big-buck associated with this and other universities like Drew U, Vanderbilt U, etc., etc... don't be surprised if the vast majority of institutions of higher learning do similar unchecked little disclosure on these big-buck political payouts.  So where do these schools of higher learning get those big-$$ spent to buy the "prestige" of politicians like Slow Joe B?  It may surprise some to find that among the distinguished graduate donors to UPENN, for example, is Warren Buffet (a super-rich guy and no friend to Republican/Conservative thought)?  And just how is it that any clear-thinking person can see these large donor contributions to universities as anything short of money-laundering to avoid the legal limits on personal political contributions. 

OBTW, a big-belly laugh: Biden’s official title at UPENN is the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor — he the first person to hold that invented job.  🙈

CLICK  Slow Joe Payoffs to view the article.

On FindAGrave.com-To-Ancestry.com Linkage

A Couple Stones No Longer Missing

Statements by some "Graver" contributors that FindAGrave.com (FAG) is not a genealogy website are flatly untrue. This incorrect opinion stated by some long-time gravers grossly understates the historical value of well-prepared FAG profiles. The truth about marginal FAG profiles created by some is – "GIGO" – Garbage-In-Garbage-Out.  This is true: FAG profiles created with untrue, unknown, or wishful thinking are not genealogically helpful. In the Internet Age, poorly written FAG profiles are now a direct cause of significant misinformation in current Ancestry.com family trees -- peppered with many errors in beginner genealogist's trees.  Time for long-time gravers to recognize and accept that for over a half-dozen years now, FindAGrave.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the leading genealogy service offered by Ancestry.com. Profiles created at FAG are increasingly more closely linked to all family trees at Ancestry.com via their well-designed database search and hint criteria.  It is time for all FAG contributors to accept that the graver mission at FindAGrave.com is changed – please consider your continued caring graver work under this new management reality.

A happy personal note was the July 2020 discovery of our 3rd Great Grandparents James and Julia Clegg, a couple unsuccessfully researched for a decade or more, and finally found via a welcome Ancestry.com "Hint" leading to FindAGrave.com.  This welcome Ancestry hint was presented by what seems to be updated and better-defined hint criteria in Ancestry.com's growing genealogical database. The value of this improved FindAGrave.com-to-Ancestry.com database linkage seems to be paying strong dividends in current genealogical research – and this is very much appreciated.  Thank you.

Click  "Julia": to see Julia Clegg's memorial and where additional links are inserted to her family. 

A Stanton Family Combat Death 158 Years Past

   

Remembering today the loss of a military hero and gallant American Civil War Veteran, our distant cousin Private Jay Cady Stanton. Jay was born March 23, 1828, in Middleburgh, Schoharie County, New York, the third son of eleven children to the prominent Middleburgh farm family of Mr. Freeman and Mrs. Maria (Lawyer) Stanton. Jay apparently never found the right lady to marry.

On October 15, 1861, Jay was moved to answer President Lincoln's call for Civil War federal military volunteers to help suppress the expanding southern state's rebellion. The aged 31 Jay Stanton enlisted in the U.S. Army, with Captain A.L. Swan's Company H, 76th Infantry Regiment of the New York State Volunteers. The 76^th New York is also remembered as the Otsego County Regiment, the Cherry Valley Regiment, or the Cortland Regiment, and was officially mustered into federal service on January 16, 1862. The regiment was first commanded by Colonel Nelson W. Green of Cortland, New York.

As a union combat infantryman, Private Jay Stanton was mortally-wounded-in-action (MWIA) on August 28, 1862, when his unit engaged rebel forces during the Battle of Gainsville, Virginia. The 76^th New York Regiment was then assigned to the 2^nd Brigade, 1^st Division, 1^st Corps, Army of the Potomac. The Gainsville fighting is the leading-edge action of the poor union generalship (General Pope's Campaign) and significant rebel victory during the larger Second Battle of Bull Run fiasco.

Jay died shortly after that August 28^th day in a Union field hospital. It was not uncommon for MWIA or KIA Civil War soldiers to be buried in shallow graves near locations where they fell. Dealing with deceased soldiers after one of these Civil War battles had to be tragically overwhelming -- and national cemeteries were only an afterthought early in that war. But Jay's remains were brought home by his loving family and interred in September 1862 at his hometown Middleburgh Cemetery, Middleburgh, New York, USA.

Rest In Peace Private Jay Cady Stanton,

New York State Volunteers.

SIGNIFICANT NATIONAL FLAGS-FLAG DAY 2020

Have A Bright And Respectful Flag Day USA!

Gadsden Flag
(provoke us too far and we will strike) 

First Navy Jack (first appeared about 1775 -- evidently no proof the rattlesnake was added until about 1880) 

First Official USA Flag -- The "Betsy Ross"

1812-1815 Flags

USA Civil War Flag
(official flag of a Wisconsin Regiment)

 WWI and WWII USA Flag

1960-Present USA Flag

(Longest Flying Flag, Now For Sixty Years) 

Note: Images presented here for non-profit "free-use" educational purposes only for use by history students and interested Americans Citizens, most can certainly be found by users with a simple Internet search. 

A Memorial Day Remembrance

Honoring All Fallen Military Heroes, Our American Flag Shall Fly At Half-Staff Until Sundown 30 May 2020, This Day Is Traditional Memorial Day.    

Any American inclined to research their detailed personal ancestry is certain to discover many family military personnel who made the "supreme sacrifice" -- relatives who gave that last full measure in duty to their Country.  In particular today, I'm thinking of these three men we never had the good fortune to meet, three gallant men who directly belong to our strong family military history.

Technical Sergeant (aka TEC4 or T/4) Arthur Leo Muthig (1914-1944).  Maternal second cousin Arthur was Killed-In-Action on 30 July 1944 in France, while in U.S. Army service with the Sixth Armored Division.  Arthur is interred at Florence Cemetery, Lauderdale County, Georgia, USA.

Private Mahlon Barns Zeh (1921-1945).  Paternal third cousin Mahlon was Mortally-Wounded-In-Action, February 1945 in Germany while in U.S. Army service with the Ninth Infantry Division.  He later died from his wounds on 8 February 1945 in a Belgium field hospital.  Mahlon is interred at a WWII Military Cemetery, Henri-Chapelle, Liege, Belgium.

Captain Amos Stanton (1750-1781).  Paternal third cousin Amos was Killed-In-Action on 6 September 1781, during the Revolutionary War Battle of Groton Heights at Fort Griswold, Groton, Connecticut.  Captain Stanton's three+ years of active military service as 6th Company Commander in Colonel Sherburne's Second Regiment of the Connecticut Line was then complete.  On this early September 1781 day, Amos answered an alarm issued by local area militia commander Colonel Ledyard and was among many killed in the valiant defense of Fort Griswold.   Amos is interred at Stanton Cemetery, Ledyard, Connecticut, USA.

  

A Salute To Our Mothers

A couple years past as Mother's Day approached, four Norway Spruce Trees were planted to honor and thank our four Great Grandmothers.  Planting some trees around Arbor Day is an annual personal activity and the Grandma Memorial Tree planting seemed an appropriate good plan.  Click HERE to check out this earlier 2018 Great Grandma post.  Last fall some fencing was installed to keep our resident deer population away from browsing this planting.  

Dead Tree Killed In Winter 2019/20

Replacement Great Grandma Tree Planted 28 Apr 2020

This year as the winter snows departed, one of the original trees was found dead, the likely work of a hungry forging field mouse. So the departed tree was replaced with a fresh young two-year Norway Spruce.  Three more new trees were also planted in this special location, one each to the honor of our maternal and paternal grandmothers Edna Jane (Seney) Ouellet (d.1963) and Elizabeth Rosella "Bess" (Moegling) Paul (d.1959).  Another added Norway Spruce lives to honor our mother Lillian Agnes (Ouellet) Paul (d.1998).  And OBTW, better-designed protective fencing will be added this fall around each tree to hopefully better keep the rodent population away.  

The Grandma/Mom trees look like this today, but in fifteen years they may appear much like our first planting done in about 2005.  Many of these 2005 Norway Spruce trees have presently reached a height of 25-to-30 feet... and certainly heading for 60+ feet in some future year.

Our Seven Memorial GGMa, Grandma & Mom Trees In 2020  

500 Norway Spruce Tree Planting Done In Spring 2005.
Trees in 2005 were 1 or 2 year seedlings.  

Note: All trees were purchased through the annual reforestation program of NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, Saratoga Tree Nursery, Rt 50 South, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866.  

         

In The Dawn's Early Light

Last week a young woodchuck paid us a visit... “Woody” was seen climbing our west deck steps evidently checking for food. So our large “Have-A-Heart” catch-and-release trap was placed out so Woody might be captured and relocated to other parts. In younger years a simple 22-caliber bullet solution may have been selected, but these advanced years have mellowed this writer. Prefer to say now - "I stopped killing many years ago."   Well, in those infamous words of Gomer Pyle, USMC “...Gall-lee! Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!”

This unwelcome fellow might be a non-native Hooded-Skunk, our own “Pepe le Pew” -- he has been seen making several nocturnal home visits over the past couple years. The top-side and tail of Pepe are totally white and under-side is black, no simple thin white strip on this guy's back. The capture was totally unplanned for the obvious reasons, but absolutely no skunk self-defense order... no spray... has been detected from this animal. This makes me think our visitor is or was someones escaped or intentionally released pet, where his musk-odor spray gland(s) are removed.

Our cage was cautiously approached using a tarp shield, quickly covering the cage with the tarp, and grabbed the cage handle to load it in my ATV trailer. Then drove the ATV perhaps a quarter-mile to our wooded west property line where a small creek flows. The cage door was carefully opened, stepping back a few yards to observe. It took Pepe a few minutes to make his caged exit, he seemed unsure about these relocation events. Still, no foul skunk odor noted, and no attempt to execute his self-defense spray profile as he made his departure across the creek. Watched Pepe for about five minutes as he walked westward toward new territory, he stopped and turned a half-dozen times to look back at his captor, but quickly continued his westward travel – hopefully, to never again be seen.

| Ms. Molly Smith's Denison and Stanton Roots |

Mrs. Mary "Molly" [Smith] Stanton (1761-1850)
Image from the public domain work by Henry Allen Smith,  "A genealogical history of the descendants of the Rev Nehemiah Smith of New London County CT."  Exhibit #61, p.112.

Captain Ebenezer Stanton (1757-1811) married the age twenty Stonington Connecticut beauty Ms. Mary “Molly” Smith (1761-1850) in November 1781 ceremonies. Ebenezer Stanton's three years active-duty military service during the Revolutionary War as an officer and Regimental Paymaster with Colonel Sherburne's Second Regiment of The Connecticut Line was then behind him.  His lovely new bride Molly is the eldest daughter of fifteen children born to the gallant Revolutionary War Veteran and New London County Militia Commander Colonel Oliver Smith and Mrs. Mary Noyes [Denison] Smith.

Molly survived her husband Ebenezer by nearly four decades. Family distress certainly resulted following Captain Ebenezer Stanton's untimely death on May 31, 1811, aged 53 years. Further, Molly's aged 20 son Ebenezer Jr. died in July 1811, and her older brother Edward Smith and father Colonel Smith perished in June and August 1811 respectively.  This personally traumatic 1811 year was later sadly accentuated by the premature deaths of Molly's young adult sons Edward and Elisha, both aged in their early-to-mid twenties. Molly never remarried.  She and her surviving adult children were also likely disheartened by the fact that no children were evidently born to them.  Molly and husband Captain Ebenezer Stanton had no grandchildren to carry on their branch of the Stanton Family as all family children had perished childless before the Fall of 1840.  Molly died on January 24, 1850, aged 88 years and 5 months.  She was interred at the family plot to the right side of her beloved husband Ebenezer at Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA. 

The following image depicts Mrs. Mary "Molly" [Smith] Stanton's maternal lineage (via her mom Ms. Mary Noyes Denison) linking to her famous 3rd Great Grandfather Captain George Denison (d.1694).  

Additionally, Mrs. Mary "Molly" [Smith] Stanton holds paternal lineages to her Southeastern Connecticut Founding Fathers and 3rd Great Grandfathers Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677) and Captain George Denison (d.1694) in accordance with the following image.  A lineage chart depicting the lineage from Molly's husband Captain Ebenezer Stanton to Thomas Stanton Sr. is also provided as appended to the following image. 

For more information on Captain Ebenezer Stanton click HERE -- and, additional facts on Captain George Denison may be viewed by clicking HERE. 

Summary: Details of Molly [Smith] Stanton's linkage to the early Colonial Connecticut Denison and Stanton families were personally undiscovered until very recently.  Strong researchers likely have known of cousin Molly's ancestry, but this researcher did not find a concise genealogical paper that clearly cites Molly's lineage.  It is certain that all family genealogists with a claimed blood-related ancestry link(s) to Thomas Stanton Sr. (d.1677) and/or Captain George Denison (d.1694) may refer to this fine lady Mrs. Mary "Molly" [Smith] Stanton -- our Cousin Molly.