Tuesday, July 8, 1919

Beautiful cool ideal day. Down town, chored around. To country place in P.M. to clean up. Took supper at Swaggertown. Came home by way of Glenville Center. Stopped at Gertie Cornell's. To bed 11 P.M. Thankful for health and education.

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Swaggertown was another of those hamlets in the Glenville area, like High Mills, that no longer existed by 1919, but must have been known to the inhabitants of Glenville, even if only as an area of Glenville. The Glenville book mentions it as having been centered on the corner of Spring and Swaggertown Roads, east of Closson Road. 

Gertie Cornell is no doubt one of the Cornells who were related to Stanford by way of his father's mother, Catherine Cramer, whose mother was a Cornell. There is a Gertie Cornell living with her husband Frank and her son Earl on Sacandaga Road in Glenville in 1920. She is 65 years old, her husband is 70 and her son is 33 years old.

From what I can determine, Frank(lin) C. Cornell was the child of John Cornell and Sarah Crosby, who lived down the street from Thomas and Sabrina Closson in 1850. John Cornell was the youngest brother of Susan Cornell, who married Fred Cramer. Their daughter Catherine married Charles Closson, son of Thomas and Sabrina.

                                            third cousins---------Stanford Closson
                                            second cousins------Stillman Closson
Frank (Gertie) Cornell-------first cousins----------Catherine Cramer  (Charles Closson)
John Cornell  -----------------siblings----------------Susan Cornell  (Fred Cramer)
                                           
So that makes Gertie and Frank the cousins of Stillman and also Stanford, of course.

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