From "The Myers Family History" by Timothy F. Myers (0.307) in 2005: BEGIN Our ancestor grandfather, George V. Kishpaugh, worked at the Merriam Shoe Company facoty in Newton, New Jersey for many years with others from his family. In 1910 he lived with his family, including 6 year old Ruth Elizabeth, at Shady Lane, Newton, New Jersey. They were Baptists. My grandmother, Ruth Elizabeth Kishpaugh Myers, related to Linda Myers in 1977 that she moved with her mother and father and the rest of the family to Woodlawn Ave, Dover, New Jersey in 1916 when she was 13 years old. In 1918 George and Minerva Kishpaugh suffered the loss of the oldest child, Victor (see the remembrance card below). Six years later Minerva died as well. Ruth Elizabeth was only 21 when her mother died. She died in Dover, New Jersey on November 1924 and within a year George moved the family to Johnson City, New York so he could work at the Endicott-Johnson shoe factory. His brother Hezikiah [sic] moved his family there as well as did his sister Ida with her husband, Earl Cron. Aunt Linda Myers recently (2004) found an old notebook in which she had written notes from an interview with my grandmother, Ruth Elizabeth Kishpaugh Myers and her sister, Hazel Kishpaugh Soden. Grandma told a story about Victor having his tonsils out when he was small - the family story is that the doctor was drunk and messed up the surgery - another doctor had to come and correct the mess and had to remove part of his palate - he never talked right after that. In 1918 he had a bought [sic] with pneumonia and the medicine made him weak. I had always thought he died of influenza. He was buried at Locust Hill Cemetery in Dover, New Jersey with his mther [sic] Minerva. The plot is unmarked. Sometime during 1931, George married his second wife, Phebe [sic] Sigler. Her first husband Jesse had died in 1930. Peg Keepers Beaty tells a story of how this happened. It seems that Phebe [sic] had gone out with George's younger brother Edward. Ed and another brother, Hezakiah wrote a letter to Phebe [sic] and signed it George. Hez. said that he, George, wanted to go out with her. They ended up married. The families all lived on the same street near each other in an area of Johnson City called Fairmont Park from 1925 until 1933. Grandma's brother Paul, the youngest child of George and Minerva, lived with Uncle Hezikiah [sic] and Aunt Annie in Fairmont Park. In 1933 IBM bought out all of the landowners in the Fairmont Park area for the IBM Country Club Golf course. George bought an old farm in Masonville, New York, which is about 30 miles north of Binghamton. Paul moved into the farm with Great Grandfather George and his second wife, Phebe. [sic] It was here that George died in 1940. He was kept at the Cemetery Vault at the Masonville Cemetery until springtime when he was taken to the Newton Cemetery and buried in the Sigler family plot where Phebe [sic] eventually was buried beside him. Uncle Paul was the youngest of the children of Minerva and George Kishpaugh, having been born in 1914. Paul lived with Uncle Hez. and Aunt Annie Kishpaugh for some time after his mother died. He was in touch with the Newton Kishpaugh relatives more than others of his family because of this. Uncle Hez. and Aunt Annie would go to Newton at least every year for visits. After his father and step mother were married in 1931 or 1932, Uncle Paul did live with them on and off at Fairmont Park in Johnson City and later lived with them in Masonville at the farm. My father, Victor Myers, tells a couple of stories about Uncle Paul Kishpaugh: one time he was sleeping out in a tent next to an old hickory tree in front of the house in Masonville when a bobcat screeched right next to the tent. He jumped up and ran faster than he ever had back into the house. Another time he was sitting at the kitchen table cleaning his old rifle after hunting and it was still loaded. He shot right up through the roof of the kitchen. Dad (Victor Myers) tells of how when uncle Paul left for Europe during World War II he asked grandpa Myers to keep his two nanny Goats for him at the house in Sanitaria Springs. Those two goats ate the bark off almost every fruit tree they had on the property killing all of them. They also found a way to climb up on the roof of the out house which was next to a big old apple tree where they could eat the limbs. Grandpa finally traded them for a bunch [sic] The 1920 US Census has a 'niece living with the family of George 'B" [sic] Kishpaugh as the 'head' of the family. Her name was Frances Walsh and she was 1 1/2 years old. Who was she? Could she have been one of Minerva's nieces? Minerva died in 1924 when she was 50 years old of Bright's Kidney Disease. Grandma had some wonderful funeral remembrances of her but [sic] photos and really did not talk about her much. She is buried in Lot D, Block 116, Locust Hill Cemetery, Dover, New Jersey with her son Victor. George V. Kishpaugh is buried with his second wife Pheobe in New Jersey. The Kishpaughs all lived on Oak Street, Fairmont Park, Town of Union in Broome County, New York by 1930. Helen Kishpaugh Pettis and her husband, Louie and their kids were with George. He was re-married the following year, 1931 to Phoebe O'Brien Sidler. [sic] Ted and Ruth Myers (Grandma and Grandpa) were next door with dad (Victor) and Theodore. The rest of the kids came later. I was told that Grandpa added a room each year as more of the children were born so they would have more room. END