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

[Patrick Babcock]

SZT family Reunion August 4 -5, 2018

Hello everyone

Our 80 th 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 do 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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