The GAR was a powerful and popular group in this county from 1866 to the 1920's. Ontario County Historical Soc. Silent Auction culmination. West Lake Rd., Honeoye. Anyone having information to share with these researchers is invited to contact them directly at the address shown.
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She would like to find out more. Her great grandmother, Catharine Fitzgibbons, who was orphaned aboard ship while coming to the US, was sent to Canandaigua sometime prior to 1860 and appears as a 13 year old Irish servant to the Tichenor family in the 1860 federal census, the 1865 state census, and the 1870 federal census. Catharine married Henry D. Rossier, a Swiss immigrant, in 1880. In 1890 Catharine and Henry purchased the former Stephen Stiles farm on Rossier Rd. near Cheshire. They are buried in Pine Bank Cemetery in Cheshire.