Gertrude L Verity was the daughter of Robert Verity and wife Mary Cross who were both naturalized American citizens born in England. When Gertrude was born her parents were in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, though temporarily living in Canada for her father's work as a stone cutter. This gave her dual citizenship.
She was educated through the 8th grade. Gertrude being the only daughter with 3 brothers she helped her mother with cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
Henry Merimon Comstock of Sodus Point became her husband on the 16th of February 1906 when she was 14y 4m 25d. Those days she perhaps did not need parental consent to marry before 16. His parents had not realized she was this young until her parents told them on a visit to see their now married daughter. The couple's first child was born in March of 1909 some 3 years later.
Gertrude had five children, two boys and three girls. She worked hard her whole life. She was a chef at the Alton Hotel in the Town of Sodus NY, and in Florida. She had a restaurant for several years in Sodus Point near the RR station house and malt house. She ran a boarding house on South Fitzhugh Street Sodus Point and cooked for workers from the RR trestle, Pennsylvania RR, and coal boats waiting to be loaded for ports along Lake Ontario and other of the Great Lakes as well as ports in Canada.
Earlier, she and Henry lived and worked on Newark Island in Sodus Bay where she cooked and kept rooms for the carpenters and masons building large summer homes and boathouses for the Strong family. Their first 3 children lived and delighted in play on the islands. Those days she canned and baked on wood ovens and stoves, and kept a root cellar for her food stores and cured meats. The ice box was a later luxury. A vegetable garden was a necessity to supply much of the food. She would take grain to the mill on third creek to be ground to flower for baking pies, which she did daily, just part of the hearty meals she would make for all the workers she fed over the years. Another job she did for lots of years was to take in washing, laundering sheets and clothing by the means of tubs of water and scrub boards with the help of her youngest daughter.
Another of her occupations was to deliver babies. She was a perinatal nurse, attending to many of the expectant mother in the care of Dr. Thomas Hobby, a physician of many years in Sodus New York. These were the days women gave birth to their babies at home and were on bed rest for two weeks following delivery. There was much attending to be done after the births.
Gertrude lived to be 76, but spent her later years requiring a wheelchair; even still, she continued to bake and cook. Canasta and bingo were her pastimes. She enjoyed many a get together with Grange members. She loved to enter prize contests, go to auctions, and in younger years go to barn dances with Henry and her children.
She was educated through the 8th grade. Gertrude being the only daughter with 3 brothers she helped her mother with cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
Henry Merimon Comstock of Sodus Point became her husband on the 16th of February 1906 when she was 14y 4m 25d. Those days she perhaps did not need parental consent to marry before 16. His parents had not realized she was this young until her parents told them on a visit to see their now married daughter. The couple's first child was born in March of 1909 some 3 years later.
Gertrude had five children, two boys and three girls. She worked hard her whole life. She was a chef at the Alton Hotel in the Town of Sodus NY, and in Florida. She had a restaurant for several years in Sodus Point near the RR station house and malt house. She ran a boarding house on South Fitzhugh Street Sodus Point and cooked for workers from the RR trestle, Pennsylvania RR, and coal boats waiting to be loaded for ports along Lake Ontario and other of the Great Lakes as well as ports in Canada.
Earlier, she and Henry lived and worked on Newark Island in Sodus Bay where she cooked and kept rooms for the carpenters and masons building large summer homes and boathouses for the Strong family. Their first 3 children lived and delighted in play on the islands. Those days she canned and baked on wood ovens and stoves, and kept a root cellar for her food stores and cured meats. The ice box was a later luxury. A vegetable garden was a necessity to supply much of the food. She would take grain to the mill on third creek to be ground to flower for baking pies, which she did daily, just part of the hearty meals she would make for all the workers she fed over the years. Another job she did for lots of years was to take in washing, laundering sheets and clothing by the means of tubs of water and scrub boards with the help of her youngest daughter.
Another of her occupations was to deliver babies. She was a perinatal nurse, attending to many of the expectant mother in the care of Dr. Thomas Hobby, a physician of many years in Sodus New York. These were the days women gave birth to their babies at home and were on bed rest for two weeks following delivery. There was much attending to be done after the births.
Gertrude lived to be 76, but spent her later years requiring a wheelchair; even still, she continued to bake and cook. Canasta and bingo were her pastimes. She enjoyed many a get together with Grange members. She loved to enter prize contests, go to auctions, and in younger years go to barn dances with Henry and her children.
Gertrude L Verity was the daughter of Robert Verity and wife Mary Cross who were both naturalized American citizens born in England. When Gertrude was born her parents were in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, though temporarily living in Canada for her father's work as a stone cutter. This gave her dual citizenship.
She was educated through the 8th grade. Gertrude being the only daughter with 3 brothers she helped her mother with cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
Henry Merimon Comstock of Sodus Point became her husband on the 16th of February 1906 when she was 14y 4m 25d. Those days she perhaps did not need parental consent to marry before 16. His parents had not realized she was this young until her parents told them on a visit to see their now married daughter. The couple's first child was born in March of 1909 some 3 years later.
Gertrude had five children, two boys and three girls. She worked hard her whole life. She was a chef at the Alton Hotel in the Town of Sodus NY, and in Florida. She had a restaurant for several years in Sodus Point near the RR station house and malt house. She ran a boarding house on South Fitzhugh Street Sodus Point and cooked for workers from the RR trestle, Pennsylvania RR, and coal boats waiting to be loaded for ports along Lake Ontario and other of the Great Lakes as well as ports in Canada.
Earlier, she and Henry lived and worked on Newark Island in Sodus Bay where she cooked and kept rooms for the carpenters and masons building large summer homes and boathouses for the Strong family. Their first 3 children lived and delighted in play on the islands. Those days she canned and baked on wood ovens and stoves, and kept a root cellar for her food stores and cured meats. The ice box was a later luxury. A vegetable garden was a necessity to supply much of the food. She would take grain to the mill on third creek to be ground to flower for baking pies, which she did daily, just part of the hearty meals she would make for all the workers she fed over the years. Another job she did for lots of years was to take in washing, laundering sheets and clothing by the means of tubs of water and scrub boards with the help of her youngest daughter.
Another of her occupations was to deliver babies. She was a perinatal nurse, attending to many of the expectant mother in the care of Dr. Thomas Hobby, a physician of many years in Sodus New York. These were the days women gave birth to their babies at home and were on bed rest for two weeks following delivery. There was much attending to be done after the births.
Gertrude lived to be 76, but spent her later years requiring a wheelchair; even still, she continued to bake and cook. Canasta and bingo were her pastimes. She enjoyed many a get together with Grange members. She loved to enter prize contests, go to auctions, and in younger years go to barn dances with Henry and her children.
She was educated through the 8th grade. Gertrude being the only daughter with 3 brothers she helped her mother with cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
Henry Merimon Comstock of Sodus Point became her husband on the 16th of February 1906 when she was 14y 4m 25d. Those days she perhaps did not need parental consent to marry before 16. His parents had not realized she was this young until her parents told them on a visit to see their now married daughter. The couple's first child was born in March of 1909 some 3 years later.
Gertrude had five children, two boys and three girls. She worked hard her whole life. She was a chef at the Alton Hotel in the Town of Sodus NY, and in Florida. She had a restaurant for several years in Sodus Point near the RR station house and malt house. She ran a boarding house on South Fitzhugh Street Sodus Point and cooked for workers from the RR trestle, Pennsylvania RR, and coal boats waiting to be loaded for ports along Lake Ontario and other of the Great Lakes as well as ports in Canada.
Earlier, she and Henry lived and worked on Newark Island in Sodus Bay where she cooked and kept rooms for the carpenters and masons building large summer homes and boathouses for the Strong family. Their first 3 children lived and delighted in play on the islands. Those days she canned and baked on wood ovens and stoves, and kept a root cellar for her food stores and cured meats. The ice box was a later luxury. A vegetable garden was a necessity to supply much of the food. She would take grain to the mill on third creek to be ground to flower for baking pies, which she did daily, just part of the hearty meals she would make for all the workers she fed over the years. Another job she did for lots of years was to take in washing, laundering sheets and clothing by the means of tubs of water and scrub boards with the help of her youngest daughter.
Another of her occupations was to deliver babies. She was a perinatal nurse, attending to many of the expectant mother in the care of Dr. Thomas Hobby, a physician of many years in Sodus New York. These were the days women gave birth to their babies at home and were on bed rest for two weeks following delivery. There was much attending to be done after the births.
Gertrude lived to be 76, but spent her later years requiring a wheelchair; even still, she continued to bake and cook. Canasta and bingo were her pastimes. She enjoyed many a get together with Grange members. She loved to enter prize contests, go to auctions, and in younger years go to barn dances with Henry and her children.
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