Up Close with Two Greece Pioneer Families

Come meet descendants of two early Greece settlers- the Volkmar and Cole/Kenyon families. Please join Jo Ann Ward Snyder and Marie Poinan to hear how they interviewed these family members when researching their book- Pioneer Families of the Town of Greece. Marie and Jo Ann will show how community engagement helped us collect and preserve the stories of our town’s pioneer families.

Carolyn Kerhaert descends from Adam and Catherine Volkmar who came to Greece about 1865 and were involved in the founding of St. John’s Church. Their story in the book was written by Jo Ann. Deb Myers and Maureen Murphy are from the Stephen and Matilda Cole family who settled in the area in 1814, before there was a Town of Greece or an Erie Canal. Abram Cole Jr. married Mary Ida Kenyon in the Greece Baptist Church in 1875 and their story was written by Marie.

Learn how these descendants became interested in tracing their families’ history and came to the Greece Historical Society to have their stories preserved in our Bicentennial pioneer book. Feel free to bring your copy in to be autographed by the authors after the presentation.

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