Memories of Demaris (Macie) Helen Van Orman Jackson

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Demaris (Macie) Helen Van Orman Jackson

Buffalo, NY

August 28, 1898 - July 7, 1992

Aug 28, 1898 - Jul 7, 1992

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Mark W. Terpin

Grandma knew Helen's boss's mother, whose name I think was Agnes McCormick, when they both boarded together for Normal School in Canisteo. I still have Grandma's training certificate when she graduated in 1918 so that she could be a school teacher. Agnes had a sister Grace who was once engaged to the war hero whom the Donovan Building in Buffalo was named after.

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Grandma's sister May lived for a while somewhere near Maryvale and Harlem during the 50's, and Grandma would sometimes walk to visit her. Once she was walking back alone at night near the corner of Pine Ridge and Sugar, which is surrounded by cemeteries and there were no street lights there. Aunt Helen said that a car stopped and a man said something to her. Grandma was so scared that she ran to the house that used to be on that corner in the cemetery and she knocked on the door. I don't know if anyone answered, but the car then drove away.

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Grandma's friend Edna Robbins visited Grandma when Helen was a little girl. Edna asked Helen if she would like to come live with her. Helen said, "No." Edna asked, "Why not?" Helen replied, "Because I don't like your mother." Edna's mother was sitting right there in the same room.

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Mark W. Terpin

Grandma's father had a disagreement with the pastor at the South Canisteo church. He used to make apple cider, which the pastor criticized because it could be used to make hard cider.

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Mildred (Grandma's closest sister) used to come visit Grandma occasionally. Once Grandma sent me to meet her at the Eggert & Langfield bus stop and walk home with her. The forest in the Lang property was still thick then, and I remember telling Mildred that they were planning on cutting them down, and she said it would be sad if they did.

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Grandma's husband Wayne was poor when growing up, and he said he always wanted a pencil box but couldn't afford one. According to Aunt Helen, Wayne's mother Emma always had a cheerful personality and was musically gifted. Emma once gave quilt squares to both of Grandma's daughters, but they got lost in the attic fire during the 50's. Aunt Helen remembered that on the day of the fire she had a premonition that something was wrong at her mother's house, and when she arrived the fire trucks were already there.

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When Grandma's daughter Jeanne was in grammar school, she lost a spelling bee because of a word which Grandma thought could have spelled two ways. However, she must have won another bee because I still have the 1942 dictionary she won.

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South Canisteo, Canisteo, NY, USA

Grandma's life was saved by a dog when she was a little girl. The dog kept pacing left and right in front of her so that she couldn't go near the flooded creek. However, as an adult Grandma never wanted to have a dog. Cousin Robert said that there were several successive dogs on the farm there, all named "Shep."

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Buffalo, NY, USA

When Grandma and Wayne first moved to 144 Eggert Road, she said it was like living in the country. It was a dead-end street then, and they picked strawberries near where the factory is now. I was told the previous occupants lost the house because they were involved in an auto accident and had no insurance. My grandparents could have picked 152, but Wayne didn't like it being next to an empty lot, and Grandma liked the finished upstairs bedroom of 144.

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Buffalo, NY, USA

Growing up we always had fish for supper on Fridays. Grandma always liked to take the burnt french fry that no one else wanted.

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When the first automobile drove through South Canisteo, Mildred (Grandma's older sister) asked to be excused from school so she could stay home and protect her little sister.

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When Grandma was a girl, she would sometimes visit her great-grandmother (Rebecca Schenck 1827-1913) who also lived in South Canisteo, and who recalled that when she was a child in pioneer days she was afraid to go outside because there might be Indians behind the trees.

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