1 CMNT Ref. 61 Says Middle Initial Is D.
1 CMNT Married Three Times, Not All Known
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of Tuesday, 11 Nov. 1997): ALEXANDRIA BAY---Frank D. Moneau, 72, Jupiter, Fla., formerly of Grindstone Island, died Monday at his home.Mr. Moneau was a mason contractor and a commercial fisherman. He had been a resident of Florida for about 40 years.
Born Dec. 31, 1924, in Alexandria Bay, son of Herman and Althea Calhoun Moneau, he attended Grindstone Island schools and served in the Army Air Force, seeing duty during World War II in the European theater with the 388th Bomb Group.
A marriage to Carol Ann Cerwins ended in divorce. He was married three times previously.
Surviving are his son, Frank, Jupiter; two daughters, Tamara Moneau, Rochester, and Karen Pruitt, Arizona; a brother, Irwin "Buck" Slate, Grindstone Island; two sisters, Mrs. Tom (Mabel) LaMagna, Jupiter, Fla., and Irma Slate, Grindstone
Island; and several grandchildren.The funeral was Saturday in Taylor & Modeen Funeral Home, Jupiter. Burial was in Riverside Memorial Park, Jupiter.
1 CMNT Married Three Times, Not All Known
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of Tuesday, 11 Nov. 1997): ALEXANDRIA BAY---Frank D. Moneau, 72, Jupiter, Fla., formerly of Grindstone Island, died Monday at his home.Mr. Moneau was a mason contractor and a commercial fisherman. He had been a resident of Florida for about 40 years.
Born Dec. 31, 1924, in Alexandria Bay, son of Herman and Althea Calhoun Moneau, he attended Grindstone Island schools and served in the Army Air Force, seeing duty during World War II in the European theater with the 388th Bomb Group.
A marriage to Carol Ann Cerwins ended in divorce. He was married three times previously.
Surviving are his son, Frank, Jupiter; two daughters, Tamara Moneau, Rochester, and Karen Pruitt, Arizona; a brother, Irwin "Buck" Slate, Grindstone Island; two sisters, Mrs. Tom (Mabel) LaMagna, Jupiter, Fla., and Irma Slate, Grindstone
Island; and several grandchildren.The funeral was Saturday in Taylor & Modeen Funeral Home, Jupiter. Burial was in Riverside Memorial Park, Jupiter.
1 CMNT Married Three Times, Not All Known
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of Tuesday, 11 Nov. 1997): ALEXANDRIA BAY---Frank D. Moneau, 72, Jupiter, Fla., formerly of Grindstone Island, died Monday at his home.Mr. Moneau was a mason contractor and a commercial fisherman. He had been a resident of Florida for about 40 years.
Born Dec. 31, 1924, in Alexandria Bay, son of Herman and Althea Calhoun Moneau, he attended Grindstone Island schools and served in the Army Air Force, seeing duty during World War II in the European theater with the 388th Bomb Group.
A marriage to Carol Ann Cerwins ended in divorce. He was married three times previously.
Surviving are his son, Frank, Jupiter; two daughters, Tamara Moneau, Rochester, and Karen Pruitt, Arizona; a brother, Irwin "Buck" Slate, Grindstone Island; two sisters, Mrs. Tom (Mabel) LaMagna, Jupiter, Fla., and Irma Slate, Grindstone
Island; and several grandchildren.The funeral was Saturday in Taylor & Modeen Funeral Home, Jupiter. Burial was in Riverside Memorial Park, Jupiter.
1 CMNT Married Three Times, Not All Known
Obituary (from Watertown Daily Times of Tuesday, 11 Nov. 1997): ALEXANDRIA BAY---Frank D. Moneau, 72, Jupiter, Fla., formerly of Grindstone Island, died Monday at his home.Mr. Moneau was a mason contractor and a commercial fisherman. He had been a resident of Florida for about 40 years.
Born Dec. 31, 1924, in Alexandria Bay, son of Herman and Althea Calhoun Moneau, he attended Grindstone Island schools and served in the Army Air Force, seeing duty during World War II in the European theater with the 388th Bomb Group.
A marriage to Carol Ann Cerwins ended in divorce. He was married three times previously.
Surviving are his son, Frank, Jupiter; two daughters, Tamara Moneau, Rochester, and Karen Pruitt, Arizona; a brother, Irwin "Buck" Slate, Grindstone Island; two sisters, Mrs. Tom (Mabel) LaMagna, Jupiter, Fla., and Irma Slate, Grindstone
Island; and several grandchildren.The funeral was Saturday in Taylor & Modeen Funeral Home, Jupiter. Burial was in Riverside Memorial Park, Jupiter.
1 CMNT Raised By Calumet & James Fitzgerald
1 CMNT Was At One Time A Singing Instructor
Obituary from the Watertown Daily Times:CAPT. KENDALL, 95, RIVER PILOT, DIES
Oldest Resident of Town of Clayton--Funeral Will Be Held Thursday.
Clayton, July 29. Capt. Aldridge Kendall, 95, the oldest resident of the town of Clayton and for 68 years a river man and a retired master and pilot of steam vessels, died at the home of his son, Clarence L. Kendall, this village, Monday evening at 7:15.
He had been in poor health for about a year and three months ago suffered a fall in his room at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. W. Rogers, 203 Keyes Avenue, Watertown. Since that time he had failed steadily.
Funeral services will be held from the home of his daughter, Mrs. James W. Fitzgerald, 351 James St., Clayton, Thursday afternoon at 2. Rev. Elmer Wagner, member of the International Bible Students, will officiate. Burial will be in the family plot in the Clayton cemetery.
He is survived by one son, Clarence L. Kendall of Clayton; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert W. (Florence) Rogers, 203 Keyes Avenue, Watertown; Mrs. James W. (Calumet) Fitzgerald, Clayton; two brothers, Grant and Bird Kendall of Poughquag, a suburb of Poughkeepsie; two sisters, Mrs. W. W. (Anna) Hutchinson and Miss Belle Kendall also of Poughquag.
He also leaves three granddaughter, Mrs. Merton A. Eveleigh, 312 Park Drive, Watertow, Mrs. A. M. Hodge, 635 Gotham St., Watertown, and Mrs. John Flanders of Buffalo, and five great grandchildren.
Captain Kendall was a direct descendant of John Gotham, an early settler of Watertown, for whom Gotham St. was named. Dolly Keyes, also an early settler of Watertown, was an aunt of the captain.
He married Miss Victoria Bearup of Millen's Bay in 1876. Mrs. Kendall died in 1926.
Captain Kendall was for 68 years a river man and retired from active work in 1933.
He was born on Wellesley Island Dec. 10, 1851. Captain Kendall was the oldest of eleven children of Capt. Aldridge Stetson and Zuba Gotham Kendall. When he was ten years old he traveled with his father on his scow which was used for carrying stone, sand, lumber, and freight between Kingston and Ogdensburg. From that time for 70 years he never missed a summer on the river or the lakes. During the winter months he worked cutting and cording wood, getting up early in the morning and walking three miles, cutting and cording two and a half cords of wood during the day, and walking home at night. For this service he received 36 cents a cord. He also taught a singing school, both in Clayton and on Grindstone
Island during the winter.He became a river pilot at the age of 22 and his first boat was the T. S. Faxton, a three-deck passenger boat carrying 1,200 people. It had been built in Clayton by the late Capt. Simon Johnston in 1872 and was owned by Captain Johnston,Alden Burker of Clayton and Capt. Leander Bolt of Potsdam. It ran in connection with the Rome-Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad between Cape Vincent and Alexandria Bay and was used as an excursion boat.
During the summer of 1880 he was in command of the J. F. Maynard, owned by Capt. George Sweet of Carthage, which ran in connection with the Utica and Black River Railroad. The following three summers he was pilot of the Island Belle,
another boat built in Clayton by Captain Johnston and owned with Mr. Barker. This boat connected at Cape Vincent with the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad.In 1884 Captain Kendall was employed by the Detroit Dry Dock Company on the large freighter William M. Haskell, plying the lakes and the river between Chicago and Ogdensburg.
In 1885 he became captain of the private yacht, Sport, a large side-wheeler constructed largely of mahogany. It was owned by J. Packard of Bethlehem, Pa. In 1886 he was pilot of the Ontario, an excursion boat running between Rochester
and Ogdensburg during the summer. That fall he became caretaker of the Charles G. Emery home on Calumet Island and captain of his private yacht, The Calumet, a position he held for eight years.He and his family returned to Clayton from Calumet Island and he became a pullman conductor for the New York Central Railroad on the run between Buffalo and New York City.
He lived in Albany for a time but he returned to the St. Lawrence to work for seven years on the passenger and excursion boats of the White Squadron fleet owned by the Folger brothers. They were The Empire State, The Islander, and The St. Lawrence.
He was employed in 1900 by the late James W. Jackson as caretaker of his summer home Keewaydin, near Aldexandria Bay and captain of his yacht "Ella."
After two years he was employed as caretaker and also captain of the yacht Winona by the late Gen. John H. Johnston of Washington, D.C. He held this job for a period of seven years. In 1910 he became captain of the yacht Verdi, owned by Walter J. Green. He remained in Mr. Green's employ for 23 years. The yacht was loaned to the government during the first world war for use as susbmarine chaser and was returned to its owner at the close of the struggle.
Captain Kendall retired from active service in 1933 at the age of 82 but for the next five years he was called upon to pilot boats occasionally. He recalled that during his years on the river he never lost the life of a passenger, never
struck a shoal, never caused any damage to his boats, and never missed a train connection.Among the passengers who became his friends was the late George C. Boldt who invited him as a guest to attend the grand opening of his Waldorf Astoria hotel. He later was employed as a private detective and watchman in the hotel during
the winter months.
Obituary (from newspaper of Friday, 25 July 1981): CLAYTON---Howard F. Slate, 71, of 1105 Midtown Towers, Watertown, former village resident, was pronounced dead on arrival Thursday mornng at Mercy Hospital, Watertown, after he was stricken in
the parking lot of the apartment complex.He was found dead at 9:20 a.m. by Howard F. Tyler, 1307 Midtown Towers. The body was removed to Mercy Hospital at 9:45 a.m.
The funeral will be Saturday at noon at the Cummings Funeral Home here, Rev. Robert F. Nay, pastor of the Clayton United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial wil be in Grindstone Island Cemetery.
Calling hours at the funeral home are this evening from 7 to 9 and Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Phillip (Yuvon) Marra, Mrs. Harold (Arlene) Tracy, and Mrs. Roger (Viginia) Schafer, all of Watertown, and Mrs. Dalton (Marie) Partridge, Clayton; a son, Donald L., Omaha, Neb.; 17 grandchildren; 13
great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.A brother and sister died before him.
Born Sept. 22, 1910 on Grindstone Island, son of Frank and Grace Garnsey Slate, he attended island schools and was a boat captain on the St. Lawrence River with Uncle Sam Boat Tours of Alexandria Bay until his retirement in 1973. Before
that, he was an employee of the American Boat Lines at Clayton.He married Lois M. Besaw of Carthage April 16, 1932 at Carthage. She died in 1972.