Former Post Office in Wormleysburg
I found this Post Office and Store in Wormleysburg, PA in a newspaper clipping when I was sorting through my father's old papers. I'm estimating the publishing date as the early 1940s.
When I was a very small child I remember going to this house/store. The memory is very vague, but I was really impressed that there was a whole home behind the store. You went out through a side door in the store, down a couple of steps and then you were in the living room of the house. I remember sleeping in a big bed with my sister. There was a railroad close by. I remember fireflies in the garden. We didn't have those in Brooklyn! Someone took us to the Susquehanna River for a swim, I think in a speedboat. It was the first time that I remember the water holding me up and really understood what swimming was all about.
A map from 1872 shows that W. Miller owns the plot of land mentioned in the article. Verna Miller is in many of the family pictures. Friend? Relation? At that point I didn't know.
Update: March 2010: Verna and Hazel are first cousins. Verna's mother Carrie Lee and Hazel's father Harry are sister and brother. I found the clue to this in the 1910 Census, where Charles Miller and his wife Carrie L Miller are living with their two children, Verna and Walter. Also living there is a Sadie Garretson, aunt. And that is the connection. Josephine Garretson is Harry's mother's maiden name.
I then started looking through all of the photos and found many from Wormleysburg with a white clapboard-sided house in them.
Hazel and Helen Putt
Hazel Putt (same picket fence as above, and a good shot of the houses across the street and possibly the railway line)
Frank, Sr. and baby Verna. Yes, they named their daughter for Hazel's cousin Verna
