[Szt-newsletter] Snell-Zimmerman-Timmerman Family Reunion Spring 2021 Newsletter

[Patrick Babcock]

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Snell-Zimmerman-Timmerman Family Reunion
Spring 2021 Newsletter

Hello Family members
Save the date!
    We will hold our annual SZT family reunion at Snells Bush Church
on August 1, 2021 with our fundraiser    --Ice Cream Social on July
31, 2021—
I hope everyone is well and ok in this time of the covid virus.
Hopefully we all are vaccinated and wear our masks and have distance
between us.  We will have a family reunion this year 2021 and will
abide by all the current rules for gathering in groups. We have a lot
of room at Snells Bush and will be able to distance ourselves
correctly. It will be great to see all our cousins and neighbors and
friends this year as we missed everyone last year when we could not
hold the reunion.
        We will have our ice cream social for neighbors, friends, and family
members on July 31, 2021 Saturday night 6 pm until dark. It is always
a treat to see the sun set over the Mohawk Valley and to view the
hills to the north. Distancing is possible – So enjoy ice cream
sundaes and visit your ancestors grave site. There is lots of room to
distance and view the cemetery and historic church.
On Sunday August 1, 2021 we will have the traditional flag raising
ceremony at 10 am followed by honoring our patriots buried at Snells
Bush Cemetery. The bell will ring at 11 am to invite us to worship in
our historic Snells Bush Church. After the service we will hold our
annual business meeting which is short and a luncheon will follow----
donations suggested. We will be planning some entertainment from
re-enactors and a little history of the area. I hope to see you all at
the reunion.
On May 8, 2021 we held our Spring board meeting at Snells Bush Church.
Since we were not able to hold our reunion in 2020 nothing was really
completed. Painting is still going on and the front side is now
complete so the entire church has now been scraped and painted. It
looks very good and hopefully the paint job will last awhile. We will
now be working on the steeple. For the steeple we will rent a lift to
paint it and while we have the lift the lights in the steeple will be
changed to LED lights which should last longer. Any one that would
like to sponsor the funds for the lights in the steeple will be
appreciated. There are 8 (car head lights now) which light up the
steeple and they have not been on in a while. When they are lit the
whole church is in a beautiful radiated light which actually glows. We
also will use the lift to replace the rope on the flag pole. The winds
are very strong and ropes don’t last long. We will start looking for
bids on painting and patching some of the interior spots that need
repair.
One of our windows is out for repair and when it comes back we will
send the next one out.  The south side windows are all complete and
open great.  Now we are working on the north side.  Our carpenter will
be working on replacing the lights in the stained glass windows at the
front of the sanctuary. These windows were originally placed in the
Yellow Church by family members in 1900 and rescued and placed at
Snells Bush when the Yellow Church was demolished. Our handicap ramp
will have to wait a while as the price of lumber is very high. The
patent also needs to be evaluated but again that will have to wait as
any restoration is expensive. The cemeteries need to have some work
done on some of the markers which need to be straightened and that
will be addressed during the summer months. We will have two weddings
this year. All the covid rules will be in effect for these weddings. A
form was written up in the contract for the wedding last year and will
continue this year.
        I have been working on the--- e-mail and snail mail lists----
throughout the pandemic from 2020 to 2021 years. It is very difficult
to get the correct addresses as everyone changes their e-mail and
people are moving from one place to another and then the snail mail
list is wrong. Please send us your change of addresses. It is hard to
keep in contact with our members of SZT.
        We are also forming a list of friends of SZT or rather Friends of
Snells Bush Historic church.  Many locals want to support Snells Bush
and feel that it is a private group and don’t want to get involved.
That is not true as we welcome everyone to come to all of our events.
We are an important part of the community and want to encourage
everyone to come and support Snells Bush Church. Our 501c3 exempts all
contributions and SZT Reunion Inc is a public charity.
I plan to work on the files located at Snells Bush Church this summer.
If anyone would like to help------ please let me know.  We have 4 file
cabinets which are full of the genealogy on the families. These are
records of letters written to us from various family members and this
information on the letters is fading from the old ink that was used.
Every letter needs to be read and the information contained in these
letters documented. Our files need to be organized so that in the
future members can get access to these files. The late Barbara Massey
worked on the genealogy of the Garlock family for over 50 years and we
now have these records. Sue Vickery worked on some of this
documentation this past winter and has done a great job organizing
this data. More needs to be worked on of the Garlock family history.
This family helped build the church and donated time and funds to the
working of the Snells Bush Church.
        Nancy Cioch has been working on the diaries of Willard Broat who
lived in the Town of Manheim NY in the 1860s. We have his diaries from
1867, 1868, and 1879. He was a young man who married and then in 1879
traveled to the plains of Nebraska and homesteaded in a sod house on
the prairie. His wife traveled by train from New York to Nebraska with
5 children under 10 and settled on the plains. Willard tells about the
living conditions and day to day life experiences both in New York and
on the plains in Nebraska, Kansas, and surrounding area. We would like
to include these diaries on our web site. Nancy also wrote up the
diaries of Willard Kilts living in Fairfield, NY in the 1890’s making
cheese.
The files at Snells Bush also tell the stories on many different
families traveling to the west and homesteading in various places
including Canada. Our genealogy books that have been written also tell
the stories on different families living on the frontier in the 1700’s
and 1800’s and 1900’s.  We have a lot of history in these files and in
those books.
Please send us your updates or change of address- e-mail and snail
mail. We love to receive updates of your family which include birth,
marriages and deaths.  Please notify us so we can correct our records.
Talk to your children and try to get them interested in our history,
come and visit Snells Bush Church. We need to get the younger
generation interested in history.  If we are to continue to have a
reunion each year we need members to come and help us keep our great
family together.  The current members that run this reunion are
getting old and we need new members to step up and help.
Sincerely
Bill Timmerman - president         Sarah Timmermsn Israel----
Corresponding secretary
Please contact us at our mailing address
Snell- Zimmerman-Timmerman Family Reunion Inc.
P O Box 623
Little Falls New York 13365
www.szt-genealogy.org
We are also on Facebook please look for us--- Snells Bush Church.
If you need to contact us, please e-mails or phone us at the following
contacts:
Sarah Timmerman Israel                  Nancy Timmerman Cioch
sarahtisrael at yahoo.com                  ncioch at yahoo.com
518-489-2725                                    315-866-3419
Patrick Babcock is our coordinator for our e-mail mail server.  If you
have changes to your e-mail address, please send them to us.
Kevin Jorrey--- our web master would like genealogy updates and
interesting stories to put on the web.

The following genealogy books are available from the SZT Reunion, Inc.
They were printed during the 1970’s with great information about the
family.  There stories about the life on the frontier and fighting off
the hostile British and Indians during those early years. Price does
not include the shipping cost ($5.50 unless otherwise noted). Checks
should be made payable to the SZT Reunion and mailed to: Treasurer,
SZT Reunion, Inc., P.O. Box 623, Little Falls, NY 13365.
Author  Title and Description           Price
David Kendall Martin    The 18th Century Zimmerman Family of the Mohawk
Valley, 1994. This book traces the descendants of Jacob and Margaretha
Jung Zimmerman for six generations (over nearly two hundred years)
from their German home village in the mid-1600's to the Mohawk Valley
and beyond. It is a handsome, indexed, 8.5" x 11" hard covered book
with over 300 pages heavily illustrated with photographs, maps, and
signatures. Among the many related family names in the book are:
Getman, Walrad, Petrie, Read, Bellinger, Smith, Fox, Failing, Van
Allen, Herder, Hutchins, Dockey, Sponable, Bauder, and others.
$22.50
David Kendall Martin    The 18th Century Snell Family of the Mohawk
Valley, 1982. The format and contents of this book are similar to the
above Zimmerman book. David Martin gives all available information on
those Snells born before 1800 in Germany and New York. The various
lines are carried well into the 1800's. The book is in 8.5" x 11"
format, with a soft cover.             $7.50
David Kendall Martin    The 18th Century Failing Family of the Mohawk
Valley, 1979. This soft cover book traces descendants of Henrich H.
and Anna Maria Kunigunda Failing from 1710 to 1900. The book is rich
with history, family lore, illustrations, documents and maps.
$10.00
        Four books complement David Martin’s 18th Century Zimmerman Family
by extending the known descendants of four sons of Jacob and
Margaretha Schutz Zimmerman (David, Lawrence, George, and Henry) into
the latter part of the 20th century. A fifth book extends David
Martin’s 18th Century Snell Family by continuing the descendants of
Peter Snell into the 20th century.
Carolyn Timmerman Sidenius      Descendants of David Timmerman of the
Mohawk Valley, NY, 1998. This book is based on the 1925 work by Manley
Timmerman, but is greatly expanded from that work. Family names found
within the 200 page book include Allison, Cronk, Durner, Fellows,
Gaylord, Smith, Spoor, Van Deusen, Wooledge, and Zoller. Soft cover.
     $9.00

Carolyn Timmerman Sidenius
Descendants of Lawrence Timmerman of the Mohawk Valley, NY, 1998.
Among the descendants of Lawrence covered by this book are those of
his granddaughter, Gertrude, who married John C. Timerman, a grandson
of Conrad Zimmerman (and brother to Lawrence, David, Henry, and
George) and moved to Perch Lake, Jefferson County, NY. This 150 page
genealogy (plus a 50 page index) also includes many descendants of
Henry Lawrence Timmerman who moved to Indiana. Family names in the
index include Snell (117), Bahar, Baker, Bowman, Broughton, Brown,
Cramer, Darling, Dunten, Hoover, Lobdell, Meyer, Mosher, Petrie, Van
Allen, and many others.

       $9.00
Carolyn Timmerman Sidenius      Descendants of George Timmerman (1734-1800)
of Mohawk Valley, NY, 1995. George, another son of the immigrant Jacob
Zimmerman, was baptized by an itinerant pastor on 20 Jan. 1734. His
wife was Anna Elizabeth Klock, a daughter of Johannes and Anna
Margaretha Fox Klock. George had 10 children. Their numerous
descendants have been ably documented in this 8.5" x 11" typed book of
almost 300 pages, with a soft but durable cover. The index of this
genealogy includes Bellingers (209 names) of Onondaga, Jefferson, and
St. Lawrence counties in New York; Billings; Broat (94); Fox, Frye,
Flanders; Hayes (339); Keyser/Kyser (78); Levee; Mason; Mosher;
Robinson; Snell; Van Gorder (70); and Williams.        $12.50
Carolyn Timmerman Sidenius      Descendants of Lt. Henry Timmerman of
Herkimer County, NY, 1988. Henry, son of the immigrant Jacob, was born
about 30 Dec. 1737 and died 18 May 1807. While born a Zimmerman, most
of the family changed to the Anglicized spelling of Timmerman after
the Revolution. He settled in what is now the town of Manheim in
Herkimer County. He was twice married - to Catherine Fox and then to
Margaret Bellinger. He had 19 children - 7 boys and 12 girls - of whom
15 were living at the time of his death. His numerous descendants are
found throughout the Mohawk Valley, New York state, and the U.S. and
Canada. This hard cover 8.5" x 11" book, with over 300 pages, follows
a great number of them into the 1980s. The index includes many Snells,
Getmans, Greens/Greenes, Handys, Herkimers, Klocks, Robinsons,
Vedders, Walraths, and others.          $17.50




Carolyn Timmerman Sidenius

Descendants of Peter and Anna Kilts Snell of the Mohawk Valley, NY,
1992. Peter Snell (s/o Johan Jost and Maria Catharine Kraft Snell) was
born about 24 June 1730, probably in Schoharie County, NY, and died in
Snells Bush, Manheim, Herkimer County, NY, in 1804. He married Susanna
"Anna" Kilts (d/o Peter and Anna Maria Bellinger Kilts). At the time
of Anna’s death, she left 420 descendants. This 334 page typed book,
with a soft cover, traces over 3400 descendants, many into the 1990s.



       $35.00
        Other Publications
Frank C. Bellinger      The War Years in the Mohawk Valley. Articles
describe conditions, activities, and battles during the Revolution and
its aftermath. Pamphlet. 1983, 20 pp.          $2.00
Carolyn Timmerman Sidenius

Edith S. Timmerman
Fifty Years With the Faith of Our Fathers. A history of our Reunion
and church compiled for the Reunion’s 50th Anniversary from newspaper
accounts, early newsletters, and meeting and reunion minutes. It is
particularly informative for new members. Pamphlet. 1988, 48pp.
               $2.00
Vera De Witt    American Patriots at the Battle of Oriskany. A register
of Tryon County Militia and New York volunteers in the Revolutionary
War. Soft covered. 1977, 60 pp.        $7.50
Ada L. F. Snell
With My Grandparents. Pamphlet. 1972, 2003 40 pp.              $1.50
The Enterprise and News, 1939
The Lawrence Zimmerman Papers. The SZT Reunion, Inc., 2003 Pamphlet.
1939, 2003 32 pp.              $3.00
Emma S. Timmerman
Homestead Notes. Soft cover. 1971, 2003, 28 pp.
               $7.00
Ada L. F. Snell Palatines Along The Mohawk. Soft cover, 1948, 2002, 76
pp.            $12.00
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