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- [S782] Watertown Daily Times, New York. Watertown., David F. Lane, "Old Houses of the North Country - No. 222," October 19, 1946; digital images, \i Northern New York Historical Newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 2 Feb 2015.
OLD HOUSES OF THE NORTH COUNTRY - NO. 222
ETIENNE EDUS HOUSE IN TOWN OF CAPE VINCENT
Built approximately 94 years ago by Etienne Edus on
the road known as Hell street near Rosiere in the town of
Cape Vincent, this attractive cottage-type house of native
limestone has such a beautiful setting with its natural
landscaping of trees augmented by plantings of flowers,
lilacs and shrubs that it looks in the summer like something
which has stepped off an artist's canvas.
Since February, 1939, the property with its nearly
118 acres of land has been owned by Aloysius M. and
Elizabeth D. Reff who take great pride in the place. They
are the parents of three children, Miss Jane Marie Neff,
a cadet nurse at the Queens General hospital, Jamaica, L.
1. She trained at Mercy hospital in this city. The other
two children are Noel Aloysius and Eulalia Ann.
Both the Reff and Edus families trace their lineage
back into old France, the Edus clan having come from
historic Rosiere, American emigrants from which brought
the name and bestowed it upon that area of the town of
Cape Vincent known as Rosiere, home of many a fine old
Rrench family. As for the Reff family there was Peter
Rett, a native of France, who served under Napoleon,
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- [S772] 1940 Census Jefferson County, New York, New York, Jefferson, (http://1940census.archives.gov: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), T627, roll 02544, Cape Vincent, enumeration district (ED) 23-18, sheet Chapel Road, Reff, Aloyisius, accessed Apr 7, 2012 (Reliability: 3), 7 Apr 2012.
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George Emmert
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George Emmert Note place of birth: Wurtemberg. This coincides with Caroline Emmit's place of birth according to the obit published in the Washington Star, Wednesday June 17, 1874. |
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George Slick & Anna Slick George Slick & Anna Slick, 1930 Census, Cape Vincent, NY
Image Source:
https://archive.org/stream/newyorkcensus00reel1443#page/n106/mode/1up
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Aloysius Reff
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- [S772] 1940 Census Jefferson County, New York, New York, Jefferson, (http://1940census.archives.gov: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), T627, roll 02544, Cape Vincent, enumeration district (ED) 23-18, sheet Chapel Road, Reff, Aloyisius, accessed Apr 7, 2012 (Reliability: 3), 7 Apr 2012.
- [S196] Cemetery Inscriptions, Cape Vincent, - R, A.E. ROGERS, ELLEN & JOHN BARTLETT, (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/barcar.htm) (Reliability: 3), 21 Nov 2004.
NAME EPITAPH CEMETERY
REFF,ALOYSIUS M. 1898-18APR1957 mrd.8OCT1924 SVPROSIERE
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Watertown Re Union Image source: http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn85054450/1881-06-22/ed-1/seq-7.pdf |
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