Patricia married BAKER, Calvin Coolidge [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BAKER, Brian Robert
2. BAKER, Andrea Leanne

Patricia married RICHIE, Thomas [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Retired Postmaster of Sanborn, NY;
Obit from Buffalo News

BOWER - Robert L., Sanborn postmaster
10/27/2004

SANBORN - Robert L. Bower, former Sanborn postmaster, died Sunday in Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. He was 85.
His was the longest continuous appointment as head of the U.S. Post Office in Sanborn. He retired in 1979 after 22 years of service. He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Niagara Falls native attended LaSalle High School.

He served during World War II in the Philippines as a machinist in the Army Air Forces.

He also owned and operated a machine and welding shop for 11 years prior to his postal service.

Mr. Bower was past commander of Sanborn Post 969, American Legion; past president and a charter member of the Sanborn Lions Club; past deputy state master of the New York State Grange; past master of Niagara County Pomona Grange; past master of Subordinate Grange; and past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He had played trumpet in the Sanborn Fire Company Band for 25 years was a member and served as trustee of the Sanborn Fire Company, a trustee of the Sanborn Exempts Firemen's Benevolent Association and a trustee of the Mount View Cemetery Association. He was a member of the Sanbornite Senior Citizens and the Newfane Golden Agers Club and a life member of the Disabled Veterans of World War II.

He won numerous bowling trophies and also liked to hunt, fish and travel.

He was a longtime member of Hope United Methodist Church of Sanborn, where he had served as a trustee and chairman of the administrative board for many years.

Survivors include his wife of 62 years, the former Miriam L. Schul; a daughter, Patricia Baker of Dayton, OH; a sister, L. Jean Gow of Lockport; and two grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Rhoney Funeral Home, 5893 Hoover Road. Burial will be in North Ridge Cemetery, Cambria.

Robert married SCHUL, Miriam Lena on 22 Nov 1941 in First Christian Church, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Miriam (daughter of SCHUL, August Ludwig and LAUR, Flora Katherina) was born on 8 Apr 1918 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 7 Jan 2008 in Sanborn, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette obit:
Mrs. Miriam L. Bower, age 89, of Sanborn, NY passed away Monday, January 7, 2008 at her residence.Mrs. Bower was born in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY on April 8, 1918; she was the daughter of the late August and Flora (Laur) Schul. She attended local schools and was a 1963 graduate of the LaSalle High School. Miriam worked as a telephone operator for the former Sanborn Telephone Company, until 1947; then worked at the Spirella Company, in Niagara Falls, and later for the former LeVan's Grocery Store in Sanborn.She was married to her husband, Robert L. Bower on November 22, 1941, in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY, and they lived all of there married life in Sanborn. They were married for 62 years. Mr. Bower was the Postmaster in Sanborn for many years prior to his death in 2004.Miriam was active in her church and in various local and civic organizations. She served as president of the Sanborn American Legion Auxiliary, lecturer of the Pekin Grange and Niagara County Pomona Grange, and belonged to the Sanbornite Senior Citizens and Newfane Golden Ager's Club. She was a longtime member of Hope United Methodist Church, and had always sang in the Church Choirs, since age 15; she was also and active in the Methodist Church Women's Group. Miriam was always interested in family genealogy, and always enjoyed bowling and traveling.Surviving is a daughter, Pauline Baker, of Dayton, OH; sisters, Doris O'Connor, of North Tonawanda, Niagara County, NY, Ruth Reedy, of Rockford, IL, Anita Ward, of Middleport, Niagara County, NY; a brother, Raymond Schul of Tavares, FL; grandson, Brian Baker; granddaughter, Andrea Ewart, and several nieces and nephews.She was predeceased by a sister, Esther Shepherd and brothers Gordon and Paul Schul.The family will be present on Thursday from 2 - 4 and 7 - 9 PM at the RHONEY FUNERAL HOME, SANBORN, 5893 Hoover Road, where funeral services will be held on Friday at 10 AM, with Rev. Janet Hubbard officiating. The Sanborn American Legion Ladies Auxiliary will conduct memorial services Thursday at 7 PM.Interment in North Ridge Cemetery Town of Cambria, NY.Visit www.rhoneyfuneralhome.com, for guest register.

Harvey + SORNBERGER, Nina Anna. Nina (daughter of SORNBERGER, John and Louisa) was born on 7 Jul 1890 in New York; died in Jun 1978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/9/1970

August Schul

Funeral Set

On Monday

Funeral services .will be held

Monday for August L. Schul, 85,

of 5913 Ward Road, Sanborn,

who died Thursday (May 7,

1970) in Memorial Medical Center.

Born in Elmwood, Ont., Mr.

Schul moved, to Niagara County

with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Schul, in 1897 and had

resided here'ever since.

He was a thresher and a .former

superintendent of.highways

in the Town of Niagara. He was

a 1rti«nber of hte First Baptist

Church in Sanborn.

He is survived by his widow,

Lily Schul; there sons, Gordon;

Raymond and Paul Schul, all of

Niagara Falls; five daughters,

Mrs. George (Esther) Shepherd,

Niagara Falls; Mrs, John

(Doris) O'Connor, North Tonawanda;

Mrs. Robert (Miriam)

Bower, Sanborn; Mrs. Roger

(Ruth) Reedy, Rockford, 111.,

and Mrs. Aubrey (Anita) Ward,

Burt; two brothers, Ernest

Schul, Town of Niagara, and

William Schul, Niagara Falls;

25 grandchildren, 21 greatgrandchildren

and s e v e r al

niece sand nephews.

His wife, Flora Laur Schul,

died in 1949.

Funeral services will be held

Monday at 11 a.m. at the

Grimes Funeral Home with the

Rev. James P. Kenyon of First

Baptist Church, Sanborn, officiating.

Burial will be in Memorial

Park Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to

the Memorial Fund at First

Baptist Church.

Friends may call at the funeral

home today and Sunday from

2 to 9 p.m.

August married LAUR, Flora Katherina on 8 Feb 1912 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY. Flora (daughter of LAUR, Andrew Russ and WITMER, Esther Nancy) was born on 24 Jan 1891 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 12 Dec 1949 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Left Center. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Cordelia A about 1878. Cordelia was born in Feb 1844 in New York; died on 17 May 1928 in Alden, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/19/1928

SANBORN, May 19.-Word was
received here today of the death
of Mrs. Cordelia Bower. 85 years
old, formerly of this village, which
occurred Thursday. May 17. a t the
home of her daughter, Mrs. George
Snyder, at Alden. N. Y. Funeral
services will be held trom the home
of the daughter on Sunday afternoon
at 1 o'clock with the Rev. Mr.
Cartwright. pastor of the Alden
Presbyterian church, officiating. Interment
will be In the Pekin cemetery
near hero and will probably
take place about 3.30 o'clock on
Snday.
Mrs. Bower had been making her
home, with her daughter at Alden
for the past 15 years but for 26
years previous to this had been a
resident of this village and was well
known and highly respected
throughout the Sanborn vicinity.
She was t h e widow of Henry and is
survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Snyder, of Alden. and Mrs. George
Zink. of Allegheny, N.Y., one son.
Lyle Bower, of this village, one sister.
Mrs. Ellen Baker, of Lockport
and five grandchildren.

John married Louisa about 1880. Louisa was born in Feb 1855 in Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married HILDEBRANDT, Mary on 8 Feb 1880 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born on 28 Feb 1857 in Heidelberg, Ontario, Canada; died on 6 Oct 1929 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Far Left. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gazette Death notice
SCHUL—Died in this city, Oct 6, 1929, Mary Schul, age 72, beloved wife of Charles, mother of Henry August. Mrs. Christ Laur, Mrs. Pauline Becker, Charles, Jr., Ernest and William Schul, all of this city. sister of John Hildebrandt of Model City, Mrs. Philip Neubauer of Canada.
Funeral services from family home, 1819 Ontario avenue, Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock and 2:30 from St. Paul's Evangelical church, 18th street and Cleveland avenue, Rev. Edward Nemeschy officiating. Burial in Memorial Park cemetery.

Notes:

Town of Niagara Supervisor, Election Commissioner. Lived and farmed Joseph Witmer's homestead.
Baptism indicates he was born in 1867

ALSO

Niagara Gazette - 1/15/1943

IN MEMORIAM
A Tribute to the Late Andrew Laur
By EDWARD T. WILLIAMS
Niagara Historian

The dictionaries define a pioneer
as "one who goes before, as into the
wilderness, preparing a way for
others to follow," and that descrip-
tion exactly portrays Niagara
county's earliest settlers. Except
John Stedman and his brothers, at
Schlosser in 1760 there were few
residents of Niagara county, other
then the Red Man, before 1800.
Stedman left for Canada in 1796
after the evacuation of Fort Nia-
gara, and early settlers began to
arrive. The primary pioneer settlers
of Niagara county have been defined
as those who settled here or were
born here previous to the War of
1812. By the same token the secondary
pioneers were those who
wre residents previous to 1940. The
latter date is over 100 years in the
past. the Niagara County Pioneers
Association was organized 57 years
ago next September, and the title
of pioneer has in that time been
extended to embrace not only the
first few settlers but the subsequent
many.
Into this latter class falls Andrew
R. Laur. native and resident for
j more than three-quarters of a ceni
tury. With the rapid increase In
population there are not a large
number of persons in the class of
Mr. Laur, native and resident for
more than three-quarters of a cen-
tury. We are speaking in the sense
of time rather than regarding
character and attainments, but An-
drew R. Laur was an unusual person
in both respects. Vitus Laur, his
father, whose memory old residents
respect was born 100 years ago and
settled in the town of Niagara in
1866. Mrs. Laur, who recently pre-
deceased Mr. Laur was a descend-
ant of a primary pioneer family of
Niagara county. The Wltmer and
Young families. Mrs. Laur was a
Wltmer. were among the earliest
settlers of the Niagara Frontier, in
the locality where their descendants
have ever since lived. Both
the Witmer and Young families
came by wagon and horses from
Lancaster. Pa., In 1810. and were
credited with being the earliest permanent settlers in the town of
Niagara remote from the river. Both
families removed to Livingston
county at the time of the devasta
tion of the Niagara Frontier in
1813. and remained there until after
the ending of the War of 1913,
men coming back during the sum-
mer months to attend to their
farming interests, and going away
again after the harvest.
About the first employment that
Andrew R. Laur had was as a bell
hop in the Monteagle Hotel, the
picturesque hostelry that was con-
temporary with the John A. Roeb-
ling suspension bridge.
One of the enterprises of the
Bellevue Land Company, which was
organized in 1845 by Col. John Fisk,
a prominent railroad man of Roch-
ester; General Charles B. Stuary,
a prominent civil engineer of
Schenectady; J. V. Vedder of
Geneva, and Roswell G. Benedict,
of Saratoga, which bought most of
the land that was the site of the
village of Bellevue was the
construction of the Monteagle Hotel
which WAS first in charge of General
Stuart, who secured the capital to
build ft. Of course, it was some
time afterwards that.Andrew R
Laur, in the 70's, was employed At
the hotel as a bell hop.
Previous to the establishment of
the Niagara Reservation In 1885,
when Prospect Park along the American rapids was lined with various
buildings housing manufacturing
and business enterprises Mr. Laur
was employed in one of these mills
He has related to the writer
boyhood experiences of the real vil-
lage of 60 and more years ago. He
has witnessed a great transforma-
tlon in the Industrial Niagara Falls
of today.
The details of his long and in-
terestlng life have been related.
Some incidents could be emphased.
Only recently one of these was
called by the sale of the car
which he had owned .for years in
which President McKinley rode on his
visit to Niagara Falls Just prior
to his assassination at the Pan-Am-
erican Exposition in Buffalo in
September. 1901. The coach in
which President McKinley rode,
which was recently sold by
Laur to Sanford Morden, Jr,|
engaged in the transportation t
ness, was one of those owned by
the Miller & Brundage Coach Co-
pany. Frank H. Zeiger, for many
years connected with the
Brundage Coach Company and
successor, the Niagara
Company, headed by John C. I
says that this coach was one of
about a dozen purchased by the
former company of a manufactur-
ing company In Connecticut, the
coaches were very substantial
character and cost about $1300
apiece. They were used exclusively
for weddings, funerals and for spe-
cial occasions like the visit of
President McKinley.
On the occasion of the
entertainment of Mr. and Mrs.
of Philadelphia, the winners
of the Niagara honey mooner's
test, conducted by the Niagara Falls
Chamber of Commerce, they were
driven around the Niagara Reserva-
tion and to the center of the
Rainbow Bridge by Mr. Laur and
photographed. Later Mr. and Mrs.
Laur, Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Reichert, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Ford, and Mr. and Mrs. Michael
McGray, 50 year Niagara Falls
honeymooners, with Mr. and Mrs.
David Edwards, longest married of
all of the party, attended the re-
ception to Mr. and Mrs. Fraul
the Hotel Niagara. Now both Mr.
and Mrs. Fraul and Mr. and Mrs.
Laur have crossed the river.
Andrew R. Laur took a deep in-
terest in the history of the ??
Niagara county of which he and his
family were worth citizens and
was president of the Niagara County
Pioneers Association in 1938, he
an active interest in the organization
for years before and has been
actively as a member of the execu-
tive committee since.

Andrew married WITMER, Esther Nancy on 1 May 1890 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY. Esther (daughter of WITMER, Joseph and KAUFFMAN, Catharine) was born on 5 Mar 1863 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; died on 5 Sep 1942 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Town of Lewiston, Niagara County, NY - Left Center. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived all her life on father's homestead which was on Lockport Road, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY

Niagara Gazette

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 5/2/1940

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. Laur, descendants
ol pioneer residents of
Niagara county, yesterday observed
their fiftieth wedding anniversary
at their home in the Lockport
road, four miles east of this city.
Few persons are better known
throughout Niagara county than
Mr. Laur, A farmer since he--was
14 years old, he has served the
town of Niagara and the county in
several official capacities. He has
been a justice of the peace and an
assessor in the town .of Niagara.
For 10 years be was a member .of
the Board of Supervisors. Since
January l he has been a member of
the two-man bi-partisan Board of
Elections. •
Mrs. Laur is a daughter of one of
Niagara county's first settlers. Fifty
years ago today she married Mr.
Laur in the old Witmer homestead,
where she was bom and where she
has always resided. As Esther Witmer
and later as Mrs. Laur, she
has never resided in any- other
home.
'Andy" Laur is widely known for
his ready wit, his ability to relate
a humorous story and his knack
with-wood-turning tools. He has
made and presented to several city
and —county officials the gavels
which have rapped for order in
many a town, city and county
meeting.
To Mr, and Mrs. Laur were bom
four daughters, Mrs. August Schul
and Mrs. Alan Hewitt, of Niagara
Falls, Mrs. Ralph Kenneda, of the
Upper Mountain road, town of
Cambria, and Mrs. Russell Depew,
of tbe Slayton Settlement road,
town of Lockport, all of whom are
living, There are 19 grandchildren
and four great grandchildren.
A reception was held yesterday
afternoon end evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs, Laur for friends
and relatives.

Niagara Gazette - 4/30/1935

Supervisor and Mrs. Andrew R.
Laur, of the Town of Niagara, will
quietly observe their forty-fifth wedding
anniversary tomorrow on their
farm, where they were married and
have since lived.
No special celebration Is planned
but during the day friends will stop
in and offer congratulations. Mr.
Laur expects to put in his usual 14
hours, which he says is the average
working day of a farmer.
Mrs. Laur. formerly Miss Esther
Witmer. was born on the farm where
she new lives and Mr. Laur was born
in the town nearby. Both are members
of the Church of Christ, this city.
Supervisor Laur is completing his
third term on the Board of Supervsors.
Before that he was justice
of the peace and assessor In the
town.
There are four daughters. 19 grandchildren
and one great grandchild.
The daughters are Mrs. August Schul
of this city: Mrs. Alan Hewitt, of
Lewiston; Mrs. Russell S. Depew. of
the Town of Lockport, and Mrs.
Ralph Kennedy (sic), of Orangeport