Helen writes:
Becky BLOSSER lived in that big house overlooking the Cheat and Monongahelia Rivers. We passed her house along State Road #119 as we walked the mile and a half to town. Sometimes Mother would stop and sit on the porch and talk with her while Becky peeled apples or strung green beans. Mother said Becky had been a nurse for the Andrew Carnegie family in Pittsburgh and traveled the world caring for the family. When Becky retired, she bought a large tract of land in Springhill Township. Grandma and Grandpap knew her at the Disciples of Christ Church at Oak Grove near Morris Cross Roads. She sold them their farm on Blosser Hill across from John and Josephine GOFF’s dairy farm. (Josephine had come from Sweden, we were told).
When Becky died, she willed her lovely pump organ and victrola with many records of hymns to our family. I began to take piano lessons from Mrs. Howard Swyers and spent many long afternoons playing the records such as “In the Garden,” “I Would Be True,” and “Onward Christian Soldiers.”
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Rebecca "Becky" Blosser is an interesting person. She was born in 1860 and died on 17 Feb 1935. She was a daughter of John Blosser and granddaughter of Isaac Blosser. When her grandfather, Isaac Blosser, died in 1842 he evidently did not leave a will. The land now known as Blosser Hill continuted to be lived on by various members of his family. I have not researched the courthouse records, but somewhere along the line the Blosser estate got all fouled up. I am not sure if it was her father or or uncle Ike Blosser that contributed to the problem. To make a long story short evidently the taxes were not being paid on the land. Between 1880 and 1910 you cannot find Becky Blosser in any census records, so maybe she was with Andrew Carnegie working somewhere. But sometime after 1900 she returned home to Blosser Hill. She had evidently saved her money because she paid off the taxes and gained ownership of the land. It is said that she had the timber cut and paid for her investiment. She then subdivided the farm into lots and started to sell them off. She was evidently a very good businesswoman. I know from talking to some older members of the Blosser family there was bitterness in the family because she got the land, but they made no effort to pay the taxes. The orginal Blosser home was probably down along the river. A later log house stood exactly across the road from the Owen Gapen (later Franklin Lanham) house. I understand it was a very large log house. In 1949 and 1950 the remains of the old stone foundation was still visible. A little white house is now on the site.
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