Susan P. Banks

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So far in my work on the cemetery, I've only made posts about the families or individuals whom I have successfully researched. There are many others I've tried to research, but I either found nothing or what I found was too ambiguous to be definitively identified with the person in question.

Now that I'm a bit further along in the project, I'm going to start making posts for the people for whom my preliminary research on Ancestry has been unsuccessful. My hope is that either I'll find what I'm looking for later on, or someone else will recognize the name and will be able to provide me with a lead.

To the right is the grave of Susan P. Banks, who was born April 2, 1867, and died April 8, 1901. I found a New York-born Susan Banks, a widow living in Essex, New Jersey, with her sister Ruth Fisher in the 1900 census, but I couldn't tell for certain whether it was the right Susan Banks. The Susan Banks in the census was born in April 1865.

Update: Philander G. Purdy and Sarah Carpenter

Graves of Deborah and Jacob Purdy

Update #1 (scroll to bottom for Update #2). I found this tiny snippet about Philander Purdy in an article from the North Westchester Times, August 11, 1911: "New Castle Corners History of Interest: Reminiscent Paragraphs by A. J. Q. tell about the Early History, Settlers and Business Places": "Now I mention Philander Purdy, who kept the wheelwright shop. He made wagons and ox carts, used locust hubs and hickory spokes. Some of his wagons are still in use today, with wooden axle-tree and iron linch pin."

Philander G. Purdy was the son of Jacob and Deborah Purdy. Sarah Carpenter was the daughter of Willet Carpenter and Mary Ann Miller. Philander and Sarah were married in the early 1840s and had three children.