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    Garret Tunis Breese Fonda

    Birth: 1808

    Death: 1880

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Newspaper Excerpt: "Death Of An Old Central Man - G. T. B. Fonda died yesterday evening of heart disease, from which he has suffered for seven years. He was 73, and had been connected with the Central railroad since its organization until that time when he resigned. When the first rail was laid he had charge of the gravel train at this place, and when the company received its charter to carry freight he had charge of the freight department here. He was a colonel in the old militia and a member of Fultonvllle lodge, F. and A. M. Hospitality and kindness have always been among the characteristics of Colonel Fonda, and he will be greatly missed. D. H. Fonda, a druggist in Albany, and Ten Eyck Fonda are among his children who survive him." Frederick William Seward references Col. Fonda in a letter to his father, William H. Seward, dated September 19, 1868. The letter regards the sale and disposition of property belonging to the Wharton family after the death of Anna (Wharton) Seward's father, William Wharton. Col. Fonda repurchases the farm from the Wharton family.  

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Newspaper Excerpt: "Death Of An Old Central Man - G. T. B. Fonda died yesterday evening of heart disease, from which he has suffered for seven years. He was 73, and had been connected with the Central railroad since its organization until that time when he resigned. When the first rail was laid he had charge of the gravel train at this place, and when the company received its charter to carry freight he had charge of the freight department here. He was a colonel in the old militia and a member of Fultonvllle lodge, F. and A. M. Hospitality and kindness have always been among the characteristics of Colonel Fonda, and he will be greatly missed. D. H. Fonda, a druggist in Albany, and Ten Eyck Fonda are among his children who survive him." Frederick William Seward references Col. Fonda in a letter to his father, William H. Seward, dated September 19, 1868. The letter regards the sale and disposition of property belonging to the Wharton family after the death of Anna (Wharton) Seward's father, William Wharton. Col. Fonda repurchases the farm from the Wharton family.
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Utica Morning Herald
Article Title: 
"Death of an Old Central Man"
Month: 
August
Day: 
10
Year: 
1880
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Source Citation Year: 1880; Census Place: Mohawk, Montgomery, New York; Roll: 865; Page: 331A; Enumeration District: 057 Source Information Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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ancestry.com
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Ancestry
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Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.