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Luther was born in 1857. Luther Bloodough ... [1]
Luther Bloodough was born on Black Lake Road at his parents’ homestead. While sawing timbers into lumber (as a young lad) a worker did a trick and pushed the wood too fast . Grandfather lost the four fingers on his right hand to the saw. He was an excellent woodworker and could make most anything from wood with his band saw, his turning lathe, and his hand tools. He was very adept with bee keeping, gardening, fruit trees and berries. At one time, he had numerous bee colonies but when the homestead house was hit by lightning and burned, we lost all, as they were stored in the cellar for the winter.
Grandfather married Hannah Countryman in Morristown in 1880. Luther and Hannah moved to Bergen, New York where my mother Lottie was born. They both worked on the Great Lakes, he as a steward and she as an excellent cook. They eventually moved back to the homestead on Black Lake where they farmed and Luther did woodwork for many years. I remember when the new road went through on Black Lake from Ogdensburg to Hammond, they took in roomers who worked on the road. This was during the Depression and times were very hard and money was very scarce.
Lottie died of blood poisoning in 1928. Luther and Hannah cared for brother Vincent and me for many years, as our father remarried and was out west for some time. Luther leased the farm and he raised turkeys, bees, 5 acres of apples, and did custom woodwork. He also made a considerable amount of maple syrup. Luther and Hannah were very religious people. They were charter members of the Black Lake Lutheran church. My grandfather never swore, instead he always said "gosh darn, the gosh darn!"
In the old fashion way of that time, they were very helpful to those people in need. During the worst part of the Depression, they had a house full of relatives who stayed with them as they had no place to go.
It was very sad that they outlived all their children. It is a sad thing to happen to such wonderful people. I cannot ever forget how loving and caring they were to me and my brother Vincent. ~grandson Horace Davison Hannah's birthdate comes from the family Bible; also the 1861 and 1871 Ontario census point to birth year of 1857.[3]
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