Crops and church events noted in Canaan report
June notes show grain crops hurt by heavy rains but corn and cotton thriving. Sunday school attendance strong despite weather. Bible class active with Peter II 1:1s next. Miss Susie Wells leader. Children’s Day program planned at Presbyterian Church Sunday evening. Local social visits and travel mentioned among residents.
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Susie Wells
Presbyterian Church
W. O. Morgan
W. H. Pierce
Homer Sears
Marshall Everheart
J. C. Everheart
Jewel Harris
Kugga Blanton
Mollie Everheart
J. E. Rutledge
J. D. Garner
George McCurdy
Bells
J. W. Taylor
Sang
Skeleton in the Closet Unearthed in Manhattan Story
In New York, a Washington era secret closet discovered behind a wall near Franklin Square yielded a woman's skeleton. Historians link the bones to Katrina Lemke, the Van Vranken household duenna, who vanished after Anneke Van Vranken fled with midshipman Ralph Eggleston as Dutch and English tensions shaped early New Amsterdam. The tale ties to Meinheer Van Vranken and a hidden chamber with a sliding panel likely sealing Katrina inside.
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Manhattan Island
Broadway
East River
Franklin Square
Washington
Historical Society
Heileger Bogardus
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Meinheer van Vranken
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Duke of Alva
Holland
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
St. Nicholas
Meinheer
Anneke
Anneke van Vranken
Ralph Eggleston
Anveke
Hudson River
Eggleston
Ralph
Wall
Wall Street
Fludson
Governors Island
Captain van Vranken
Katrina Lemke
England
van Vranken
Duenna
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