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Ruth Ames, nee Allen's file Starr's Family Edited by Donald Ames - March 19, 1990 Mrs. Lucy Emma Starr, nee Allen, of 407 E. Third St. Sunday, Nov
30, 1952. Mrs. Starr was a member of the First Methodist Church. Survived by niece, Mrs. Harold F. Ames of Kenmore, N.Y.; nephew, Laurie L. Allen of Liverpool, England; stepgranddaughter, Mrs. Charles
Keach of Elmira. The body is at the Holly-Keck Funeral Home where friends are invited to call today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., and where funeral will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. The Rev C. Phillip Torrance. Van-Duzer Cemetery, Sullivanville. George H. Starr taken by death. Veteran of Civil War Dies at Home
in Yonkers. Born Here January 8, 1840. Enlisted with Wadsworth Guards and Recruited Quota of Six-Footers -- Wounded in Battle and Captured Twice -- Prominent in Law. Colonel George Hills Starr died on Saturday, July 29th, at his home, No. 4 Tower place, Yonkers, aged 76 years. Colonel Starr and Lucy Hills Starr, sister of Grace Hills, and was born in Rochester on
January 8, 1840. After attending No.5 School he prepared for college
with LeRoy Satterlee, father of Eugene Saterlee, and at the age of 17
entered Hamilton College, at Clinton. As a student he excelled as an
essayist and rhetorican and in ortary and belles lettres. He was graduated in 1861. In July, 1861, at Geneseo, young Starr enlisted as a private in Colonel Rorbacher's regiment, the Wadsworth Guards. Being detailed to
enlist recruits, he soon, mostly in Steubeu and Allegany counties, obtained his full quota, most of them being more than six feet in height, and then secured a second lieutenancy in Company D. Three of
his company officers, Colonel Strong, Captain Dow and Sergeant Mack,
and a few of the privates are still living. Makes Thrilling Escapes. The more severe battles in which the Wadsworth Guards took part were those in the Lookout valley, when Stonewall Jackson attacked; Fredericksburg, especially Antietam and Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. He was wounded at Fredericksburg and for three days remained in his tent. He was captured at Gettysburg on July 1st and remained with other prisoners behind General Robert Lee's forces for two days. Thence he was marched to Richmond, Va., and as an officer was 125 men who escaped through the
famous tunnel but was recaptured within thirty-six hours not more than
twenty miles from Richmond. Later he was removed to Macon and thence
to Columbia, he escaped and helped by negroes, reached Aiken, N.C. going thence over the mountains to Knoxville, Tenn. He was honorably
discharged in 1805 at the end of his term of enlistment. Begins Practice of Law. Colonel Starr completed his law studies and
in 1866 began to practice in New York. He remained active in his profession until ill health caused him to retire in 1915. As a bachelor he lived in New York, and after his marriage he lived in Brooklyn, Yonkers, and Westfield. He was highly successful in the law, chiefly as counsel, in which capacity he acted several times in
Paris for Marshall Field, of Chicago. In 1871 Colonel Starr married Miss Amanda Warner, daughter of Robert
McNair, of Groveland. He leaves his wife, three daughters, Miss Lucy
A. Starr, of Yonkers; Mrs. Lawrence A. Jones, Jr., of Maliuah; three
granddaughters and a brother, Dr. C. Starr, of Rochester. Funeral services were held in Yonkers and burial was in the McNair lot in Mount Morris. __________________________________________________________________________
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60531563
Birth: Oct. 3, 1867, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Nov. 30, 1952
Wife of Charles S. Starr
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Parents: Daniel J. Allen (1836 - 1928) Ruth A. Buck Allen (1837 - 1913) Burial: Van Duzer Cemetery, Veteran, Chemung County, New York, USA
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U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Lucy Allen Starr
Birth Date: 3 Oct 1867
Birth Place: E Smithfield, Pennsylvania
Claim Date: 28 Dec 1943
SSN: 108039889
Notes: 24 Sep 1976: Name listed as LUCY ALLEN STARR
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</b>BIRTH: 3 Oct 1867, East Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH: 30 Nov 1952 (aged 85), Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA
BURIAL: Van Duzer Cemetery, Veteran, Chemung County, New York, USA
MEMORIAL ID 60531563
Wife of Charles S. Starr
<b>Family Members
Parents
</b>Daniel J. Allen, 1836–1928
Ruth A. <i>Buck</i> Allen, 1837–1913
<b>Siblings
</b>Stanley Grow Allen, 1860–1929
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