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	George Holcomb was born in 1791 and died in 1856. He lived in Stephentown, New York in the early part of the 19th century. He kept a detailed diary, and the reading of it is fascinating. He tells of life and death, hardships, illnesses that seem to go on forever due to the treatments that were (or weren't) available at that time. He also mentions many friends and neighbors. Some of my ancestors have even been mentioned.		George Holcomb was born in 1791 and died in 1856. He lived in Stephentown, New York in the early part of the 19th century. He kept a detailed diary, and the reading of it is fascinating. He tells of life and death, hardships, illnesses that seem to go on forever due to the treatments that were (or weren't) available at that time. He also mentions many friends and neighbors. Some of my ancestors have even been mentioned.

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 This is by no means a complete genealogy of George Holcomb, but it is a start. Many relatives were mentioned in his diary, and from there, branches have been identified in his family tree.
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 George Holcomb was born in 1791 and died in 1856. He lived in Stephentown, New York in the early part of the 19th century. He kept a detailed diary, and the reading of it is fascinating. He tells of life and death, hardships, illnesses that seem to go on forever due to the treatments that were (or weren't) available at that time. He also mentions many friends and neighbors. Some of my ancestors have even been mentioned. He also mentions historical events, such as the death of New York governor DeWitt Clinton. He was born after the American Revolution and before the Civil War. By reading his diary, you get the sense that he loved his family very much and worked very hard to make a living for them. The excerpts from the diary are being reprinted in “The Eastwick Press”, a hometown newspaper in Petersburgh, New York. His words live on 145 years after his death. I think that is a wonderful legacy for a man who lived and died in small town obscurity. For some reason, I have been fascinated with him and his diary for sometime now. Maybe because I suspect that he was typical of his time and allowed us to take a real close view of his life and times. Kathy Vary Becker recently, saying "The diary is several volumes and still in reasonable shape but the pages were quite yellow. We handled the actual diaries with kidgloves which amazed me that they allowed us to. He has the old cursive writing which makes it difficult at times to read, but not impossible. It would take years to transcribe them because of the volume of entries. The man literally recorded what day so and so put their wash out. It was a wonderful read though, if you wanted a feel for the times in Stephentown during his life. I found out through his diary that my Nathan Vary only had one hand, which we didn't know. He failed to mention though how he lost it."
 I know that my next visit to Stephentown will bring me to the Heritage Center and a bit of a visit with George's diary.
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 Ancestors of George Holcomb