Some of you may want to take a look at the Wellsboro Agitator or May 9,
1934, p6.
Marylyn will be interested in the article titled "Hon. P. H. Dewey Has Made
Good".
Although Phillip Hastings Dewey had a Hazlett daughter-in-law, many of
you may be more interested in the other Hazlett items on that page. There's a brief,
but
nice, mention of Cousin Ida Hazlett Watkins. Plus a valuable obit of
cousin Frank R. Hazlett.
Frank's obit leaves out the given names of most of his daughters and
sisters, as was unfortunately common practice for newspapers back then.
I can put on my historian hat to say "back then", because, believe it or
not, I hadn't been born yet.
In Franh Hazlett's obit:
'Mrs. Carl Kresge' refers to Frank's daughter, Margaret;
'Mrs. George Crary' refers to Frank's daughter, Lucy;
'Mrs. Fanny Monroe' refers to Frank's sister, Mrs. Will O. Monroe; and
'Mrs William Pepper' refers to Frank's sister, Nancy, called 'Nan'.
Note the exception for the case of Fanny (sometimes written Fannie).
From the things I have read by her and about her, she was a force to
be
reckoned with. She was very assertive for those days (or these), and a
seasoned W.C.T.U. leader. She had strong opinions and seemed determined to
share them. I suspect any obit writer who tried to consign her to
anonymity would have had his hands full. Or -- perhaps it was Fanny
herself who composed the obit.
The only one of Frank's children I ever met was John H. Hazlett. John
served a while as president of the Campbell Reunion. Not only was John
a Campbell Cousin in his own right, he married another, his 3rd cousin,
Treva Clarissa Hooker. They often visited my parents' home while I was growing up.
Some of you may remember John and Blaine as grocers. Or, John as a town supervisor. But
my most vivid memory of John occurred during one of his visits when I was 10 or twelve. I
was doing some archery, with target arrows and a real, but fairly weak bow.
Don't try this at home, but John asked me to shoot at him. Being more obedient than
smart, I did -- several times. He would sidestep; then snatch the arrow out of the air as
it passed. He may not have been "faster than a speeding bullet", but I was
impressed.
Frank's son Clinton had no children.
John has one living descendant, a daughter.
Frank's son, Robert Blaine Hazlett has several descendants; most are
living in Chemung Co., NY.
I don't know if Frank's daughters had any children. John's daughter
wasn't aware of any. I don't think Fannie
HAZLETT Monroe has any living descendants. Nan HAZLETT Pepper had
grandchildren, but I'm not sure if there are any living descendants
That might make a good research project for some of our readers, especially those in
Chemung or
Steuben Co.
The articles about P.H. Dewey, Ida Hazlett, and Frank Hazlett's obit can
be seen on the website of Wellsboro's Green Free Public Library.
I'm reluctant to place the clippings on the Internet myself, because of
possible copyright problems, but if you can't access them yourself, let
me know.
COMPUTER SECURITY NOTE 6 - Microsoft Updates. (Ignore if not of interest).
In addition to keeping your firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware
programs and files up to date, as discussed previously, it's VERY
important to keep ALL your Microsoft products up to date. They
continually release fixes to a variety of security loopholes. You need
to keep the Windows itself updated, but also the various Microsoft
applications that are installed on your machine -- whether or not you
ever use them. If they are installed, you need to keep them up to date,
or you are needlessly exposed to hackers. Among these are Outlook
Express, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Power Point and Money. If you
are absolutely, 200% sure you will never use some of the above, but they
came pre-installed, you may wish to uninstall them. If you still have
have the installation CDs and product key codes, you can reinstall than
if a later need develops. Personally, I keep Internet Explorer on my
computers even though I don't normally use it -- but, some web sites
are poorly written and will only work when viewed by Internet Explorer.
Many folks like Microsoft's free automatic update service. There are
also a number of other vendor's programs that can check all, or almost
all, of your applications or system programs for updates.
I recently encountered an unusual problem when helping a friend "rescue"
his laptop from viruses and a ton of spyware that had infected it.
After removing the spyware and viruses, and getting those programs
updated, I checked to see if the Microsoft programs had been updated. I
checked Microsoft's web site, and found many months worth of updates
that hadn't been installed. He was surprised because he thought his
computer was set up for automatic updates - and sure enough it was. I
tried downloading and installing the updates -- and the installation
failed. It turned out that his automatic update had been downloading
regularly, just as it should. But the install step had been failing for
months without his noticing.
It turned out that he didn't have enough free space on the hard drive to
install the updates. Someone had filled up the hard drive with tons of
photos. Laptops often have less disk space. And photos, especially the
high resolution ones can quickly consume lots of disk space.
Remember, you need to have at least 15% free space on a hard drive if
you use Windows and need to defragment the drive. We had deleted so
many files in removing viruses and spyware, that defragmenting was
desirable. But, there wasn't enough free space to run Windows'
defragment program.
He made sure he had the photos on CDs, deleted the photos from the
laptop, and at last had enough free space to install the Microsoft
updates and run the Windows defragment program. If you use Windows XP,
it has a defragment analyze feature. When you run the analysis, it will
advise you on whether or not defragmenting is needed. The analysis is
fairly quick. If you need to defragment, that can run a long time. The
good news is you don't need to stick around to watch it.