Simon Schoonmaker (1823 - 1895)

Born 1823 in Rochester, Ulster, NY

Ancestors

Biography

Simon Shoonmaker

Birth

Simon Shoonmaker(2) was born 1823

Marriage

Simon (1823-1895), aged about 39, married Catherine Elizabeth Carman, 1862, at

Children

• Georgina, (1865-)
• Johnie, (1867-)
• Agnes, (1871-)

Death

Simon Shoonmaker(2) died in 1895, aged about 71/72.

Life Events

1880 U.S. Census, New York, Ulster County, Town of Rochester

Schoonmaker Simon, 56, farmer [at Schoonmaker Farm] Thomas S, 80, father, at home [Owner] Elizabeth, 78, mother Georgina, 15, daughter, housekeeper Johnie, 13, son, at school Agnes, 9, daughter, at school

[listed three entries above]

Lounsbury John E, 62, shoemaker [at Lounsbury home in Alligerville] Sarah C, 54, wife, housekeeper Thomas J Lounsbury, 21, son, clerk Cornelia Lounsbury, 18, daughter, teacher Katie Lounsbury, 15, daughter, at school Schoonmaker, Daniel, 44, boarder, store keeper [Simon and Sarah's brother]

Farm production [Thomas S. Schoonmaker Farm] appears to have been stable or declining in 1880 suggesting that the family unit was aging and losing interest in the enterprise. (An unusually large sum was expended on hired labor.) Simon Schoonmaker was widowed with three young children, and he was still supporting his aged parents in the household.

The property was still owned by Simon's father [Thomas S. Schoonmaker] or in common by his heirs. Simon’s brother Daniel, a merchant in the Alligerville hamlet, was also a widow with a small child. His wife was Mary C. Sahler. Daniel and his daughter, Mary, lived with his sister, Sarah C. and her husband, shoemaker John E. Lounsbury, and three children. Mary Schoonmaker (1870-1951) would inherit the farm from her father.

1886 Thomas S. Schoonmaker died.

1889 Sale of Schoonmaker farm.

Deed, 5 Sept 1889, 287:350, $4984.56

Simon Schoonmaker(2) and Sarah C. Lounsbury to Daniel Schoonmaker .

All these several parcels of land “near a place called Alligerville and being the same as was devised by Simon Schoonmaker to his son Thomas Schoonmaker.

With this deed, Simon Schoonmaker(2) and his sister, Sarah C. Lounsbury, conveyed their interests in the farm to their brother Daniel. This deed also documents the transaction by which their father, Thomas S. Schoonmaker had obtained the farm from his father, Simon Schoonmaker(1). ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Town of Rochester Historic Farmstead Inventory Page 12, Thomas S. Schoonmaker Farm, 607 Kyserike Road

• * Book: SCHOONMAKER FAMILY BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, COPIED FROM OLD CHURCH AND CEMETERY RECORDS, BY DANIEL T. RONK, Brooklyn, N.Y, 1917

• Town of Rochester Historic Farmstead Inventory Page 2: Thomas S. Schoonmaker Farm, 607 Kyserike Road