Kenneth Kohankie Story

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Name:
Born Kenneth Kohankie

Family/Spouse: Grace Helen Baumgardner. Grace was born on 3 Apr 1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 13 Sep 1982 in Portland, Oregon, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living
4. Living
5. Roxanne Lee Story was born on 27 Mar 1954 in Oregon, USA; died on 4 Jun 2015 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

William married Elinor B. Selfridge on 28 Apr 1911 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA. Elinor (daughter of Robert Cuthbert Selfridge and Eliza L. McClelland) was born in 1895 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA; died on 25 Nov 1935 in San Francisco, California, USA; was buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Kenneth Storey is Elinor's son, raised by Bertha (Selfridge) Storey.

Frank married Margret Bruhler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Robert C. Selfridge, Formerly of Tupper, Dies Suddenly Monday

Robert C. Selfridge, 77, a resident for many years of Tupper Lake, died very suddenly Monday afternoon about 2 o'clock at his home at Deerland, Long Lake.
He had been under treatment for a heart ailment for several years, but had remained active until his death. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 1:30 at Long Lake Methodist Episcopal Church and interment was in the family plot at Pine Ridge Cemetery, Saranac Lake.
He was born at North Argyle, N.Y. on August 17, 1870, the son of James and Elizabeth Cuthbert Selfridge, and was married at Saranac Lake to Eliza McClelland. The family moved to Tupper Lake in 1914, and Mrs. Selfridge died here in 1917.
Mr. Selfridge was in the employ of the New York Central (illegible two lines) Maintenance of Way Employee. About 18 years ago he moved to Long Lake, where he was married a second time in 1930 to Annie Scott Plumley, who survives. She has been confined to Mercy General hospital here by illness since last November.
Mr. and Mrs. Selfridge operated Plumley's Camp, one of the leading summer resorts on Long Lake, until about two years ago, when they sold the property.
Surviving, besides his wife, are one daughter, Mrs. Ralph (Dorothy) Kennedy of Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; one son, Robert Selfridge of Altmar, N.Y.; four brothers; Ransom Selfridge of Ganesvoort, N.Y.; Charles and Frank Selfridge of Hudson Falls, N.Y.; and Chauncey Selfridge, North Hartford, N.Y.; also four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were made at the Deshaw Funeral Parlors here.

Tupper Lake Free Press
Tupper Lake, NY
Thursday May 14, 1948
P. 1

Last Rites Conducted for R.C. Selfridge

Interment services were held yesterday afternoon in Pine Ridge Cemetery for Robert C. Selfridge, 77, former resident of Saranac Lake who died suddenly Monday afternoon at his home at Deerland, Long Lake.
Mr. Selfridge was born at North Argyle on August 17, 1870, son of James and Elizabeth Cuthbert Selfridge. He came to Saranac Lake to reside while an employee of the New York Central railroad.
He was married in this village to Eliza McClelland who passed away in 1917. Later he moved to Tupper Lake and then Long Lake where he married Annie Scott Plumley in 1930.
For a number of years he and his wife operated Plumley's Camps, a leading summer resort at Long Lake. Funeral rites were conducted at 1:30 p.m. yesterday in the Long Lake Methodist Church.

Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Saranac Lake, NY
May 13, 1948

Robert married Eliza L. McClelland in 1891 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA. Eliza (daughter of James D. McClelland and Mary Elizabeth Wise) was born in Jul 1872 in New York, USA; died in 1917 in Tupper Lake, New York, USA; was buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery, Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Jane Elizabeth Cuthbert in 1863. Jane was born in Mar 1838 in New York, USA; died in 1912 in New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Apparently the McClelland family moved from Ireland to Canada while James was an infant. James' sister Agnes McClelland immigrated to the United States in 1840 at the age of 16; presumably James came at the same time at the age of 9. According to census records, their father was born in Scotland; their mother was born in Ireland.


Birth:
Armagh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

James married Mary Elizabeth Wise in 1851. Mary (daughter of Roswell Wise and Mary De Mon) was born on 13 Sep 1836 in Elizabethtown, New York, USA; died on 30 Aug 1918 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA; was buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery, Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Malone Farmer, Adirondacks, New York
Wednesday September 11, 1918

Mrs. Mary E. McClelland, who died at her home in Saranac Lake last week was a noble woman who, for more than 60 years was an influential factor in all phases of community uplift and benefit in that village. When she settled there it was little more than a logging camp and contained but seven families. She was the second teacher in the schools of the place and laid the groundwork for splendid citizenship in her pupils. In the Methodist church and W.C.T.U. she was among the foremost acting as president of the latter for many years. Before Saranac Lake had newspapers of it’s own she acted as a special correspondent from time to time for other papers entering the community and was for some time on the Farmer’s staff of correspondents. The farm left by her husband who died 21 years ago extended over what is now a large part of the thrifty Adirondack village. Her five surviving children are widely scattered, only one, Miss Lena McClelland, being left at Saranac Lake.


August 30, 1918

Community Loses Pioneer Resident
Mrs. Mary E. McClelland passes away at age of 81
Here over 60 Years
Only seven houses in Village When She Took Up Her Residence 66 Years Ago
Was Able to Teach School Where Others Had Failed
Wrote Interesting Articles Before Newspapers Were Established Here and
During Her Long Life Was A Factor in All Phases of Community Uplift.

In the death of Mrs. Mary E. McClelland, aged 81, which occurred at her home No. 172 Broadway, Friday night, at 7:30 o’clock, Saranac Lake lost another of its pioneer citizens and a resident who for more than sixty years was a powerful factor in all phases of community uplift and betterment.
Mrs. McClelland was born at Elizabethtown, Sept. 13, 1836, the daughter of the late Roswell and Mary Demon Wise. At the age of 15 she was married to James McClelland, who died here 21 years ago. Shortly after her marriage, Mrs. McClelland came to Saranac Lake, and with the exception of four or five years during which she resided in Canada, she had lived here until her death.
When Mrs. McClelland came to Saranac Lake the village was then a very small hamlet. It was little more than a logging camp. Seven families comprised its entire population. The inhabitants led the rough woods life. Mrs. McClelland, who was the second teacher in the community, brought with her a kindliness and a keen insight into human nature that won the respect and the friendship of the youths and she was able to teach the rudiments of education and to lay the groundwork for the fine community spirit that quickly developed. Many of her pupils became prominent citizens and accumulated considerable wealth. She taught two years in the red schoolhouse on Lake Street. She was successful because of her remarkable patience and her unfailing good nature which characterized her through life and won for her the endearment of hundreds of friends. This kindliness of spirit which made her a loving wife and mother, was omnipresent and through it was wielded a powerful influence for good in religious and community movements.
Mrs. McClelland was naturally of a literary turn of mind and during her life she contributed many interesting articles to the press. When she came here there were no newspapers, but papers from other parts of the Northern New York circulated here and Mrs. McClelland was the local correspondent. She wasn’t a correspondent in the sense of writing day to day news but devoted most of her time to articles of splendid literary merit and carrying always an inspiring note. During the Civil War she wrote many poems and clippings of what she had written were voluminous. These were destroyed in a fire a few years ago. Mrs. McClelland retained a remarkable grasp of her mental faculties until her death and was able to recite from memory 90 poems.
Mrs. McClelland was active in church circles, being deeply religious but without fanaticism. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was always at the forefront in Sunday School activities and the organization of other church societies. She was for many years the president of W.T.C.U. attended in a drinking fountain erected near the St. Regis Hotel on Bloomingdale avenue, but it is said the fountain was destroyed by saloonkeepers whom she opposed.
Mrs. McClelland’s property extended over a large part of the village.
There were 13 children in the family, of whom the following survive; Mrs. Frank S. Barton and Mrs. George W. Walton of Salem, Oregon, Fred S. McClelland of Whitinsville, Mass., Mrs. Herbert Hazelwood of Mattawa, Ontario and Miss Lena C. McClelland of Saranac Lake, besides one brother, George W. Wise of Saranac Lake.
The funeral was held from the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. Alexander McKinley, pastor of the church officiating. There was a profusion of beautiful flowers. Members of the Women’s Relief Corp attended in a body. A special program of music was given, two hymns, “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” and “Abide With Me” being beautifully sung by a mixed quartet. The pall bearers were her grandsons, Thomas, Charles, and Gaylord McClelland, Paul Walton, Frank Washburn and George Quick. Burial was in Pine Ridge Cemetery.

—Transcribed by Michele Tucker of the William Chapman White Room, Saranac Lake Free Library, 4/11/2006, from Alfred L. Donaldson's Scrapbook 8.