For week 17 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks the theme was “Land.” Apparently when my grandparents (Ed Sheliga and Ruth Parkin Sheliga) were newly married, they lived in a farm house at the top of a hill in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, NY. I remember when I was a little girl that we used to visit a hunting cabin in East Otto. I asked my dad (Jeff Sheliga) today if the hunting cabin was the same as the farm house in the pictures below and he said that it wasn’t – that the cabin was built below the hill.
I wonder if they owned the land where the old farm house was. I do believe that they owned the land where the hunting cabin was as I believe I remember them selling it after the family stopped using it very much (the boys – Jeff, Carl, and Don were starting their families and some had moved away).
Here are three pictures that I have of the old farm house:
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My dad said that they (his parents) lived in that farm house when he was born. This is a little contradictory to the newspaper announcement that I have for my dad saying that they were living at 842 Smith St., Buffalo with Grandma Ruth’s grandparents John Hetzel and Barbara Gollwtizer Hetzel.
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It could be that his parents (Ed and Ruth) did reside in East Otto, but came back to the city for a little bit so that grandma could give birth to my dad in a hospital.
So, to add to my to-do list, I would like to find land records for the property/properties in East Otto, Cattaraugus County and learn when Grandpa Ed and Grandma Ruth purchased and sold property there.
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