c.1900 Fixer Upper in Mount Morris, NY $30K – Pending

42 Murray St, Mount Morris, NY 14510     $30,000 Pending

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From the early 1900s until her death in 1942, it appears this was the home of Edith Hill, a spinster with her own means of support. It was such a large home for a single person, but her spinster sister Eva Hill came to stay for several for years.

Town History

Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance was born in Mount Morris. Mary Jemison also lived in Mount Morris for a time. I have been fascinated by her story ever since my first trip in the late 1970s to Letchworth State Park, where her body was reinterred.

According to Wikipedia;

She had been taken as a youth and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having children with them. In 1824 she published a memoir of her life, a form of captivity narrative. In 1755 during the French and Indian War, Jemison at age 12 was captured with most of her family in a Shawnee mourning raid in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania. The others of her family were killed. She and an unrelated young boy were adopted by Seneca families. She became fully assimilated, marrying a Delaware (Lenape), and, after his death, a Seneca man. She chose to remain a Seneca rather than return to American colonial culture.

• 7bed
• 2bath
• 3,074sqft
• 0.5acre lot
• Year Built 1900
• Google Map
• Property Listing
• Realtor: Robert Ruhland
  Brokered by: Keller Williams Realty Greater Rochester

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