ERNEST J. ECKER, LOT 401, ENOS WRIGHT HOUSE

I have just finished the weekly update to Albany Hilltowns main pages. It summarizes changes made this past week and gives links to them: Civil War soldier biographies, Lot numers, farm houses, farm activites, ideas for farmers, and much more.

Here are a few of the new pages added this past week:

• A biography page has been started for Ernest J. Ecker who died on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, in Delray Beach, Fla., where he had lived in his later years. He was 87.

 

•  The Enos Wright House, 1560 Helderberg Trail, Berne, was built 1891 by Charles Willsey for Enos J. Wright (1837- 1905). Wright was a 49 year old farmer, single, and living at home when his mother died in 1885. A few months later he married 27 year old Ida Mae Schoonmaker, who had been a domestic in the home of his parents’ home for a number of years. The house was a major addition to the small, earlier house which is now the east wing kitchen. 

CEMETERIES; COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, V R MANOR PAPERS

CEMETERY DESTROYED
There is a family buying ground in Berne that had four beautiful cut stones that were a century or so old and in fine condition. They were in a pasture on a fence line but were not fenced in; cows knocked them down and broke them. The hay grew tall, then tractors ran over them not knowing they were there. There are probably not enough pieces left to save. I know of another cemetery in Berne with many more stones where this is also occurring.

 This picture was taken a number of years ago

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

The Town of Berne is undergoing a Comprehensive Plan Review; the committee is making available all email communications. If you would like emails generated by the Berne Comprehensive Plan Review Committee to be forwarded to you; please submit your request and your email address to compsecretary45@yahoo.com