[Szt-newsletter] SZT family Reunion August 4 -5, 2018

[Kevin]

SZT family Reunion August 4 -5, 2018 

Hello everyone 

Our 80th Snell-Zimmerman-Timmerman Family Reunion was held at our historic
Snells Bush Church on the hill. The event started with an ice cream social
held at the church at 6 pm on Saturday night. When we got there to set up a
family was walking around the cemetery--- It is always such a calm quite
place to walk around the cemetery and reflect on our family buried there.
Many times people are found wandering around the cemetery. The wind was up
and surprised us as we had a calm day. The wind had taken one corner of the
tent down so we had to call the tent man to fix one of the tents. It is
always a great time to visit with the neighbors and family members that have
come from near and far. Everyone enjoyed the ice cream and relaxed and
enjoyed watching the sun set over the valley. 

Sunday was a beautiful day for the reunion. At 10: 30 we had a flag raising
ceremony conducted by the St Johnville American Legion. This year, they were
short of some members as they were attending an event in Washington DC but
the members that were there conducted a very nice ceremony. This year our
dedication to our soldiers buried in our cemetery was a little different.
This year in honor of World War 1, we have a veteran-Rev. J Harold Thomson
buried in our cemetery. We honored his service as well as the rest of our
soldiers buried there who fought for freedom and independence. He was a"
Dough boy" and served in the trenches in France and was wounded. He received
a purple heart. Rev. J Harold Thomson was the nephew of Emma Timmerman and
visited her in the summers as he grew up and became fascinated with the
Mohawk valley where his ancestor came from. Later in life he was the
minister of the Presbyterian Church in Little Falls for many years. Emma
Timmerman wanted to save Snells Bush Church from demolition and Rev. Harold
Thomson helped her save the church. He also helped set up the family reunion
with Emma. Today, they would be proud of our accomplishments to keep the
Snells Bush Church an active historic site. 

At 11 am our annual church service was held. This year we had the new
minister at Ingham Mills Church conduct the service-Rev. Gary Busch. His
wife Sara Schuyler is the great great granddaughter of Anna Snell and
Horatio 

Schuyler. Our secretary Alice Fake was missed as she always was in charge of
the church service-getting the minister, music selections, programs and
flowers. But with everyone' help the service went off nicely. 

The service started with an organ prelude preformed on our historic pump
organ by Nancy Schuyler. Rev. Busch opened the service with a call to
worship followed by our traditional family reunion hymn--- "Faith of our
Fathers". The Lord Prayer and Gloria Patria followed. Jennifer Schuyler led
the children's messages which was very interesting and the children seemed
to enjoy it also. Next we were entertained by the Ingham Mills band. This
band was comprised of members of the Ingham Mills Church (Schuyler family
members including the minister) who played various instruments-trumpet,
clarinet, trombone, saxophone, flute. It was very nice and enjoyed by all
present. A silent prayer for departed members and a pastoral prayer
followed. The next hymn was entitled" What a Friend we have in Jesus". The
scripture reading was Hebrews 12: 1-2. The minister's message was entitled
"A cloud of witnesses I See!" It was very interesting and informative. The
offering was collected and the Ingham Mills Church band played another
selection which was enjoyed by all. We thank the band for their
participation in our worship service and interesting music that they played.
Thank you!! The service was continued with the Doxology and announcement
were made by our president Bill Timmerman inviting everyone to stay for the
short business meeting and luncheon. The closing hymn was entitled" Abide
with me" and the benediction followed. 

The business meeting was called to order by our president Bill Timmerman.
The secretary's report was read for the last year's meeting by our newly
appointed secretary-Stephanie Timmerman. She was appointed after the death
of our long standing secretary Alice Fake. Sarah Israel made the motion to
accept the minutes as read and it was seconded by Don Haughton - it passed.
The treasurer's report was handed out by our treasurer Marlene Rostohar. It
was viewed and accepted to be filed with the minutes. Corresponding
secretary Sarah Israel-spoke about updating the snail mail list and also the
e-mail list. The snail mail list and e-mail lists were updated and worked on
during the winter months to get some organization to them. Many members have
moved, died, or changed address- so it makes it very difficult to keep them
in order. We want to make sure we send information out to all family
members. If you know of someone not on 

our list please send us the information. Our current e-mail seems to delete
e-mails once they are returned and thus members do not receive our
newsletter. We will be trying another way to use e-mail to send out
information to the members as well as keep the old way. Hopefully we will be
able to reach everyone. Please let us know if you do not receive the
newsletters. Ronald Timmerman reported for Wendy Marchese our wedding
coordinator that we will have two wedding this fall. 

Old business--- We are still working on getting the church scraped and
painted. The painter we hired had medical problems and is now working on
scraping and painting the outside of church. We will look for bids to touch
up the interior in the future. We will be having three window sent out to be
repaired this winter. They will come this fall to take out the windows and
board it up. It takes a while to repair the windows as each piece of glass
needs to come out and the wood replaced and then next spring rehung with new
rope pulleys. We are again spraying under the church this fall to keep the
beetle away. 

New business--- We have to elect a new treasurer as Marlene's term is up and
she wants to retire after doing the job for many years. Thank you Marlene
for all the work you did as treasurer. It is a very big job! Peter Burkdorf
volunteered to be treasurer. Nominations from the floor were asked for---
none came so a motion was made by Sarah Israel for Peter Burkdorf to be our
new treasurer. The motion was seconded by Don Haughton and voted on which
passed. We also had two director terms which are expiring. Don Johnson and
Ronald Timmerman. Again we asked for nomination from the floor. We need
young board members as everyone is getting older and it was also stated that
in this age of computers and phone--- that you really need not be a local
resident to serve as an officer of SZT. We can always reach a member by
phone or e-mail. A motion was made by Nancy Cioch and seconded by Don
Haughton to appoint Don Johnson for another term and Nicole Keyser to be
directors for the next term. Sarah Burkdorf will complete Peter Burkdorf's
term as director as he is now our treasurer. Another problem that we have is
the cemetery stones--- during the harsh winter some of the markers have
problems. We are working fixing them. It was suggested that we have someone
come and give us and suggestion on fixing some of the stones. We need to
have a work session to clean some of the markers, and straighten some of
them. The old dead tree was taken 

down by Bill Timmerman. The lower cemetery looks ok but the markers need
cleaning. Mowing is our biggest expense. In the fall we are going list in
the newspaper that we are taking bids for mowing the cemeteries for the
following year . 

Lunch was an interesting time. We have plenty of food and while we sat a
chatted to family members and friends. We were treated to a presentation
from a re-enactor and his wife dressed in colonial dress. Ken Shults and his
wife like to attend our church service and Ken was kind enough to talk to us
about the bateau that carried freight and passengers up and down the Mohawk
River. Everyone found the subject very interesting and Ken stated that
everything carried on the bateau was put in barrels and the boat could carry
1000 pounds. They also had to carry the freight around the falls especially
Little Falls, and where the river was shallow they had to pull the boat
either in the water of on the shore with a rope. 

As always if you need to contact us please send your request for books to
the following address: 

Snell -Zimmerman -Timmerman (SZT) Family reunion Inc. P O Box 623 Little
Falls New York 13365. Our web site is szt-genealogy.org--- Kevin Jorrey our
web master is always looking for interesting stories of the family. Patrick
Babcock is our contact for the address web site. 

We like to hear from you. Please contact us by e-mail or phone 

Nancy Cioch---- phone 315-866-3419 or ncoich at yahoo.com 

Sarah Israel------ phone 518-489-2725 or sarahtisrael at yahoo.com 

Sincerely 

Sarah Timmerman Israel

 

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